In my understanding, along with some philosophy I've read, there is a Real Moral. In every situation for which a moral judgement is appropriate, there is a Right Thing to do. However, the responsibility of judging this Right Thing lies with the person taking the action in question, since no other person has moral authority over any other person. This is the essense of being a free thinking individual. No person can prioritize your values for you, but they can judge you wrong and punish you for it (possibly unjustly). It is possible to make a bad moral judgement, even with good intentions, and it is well-developed wisdom that allows us to make better moral choices. Of course if you are a Nihilist this doesn't really apply to you anyway, so burn in your personal hell of nothingness.
We all learned this in law school. Slashdot posters generally haven't, and are probably getting the same glassy stare that most would get if I began reciting the Old Testament in Aramaic.
Yes, on slashdot you need to recite the Old Testament in Klingon or possibly perl to get any meaningful comprehension.
I don't know about studies, but I think adrenaline is a great pain-killer. I broke my ankle playing basketball. My foot kept falling off the gas pedal on the drive home. I didn't feel any pain until I sat on the couch at home and put ice on it. It quickly became excruciating. I can think of several other similar abeit less severe experiences in my life as well.
It could be that in moments of extreme pain the brain quickly releases endorphins to dull the pain so you can focus on the task at hand of, say, running away from a mountain lion while bleeding from the neck. But when the danger is gone the brain really lets you have it so you remember not to go stealing dinner from the nice kitty again. We do feel pain for a reason, but too much or too little or at inapproriate times is almost always bad in the long run (it sucks losing teeth, fingers, or eyes).
A BIOS upgrade and a firmware upgrade is the Exact Same Thing. The BIOS is the firmware of your motherboard. The code formerly known as ROM BIOS, now in flash memory. It tells your CPU how to talk to your RAM and peripherals. Likewise the firmware in your burner tells the laser beam and drive motor how to talk to the ATA cable. A corrupted BIOS or firmware renders the attached piece of hardware a "brick" useful mostly for stopping doors from swinging shut, or dropping on bad-guys heads. This is because the functionality for reflashing firmware without specialized hardware is generally dependent on a current working firmware. You have lots of rope here, so some physical lockout mechanism is good measure to prevent accidental/malicious harm.
Nice troll, I'll bite anyway since you had to invoke Godwin. The French could not have overthrown the Nazis alone, but the Germans could have. Revolutions do happen, though they are difficult in a totalitarian state. The French did once overthrow their oppressive regime. To address your comment, the US et al would step in if N. Korea invaded S. Korea.
Use a dark background with a light-colored, and adequately sized font. This cuts down on all of those pesky photons being beamed into your retina. A monitor is not a piece of paper, nor a desklamp. Your screen need not be white with information printed in black to be useful. This is pretty much my reason for favoring the linux console where it fits the job at hand. My GVim color scheme is darkblue. A few simple customizations can make for a much more comfortable working environment. Also make sure you can see the screen at a comfortable angle.
1. Write a 1 line.bat file that does the deed for the cluefully challenged. 2. Package and publish as a Hotfix and push to Windows Update. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
"98%" of PC Users don't know how a patch works any more than they know how to disable a DLL. I'm sure they don't even know how scheduling works. Shockingly, the inner workings of a computer are as mysterious to the average user as a woman's body is to a slashdot reader. We should all just give up on them, because we don't need Joe Sixpack to drive the tech economy so we can actually afford to have computers and affordable bandwidth. Just tell them to put it back in the box, return it to BestBuy, and tell the clerk they're too fucking stupid to own a computer. The GP post suggested a method that apparently works for disabling the vulnerability. This information is useful to the slashgeeks who will end up servicing the computers of friends, family, and co-workers one way or another. A quick heads-up now on this saves a few hours later when after some porn surfing (it just popped up and it wouldn't let me close it) or email attachment (I didn't open it) you end up removing the worm and all the damage it did anyway.
>I believe they're called New York, Tennessee Avenue and St. James Place.
No, they're called Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street. The BBC is, funnily enough, British. Why should they use the American version of the game for their list?
There are countless editions of Monopoly and Monopoly knock-offs produced for every special interest imaginable. Sports teams editions replace street names with player names. Space editions use the planets and other night sky objects for properties. Different cities use different street names. There's even a fill-in-the-blank build-your-own set.
I've been collecting these for the novelty of playing them. However, the original and arguably canonical Monopoly derives its property names from the streets of Atlantic City, NJ, USA, and it is a bit disconcerting to see the orange properties referred to as anything other than New York, Tennessee, and St. James. Similarly referring to a knight in chess as a horse, or a run in baseball as a point is bothersome to enthusiasts. Still things change, languages evolve and branch, and culture shock besets those who find that facts they once held as universal truth are not as they had thought. Apparently there is no "one true Monopoly" according to the article and the comments in this thread. I've heard there are even people who don't pay their taxes and fines to Free Parking. </tangent>
I thought we were already there. Keyboarding was a part of my 3rd grade curriculum, and that was a poor rural public school nearly 20 years ago. You can take away my QWERTY from my cold dead hands.
You misspelled copyright infringement. Pirates have eyepatches and parrots, and generally dislike ninjas. Copyright infringers distribute creative works illegally.
Yeah, well I have a timetravel device that already works. Its called "Alcohol" and every time you use it properly, you skip forward through time, bypassing several hours, or with extreme skill, days. Alas the side effects of time travel include headaches, nausea, pregnancy, and strange bruises. YMMV.
Eyecandy? Heh, I still have the old EGA version kicking around on this hard drive. A good way to kill a half hour is playing speed risk vs CPU. You can google for it easy enough. However, nothing beats the satisfaction of the good old cardboard + plastic style world domination.
Kind of like adding in bed to the end of a fortune cookie? Hmm, pay as you go service in bed. This post shall be considered prior art in my new patentable business plan.
Yeah, then you can make more room to let Windows install all of the extraneous soft(mal)ware it inevitably will. At least you know where vendor-installed spyware came from, and vaguely who its sending your {SSN|Account|PIN|Mothers Maiden Name|Birthdate|Dog's Blood Type} to. Out of the pan and into the fire if you ask me. (You didn't, I know.)
BTW, I have seen several 2k boxes get borked by malware before the install script is finished, when installing on a live network. If you must install windows, I strongly suggest slipstreaming/patching offline before attempting to plug in the ethernet jack. Live and learn.
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In my understanding, along with some philosophy I've read, there is a Real Moral. In every situation for which a moral judgement is appropriate, there is a Right Thing to do. However, the responsibility of judging this Right Thing lies with the person taking the action in question, since no other person has moral authority over any other person. This is the essense of being a free thinking individual. No person can prioritize your values for you, but they can judge you wrong and punish you for it (possibly unjustly). It is possible to make a bad moral judgement, even with good intentions, and it is well-developed wisdom that allows us to make better moral choices. Of course if you are a Nihilist this doesn't really apply to you anyway, so burn in your personal hell of nothingness.
Yes, on slashdot you need to recite the Old Testament in Klingon or possibly perl to get any meaningful comprehension.
I don't know about studies, but I think adrenaline is a great pain-killer. I broke my ankle playing basketball. My foot kept falling off the gas pedal on the drive home. I didn't feel any pain until I sat on the couch at home and put ice on it. It quickly became excruciating. I can think of several other similar abeit less severe experiences in my life as well.
It could be that in moments of extreme pain the brain quickly releases endorphins to dull the pain so you can focus on the task at hand of, say, running away from a mountain lion while bleeding from the neck. But when the danger is gone the brain really lets you have it so you remember not to go stealing dinner from the nice kitty again. We do feel pain for a reason, but too much or too little or at inapproriate times is almost always bad in the long run (it sucks losing teeth, fingers, or eyes).
A BIOS upgrade and a firmware upgrade is the Exact Same Thing. The BIOS is the firmware of your motherboard. The code formerly known as ROM BIOS, now in flash memory. It tells your CPU how to talk to your RAM and peripherals. Likewise the firmware in your burner tells the laser beam and drive motor how to talk to the ATA cable. A corrupted BIOS or firmware renders the attached piece of hardware a "brick" useful mostly for stopping doors from swinging shut, or dropping on bad-guys heads. This is because the functionality for reflashing firmware without specialized hardware is generally dependent on a current working firmware. You have lots of rope here, so some physical lockout mechanism is good measure to prevent accidental/malicious harm.
No, but {Alt-1,Alt-2,Alt-3} is. See Aol Instant Messenger circa 1998.
Flying Unicorns in space?
I'm asking you, what's it breathing?
This article is obviously rubbish
Nice troll, I'll bite anyway since you had to invoke Godwin. The French could not have overthrown the Nazis alone, but the Germans could have. Revolutions do happen, though they are difficult in a totalitarian state. The French did once overthrow their oppressive regime. To address your comment, the US et al would step in if N. Korea invaded S. Korea.
Nice tips, one to add.
Use a dark background with a light-colored, and adequately sized font. This cuts down on all of those pesky photons being beamed into your retina. A monitor is not a piece of paper, nor a desklamp. Your screen need not be white with information printed in black to be useful. This is pretty much my reason for favoring the linux console where it fits the job at hand. My GVim color scheme is darkblue. A few simple customizations can make for a much more comfortable working environment. Also make sure you can see the screen at a comfortable angle.
They don't have to.
.bat file that does the deed for the cluefully challenged.
1. Write a 1 line
2. Package and publish as a Hotfix and push to Windows Update.
3. ???
4. Profit!
"98%" of PC Users don't know how a patch works any more than they know how to disable a DLL. I'm sure they don't even know how scheduling works. Shockingly, the inner workings of a computer are as mysterious to the average user as a woman's body is to a slashdot reader. We should all just give up on them, because we don't need Joe Sixpack to drive the tech economy so we can actually afford to have computers and affordable bandwidth. Just tell them to put it back in the box, return it to BestBuy, and tell the clerk they're too fucking stupid to own a computer. The GP post suggested a method that apparently works for disabling the vulnerability. This information is useful to the slashgeeks who will end up servicing the computers of friends, family, and co-workers one way or another. A quick heads-up now on this saves a few hours later when after some porn surfing (it just popped up and it wouldn't let me close it) or email attachment (I didn't open it) you end up removing the worm and all the damage it did anyway.
>I believe they're called New York, Tennessee Avenue and St. James Place.
No, they're called Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street. The BBC is, funnily enough, British. Why should they use the American version of the game for their list?
There are countless editions of Monopoly and Monopoly knock-offs produced for every special interest imaginable. Sports teams editions replace street names with player names. Space editions use the planets and other night sky objects for properties. Different cities use different street names. There's even a fill-in-the-blank build-your-own set.
I've been collecting these for the novelty of playing them. However, the original and arguably canonical Monopoly derives its property names from the streets of Atlantic City, NJ, USA, and it is a bit disconcerting to see the orange properties referred to as anything other than New York, Tennessee, and St. James. Similarly referring to a knight in chess as a horse, or a run in baseball as a point is bothersome to enthusiasts. Still things change, languages evolve and branch, and culture shock besets those who find that facts they once held as universal truth are not as they had thought. Apparently there is no "one true Monopoly" according to the article and the comments in this thread. I've heard there are even people who don't pay their taxes and fines to Free Parking. </tangent>
I love free software /* #define DISABLE_STUPID_GOVERNMENT_SPYWARE */
#ifndef DISABLE_STUPID_GOVERNMENT_SPYWARE
void stupidGovernmentSpyware(){ ...
}
#endif
lol
I thought we were already there. Keyboarding was a part of my 3rd grade curriculum, and that was a poor rural public school nearly 20 years ago. You can take away my QWERTY from my cold dead hands.
You misspelled copyright infringement. Pirates have eyepatches and parrots, and generally dislike ninjas. Copyright infringers distribute creative works illegally.
Yo ho ho, Merry X-mas.
Just snip the GPS antenna and be done with it.
Well, I can write my name in the snow, or draw a smiley, but I'm not sure I would call it "art".
Yes, mine does. Pretty simple to flash the bios for dual-boot.
Yeah, well I have a timetravel device that already works. Its called "Alcohol" and every time you use it properly, you skip forward through time, bypassing several hours, or with extreme skill, days. Alas the side effects of time travel include headaches, nausea, pregnancy, and strange bruises. YMMV.
Eyecandy? Heh, I still have the old EGA version kicking around on this hard drive. A good way to kill a half hour is playing speed risk vs CPU. You can google for it easy enough. However, nothing beats the satisfaction of the good old cardboard + plastic style world domination.
My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.
Kind of like adding in bed to the end of a fortune cookie? Hmm, pay as you go service in bed. This post shall be considered prior art in my new patentable business plan.
Yeah, then you can make more room to let Windows install all of the extraneous soft(mal)ware it inevitably will. At least you know where vendor-installed spyware came from, and vaguely who its sending your {SSN|Account|PIN|Mothers Maiden Name|Birthdate|Dog's Blood Type} to. Out of the pan and into the fire if you ask me. (You didn't, I know.) BTW, I have seen several 2k boxes get borked by malware before the install script is finished, when installing on a live network. If you must install windows, I strongly suggest slipstreaming/patching offline before attempting to plug in the ethernet jack. Live and learn.
Ignorance is bliss?
You use IE? The only thing I use IE for is to download firefox onto someone elses PC. It works flawlessly for that purpose.