Why else is it about the only place you can contract MSRA (flesh eating bacteria)?
No, MSRA is not a "flesh eating bacteria" in the sense you presumably mean. (I know; I've had two different MSRA infections.) MSRA is a form of staph that's resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics and thus, hard to kill. The two times I had it, they needed to use sulpha, because it was about the only thing that works. Nasty stuff, I agree, but not quite what you were thinking of.
or does anyone else think that universities are treating students more and more like cattle these days?
Well, what else do you expect when most of the students are financing their education with government-backed student loans? The money isn't coming out of their pockets (yet) or even their family's, so the administration doesn't feel any need to treat them with respect. From their POV, most of the student body is charity cases, and should just shut up and accept whatever they're grudgingly given.
The first link in the summary refers to him as Forrest J. Ackerman, and that's wrong. There is no period after the J as you can see in the Wikipedia article. Yes, I know that Wikipedia isn't always right, but it is this time. I was fortunate to have met him a few times, and hear him speak, and 4E always insisted on having his name spelled correctly. If you want to abbreviate, 4SJ will be just fine, ThankYouVeryMuch.
Personally, I'd rather see Microsoft put the effort into writing a version of Windows that doesn't have all those vulnerabilities in the first place. Of course, that would mean throwing out an awful lot of old code and that goes against their corporate culture, so I'm not holding my breath.
us like me who smoke leaving our butts in a public ashtray
I'm a smoker too, but that's one thing I'll never have to worry about. When I'm done, I empty out the bowl of my pipe, slip the pipe into my shirt pocket and leave nothing but ash and old tobacco behind. And, since you don't inhale a pipe, there's no nagging worry about lung cancer.
someone has probably patented separating chaff from the wheat.
Someone may have tried, but I don't think even the USPO is going to accept an application when there's records of prior art going back at least 3,000 years. Still, considering some of the silly patents we've been seeing here, I'd not be the least bit astonished to learn that somebody has, in fact, tried it.
It's only going to have so much fuel, and it may need all of it to get the 32 orbits you're complaining about. Once that's gone, there's no more maneuvering. And, of course, we'll still be able to get data back as it drifts out of the Jovian system. It's not like it's going to go dead the moment that last orbit ends, you know.
What is the deal with Starbucks and their imitators burning their beans?
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one here that finds Charbux coffee to be over-roasted, burnt and bitter. However, all is not lost if that's the only "coffee" you can find. Add just a pinch of salt and the bitterness goes away. Still, if they made it properly you wouldn't have to do that, would you? It's just another example of how good advertising can sell crap.
No. The MItM would send you an email with what appears to be a link to your bank, but actually goes to their site. If you click on it, the phishing site serves up an imitation of your bank's page, gets your username and password, then passes that on to your bank, acting, in effect, as a proxy. When you're done, the phishing site has your username and password to use or sell later, and that, AIUI is a man in the middle attack in action.
How do you just jump in the middle of someone's connection?
How do you think phishing sites work? You click on a link in an email that claims to be from your bank, and connect to a site that acts as a MiTM, stealing your username and password.
Honestly, how many of them were capable of running XP well? You need 2GB of ram and you're set on anything, even a celeron...
That may be true for Windows nowadays, I wouldn't know. I do know that Linux runs just fine on only 1GB or RAM. Why does Windows need so many resources to run acceptably?
I chalk it up to either my brain has too much crap in it taking up space, or my hard drive has a high seek time and it takes longer for me to load what is needed to function.
Quite frankly, it sounds more as though you've archived it to secondary storage and have to read the tape back in.
and then there was his late neighbor who was in her late-90's but still very alert and lucid. despite her age she was still able to recall things from WW II.
About ten years or so ago, I worked the polls with a man in his mid-90s who was a WWI veteran, and told me how on slow days they used to go rat-hunting with their bayonets. Still sharp as can be, last time I saw him.
I'm 59. I can still remember things just as well as I did when I was half my age. Sometimes. Sometimes, I can't remember things I need, but I can still remember things I no longer have any use for, if I ever did. That's the way memory works. A few weeks ago, Jerry Pournelle talked about how his memory is working. (Scroll up, slightly, into the previous day.) Not as good in some ways as it had been, but still good enough for every day use.
Don't worry, though, there's hope for us all yet. Just a few days ago, my mother (88) told me how she'd met General Patton while she was taking a walk in April '45, a story I'd never heard before.
Compared to intergalactic space, 3,000 light years is practically next door. It's all relative, and when it comes to astronomy, anything inside the Milky Way is considered close.
I am so, so glad that I'm not the first slashdotter to come up with that thought. My first thought was that they'd try to emulate Brain and end up with Pinky.
"Yes, Brain, I think so, but who's going to paint all the ponies pink?"
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No, MSRA is not a "flesh eating bacteria" in the sense you presumably mean. (I know; I've had two different MSRA infections.) MSRA is a form of staph that's resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics and thus, hard to kill. The two times I had it, they needed to use sulpha, because it was about the only thing that works. Nasty stuff, I agree, but not quite what you were thinking of.
Well, what else do you expect when most of the students are financing their education with government-backed student loans? The money isn't coming out of their pockets (yet) or even their family's, so the administration doesn't feel any need to treat them with respect. From their POV, most of the student body is charity cases, and should just shut up and accept whatever they're grudgingly given.
The first link in the summary refers to him as Forrest J. Ackerman, and that's wrong. There is no period after the J as you can see in the Wikipedia article. Yes, I know that Wikipedia isn't always right, but it is this time. I was fortunate to have met him a few times, and hear him speak, and 4E always insisted on having his name spelled correctly. If you want to abbreviate, 4SJ will be just fine, ThankYouVeryMuch.
You mean to say that in a functional programming language, variables aren't? A paradox, a paradox, a most delightful paradox!
Personally, I'd rather see Microsoft put the effort into writing a version of Windows that doesn't have all those vulnerabilities in the first place. Of course, that would mean throwing out an awful lot of old code and that goes against their corporate culture, so I'm not holding my breath.
If this weren't Slashdot, I'd assume he meant nude, petrified and covered with Hot Grits. In this case, I've no idea what he was looking for.
Standards are a wonderful thing; there are so many to chose from.
I'd be more interested in learning how much that is in Britney Spears or Paris Hiltons.
I'm a smoker too, but that's one thing I'll never have to worry about. When I'm done, I empty out the bowl of my pipe, slip the pipe into my shirt pocket and leave nothing but ash and old tobacco behind. And, since you don't inhale a pipe, there's no nagging worry about lung cancer.
I find that hard to believe, considering the existence of Mt. Fuji.
Are you sure? I don't think there's enough root beer in the world to make a Godzilla Float.
Do you really want to be transformed into a sandwich? If not, you'd better rethink that last command.
Only on Slashdot would this be modded funny instead of insightful or informative.
Someone may have tried, but I don't think even the USPO is going to accept an application when there's records of prior art going back at least 3,000 years. Still, considering some of the silly patents we've been seeing here, I'd not be the least bit astonished to learn that somebody has, in fact, tried it.
It's only going to have so much fuel, and it may need all of it to get the 32 orbits you're complaining about. Once that's gone, there's no more maneuvering. And, of course, we'll still be able to get data back as it drifts out of the Jovian system. It's not like it's going to go dead the moment that last orbit ends, you know.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one here that finds Charbux coffee to be over-roasted, burnt and bitter. However, all is not lost if that's the only "coffee" you can find. Add just a pinch of salt and the bitterness goes away. Still, if they made it properly you wouldn't have to do that, would you? It's just another example of how good advertising can sell crap.
Personally, I consider that a feature, not a bug.
No. The MItM would send you an email with what appears to be a link to your bank, but actually goes to their site. If you click on it, the phishing site serves up an imitation of your bank's page, gets your username and password, then passes that on to your bank, acting, in effect, as a proxy. When you're done, the phishing site has your username and password to use or sell later, and that, AIUI is a man in the middle attack in action.
How do you think phishing sites work? You click on a link in an email that claims to be from your bank, and connect to a site that acts as a MiTM, stealing your username and password.
That may be true for Windows nowadays, I wouldn't know. I do know that Linux runs just fine on only 1GB or RAM. Why does Windows need so many resources to run acceptably?
Quite frankly, it sounds more as though you've archived it to secondary storage and have to read the tape back in.
About ten years or so ago, I worked the polls with a man in his mid-90s who was a WWI veteran, and told me how on slow days they used to go rat-hunting with their bayonets. Still sharp as can be, last time I saw him.
Don't worry, though, there's hope for us all yet. Just a few days ago, my mother (88) told me how she'd met General Patton while she was taking a walk in April '45, a story I'd never heard before.
Compared to intergalactic space, 3,000 light years is practically next door. It's all relative, and when it comes to astronomy, anything inside the Milky Way is considered close.
"Yes, Brain, I think so, but who's going to paint all the ponies pink?"