This is why this happens in the UK and not in America. You see us free Americans have a right to carry guns, lots of em, thats why muggings dont happen in America.
Since I moved to London and not New York, my chances of being murdered dropped from 16.8 in 100,000 to 2.1 in 100,000. If you read this article, you will see that of the most murderous cities in the world, the first six are in the United States. Granted, this article doesn't directly address gun control, but I think it is some evidence against the "We are safer in the US because we have so many guns" argument.
Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident.
Well thank God the all powerful blog-o-sphere is finally using its power to do something instead of just creating a rebellion symbol/meme and linking to real news sources.
If I (a person who lives in America and speaks US English; no born American (thank goodness)) were to go to England and converse with an Englishman; who would have the accent, me or him? The obvious answer, as a lot of Americans fail to realize, is me.
As someone who moved from the US to the UK, let me tell you that the British people here don't consider the language I speak to be English. It's American, and I better not forget it. : )
I know a lot of people on slashdot make fun of social networks, but trust me, if you are new to a city and don't know many people there, it's nice to join a network of (mostly) real people as opposed to some anonymous bulliten board.
Wow, I forgot all about AllAdvantage. I still have an old website on fortunecity.com plugging that service. (I sadly want to gain control of that site again, but I forgot my username/password)
As I remember it, you didn't get paid for clicking on the ads, AllAdvantage displayed a banner ad on the bottom of your computer and paid you to `look' at it. But all it really kept track of was if the mouse was moving.
I had a friend send me a script to move the mouse around while I slept, but AA cought on to that pretty quickly.
So, I just tied my mouse to a rotating fan. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
Using your backassward logic, it seems more logical to devote your CPU time to researching automotive traffic patterns, so you don't get killed in an auto accident or get hit by a bus.
If there was a project that I could devote my CPU cycles that could reduce the possibility of me getting into a car accident, then I would drop folding@home for dontgethitbyacar@home. What's backassward about risk assesment?
I used to run seti@home instead of folding@home, but then one day I realized I needed to switch. While finding extraterrestrial life would be the most important development in human history to date, the chances of finding it in my lifetime are very small.
On the other hand, the chances of my getting cancer or any of the other of the diseases folding@home works on is very great. Plus, if folding@home cures any of these diseases, it will extend my life and increase the chances that extraterrestrials will be found within my lifetime.
``Sure, but first I need to go to the bank on high street.''
``Why? That one is two block in the opposite direction, there's a bank the way we are going that's on the same system so it won't charge you any fees.''
``I know, but that one has one of those old black-and-green displays. You can't trust something like that. The other bank has an ATM with color and animation.''
It really upsets me to know that things like that actually matter to people.
I've never been addressed by name on slashdot. Very arresting.
Anyway, you are right. I didn't really think how this was a situation that would burn itself out because it was too deadly. Should have picked an illness with a little more oomph.
"With all these hard drive problems, the infection rates are going to shrink pretty quickly as all these affected machines grind themselves to a halt," Stewart said.
Well thanks Stewart. I'm glad to know I won't have to worry about the infection rate of AIDS once most people have AIDS.
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This is why this happens in the UK and not in America. You see us free Americans have a right to carry guns, lots of em, thats why muggings dont happen in America.
Since I moved to London and not New York, my chances of being murdered dropped from 16.8 in 100,000 to 2.1 in 100,000. If you read this article, you will see that of the most murderous cities in the world, the first six are in the United States. Granted, this article doesn't directly address gun control, but I think it is some evidence against the "We are safer in the US because we have so many guns" argument.
Please stick to apple standard spelling. iPod not IPOD. : P
-Colin
Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident.
Well thank God the all powerful blog-o-sphere is finally using its power to do something instead of just creating a rebellion symbol/meme and linking to real news sources.
Oh wait.
-Colin
Should be under US ;)
-Colin
Exponential growth.
-Colin
If I (a person who lives in America and speaks US English; no born American (thank goodness)) were to go to England and converse with an Englishman; who would have the accent, me or him? The obvious answer, as a lot of Americans fail to realize, is me.
As someone who moved from the US to the UK, let me tell you that the British people here don't consider the language I speak to be English. It's American, and I better not forget it. : )
Where does the money go after Microsoft pays? To charity? To the gov't?
-Colin
So... when MS pays the 0.5Gigaeuro fine, who gets the money?
-Colin
Did any of you ACTUALLY made any money?, I mean not only virtually in your account, but actually received a check at your house? Thanks
I did. I got a cheque for about twenty dollars each month for about six months. I really couldn't believe it.
-Colin
Just this week I met up with some people from Orkut. I wrote about my experience for those interested.
I know a lot of people on slashdot make fun of social networks, but trust me, if you are new to a city and don't know many people there, it's nice to join a network of (mostly) real people as opposed to some anonymous bulliten board.
-Colin
It's about damn time. This carpal tunnel syndrome is really affecting my WarCraft III games.
-Colin
Wow, I forgot all about AllAdvantage. I still have an old website on fortunecity.com plugging that service. (I sadly want to gain control of that site again, but I forgot my username/password)
As I remember it, you didn't get paid for clicking on the ads, AllAdvantage displayed a banner ad on the bottom of your computer and paid you to `look' at it. But all it really kept track of was if the mouse was moving.
I had a friend send me a script to move the mouse around while I slept, but AA cought on to that pretty quickly.
So, I just tied my mouse to a rotating fan. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
-Colin
He could have been the "Microsoft" of the spamming industry.
I thought Microsoft was the Microsoft of the spamming industry.
-Colin
The Natural History Museum didn't include pluto as a planet. That's good enough for me.
-Colin
Clyde Tombaugh (the man who discovered Pluto)'s
Best. Misuse of an apostrophe. Ever
-Colin
Using your backassward logic, it seems more logical to devote your CPU time to researching automotive traffic patterns, so you don't get killed in an auto accident or get hit by a bus.
If there was a project that I could devote my CPU cycles that could reduce the possibility of me getting into a car accident, then I would drop folding@home for dontgethitbyacar@home. What's backassward about risk assesment?
-Colin
An old rule of thumb is that the user experience is noticeably better if the performance doubles.
So if they make every new release 7% faster I'll never notice?
How tragic!
-Colin
folding@home
I used to run seti@home instead of folding@home, but then one day I realized I needed to switch. While finding extraterrestrial life would be the most important development in human history to date, the chances of finding it in my lifetime are very small.
On the other hand, the chances of my getting cancer or any of the other of the diseases folding@home works on is very great. Plus, if folding@home cures any of these diseases, it will extend my life and increase the chances that extraterrestrials will be found within my lifetime.
-Colin
Given that you have to select an E-mail to delete it, how are users supposed to protect themselves from this one?
Easy, I'll just select and delete it really fast.
-Colin
A conversation I had with a friend:
``Alright, lets go to the bar.''
``Sure, but first I need to go to the bank on high street.''
``Why? That one is two block in the opposite direction, there's a bank the way we are going that's on the same system so it won't charge you any fees.''
``I know, but that one has one of those old black-and-green displays. You can't trust something like that. The other bank has an ATM with color and animation.''
It really upsets me to know that things like that actually matter to people.
-Colin
Wow,
I've never been addressed by name on slashdot. Very arresting.
Anyway, you are right. I didn't really think how this was a situation that would burn itself out because it was too deadly. Should have picked an illness with a little more oomph.
-Colin
Allow me to alliterate:
Witty Worm Wrecks Windows
-Colin
"With all these hard drive problems, the infection rates are going to shrink pretty quickly as all these affected machines grind themselves to a halt," Stewart said.
Well thanks Stewart. I'm glad to know I won't have to worry about the infection rate of AIDS once most people have AIDS.
-Colin
Most infected computers will have to be rebuilt from scratch unless their owners instead decide to buy new ones
I didn't know worms were so powerful now that they could melt a computer into a pile of toxic sludge. : /
-Colin
did they "normalize" the field by throwing out those who had two PhD's for parents?
What an efficent way to hurt those who's parents both have PhDs and are honest people.
-Colin