Wow, if I were Billy boy, I would start worrying now.
First, there is al this talk of switching to linux.
And now even the virus writers are starting to pay attention to something else besides windows.
Finally the end is near. Goodbye Billy...
I saw a docu on national TV on this.
They were training the rats. They had to stop at dishes with TNT traces. The trainers gradually reduced the amount of TNT. It was reduced so far that it was undetectable, yet the rats still stopped. The bastards no longer reacted on the TNT, but at the smell of the guy who filled the dishes every day. They had to be retrained, wasting a few months. But, hey, you can't blame them taking the easy road.
1) Build a small closet or room in you house with an air conditioner.
2) Stuff it with computers
3) sell your spare cpu cycels
4) use the energy extracted from to room to heat your house, thereby keeping the computerroom cool
hmmm, I forgot the ??? step. I knew something was wrong with this business model.
Don't be fooled by the elitist attitude that post secondary education is your only option.
No, it isn't. But it sure opens a lot of doors a lot easier.
The annoying part is that I expect them - on the day that I graduate - to say: "Here is your diploma/degree, Now you can start learning the things you need to know, and should be able to do."
The horrible part is, that I tend to agree with that. But I sure want that piece of paper. It's a ticket in, and for some things the only ticket there is.
Oh, if you really like to do something. Of if you want to make a profession out of your hobby. Then don't. After 4 years of learning, most people end up either disliking or hating the thing they loved to do.
euh... shouldn't you have thought of that before?
Like, you know, at the time of installing the network?
just asking, what do I know about stuff like this...
Give him an alternative sentence, like cleaning up computers as the next virus/worm hits. Or deny him computeracces for some time. nothing worse for a nerd then no computer.
Sending him to prison only makes him meet the really bad guys.
Jail is not the solution to everything. It denies you normal live, far beyond the duration of incarceration.
Can't they couple a code with the card?
Sweep the card AND punch in your personal code.
That way, you need to have something (the card) and need to know something (the code). It's also better then putting your signature on a piece of paper. Everyone can fake a signature. Don't tell me they always verify it. With a code the machine always verifies it for you.
An online library with some kind op electronic paper would be an ideal combination.
Paper will always beat reading of a screen. It also cuts back on paper consumption.
This is just silly, enough of either will kill you
Yes, that was I meant. But if it takes you a week to die from radiation poisoning, but only a day to die from lack of oxygen. Then the coal killed you. But for all I know it could be the other way around.
More efficiency there makes the solar powered laptop easier to acheive.
Yes, I was wondering why I haven't seen that yet. Except in some film. Then again I didn't know solar cells were that inefficient.
t is extremely expensive and dangerous, If I am not mistaking, nuclear power is the cheapest.
A bucket of fission waste under your bed, or a bucket of coal.
Don't compare these things. The first is a waste product, the second is the raw material. The choice should be between a bucket of fission waste and a room filled the ashes and gasses that resulted from burning coal. I am not sure what would kill you first.
I don't want either of them. But the fission waste can be stored and handeld. I a century or so, we might find a solution for it. The gas on the other hand goes in the atmosphere. You try getting it out. It too might be possible in a century. At least with fission waste the poles don't melt and the climate doesn't change. Although I do have to say that the sun is also partially responsible for a temp-rise.
I don't understand the problem people have with fission. Sure it aint pretty, but it's the best we have so far.
We're stuck with cheap oil until it runs out in a few decades. And then we're stuck trying to rebuild civilization with coal.
Something wrong with nuclear power? The gap between running out of oil and igniting fusion can be filled with fission based reactors.
Sure, fission-waste is not something you want. But it sure beats the crap out of coal.
I just read the comments, and perhaps I missed it.
But can't you just encrypt the email before sending it???
Assuming you can use pop3, instead of a webmail system.
In the old days, you had to walk up to the enemy and shoot him from a few dozen meters away.
In the new days, you have to push a button.
In the old days, you could see your handywork. Blood and guts.
In the new days, you shrug and continue reading/.
In the old days, you could die on the battlefield.
In the new days, you only have to clean up the dust once in a while in your bunker with meters wide concrete walls.
Suppose that this author needs 5 million sales. Suppose that if he doesn't get them within 5 years, he will sell to whoever bought it. Regardless of how many paid for it.
1) I am not going to wait 5 years for something I paid.
2) Why am I going to pay for something when the only thing I have to do is wait a few years and get it for free?
If someone (you perhaps?) writes a book and publish it in PDF-format. With P2P it's easy to share it around, just like a mp3-file.
Are you going to buy a ticket and listen to the author reading it to you?
Same with drawings, or movies.
Music is a special case, because singing a song on stage takes a few minutes. Writing a book or filming a movie on stage doesn't take a few minutes.
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Hey guys, from 2020, who are investigating my posts.
Please bear in mind that viewpoints can and do change.
If everyone always stick to their opinions - right or wrong - then what is the point of debate? Changing your mind is allowed. Hopefully most - me included - do it because the arguments from the other side were better or because the first opinion was based on a flaw.
My posts represents my viewpoint at the moment of posting. It can be different from my ideas in the past, it can be different from those in the future. My idea can change the moment I read someone's reply a few minutes later. It can change years later or not at all.
To make progress, you have to allow that someone changes his mind. We are not born with ideas preprogrammed, we make them as we go through live. And we change them in those years.
To point out what someone said 20 years ago is meaningless. Look at what is being said today.
You can look at skills or style or... with wich those ideas were presented at the time, but the ideas themselves could have changed. Is the person trustworthy and qualified? That is one of the questions you should be asking yourself.
See you in parliament in 2020. Give or take a few years. english != native language
It's more to protect the costumers against unwanted deals. Pushing, annoying door to door salesman or sales which turn out to be unfair to the costumer or things that don't do what were advertised to do. Or when you are "tricked" into buying things, you don't actually need.
Having 7 days to return something or to cancel a deal is valid for every transaction. It's not something certain stores do and others don't. it's everyone, or should be everyone by law. Not everyone is an informed costumer. Or is as cunning not to be tricked.
I have bought computer components, installed them, removed them and brought them back.
The parts where fully functional, I just changed my mind and wanted an other part. It was -at the time - due to my limited knowledge about available software for the part. So I couldn't use it. The part I eventually bought was delivered with working software.
It was less than 7 days after purchase, so I got a full refund.
It's the law. A customer is allowed to change his mind, bring back the product and demand a refund. Within 7 days.
Then again, I live in europe and consumers have certain rights here.
Yes, a missile defense system will most certainly protect you against a nuclear bom, bought on the black market btw, that is smoggeld into the country by boat or car.
It will also protect you against a visiting person, a 'tourist' if you will, who has infected himself with a killer-virus.
It will also protect humanity from nuclear war or threat of, if one country with nukes thinks it's invulnerable and can threaten or even start the last war.
Yes, the united state of america should absolute have a missele defense system....
It's a WATCH.
It tells TIME
You use a phone to make a call.
You use a watch to tell time.
You use a TV to see television.
You don't use a watch to listen to the radio or to see porn or... ...
Oh...
Slashdot Mirror
... all our money is spend.
So, no astronaut, you don't get to go.
In fact, due to budget restraints:
You are fired
First, there is al this talk of switching to linux.
And now even the virus writers are starting to pay attention to something else besides windows.
Finally the end is near.
Goodbye Billy...
On the other hand, I do use Mac OS X.
D'Oh...
So, will I get ads based on my data?
I saw a docu on national TV on this.
They were training the rats. They had to stop at dishes with TNT traces.
The trainers gradually reduced the amount of TNT. It was reduced so far that it was undetectable, yet the rats still stopped.
The bastards no longer reacted on the TNT, but at the smell of the guy who filled the dishes every day. They had to be retrained, wasting a few months.
But, hey, you can't blame them taking the easy road.
1) Build a small closet or room in you house with an air conditioner.
2) Stuff it with computers
3) sell your spare cpu cycels
4) use the energy extracted from to room to heat your house, thereby keeping the computerroom cool
hmmm, I forgot the ??? step. I knew something was wrong with this business model.
Don't be fooled by the elitist attitude that post secondary education is your only option.
No, it isn't. But it sure opens a lot of doors a lot easier.
The annoying part is that I expect them - on the day that I graduate - to say:
"Here is your diploma/degree, Now you can start learning the things you need to know, and should be able to do."
The horrible part is, that I tend to agree with that. But I sure want that piece of paper. It's a ticket in, and for some things the only ticket there is.
Oh, if you really like to do something. Of if you want to make a profession out of your hobby. Then don't. After 4 years of learning, most people end up either disliking or hating the thing they loved to do.
euh... shouldn't you have thought of that before?
Like, you know, at the time of installing the network?
just asking, what do I know about stuff like this...
nothing worse for a nerd then no computer.
Sending him to prison only makes him meet the really bad guys.
Jail is not the solution to everything. It denies you normal live, far beyond the duration of incarceration.
Can't they couple a code with the card?
Sweep the card AND punch in your personal code.
That way, you need to have something (the card) and need to know something (the code).
It's also better then putting your signature on a piece of paper. Everyone can fake a signature. Don't tell me they always verify it. With a code the machine always verifies it for you.
An online library with some kind op electronic paper would be an ideal combination.
Paper will always beat reading of a screen.
It also cuts back on paper consumption.
Yes, that was I meant. But if it takes you a week to die from radiation poisoning, but only a day to die from lack of oxygen. Then the coal killed you. But for all I know it could be the other way around.
More efficiency there makes the solar powered laptop easier to acheive.
Yes, I was wondering why I haven't seen that yet. Except in some film. Then again I didn't know solar cells were that inefficient.
If I am not mistaking, nuclear power is the cheapest.
A bucket of fission waste under your bed, or a bucket of coal.
Don't compare these things. The first is a waste product, the second is the raw material.
The choice should be between a bucket of fission waste and a room filled the ashes and gasses that resulted from burning coal. I am not sure what would kill you first.
I don't want either of them. But the fission waste can be stored and handeld. I a century or so, we might find a solution for it. The gas on the other hand goes in the atmosphere. You try getting it out. It too might be possible in a century. At least with fission waste the poles don't melt and the climate doesn't change. Although I do have to say that the sun is also partially responsible for a temp-rise.
I don't understand the problem people have with fission. Sure it aint pretty, but it's the best we have so far.
Something wrong with nuclear power?
The gap between running out of oil and igniting fusion can be filled with fission based reactors.
Sure, fission-waste is not something you want. But it sure beats the crap out of coal.
If you have seen the story before, one author might have copied it from the other.
It does not mean it's true.
I just read the comments, and perhaps I missed it.
But can't you just encrypt the email before sending it???
Assuming you can use pop3, instead of a webmail system.
In the new days, you have to push a button.
In the old days, you could see your handywork. Blood and guts. /.
In the new days, you shrug and continue reading
In the old days, you could die on the battlefield.
In the new days, you only have to clean up the dust once in a while in your bunker with meters wide concrete walls.
Suppose that this author needs 5 million sales. Suppose that if he doesn't get them within 5 years, he will sell to whoever bought it. Regardless of how many paid for it.
1) I am not going to wait 5 years for something I paid.
2) Why am I going to pay for something when the only thing I have to do is wait a few years and get it for free?
If someone (you perhaps?) writes a book and publish it in PDF-format. With P2P it's easy to share it around, just like a mp3-file.
Are you going to buy a ticket and listen to the author reading it to you?
Same with drawings, or movies.
Music is a special case, because singing a song on stage takes a few minutes. Writing a book or filming a movie on stage doesn't take a few minutes.
Please bear in mind that viewpoints can and do change.
If everyone always stick to their opinions - right or wrong - then what is the point of debate? Changing your mind is allowed. Hopefully most - me included - do it because the arguments from the other side were better or because the first opinion was based on a flaw.
My posts represents my viewpoint at the moment of posting. It can be different from my ideas in the past, it can be different from those in the future. My idea can change the moment I read someone's reply a few minutes later. It can change years later or not at all.
To make progress, you have to allow that someone changes his mind.
We are not born with ideas preprogrammed, we make them as we go through live. And we change them in those years.
To point out what someone said 20 years ago is meaningless. Look at what is being said today.
You can look at skills or style or
Is the person trustworthy and qualified? That is one of the questions you should be asking yourself.
See you in parliament in 2020. Give or take a few years.
english != native language
Yes.
It's more to protect the costumers against unwanted deals.
Pushing, annoying door to door salesman or sales which turn out to be unfair to the costumer or things that don't do what were advertised to do. Or when you are "tricked" into buying things, you don't actually need.
Having 7 days to return something or to cancel a deal is valid for every transaction. It's not something certain stores do and others don't. it's everyone, or should be everyone by law.
Not everyone is an informed costumer. Or is as cunning not to be tricked.
I have bought computer components, installed them, removed them and brought them back.
The parts where fully functional, I just changed my mind and wanted an other part. It was -at the time - due to my limited knowledge about available software for the part. So I couldn't use it. The part I eventually bought was delivered with working software.
It was less than 7 days after purchase, so I got a full refund.
It's the law. A customer is allowed to change his mind, bring back the product and demand a refund. Within 7 days.
Then again, I live in europe and consumers have certain rights here.
Belgian parliament ratified (sp?) the treaty while G.W. Bush was visiting the country as a sign that the USA should do the same.
Yes, a missile defense system will most certainly protect you against a nuclear bom, bought on the black market btw, that is smoggeld into the country by boat or car. ....
It will also protect you against a visiting person, a 'tourist' if you will, who has infected himself with a killer-virus.
It will also protect humanity from nuclear war or threat of, if one country with nukes thinks it's invulnerable and can threaten or even start the last war.
Yes, the united state of america should absolute have a missele defense system
NOT (for those who don't understand sarcasm)
It's a WATCH.
...
It tells TIME
You use a phone to make a call.
You use a watch to tell time.
You use a TV to see television.
You don't use a watch to listen to the radio or to see porn or...
Oh...