Slashdot, where everyone is so american that no one has any idea what Freedom of Speech is, and how it doesn't apply to private websites you read in your underwear and never pay for.
Slashdot, where posters compartmentalize everything so throroughy that no connection can be seen between supporting honest-to-Bob Gubmental Freedom of Speech(tm) and allowing people to effing say what they want in some ordinary setting, underwear or no.
...what's to stop any random idiot from claiming your auction is violating something or other and telling eBay to pull your auction? Case in point: some organization calling itself "SIIA (The Software & Information Industry Association)" has pulled my wife's auction of a set of Kaplan USMLE study books...wait for it...which she bought on eBay. Lots of other auctions for the exact same items stay on and go through to completion. Sounds like someone doesn't like competition and knows how to game the system.
We had to use a pair of single-pole, single-throw knife switches to input the bits. And they'd electrocute you sometimes. And you'd die and still have to get the code finished by 6pm.
You tell kids that today...they won't believe you!
I don't ordinarly make spelling-nazi posts, but I feel I need to, since here we see two people in one branch of the thread, saying "rediculous" and no one blinking an eye.
It's ridiculous. Deserving or inspiring ridicule. Not "redicule", as there is no such thing. And, no, it can't be "diculous" again.
Oh, and, ObOnTopic: everyone keeps touting cane sugar -- how about beet sugar?
Mr. THOMAS HESSE (President, Sony BMG Global Digital Business): Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?
Don't you mean "Sony BMG Global Digital Business (Profile, Products, Articles)"?
Label buttons with what's going to happen when you press them, not "Yes" and "No" in response to a question people are going to ignore anyway. In other words, not this:
Do you not really want to stop quitting? [Yes] [No]
But this:
Do you not really want to stop quitting? [Quit] [Don't Quit]
You got modded insightful for saying this (like many others), but it makes no sense. If you give notice, you're clearly not going to do anything to them -- if you were, you just tipped your hand. You said yourself, you'd do the damage before that. Giving notice is a tradition whereby a professional (acting, as you say, like one) extends the courtesy of allowing a period of time for the business to wrap things up cleanly and (relatively) unhurriedly. It's not a semaphore that says "I'm about to wreak havoc! Here I go!".
But, hey, free money, right? Make it two years' notice!
...how South Korea gets to tell an American company what it has to do and what fines to pay. Does the US government get to order Hyundai (or SAP, or Virgin Atlantic, or...) to do this or that, and fine them and whatnot?
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...on an address per dollar basis.
(65,536 ^ 8) / ((25 to 75) * 1,000,000,000) =~ 1.36e28 to 4.53e27 addresses per dollar.
So, about one address per atom of your body, for only a dollar. Not a bad deal.
"Ree-jeck-tedd"? Whaa--?
After all, we now see that Bank of America is on its way toward patenting the ceiling function. See at the bottom? Patent pending.
Use only one can for all four.
In some (most?) US states, you are actually not allowed to have a lawyer in small claims -- that's kind of the whole point.
...what's to stop any random idiot from claiming your auction is violating something or other and telling eBay to pull your auction? Case in point: some organization calling itself "SIIA (The Software & Information Industry Association)" has pulled my wife's auction of a set of Kaplan USMLE study books...wait for it...which she bought on eBay. Lots of other auctions for the exact same items stay on and go through to completion. Sounds like someone doesn't like competition and knows how to game the system.
Agreed. Also, you may want to check out other books by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Lots of them are just as interesting. I particularly recommend Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern. It's a collection of his Scientific American column of the same name, with updates. Lots of computery things and other fun stuff.
We had to use a pair of single-pole, single-throw knife switches to input the bits. And they'd electrocute you sometimes. And you'd die and still have to get the code finished by 6pm.
You tell kids that today...they won't believe you!
Though, with remote-control robots, I guess that could be offshored too...
I don't ordinarly make spelling-nazi posts, but I feel I need to, since here we see two people in one branch of the thread, saying "rediculous" and no one blinking an eye.
It's ridiculous. Deserving or inspiring ridicule. Not "redicule", as there is no such thing. And, no, it can't be "diculous" again.
Oh, and, ObOnTopic: everyone keeps touting cane sugar -- how about beet sugar?
It wasn't always so. Ah, the good old days.
...there's a very bright bright side. And that is:
They finally released all the old Aeon Flux stuff on DVD.
(Sometimes marketing tie-in exploitation works in our favor...)
Yeeesh. Stop that, InfoWorld.
...why there isn't a raging market for text adventure games for women (or at all).
Label buttons with what's going to happen when you press them, not "Yes" and "No" in response to a question people are going to ignore anyway. In other words, not this:
Do you not really want to stop quitting? [Yes] [No]
But this:
Do you not really want to stop quitting? [Quit] [Don't Quit]
You got modded insightful for saying this (like many others), but it makes no sense. If you give notice, you're clearly not going to do anything to them -- if you were, you just tipped your hand. You said yourself, you'd do the damage before that. Giving notice is a tradition whereby a professional (acting, as you say, like one) extends the courtesy of allowing a period of time for the business to wrap things up cleanly and (relatively) unhurriedly. It's not a semaphore that says "I'm about to wreak havoc! Here I go!".
But, hey, free money, right? Make it two years' notice!
...how South Korea gets to tell an American company what it has to do and what fines to pay. Does the US government get to order Hyundai (or SAP, or Virgin Atlantic, or...) to do this or that, and fine them and whatnot?
Everyone coming in is to leave his brain (if any) at the door with the guard. It will be returned to you when you leave.
We appreciate your cooperation in These Times Of Heightened Security (tm).
...that that cube (100ft on a side) represents significantly more than all the gold ever mined in the history of the world (about 66ft on a side).
Then again, what's a few cubic acres between friends, especially when 4-dimensional spatial units of measure are so fun?
You're my hero today.
You really shouldn't try so hard when you're trolling. It just screams desperation. Subtlety is far more successful.