I consider police, much less ordinary citizens imprisoning you against their will in no way trivial. Indeed. How do you get others to unwillingly imprison you? Not trivial at all. Unwittingly, that's easy: conceal your presence in the room before they lock it. Unwillingly, that's harder.
it's been written into all kinds of state and local criminal codes which will never, ever, under any conceivable scenario, be applied to people actually using nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.
WMD is the root password to the disbursement of Homeland Security funds.
It's been used to charge drug dealers on the absurd theory that drugs are WMD -- er, no, people don't generally wander the streets begging dealers to sell them sarin gas to use on themselves! And of course any explosive device (whether said device exists or not...) will be labeled WMD by some ambitious prosecutor, because it grabs headlines. The original meaning has been diluted to the point where the phrase is useless
Indeed. Why, I remember a time when the only thing you could call a WMD was a magnetic bottle of antimatter used to destroy sweet-like-honey smelling blood-sucking cloud creatures.
If it can't boot off an IDE CD, so can't the tech who should fix it. Tech uses a SATA CD or prepares the installed drives on another system.
If they put a SATA CD in, so the tech can, so can you. They make computer cases that lock shut so that only IT has a key to install hardware, and sensors to alert IT if someone does open it.
What CDs should the average non-tech worker insert into a company computer anyway? I don't even use my work computer's CD-ROM drive (nope, not a DVD-ROM) to play music. (Mainly because there is no sound card in the computer and no headphone jack on the drive.) Support though may use it to reinstall older versions of the software to track down a bug a user is experiencing before trying to reproduce it in the latest version or handle data sets from off-line storage.
We still have 3.5" drives, though they're too small for today's data. Fears of large data theft prevents installation of CD burners and using CD-RWs. Also, no permissions to mount any external drives, and hooking up a personal laptop to the company network will get you fired. (Last I heard, CDs were still bootable here.)
Well, the gun-nuts here quickly seized the issue and even before the bodies are warm, are screaming "GUNS R GOOD MMMKAY?" all over this thread. Disgraceful.
Seriously though, I'd wager this gets mentioned on Real Time with Bill Maher this week and he'll trot out his observation about school shootings that it's "never a girl". I just wish some guest would come back with, "Oh, come on, Bill, you know `I Don't Like Mondays'."
To save a nickel a unit of course. Or maybe it's a security feature designed so that, when deployed in a work environment, employees can't boot Linux distros off of CDs?
I'm curious about parallels. They created a version that allows you to run from the Boot Camp installed OS while inside OSx... I wonder how that will work as the OS isn't truly "virtual" and it's on the same licensed machine.
Last I read, Windows sees it as running on different hardware (the virtual machine and the real one differ too much) and makes you re-authenticate (unless you have a volume license) each time you run it under the other system. I have yet to hear that Parallels had solved this problem.
You live outside United States soil, right? HOw is the immigration policy where you live?
Hey, don't forget to ask about their extradition policy too.
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I'd love to see 24 without explosions
If you're watching the HD version with 5.1 sound, try disconnecting all but the center speaker.
Personally, I like listening to everything but the center speaker. Or even just the left and right channels on an iPod. Then I entertain thoughts about how fun it would be to create a season-long parody of it, substituting alternate dialog in the center channel. Maybe call it "Funny Tor".
As I responded an earlier post: Tofu gives a great example how multicolumn documents should work in CSS.
I didn't know about that program. I think I'll give it a try. Thank you, AC, for letting me know about it. I think I'll use my Karma Bonus to lend your mention a little more prominence.
And to not be totally redundant, I'll relate a story about multi-column printing:
When I still used a dot matrix printer with fan-fold paper, I'd print everything sideways giving a nice continuous scroll that was much easier to page through than printing upright on one long fan-fold column. Today, at work I still print sideways (primarily to allow for long code lines). And sometimes I tape the pages together to get back to that fanfold presentation at the half-page size of 5.5 x 8.5, conveniently small to carry around the office and read in the restroom or break-room. (If only I could get xemacs 19.13 (1995) to print sideways in two columns so I don't waste half a sheet of paper per page, and some kind of fast-drying "liquid tape" to join the page edges quickly without causing facing pages to stick together.)
The proper rendering of multi-column text is to embrace horizontal scrolling and forbid vertical scrolling.
What an absolutely terrible idea. The whole point of embracing vertical scrolling instead of horizontal scrolling is that text flows horizontally. If you add horizontal scrolling, you then have to scroll back and forth as you read each line. If scrolling is vertical, then you scroll as you read without ever having to scroll backwards.
Kindly read the rest of my posting before responding again, particularly the very next sentence that addresses your complaint: "Column width and gutter need to be an even divisor of browser width and leave column height and count to flow to fit the window." As such no reverse scrolling, be it up- or leftwards, is necessary.
I haven't received an AOL CD in the mail for over a year. I'm not sure how I managed that.
I could have personal pictures on CDs, or scans of tax forms, or even just documents that I don't want associated with my identity but maybe just one file might identify me. They could be backups of source code I've written that I wouldn't want people to get their hands on, but I'm replacing them with new copies periodically to avoid CD rot and need to securely destroy them. Maybe the RIAA thinks I'm illegally redistributing my music CD backups to unknown third parties by putting them in publicly accessible recycle bins just as if I had mistakenly marked the directory I store them in as shared to the world, or software companies accusing me of illegally transferring single-use licenses.
And when you're under a government that deems it necessary to know who everyone calls on the phone and not only retains that information but demands everyone retain even more information for them to mine at will for years... well, there's reason to ensure you never voluntarily leaking any information whatsoever that could be used against you by any administration, current or future.
The thing about multi-column layout is it is very annoying to read when the columns are taller than the browser window. You reach the end of one column and you need to scroll back to the top of the next. It's the same annoyance as reading lines of text which are wider than you screen, just less frequently. (It works for newspapers and magazines because their whole page is visible and is only a matter of scanning with the eye.)
The proper rendering of multi-column text is to embrace horizontal scrolling and forbid vertical scrolling. Column width and gutter need to be an even divisor of browser width and leave column height and count to flow to fit the window.
Of course, this is at right-angle odds with the design philosophy of web pages, so multi-column sections pretty much have to be subsections of the page itself as like an IFRAME, allowing the multi-column view without disrupting the rendering of the rest of the page.
As a result, it's a design mess and people go back to the single column view with sidebars for additional information, using web design to its strengths rather than forcing it to behave like other media.
If it must exist, it should be a style sheet rule-set so it can be applied according to output type such as hard copy where that presentation makes sense. I'd prefer to have image masks that enable text to flow around the curves of an image, and leveraging transparency for it would reduce the bandwidth impact.
So, how long until my XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive, which I've yet to use even once (waiting for support in Leopard), officially becomes a doorstop, boatanchor, call-it-what-you-will?
"I could have you[r HD-DVD drive] revoked." "Revoked?" "Yeah, K-I-L-L-E-D, revoked."
Intact or destroyed? I wouldn't put an intact data CD or DVD in a recycling or trash bin lest it be extracted and read by unknown or unfriendly outside parties.
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Judging from her markup, she certainly believes in using <strong> words.
I'll assume the second <HTML> section for the footer is due to using Microsoft FrontPage 5.0.
We still have 3.5" drives, though they're too small for today's data. Fears of large data theft prevents installation of CD burners and using CD-RWs. Also, no permissions to mount any external drives, and hooking up a personal laptop to the company network will get you fired. (Last I heard, CDs were still bootable here.)
Seriously though, I'd wager this gets mentioned on Real Time with Bill Maher this week and he'll trot out his observation about school shootings that it's "never a girl". I just wish some guest would come back with, "Oh, come on, Bill, you know `I Don't Like Mondays'."
Personally, I like listening to everything but the center speaker. Or even just the left and right channels on an iPod. Then I entertain thoughts about how fun it would be to create a season-long parody of it, substituting alternate dialog in the center channel. Maybe call it "Funny Tor".
Dear Most People,
CG explosions are getting cheaper and cheaper.
Sincerely,
Someone who plays computer games
And to not be totally redundant, I'll relate a story about multi-column printing:
When I still used a dot matrix printer with fan-fold paper, I'd print everything sideways giving a nice continuous scroll that was much easier to page through than printing upright on one long fan-fold column. Today, at work I still print sideways (primarily to allow for long code lines). And sometimes I tape the pages together to get back to that fanfold presentation at the half-page size of 5.5 x 8.5, conveniently small to carry around the office and read in the restroom or break-room. (If only I could get xemacs 19.13 (1995) to print sideways in two columns so I don't waste half a sheet of paper per page, and some kind of fast-drying "liquid tape" to join the page edges quickly without causing facing pages to stick together.)
Well, you don't have to use Star Wars. There's other cultural references to be made.
"AACS of Evil" springs to mind.
I haven't received an AOL CD in the mail for over a year. I'm not sure how I managed that.
I could have personal pictures on CDs, or scans of tax forms, or even just documents that I don't want associated with my identity but maybe just one file might identify me. They could be backups of source code I've written that I wouldn't want people to get their hands on, but I'm replacing them with new copies periodically to avoid CD rot and need to securely destroy them. Maybe the RIAA thinks I'm illegally redistributing my music CD backups to unknown third parties by putting them in publicly accessible recycle bins just as if I had mistakenly marked the directory I store them in as shared to the world, or software companies accusing me of illegally transferring single-use licenses.
And when you're under a government that deems it necessary to know who everyone calls on the phone and not only retains that information but demands everyone retain even more information for them to mine at will for years... well, there's reason to ensure you never voluntarily leaking any information whatsoever that could be used against you by any administration, current or future.
The thing about multi-column layout is it is very annoying to read when the columns are taller than the browser window. You reach the end of one column and you need to scroll back to the top of the next. It's the same annoyance as reading lines of text which are wider than you screen, just less frequently. (It works for newspapers and magazines because their whole page is visible and is only a matter of scanning with the eye.)
The proper rendering of multi-column text is to embrace horizontal scrolling and forbid vertical scrolling. Column width and gutter need to be an even divisor of browser width and leave column height and count to flow to fit the window.
Of course, this is at right-angle odds with the design philosophy of web pages, so multi-column sections pretty much have to be subsections of the page itself as like an IFRAME, allowing the multi-column view without disrupting the rendering of the rest of the page.
As a result, it's a design mess and people go back to the single column view with sidebars for additional information, using web design to its strengths rather than forcing it to behave like other media.
If it must exist, it should be a style sheet rule-set so it can be applied according to output type such as hard copy where that presentation makes sense. I'd prefer to have image masks that enable text to flow around the curves of an image, and leveraging transparency for it would reduce the bandwidth impact.
So, how long until my XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive, which I've yet to use even once (waiting for support in Leopard), officially becomes a doorstop, boatanchor, call-it-what-you-will?
"I could have you[r HD-DVD drive] revoked."
"Revoked?"
"Yeah, K-I-L-L-E-D, revoked."
8. Signaling rescue planes with reflected sunlight. You can even use the spindle hole to sight the aircraft.