anything i touch becomes unlucky.
to leverage the powers-of-the-ill-fated (tm), i guess i'll have to buy sco stock now.
see how you handle _that_, sco.
i wonder about the performance for increasingly large storage space...
do you think that a search taking O(log n) [this is assuming similar performance to oracle] time over exponentially large drive space is better in the long run than what we've got now? is hfs+ that bad taking care of my 40gb drive?
maybe i'm being less open minded about the journaling, especially since the/. consensus is journaling = good...
and i am running a g4 400 w/ macosx and i really would hate to see that 10 percent get sucked up by disk accesses.
yeah, but you still get a choice--i don't use mac os x's journaling because of the overhead--you don't hve to use winfs if the performance penalty is too high.
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I'll complain when they try and tag my children at birth...
the thing is that they don't need to tag you, they just need to tag your clothing, the currency you bring in your wallet, your photo id.... etc
now, all that is required is some sort of global database where they have a picture of you walking through the door, buying a [insert embarassing article here] and form letter blackmail.
no, i think it's the fact that the issue i bring up is that if your purchases retain the rfid function upon leaving the store, they become useful to the entity that decides to listen and track them: wal-mart's clothing aisle that insists that this pair of pants will match that shirt your wearing...
it's worse than the safeway club card because you knowingly give the club card to the entity; in this case, it may be against your will.
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Is that anything like Intel Inside?
history: MIT--electronic locks requiring the swipe of a card
most everyone discussing these devices are concerned about the privacy issues--that they need to be fully deactivated after the purchase.
big brother inside?
It doesn't appear to be tecnically challenging to allow numbers to remain the same. Change an entry in a database and there you go. This will increase competition, not decrease it.
this is a big question i have: why show evidence if you're just gonna hush up those who see it? that doesn't make any sense to me if they really do have a case to make against linux.
upn had a dilbert episode where dilbert created a masterpiece--a blue duck--that swept the art world. maybe if this had not been in a cartoon, i'd swoon and drool over art created artificially...
... not that cigarette-smoking-coffee-loving-beret-wearing-ass- holes don't already do that...
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anything i touch becomes unlucky. to leverage the powers-of-the-ill-fated (tm), i guess i'll have to buy sco stock now. see how you handle _that_, sco.
how about an auditing ($99 msrp) by the church of scientology? i hear they can measure your geek quotient with their iq tests as well.
i can't... i have clusterphobia.
Superman: The Escape uses magnetic propulsion and mag-brakes. nice to see the idea slimmed down.
all we need now are high-tech voltrons that fire the plastic pellets with a gauss gun. THAT would be cool.
just got the second result "Message Development" or communications_strategy.pdf, opened it with Acrobat Reader, and searched for "trust"
Acrobat Reader's result:
"No occurrances of
trust
were found in the document."
this flu season should be frightening. everyone will think they have the sars when it's just the flu.
counting down to the next outbreak of some other nasty bug like hantavirus, westnile, or ebola
i will write about:
..."3" and a run at the california governorship.
the rick "bermanator 2"
and there's room for a
even advanced global thermonuclear timeshare?
all your bsd are belong to us
i wonder about the performance for increasingly large storage space...
/. consensus is journaling = good...
do you think that a search taking O(log n) [this is assuming similar performance to oracle] time over exponentially large drive space is better in the long run than what we've got now? is hfs+ that bad taking care of my 40gb drive?
maybe i'm being less open minded about the journaling, especially since the
and i am running a g4 400 w/ macosx and i really would hate to see that 10 percent get sucked up by disk accesses.
yeah, but you still get a choice--i don't use mac os x's journaling because of the overhead--you don't hve to use winfs if the performance penalty is too high.
actually, a little bit of sodium and a swimming pool or a super soaker would be fun.
i wouldn't want a whole lot of it around, though. fireworks or loaded guns would be safer to have around.
i like setting off thermite reactions.
playing with liquid nitrogen kind of evens things out.
frozen boots, tennis balls, cough medicine...
all in 30 seconds!
microsoft: there's a bug in our bug disclosure process. apply this patch using windows update.
user: windows update recommends that i install 14 critical updates.
microsoft: you cannot install this patch without all the updates
user *installs 10 updates, 11th fails*
user: uh...
microsoft: it's your problem. btw, the bug disclosure process bug is your problem too.
you are using a pirated os.
please enter your 128-character registration code
wrong code...
wrong code...
wrong code...
wrong code...
I'll complain when they try and tag my children at birth...
the thing is that they don't need to tag you, they just need to tag your clothing, the currency you bring in your wallet, your photo id.... etc
now, all that is required is some sort of global database where they have a picture of you walking through the door, buying a [insert embarassing article here] and form letter blackmail.
no, i think it's the fact that the issue i bring up is that if your purchases retain the rfid function upon leaving the store, they become useful to the entity that decides to listen and track them: wal-mart's clothing aisle that insists that this pair of pants will match that shirt your wearing...
it's worse than the safeway club card because you knowingly give the club card to the entity; in this case, it may be against your will.
Is that anything like Intel Inside?
history: MIT--electronic locks requiring the swipe of a card
mit big brother inside
there are any number of video cameras and inventory-tracking devices in a store.
i bet wal-mart is keeping careful track of your shopping habits. rfids only serve their tracking needs better.
most everyone discussing these devices are concerned about the privacy issues--that they need to be fully deactivated after the purchase. big brother inside?
It doesn't appear to be tecnically challenging to allow numbers to remain the same. Change an entry in a database and there you go. This will increase competition, not decrease it.
hypothetically...
if i ran virtual pc on my mac and used outlook--i could still be compromised by bugbear... and that's secure?
is this what they're trying to do? or am i on the wrong track?
now all they need is for it to catch humans and we've got any number of sci-fi movies come to life...
this is a big question i have: why show evidence if you're just gonna hush up those who see it? that doesn't make any sense to me if they really do have a case to make against linux.
upn had a dilbert episode where dilbert created a masterpiece--a blue duck--that swept the art world. maybe if this had not been in a cartoon, i'd swoon and drool over art created artificially...
... not that cigarette-smoking-coffee-loving-beret-wearing-ass- holes don't already do that...