Because cunnilingus is not so fun when the tongue hitting your clit is still swathed in hot sauce that is 100x hotter than anything you can buy at Safeway.
That this gets modded "funny" is suggestive of how much of Slashdot is male, and how limited their sex lives are.
Just remember: sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, even hot sauce. Recieving felatio becomes similarly less enjoyable... unless you're seriously into S&M.
it would be in a pill form, so there would be no taste or burning of the mouth.
One of my college housemates was wont to mooch some of my food from the fridge... which was fine, as I regularly mooched his back. What proved him an idiot was including a whole habanero pepper from the bag labeled "hot peppers" in with his stirfry. He didn't have problems with most spicy peppers, and enjoys the red thai ones. The habanero's heat surprised him... so much that he abruptly swallowed.
He said for the next two days that he was aware every second of exactly how far along the pepper was. And was Not Happy about it.
The entire gastrointestinal tract is sensitive mucus membranes, and concentrated capsicum can irritate anywhere the length of it. A time release MIGHT work, but I'd expect side effects.
So, you claim the NSA asked Microsoft to not put AES in IE? This doesn't make much sense either. Like I said, almost every other browser, client or server already supports AES on SSL (including those offered by IBM). It's just weird that Microsoft lags so far behind.
Not that weird. Yes, every other browser/client/server supports it. IE still has comfortably more than half of the browser market, even though it's in decline. So, if the NSA can't break AES, they ask M$ not to put it in, and a large chunk of the traffic remains readily readable.
"But," you may say, "anyone who knows what they're doing will use something more secure." True. However on one hand, crooks and terrorists are often (albeit not always) stupid, and might not always do so; and on the other hand, the easily broken traffic can be quickly sorted out, leaving a smaller quantity of harder-to-break traffic where content analysis is neglected but traffic analysis approaches become profitable. Limiting the capabilities of the drooling-luser set is helpful, because it makes it easier to pick out the bad guys who hide by leaving a smaller set of both the good and the bad guys who can hide. Rather than struggling to separate all the good from the bad, they can first quickly separate the smart from the stoooopid.
Of course, there's no proof the AC's assertion is true... but it doesn't matter much for the sake of arguement.
The federal government currently is the biggest threat to the United States.
While I don't deny your supporting reasons, nor that the threat is immense, both are irrelevant to my earlier quibble about whether this could go so far as to be called treason. I'd also incidentally disagree with calling it the biggest threat. I would say that continued upswing in religious fanaticsm (including both abroad from Islam and domestically from the Christian right) is the biggest threat, as aspects both motivate the most dangerous increases in federal power at the expense of individual liberty, while others seek to use the habit of increased power to impose religious tenets as law.
This is not to say that the threat from our own goverment should not be opposed. Rather, I speculate that reducing the underlying religous threat has the potential to reduce the governmental threat, but not the other way around. Of course, if I could figure out how to do either, I'd have better things to do than post to Slashdot.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
An obvious violation of their oath of office, I will grant you, but it's equally obvious it falls short of international standards for "levying war". So, do you really want to characterize this as giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States?
Apple has changed what you can do with the music AFTER you have purchased it.
True — and Apple lost a LOT of my goodwill the first time they reduced user rights. However, Apple's DRM still allows you to burn purchased songs to CD, in a form that can be re-ripped and abused in all the standard ways. The four times I have been decided to buy via ITunes, the first thing I did afterwards was create a physical CD, and re-rip to MP3; this reduced my inconveniece when a DRM downgrade occured between purchases 3 and 4. Fortunately (?), I own more than one PC. The "games and toys" box has iTunes on it. The "serious work" machine does not... but does have several semi-pro and pro-am grade audio packages, and an external hard drive (which is backed up) with all of my MP3's. (And yes, they are all from my ripping legal purchased CDs, legal CD burns, or various free legal downloads.)
While a real paranoid wouldn't have the machines on the same home network, I settle for keeping them firewalled behind separate NAT routers, dangling off of my main home router. (I can accept the extra 2 ms packet latency in my gaming.)
At least with the Sony CDs, the DRM stayed the same. Apple has changed what you can do with the music AFTER you have purchased it.
To make a blatantly prejuducial analogy, that's like saying that being detained (and gang-raped by the guards) indefinitely in a Pottsylvania prison isn't as bad as being quietly detained without charges for two months at Gitmo before being released, because only the US constitution ever said you had any rights otherwise. They're both immoral, but do differ in both character and degree.
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- really bad and/or cult movies/shows, where there's some chunk of a (predominantly) baby boomer audience that's virtually guaranteed to go along (e.g. Dukes of Hazzard, Mission Impossible).
Actually, I rather enjoy the first MI movie. Of course, I don't watch the exact same movie everyone else is. I make two minor changes in my mind.
1) Replace Jon Voight with Peter Graves in the role as Jim Phelps. Not that Voight isn't talented, but Graves spent almost a decade in the role.
2) Replace Henry Czerny in the role of Eugene Kittridge with Leonard Nimoy reprising his role as Paris from the original series.
Aside from a quick "s/Kittridge/Paris/g" on the script, no other dialog changes needed. Having Paris as the chief would have made the motivations for Phelps a lot more heartfelt: he's not only stuck in the same basic position he's held since the days of the cold war, his current boss is someone who used to work for him, and has been promoted over his head. Add that on top of the already stated "obsolescence" motivation, and the result has a lot more depth and versimilitude.
Unfortunately, that movie couldn't have been made in the real world. The several suitcases added to the pricetag to get Graves and Nimoy on board would have been a minor problem. Having Scientology-deranged control freak Cruise as not only the lead actor but the producer to boot makes it as plausible as Xenu; neither Graves nor Nimoy would tolerate the little chicken shit. I wonder how much of the blame for the crapfest of unoriginality that Hollywood has been lately can be laid squarely at the feet of the COS?
Still, it's easy enough to imagine what might have been while watching it that I was willing to buy the DVD. Used. In the bargain "clearance" bin. Last June.
Mainstream america is disgusted by male homosexuality but LOOOOOOOVES female homosexuality.
Almost correct. Male mainstream America is disgusted by male homosexuality and turned on by female homosexuality. The leading audience for Slashfic is female. And you thought it was bad when a girlfreind dragged you to a traditional chick flick....
You're right, and the most "practical" way to keep that energy use down is to have a mass genocide and remove 1/4 of the world's population that is quickly coming into massive industrialization.
Well, while you're considering the horrific solutions, the most "practical" way to do it would be to include in your extinction event the 10% that's already massively industrialized. However, since we're all reading slashdot at computers, I doubt many of us will be enthusiastic for that plan.
I'd say that changing the lifestyle of billions of people is trivially easy. We'll find out how easy once we either deplete the oil reserves or can no longer sustainably fish our oceans or farm our farmlands any more. It's say at that point the lives of billions of people will change literally overnight.
I'd agree with the impact, but I'd quibble about the terminology. I expect that might more accurately be called changing "lifestyles" to "deathstyles".
They've got a bunch of geniuses over at the WSJ, haven't they.
Yep. They've realized their C-level audience doesn't understand this, and are enlightening them. This should make it easier for geeks to persuade the C-levels it's true, because they'll believe the WSJ.
(If one of you kind souls would point something out that XP will do that 98 wouldn't, please point it out... and not Microsoft's laughable firewall, I use Zone Alarm).
XP supports NTFS style file permissions, which (EG) allow you to create empty folders which various spyware expect to be able to install themselves into (CashBack, Bullseye Network, SideFind, 180Solutions, etc), and remove ALL user permissions from them, thereby causing known spyware installers to crash. Of course, that was in Win2K as well.
Remote desktop is kind of nice, too, and was limited IIR to server versions of 2K. Of course, both of these things are limited to XP Pro, not Home. About the only new trick for both Home and Pro of any interest to users is the support for multiple DLL versions, which can make running software packages that expect different versions of a DLL to play nicer together.
Generally, I've preferred 2K-based systems; XP did nasty things to the peer-to-peer networking support, and I don't want remote desktop all that often.
Another comes down to security. If a Marine is on duty and is surfing the internet or chatting then they are not alert to what they are doing and their surroundings. This can cause issues if something happened while that Marine was on post.
Your give good reasons for justifying blocking in general, and even blocking political sites in particular. I don't object to either per se. But the problem doesn't lie in the general blocking of political sites. The problem is that, assuming the information is accurate (which is admittedly in question), the blocking appears only done on some of the political sites, with a bias in the blocking based on the political lean of the site. That would be a lot harder to justify. Not impossible, but harder.
The other metals might be nuclear decay products from the palladium, after it absorbs neutrons or gamma from the fusion process.
Gamma absorptions by an atomic nucleus usually result in re-emission (although perhaps with different wavelengths) and isomeric transitions, and are bloody rare. Gamma scattering off the electron shell is the usual mechanism, which just gets you various X-Ray energies. Normal Paladium isotope decay modes are electron capture, beta emissions, and the aforementioned IT's (usually seen in U/Pu reactor fission products). If you start with naturally occuring Pd isotopes and use neutron absorption, only one isotope decays via electron capture: Pd 103 goes to stable Rhenium 103. Pd 107/109 decay via Beta emission to Silver 107/109, Pd 111 to unstable Ag 111, which goes to stable Cd 111 the same route.
Decay modes such as neutron emission, proton emission, positron emission, or alpha emission again only give a slight shift in the position of the periodic table, and are not usually observed in Pd isotopes. C-12 emission gives a slightly larger shift, but is very rare even in the few uranic-range isotopes where it has been observed.
The only way you can get from Palladium-one-hundred-whatever to Aluminum-27, Magnesium-24/25/26, or Zinc-sixty-something is some sort of fission. In fact, looking at the number of protons involved, Pd -> Al + Zn + loose change looks ballpark plausible.
Decay products? Ridiculous. Fission products? Not so ridiculous.
GELLERMAN: But the most dramatic experimental evidence Boss and Szpak have that cold fusion is a nuclear reaction is a medieval alchemist's dream come true. But instead of turning lead into gold, they say they have images of minute nuclear explosions turning parts of their palladium electrodes into aluminum, magnesium and zinc. (Emphasis added)
Excuse me, heavy elements going to lighter ones is fission, not fusion, which would make more sense at room temperature. Admittedly, not a lot more here, since Pd is a lot lighter than the usual "fissionables". However, that mainly implies that a self sustaining chain reaction is implausible, not that it can't be done. It might be proton moderated fission, instead of neutron moderated, or it might be a subcritical chain reaction from ambient neutrons.., or maybe something else entirely. It's still weird — not "too good to be true" weird, but still "possible Nobel Prize" weird.
why are you guys posting articles by some flakey Christian who thinks progressive technology is the devil?
If this "flake" is able to convince a large enough number of other Christians to flake out over this, it will impact how RFID gets used. The RFID design or usage plans may get modified, using "avoid freaking out the evangelical nutjobs" as an added implementation criterion. The resulting design changes may make for something that the rest of us will be happier with... or make for something that we will be much unhappier with. This makes it "stuff that matters".
Society affects technology, and vice versa. Not all of society is rational, but the irrational parts still impact technology. Of course, the Slashdot discussion won't focus on this, because (a) figuring out exactly how this will impact RFID is pretty hard and (b) making fun of fundamentalist christian whackos is more enjoyable for a lot of Slashdotters.
Unfortunately, They don't do telegrams anymore. Would if I could:(
Email and Fax tend to be taken comparatively less seriously than genuine hand carried dead trees, although they're not ignored.
If you want to send with an impact, you can still send a letter Registered Return Receipt . Use of RRR is best saved for when you're trying to send your pet^H^H^Hduly elected official the message that if he doesn't pay attention right now, you'll not only vote against him, but be actively contributing to and campaigning on behalf of anyone who opposes his reelection. For a more modest "you're losing my vote" level of "pay attention", a regular snail mail letter tends to work well — a bit more so if it's handwritten with decent penmanship.
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That this gets modded "funny" is suggestive of how much of Slashdot is male, and how limited their sex lives are.
Just remember: sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, even hot sauce. Recieving felatio becomes similarly less enjoyable... unless you're seriously into S&M.
One of my college housemates was wont to mooch some of my food from the fridge... which was fine, as I regularly mooched his back. What proved him an idiot was including a whole habanero pepper from the bag labeled "hot peppers" in with his stirfry. He didn't have problems with most spicy peppers, and enjoys the red thai ones. The habanero's heat surprised him... so much that he abruptly swallowed. He said for the next two days that he was aware every second of exactly how far along the pepper was. And was Not Happy about it.
The entire gastrointestinal tract is sensitive mucus membranes, and concentrated capsicum can irritate anywhere the length of it. A time release MIGHT work, but I'd expect side effects.
Not that weird. Yes, every other browser/client/server supports it. IE still has comfortably more than half of the browser market, even though it's in decline. So, if the NSA can't break AES, they ask M$ not to put it in, and a large chunk of the traffic remains readily readable.
"But," you may say, "anyone who knows what they're doing will use something more secure." True. However on one hand, crooks and terrorists are often (albeit not always) stupid, and might not always do so; and on the other hand, the easily broken traffic can be quickly sorted out, leaving a smaller quantity of harder-to-break traffic where content analysis is neglected but traffic analysis approaches become profitable. Limiting the capabilities of the drooling-luser set is helpful, because it makes it easier to pick out the bad guys who hide by leaving a smaller set of both the good and the bad guys who can hide. Rather than struggling to separate all the good from the bad, they can first quickly separate the smart from the stoooopid.
Of course, there's no proof the AC's assertion is true... but it doesn't matter much for the sake of arguement.
It's a start, anyway.
Call them "consumers", perhaps?
While I don't deny your supporting reasons, nor that the threat is immense, both are irrelevant to my earlier quibble about whether this could go so far as to be called treason. I'd also incidentally disagree with calling it the biggest threat. I would say that continued upswing in religious fanaticsm (including both abroad from Islam and domestically from the Christian right) is the biggest threat, as aspects both motivate the most dangerous increases in federal power at the expense of individual liberty, while others seek to use the habit of increased power to impose religious tenets as law.
This is not to say that the threat from our own goverment should not be opposed. Rather, I speculate that reducing the underlying religous threat has the potential to reduce the governmental threat, but not the other way around. Of course, if I could figure out how to do either, I'd have better things to do than post to Slashdot.
Article III, Section 3:
An obvious violation of their oath of office, I will grant you, but it's equally obvious it falls short of international standards for "levying war". So, do you really want to characterize this as giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States?True — and Apple lost a LOT of my goodwill the first time they reduced user rights. However, Apple's DRM still allows you to burn purchased songs to CD, in a form that can be re-ripped and abused in all the standard ways. The four times I have been decided to buy via ITunes, the first thing I did afterwards was create a physical CD, and re-rip to MP3; this reduced my inconveniece when a DRM downgrade occured between purchases 3 and 4. Fortunately (?), I own more than one PC. The "games and toys" box has iTunes on it. The "serious work" machine does not... but does have several semi-pro and pro-am grade audio packages, and an external hard drive (which is backed up) with all of my MP3's. (And yes, they are all from my ripping legal purchased CDs, legal CD burns, or various free legal downloads.)
While a real paranoid wouldn't have the machines on the same home network, I settle for keeping them firewalled behind separate NAT routers, dangling off of my main home router. (I can accept the extra 2 ms packet latency in my gaming.)
At least with the Sony CDs, the DRM stayed the same. Apple has changed what you can do with the music AFTER you have purchased it.
To make a blatantly prejuducial analogy, that's like saying that being detained (and gang-raped by the guards) indefinitely in a Pottsylvania prison isn't as bad as being quietly detained without charges for two months at Gitmo before being released, because only the US constitution ever said you had any rights otherwise. They're both immoral, but do differ in both character and degree.
Ooooh! A chance for a Trial Run?
Actually, I rather enjoy the first MI movie. Of course, I don't watch the exact same movie everyone else is. I make two minor changes in my mind.
1) Replace Jon Voight with Peter Graves in the role as Jim Phelps. Not that Voight isn't talented, but Graves spent almost a decade in the role.
2) Replace Henry Czerny in the role of Eugene Kittridge with Leonard Nimoy reprising his role as Paris from the original series.
Aside from a quick "s/Kittridge/Paris/g" on the script, no other dialog changes needed. Having Paris as the chief would have made the motivations for Phelps a lot more heartfelt: he's not only stuck in the same basic position he's held since the days of the cold war, his current boss is someone who used to work for him, and has been promoted over his head. Add that on top of the already stated "obsolescence" motivation, and the result has a lot more depth and versimilitude.
Unfortunately, that movie couldn't have been made in the real world. The several suitcases added to the pricetag to get Graves and Nimoy on board would have been a minor problem. Having Scientology-deranged control freak Cruise as not only the lead actor but the producer to boot makes it as plausible as Xenu; neither Graves nor Nimoy would tolerate the little chicken shit. I wonder how much of the blame for the crapfest of unoriginality that Hollywood has been lately can be laid squarely at the feet of the COS?
Still, it's easy enough to imagine what might have been while watching it that I was willing to buy the DVD. Used. In the bargain "clearance" bin. Last June.
Almost correct. Male mainstream America is disgusted by male homosexuality and turned on by female homosexuality. The leading audience for Slashfic is female. And you thought it was bad when a girlfreind dragged you to a traditional chick flick....
Well, while you're considering the horrific solutions, the most "practical" way to do it would be to include in your extinction event the 10% that's already massively industrialized. However, since we're all reading slashdot at computers, I doubt many of us will be enthusiastic for that plan.
I'd agree with the impact, but I'd quibble about the terminology. I expect that might more accurately be called changing "lifestyles" to "deathstyles".
Yep. They've realized their C-level audience doesn't understand this, and are enlightening them. This should make it easier for geeks to persuade the C-levels it's true, because they'll believe the WSJ.
XP supports NTFS style file permissions, which (EG) allow you to create empty folders which various spyware expect to be able to install themselves into (CashBack, Bullseye Network, SideFind, 180Solutions, etc), and remove ALL user permissions from them, thereby causing known spyware installers to crash. Of course, that was in Win2K as well.
Remote desktop is kind of nice, too, and was limited IIR to server versions of 2K. Of course, both of these things are limited to XP Pro, not Home. About the only new trick for both Home and Pro of any interest to users is the support for multiple DLL versions, which can make running software packages that expect different versions of a DLL to play nicer together.
Generally, I've preferred 2K-based systems; XP did nasty things to the peer-to-peer networking support, and I don't want remote desktop all that often.
Your give good reasons for justifying blocking in general, and even blocking political sites in particular. I don't object to either per se. But the problem doesn't lie in the general blocking of political sites. The problem is that, assuming the information is accurate (which is admittedly in question), the blocking appears only done on some of the political sites, with a bias in the blocking based on the political lean of the site. That would be a lot harder to justify. Not impossible, but harder.
Gamma absorptions by an atomic nucleus usually result in re-emission (although perhaps with different wavelengths) and isomeric transitions, and are bloody rare. Gamma scattering off the electron shell is the usual mechanism, which just gets you various X-Ray energies. Normal Paladium isotope decay modes are electron capture, beta emissions, and the aforementioned IT's (usually seen in U/Pu reactor fission products). If you start with naturally occuring Pd isotopes and use neutron absorption, only one isotope decays via electron capture: Pd 103 goes to stable Rhenium 103. Pd 107/109 decay via Beta emission to Silver 107/109, Pd 111 to unstable Ag 111, which goes to stable Cd 111 the same route.
Decay modes such as neutron emission, proton emission, positron emission, or alpha emission again only give a slight shift in the position of the periodic table, and are not usually observed in Pd isotopes. C-12 emission gives a slightly larger shift, but is very rare even in the few uranic-range isotopes where it has been observed.
The only way you can get from Palladium-one-hundred-whatever to Aluminum-27, Magnesium-24/25/26, or Zinc-sixty-something is some sort of fission. In fact, looking at the number of protons involved, Pd -> Al + Zn + loose change looks ballpark plausible.
Decay products? Ridiculous. Fission products? Not so ridiculous.
(THWACK!)
As I said, ignorance is correctable....
Actually, you can.
If this "flake" is able to convince a large enough number of other Christians to flake out over this, it will impact how RFID gets used. The RFID design or usage plans may get modified, using "avoid freaking out the evangelical nutjobs" as an added implementation criterion. The resulting design changes may make for something that the rest of us will be happier with... or make for something that we will be much unhappier with. This makes it "stuff that matters".
Society affects technology, and vice versa. Not all of society is rational, but the irrational parts still impact technology. Of course, the Slashdot discussion won't focus on this, because (a) figuring out exactly how this will impact RFID is pretty hard and (b) making fun of fundamentalist christian whackos is more enjoyable for a lot of Slashdotters.
"You insensitive prick! Do you have any idea how much that stings?"
there are only 10 who aren't blinded by fear to the lessons of history.
Email and Fax tend to be taken comparatively less seriously than genuine hand carried dead trees, although they're not ignored.
If you want to send with an impact, you can still send a letter Registered Return Receipt . Use of RRR is best saved for when you're trying to send your pet^H^H^Hduly elected official the message that if he doesn't pay attention right now, you'll not only vote against him, but be actively contributing to and campaigning on behalf of anyone who opposes his reelection. For a more modest "you're losing my vote" level of "pay attention", a regular snail mail letter tends to work well — a bit more so if it's handwritten with decent penmanship.