Indeed. I believe it is much safer protocol to drink a liter of Diet Coke and then swallow Mentos. Cletus, go fetch my video camera, I have a scientific inquiry to document!
I replied to xoyoyo when he made basically the same comment over 5 hours ago. Proof you don't need to actually read the discussion to post karma boosted comments.
Once again, for the slower crowd: I'm talking about events that have a low probability for any given day, even though they are extremely high probability in the long run.
The people of New Orleans enjoyed a long period where their city wasn't hit by a major storm. A few people warned that they were are risk, but most people thought nothing worse than previous storms would hit. Of course New Orleans was at risk! The problem is that we don't deal with problems that seem unlikely to happen in a given year. New Orleans did not prepare enough.
We are in the same situation with bird flu. We don't know the exact odds, but we do have experts who think H5N1 looks like a potential problem. There are steps we can take to prepare (see fluwikie.com for suggestions). The downside of not preparing is enormous.
So what is the chance we'll be hit by a 1918-style (or worse) flu pandemic? No one knows. But I don't think that number is more than a couple of percent for a typical year. (This might not be a typical year, since H5N1 is spreading through the bird population, and people have died from it.) People don't want to worry about it because of the low probability of a pandemic for a given year, the uncertainty about that probability, and the hellacious experience of the 1918 flu. With something that scary, it is easier to just say that it isn't likely to happen.
It is important that we all take steps to prepare for a pandemic at the world, federal, state, local and personal level.
I should have said a low probability for any given time.
There are many events that are certain to occur: a pandemic, a hurricane hitting New Orleans again, an earthquake in San Francisco, a tsunami in Hawaii, global warming, an ice age, your local river flooding. None of these are likely to happen in the next month so people ignore them. All of them will happen eventually.
I agree that there will be a pandemic, but we don't know if it will be this year or thirty years from now. If we ignore the risk, the cost in human life will be huge, so we need to prepare even if we can't give the exact odds.
Well said. Our society tends to ignore events with a low probability of occuring.
(What are the odds a hurricane could hit New Orleans, right?) A pandemic will happen again someday; we just don't have a schedule.
Experts like Robert G. Webster are worried about H5N1, so it makes sense to take some precautions.
The Great Influenza by John Barry will scare your socks off, and it is all historical fact.
A good source of information about a possible pandemic is fluwikie.com
Sorry to hear about the compound femur fracture, but it does help explain your post.
If I have several concerns about the law (privacy, freedom of speech and cost), why not bring up all my concerns? Some people will relate to the extra expense better than the privacy concerns.
No need to mention how much it costs; to do so says that you'd be okay with such intrusions if they were suddenly free.
Today someone ran into my car, totaling it and breaking my leg. Oh, so sorry, no need to mention my broken leg because that says I'd be okay with the accident if they hadn't broken my leg. My bad.
Not Hondas, but rather hondars. There were exactly 6 hondars made, one of which is in the Smithsonian. That means exactly 80% of hondar drivers are mass murders.
Ticket status: [ ] Open [ ] Assigned [ ] Not a bug [ ] Feature request [ ] Won't fix [x] Submitter fired and put on a blacklist, never to be hired again in India [ ] Closed
Ooohh, I'm glad I caught you today. I'd like more chocolate, and less of that other candy. Except peeps, peeps rule. And forget those hardboiled chicken eggs. Yuck!
Microsoft is doing just fine, thank you very much. Microsoft's customers, on the other hand, are beleaguered.
There is no reason to be bashing Microsoft everything a negative story about them comes out, or you'd be unfairly complaining about them every day. Why don't you look at your own dirty laundry -- your so-called super secure OpenBSD had a remote hole eight years ago, but I don't see you posting anything about THAT on Slashdot. How biased can you get?
If you look here, you'll see a PDF (sorry) manual showing the $8000 bit about chargebacks. If you write any software that "which in any way looks or acts like the Software", they hit you with $500,000 (per infringement). If you try to defeat their copy protection, they hit you with $500,000 (per offense). And it is $100,000 if you open the envelope with the software "if you now produce or have in the past produced any computer-based product which competes now or has in the past competed with the software".
Perhaps most of their clients could risk the software development damages (hopefully no one forgot about that little failed program they tried to sell 10 years ago), but who in the world would agree to getting hit with $500,000 in damages if some employee offended their copy protection scheme somehow?
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpiece The Importance of Using Zlib (1895).
For example:
echo "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." | zlib Cheater
echo "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." | zlib Cheap
echo "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." | zlib Liar
echo "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." | zlib Stupid
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed. I believe it is much safer protocol to drink a liter of Diet Coke and then swallow Mentos. Cletus, go fetch my video camera, I have a scientific inquiry to document!
Shhhh! He might want to have his boss read this. Don't let on that the fix is in.
So what are you called before you are caught? A politician??
My captcha was "manure", I'll try to not take that personally!
Once again, for the slower crowd: I'm talking about events that have a low probability for any given day, even though they are extremely high probability in the long run.
The people of New Orleans enjoyed a long period where their city wasn't hit by a major storm. A few people warned that they were are risk, but most people thought nothing worse than previous storms would hit. Of course New Orleans was at risk! The problem is that we don't deal with problems that seem unlikely to happen in a given year. New Orleans did not prepare enough.
We are in the same situation with bird flu. We don't know the exact odds, but we do have experts who think H5N1 looks like a potential problem. There are steps we can take to prepare (see fluwikie.com for suggestions). The downside of not preparing is enormous.
So what is the chance we'll be hit by a 1918-style (or worse) flu pandemic? No one knows. But I don't think that number is more than a couple of percent for a typical year. (This might not be a typical year, since H5N1 is spreading through the bird population, and people have died from it.) People don't want to worry about it because of the low probability of a pandemic for a given year, the uncertainty about that probability, and the hellacious experience of the 1918 flu. With something that scary, it is easier to just say that it isn't likely to happen.
It is important that we all take steps to prepare for a pandemic at the world, federal, state, local and personal level.
I should have said a low probability for any given time. There are many events that are certain to occur: a pandemic, a hurricane hitting New Orleans again, an earthquake in San Francisco, a tsunami in Hawaii, global warming, an ice age, your local river flooding. None of these are likely to happen in the next month so people ignore them. All of them will happen eventually. I agree that there will be a pandemic, but we don't know if it will be this year or thirty years from now. If we ignore the risk, the cost in human life will be huge, so we need to prepare even if we can't give the exact odds.
Experts like Robert G. Webster are worried about H5N1, so it makes sense to take some precautions.
The Great Influenza by John Barry will scare your socks off, and it is all historical fact.
A good source of information about a possible pandemic is fluwikie.com
Sorry to hear about the compound femur fracture, but it does help explain your post.
If I have several concerns about the law (privacy, freedom of speech and cost), why not bring up all my concerns? Some people will relate to the extra expense better than the privacy concerns.
Today someone ran into my car, totaling it and breaking my leg. Oh, so sorry, no need to mention my broken leg because that says I'd be okay with the accident if they hadn't broken my leg. My bad.
- O for Outstanding
- E for Exceeds Expectations
- A for Acceptable
Failing gradesNot Hondas, but rather hondars. There were exactly 6 hondars made, one of which is in the Smithsonian. That means exactly 80% of hondar drivers are mass murders.
- Waterworld - $175,000,000
- Lethal Weapon 4 - $140,000,000
- Dante's Peak - $116,000,000
- Star Wars I: Phantom Menace - $110,000,000
(Those are production costs.)Bruce George Peter Lee, David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader all drove hondars. Look it up, it is a matter of public record.
Ticket status:
[ ] Open
[ ] Assigned
[ ] Not a bug
[ ] Feature request
[ ] Won't fix
[x] Submitter fired and put on a blacklist, never to be hired again in India
[ ] Closed
Ooohh, I'm glad I caught you today. I'd like more chocolate, and less of that other candy. Except peeps, peeps rule. And forget those hardboiled chicken eggs. Yuck!
Microsoft is doing just fine, thank you very much. Microsoft's customers, on the other hand, are beleaguered.
There is no reason to be bashing Microsoft everything a negative story about them comes out, or you'd be unfairly complaining about them every day. Why don't you look at your own dirty laundry -- your so-called super secure OpenBSD had a remote hole eight years ago, but I don't see you posting anything about THAT on Slashdot. How biased can you get?
It just takes one.
Oh wait, I forgot about bird flu.
That works in your favor.
Good point, Solitaire and Notepad are good to go.
We have a limit of exactl
Well, I suppose HP could make phones, but usually he just sends an owl.
... which is better: vi or emacs?
If you look here, you'll see a PDF (sorry) manual showing the $8000 bit about chargebacks. If you write any software that "which in any way looks or acts like the Software", they hit you with $500,000 (per infringement). If you try to defeat their copy protection, they hit you with $500,000 (per offense). And it is $100,000 if you open the envelope with the software "if you now produce or have in the past produced any computer-based product which competes now or has in the past competed with the software".
Perhaps most of their clients could risk the software development damages (hopefully no one forgot about that little failed program they tried to sell 10 years ago), but who in the world would agree to getting hit with $500,000 in damages if some employee offended their copy protection scheme somehow?
The rough edges are "++"
Yes, Wildely used. Wilde-ly.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpiece The Importance of Using Zlib (1895).
For example:
echo "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." | zlib
Cheater
echo "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." | zlib
Cheap
echo "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." | zlib
Liar
echo "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." | zlib
Stupid