Even then, how are going to tell if the compiled version you get is made from the exact same source?
Use Slackware. Pat doesn't mess with the original source. Package build scripts (SlackBuilds) use original source tarballs... If you don't trust the distro's package the SlackBuilds are available for you to build your own package based on source you've independently verified. SlackBuilds are also easily modified to build packages based on the latest source for when you just can't wait for the package maintainer to patch up that new OpenSSH exploit.
Authorities report that the two Ukrainians, identified as cousins Niko and Roman Bellic, were released from police custody after police confiscated their guns and took 10% of their money. The pair subsequently stole several cars and went on a killing spree with an RPG they found on a nearby rooftop. Ha ha, the only worthy "first post" I've ever seen.
Don't you mean, suddenly throne? (misspelling intended) Intended? Oh, and there's me ready to get all nazi on your ass and I discover it's a quip? Well, thank you very much for ruining my fun, mister man.
This is diverging more and more from the real issue, but yes I know many many people who smoke only when they are drinking. I, myself, am one of them. I do too... but I did smoke for 10 years or so:)
Many people do start with marijuana and move on to harder stuff.
Just because most junkies have smoked weed doesn't mean the weed made them junkies. Most people who smoke cigarettes have tried alcohol - does alcohol lead to tobacco?
Pedophiles make me sick. The sooner a law is instated that allows us to slaughter the lot of them, the better. Computer generated child porn is still child porn. Snuff movies are still snuff movies when nobody really dies. It's the idea of it, not the act.
So this is an actual home movie of people being hassled and abducted by aliens because that's the idea it conveys?
I'm afraid not... no matter how graphically convincing it is (and the above example is not) a fiction is still a fiction. This is the thinking that gets people all hot under the collar about GTA - I think most balanced individuals (and a fair percentage of unbalanced ones) can spy the difference between video game violence and plugging someone in the guts with a real gun in real life.
It is, but no reason not to block it in the host file. (You could easily have checked how it's called by viewing source, as/. uses it. Curiously the script is in the wrong place in this page: at the end of the head rather than the end of the body).
Which is why it broke/. and some other sites couple years back (~when analytics was new) - analytics was down and browsers (at least the browser I was using) waited for a timeout to continue loading the page past the point the script was embedded.
It found its way into my hosts files/DNS server back then and I haven't heard a compelling reason for me to take the time to remove it.
I would guess/. places it near the top of the page because their pages are rather weighty and some might not wait for the content at the bottom to actually load.
Much like graffiti spray painted on the side of a building or vehicle...
Some of the graffiti I've seen is preferable to the mass of advertising billboards around the city which assail my eyes... I'd rather see goatse painted on a wall than another fucking soft drink advert - at least it would bring a smile to my face......that's not to say I think most graffiti is attractive - most of it is garbage (daubing your name on a wall has no meaning when no one has any idea who the fuck you are) but I don't think it detracts from the drab urban landscape I inhabit.
I was about to bring up The Simpsons... not in a racist way... more in a "This show is no longer worth watching" way.
To my mind Family Guy suffered a faster decline than The Simpsons, dying suddenly in series 5 rather than suffering a patchy sort of decline from series 7 while continuing to air the very occasional, almost classic episode on into the ninth series before finally dying completely in the tenth.
A Cleveland spinoff... I'd actually rather watch Chief Wiggum and "Skinny Boy" arsing around the remains of New Orleans.
They're trying to be cute, sometimes in an ironic sense. Look at these pages: Lolcat@Wikipedia, Caturday@ED, Lolcats@Uncyclopedia, About@I Can Has Cheezburger, and Cats Can Has Grammar. I'd also recommend familiarizing yourself with The Far Side or similar comic panels. (Caturday.com appears unrelated.)
I wouldn't be inclined to ascribe anything as sophisticated as irony to this dross. I get the intent, I just don't grok the gag. It just strikes me as yet another in a long line of lazy web fads crafted to amuse 15 year old stoners on IRC. I was going to try a little experiment to see if I could create one of these images but I'm a little busy right now... busy posting on slashdot, it would seem:)
I've seen the mildly amusing Far Side - I'm a curmudgeon, not a hermit.
If you haven't seen any of those daft kitty pictures with captions, like a cat watching a washing machine with "THIS TELLY R BORING, WHERE IZ REMOTE?" you probably won't get it.
I have seen them and I STILL don't get it... perhaps you could enlighten me.
Okay, leaving tongue-in-cheek mode to make a technical point: Back in the VHS days, you had to translate media between PAL and NTSC. Today, there's no reason a DVD player can't handle both. The DVD players can already rescale the video, frame rate no longer has anything to do with "tracking" or "synching." So the PAL -vs- NTSC excuse doesn't hold water any more. Especially since that conversion can be done in real time on a midrange PC these days.
Most people will still have region locked players. Here in Ireland it's more expensive to buy a region locked player than an evil region free mpeg4 player (about 50 euro last I saw) but most made their purchase a couple years back when this wasn't the case.
So, 2008? They must be encoding the region 2 version on an Oric 1 from tape.
An aside, I bought a region 2 uncut Evil Dead box set some years back (on the cheap - I'm not really the boxed set sort but this was Evil Dead...) I was perplexed by the length of the three films... each was about 3-4 minutes short. "Hmmm... the pencil in the ankle scene is intact... there's the tree doing its thing... what's missing?". I got my clue when Bruce's "Groovy" in ED2 was a little higher pitch than I remember. The ~24 frames NTSC version was "accelerated" to 25 frames - when I refactored the framerate the movies matched the uncut lengths exactly. How common is it to just squish the movie rather than recoding it to the correct pitch/length?
In short, we are 90% dolphin, and we can't communicate.
These "humans have n% in common with..." comparisons are meaningless. Me and Bonzo the chimp have 96% in common in genetic terms (I won't go into my hygiene habits here...) but we haven't shared more than a cup of tea in our time. I'm around 75% Lassie and I can't get beyond a ball-throwing session with the bitch. Hell, I'm pretty much I'm the same species as the family next door and I can't get more than a nod and a grunt out of them.
In short, similarity of gene sequences are no indication of personal compatibility.
Yeah, and the superior stability of Linux means her computer will never get infected with adware, viruses, or even slow down on boot time. In fact, it'll never have any problems short of a hard drive crash, motherboard failure, or power supply failure. What good is that? You'll never get to see her again.
This is why you make sure her sshd is available from outside...;)
"Your research paper DISAPPEARED?! That's awful... Two months of work, you say? I'll be right over!"
(Argh, crap - tried moderating this 'Interesting' and managed 'Offtopic' instead. Sorry - undoing all my moderation for this article. Please ignore this message!)
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Even then, how are going to tell if the compiled version you get is made from the exact same source?
Use Slackware. Pat doesn't mess with the original source. Package build scripts (SlackBuilds) use original source tarballs... If you don't trust the distro's package the SlackBuilds are available for you to build your own package based on source you've independently verified. SlackBuilds are also easily modified to build packages based on the latest source for when you just can't wait for the package maintainer to patch up that new OpenSSH exploit.
Just because most junkies have smoked weed doesn't mean the weed made them junkies. Most people who smoke cigarettes have tried alcohol - does alcohol lead to tobacco?
Why, this CGI is gateway porno! Just like if I even try marijuana I'll be on crack, meth and heroin the very same week!
So this is an actual home movie of people being hassled and abducted by aliens because that's the idea it conveys?
I'm afraid not... no matter how graphically convincing it is (and the above example is not) a fiction is still a fiction. This is the thinking that gets people all hot under the collar about GTA - I think most balanced individuals (and a fair percentage of unbalanced ones) can spy the difference between video game violence and plugging someone in the guts with a real gun in real life.
Which is why it broke
It found its way into my hosts files/DNS server back then and I haven't heard a compelling reason for me to take the time to remove it.
I would guess
I was about to bring up The Simpsons... not in a racist way... more in a "This show is no longer worth watching" way.
To my mind Family Guy suffered a faster decline than The Simpsons, dying suddenly in series 5 rather than suffering a patchy sort of decline from series 7 while continuing to air the very occasional, almost classic episode on into the ninth series before finally dying completely in the tenth.
A Cleveland spinoff... I'd actually rather watch Chief Wiggum and "Skinny Boy" arsing around the remains of New Orleans.
For American Readers: ;)
It'll always be "JCL? WAAAAaaaaflibble wibble donkeys are aliens lead card" *die* to me...
Or already here...
This appeared to work...
I've seen the mildly amusing Far Side - I'm a curmudgeon, not a hermit.
Bring back the megalodon!
;)
So, 2008? They must be encoding the region 2 version on an Oric 1 from tape.
An aside, I bought a region 2 uncut Evil Dead box set some years back (on the cheap - I'm not really the boxed set sort but this was Evil Dead...) I was perplexed by the length of the three films... each was about 3-4 minutes short. "Hmmm... the pencil in the ankle scene is intact... there's the tree doing its thing... what's missing?". I got my clue when Bruce's "Groovy" in ED2 was a little higher pitch than I remember. The ~24 frames NTSC version was "accelerated" to 25 frames - when I refactored the framerate the movies matched the uncut lengths exactly. How common is it to just squish the movie rather than recoding it to the correct pitch/length?
Because we all know how stringently the average office worker sticks to IT policy...
Ha! More anti-establishment mathematician music on Slashdot!
These "humans have n% in common with..." comparisons are meaningless. Me and Bonzo the chimp have 96% in common in genetic terms (I won't go into my hygiene habits here...) but we haven't shared more than a cup of tea in our time. I'm around 75% Lassie and I can't get beyond a ball-throwing session with the bitch. Hell, I'm pretty much I'm the same species as the family next door and I can't get more than a nod and a grunt out of them.
In short, similarity of gene sequences are no indication of personal compatibility.
"Your research paper DISAPPEARED?! That's awful... Two months of work, you say? I'll be right over!"
I modded this post Off Topic and I meant it!
Oh shit, did I just post?