With time, the dinosaurs might have evolved to create civilization.
They actually had an advanced civilization but it collapsed. When the time came to actually DO something about the massive rock heading for the planet, they built a trajectory altering rocket that would land on the asteroid.dig itself in, and then fire its engines to steer the asteroid the necessary fraction of a degree away to save the planet...
+1 informative
Because, I always thought it was the asteroid deniers that blocked funding for the project till it was too late.
Excellent example of using ", period" to mean "everything I just said only makes sense if you don't think about it at all so for the LOVE OF GOD please don't!"
Spelling out the word "period" at the end of one's sentence just reminds me of an SNL skit. And I have to agree with the parent, it could pretty make your passport unusable. Depending on where you carry it of course.
Splash screens were originally designed to let you know the program was launching, so you weren't sitting there wondering "is it opening or not"..
So, what we'd really need is a Program Launch Request Received - Screen
This screen could then offer the options to (a) request program use at some point in the future, (b) hold program available for future use, or (c) request immediate program use.
Option (a) simply schedules a cron job three minutes before intended program use, (b) loads the program in the background like any quick load scheme from dos tsr to openoffice quick loader does. And (c) let's you acknowledge immediate program start on the Acknowledgment Screen Form 37v, while secretly loading the program in the background, so as to seem instant - or at least reduce the time you have to look at the splash screen.
"Hey, would you want a computer? It's a city block large, uses all of these punchcards for I/O, and doesn't really do much other than crack Enigma. Hey, where are you going?"
"Hey, would you want a computer? It can fit in your pocket, let you talk to anyone in the world, can take pictures and provide you god damn near any information written down by a human being, and you can watch porn on it!"
Computers are the same thing they were even 20 years ago in name only.
20 years ago? 1992?
Yes, you are right. The 1990s were the decade of punch card porn.
And now get off my lawn!
Emails to both of you, shared address book with common friends, pictures of your romantic getaway? Yes.
But that second life island you built for the last 2 years of your marriage while your lazy wife was asleep, played with the kids, or did some diddly house cleaning? No way!
FYI not all hippies are against it. I'm an old hippy, and I think people who are refusing them are goddamned idiots.
Valid point. Hippies don't trust authority but believe in the common good. If a vaccine is proven to be effective a Hippy will take it even if it benefits only others.
He'll either select a vaccine that's made without eggs or one that is known not to cause an allergic reaction in egg protein sensitive patients.
"known not to cause an allergic reaction" or "not known to cause an allergic reaction" or "known not to cause an allergic reaction in a study with egg protein sensitive patients" (who were all adults, or not screened for antihistamines, or...) ?
Again, bullshit. Just like all the other antivaxxers.
Maybe bullshit, maybe not.
And hard to tell from a distance. Sure, sometimes it is easy to call bullshit, especially with "antivaxxers" and some crazy pseudo-scientific theories. But on the other hand: If someone with healthy teeth decides to go from a 12 to a 18 month x-ray schedule, that's just weighing the risks and should be respected. And if someone with a very young child would decide to wait a couple months with a vaccine that used to be not approved for that age group, same thing. And if you have a healthy child that makes it through flu season usually without severe fever but could end up with severe reactions from a vaccine that isn't all that effective anyhow? That's a decision to make. But not the doctor's.
Yes. I started laughing when I read the headline. No,no,no, the Swiss, a cleaning satellite. Can you do anything more hilarious to reinforce stereotypes?!
If it is like these "biodegradable" plastic bags, than it isn't. I put "biodegradeable" in quotation marks because it should be called "out-of-sight-out-of-mind plastic". They add metals into the plastic, so it brakes down quicker. But while it looks like it's rotting away, it just brakes down into tiny strands that remain present in the soil.
And that so called "compound" stuff? I can somehow understand it with park benches. It at least keeps stuff out of the landfill and reduces the amount of treated wood. But computer cases? End of the recycling for all the material, in a case where one could easily use pure materials. Just use steel, aluminum, or PP. Put QR codes or something on the material and offer free recycling or a discount like with toner cartridges.
"All you find"? I just googled "santorum". #2 was Rick Santorum's Wikipedia page. #4 was his official website. I could see both of these without scrolling the page. So what's the problem?
The problem is that you also find these other results.
Searching for something on google, I expect to find only results that confirm my opinions, not some site that makes fun of them.
Sometimes half the results are wrong and point to something irrelevant, with "santorum" however half the results are wrong but point to something relevant.
Think of the children. We should make sure nothing disturbs them and the internet gets pre-filtered before it reaches people's houses
- asking search engines to sanitize their results, sounds a lot like a guardian state. Ah, never mind, my medication must be wearing of, I am getting these radical thoughts again.
Having said that Google's search has noticeably deteriorated over the last couple of years. I often have to hit the Nth page now to find stuff I'm looking for.
Amen.
It used to be that one could type in a quote in quotation marks and Google would find the page for you. Now it seems like anything above three words is ignored. Worse, I want something very specific but Google decides I should look at something popular instead. If I type in something like "gphoto2 support cameraX" I probably don't want consumer reviews of cameraX or Target's latest offer on cameraX. And if I want to find out if someone managed to hookup an external antenna to a wifi card, I don't want antenna stores, wifi card offers, and windows driver problems on the first four pages.
At some point in time, Google decided that (match for term1+match for term2) would get a lower ranking than (match for term1+similar technical term+very popular site). And that's my only reason to use "social searches": Knowing someone or some site that knows the site I am looking for. <sarcasm> I can't wait for webrings to come back... </sarcasm>
Crucial system should be mandated to follow good practice and have some minimum security and redundancy available.
Totally counter-productive and beyond harmful to put DHS in charge of it of course. On the other hand, the article is full of neo-capitalist bull as well:
"Businesses already know hacking is costing them money – this is really the only incentive needed for them."
Right... That's like saying, "we don't need the FAA, a plane costs a lot of money, and not losing too many planes is all the incentive an airline needs."
The problem with the proposal is the DHS, not the idea behind it. There is a National Electric Code and there is UL, something similar could be done to critical data infrastructure without putting Homefront-Safety in charge.
These social sites are like inviting a business into your living room to eavesdrop on conversations with your acquaintances.
Except that they do sell themselves as that friendly neighborhood cafe where everyone hangs out - like in the dream world of Friends. - Just that the owner listens in on your conversations and keeps a file on all of the guests.
Your ISP can see which websites you visit, how long you spend there, how often....
Yes, but it is not part of their business model to do that.
People would be quite out-raged to receive an email from their ISP, that reads:
Based on the web-sites you visited, we recommend following companies to you.... P.S.: Has your daughter looked at planned parenthood?
anyone who can be considered to have even passing knowledge of Western history would know who Bismarck is, and why he is famous.
The tasty cream filling. Duh.
Don't forget the Berliners.
The Berliner are the same as the Polish Paczki, and in the US some call them Bismarck. Which in Germany is a pickled fish.
Confusing, I know. The only thing I get out of this is that Bismarck must have been some kind of chef - like Julius Cesar, who invented the salad dressing.
Oh good grief, Slashdot comments have reached a new low.
Can you show me a single, solitary instance of where badmouthing the president has been treated as a criminal (or civil) offense, in the last 50 years?
We cannot be too careful, I hear that those Brits are planning something for the War of 1812 bicentennial. This time, not only will they burn down the white house, but they will also steal our celebrities' remains!
Fear not, the DHS is monitoring every online activity. And they keep you safe by going after posts that contain words like "bomb", "destroy", or "Islam".
"Islam"? you ask. Yes, Yusuf Islam. Another one of these British terrorists. But DHS prevented him from entering the US as well. While it is still unclear what this evil-doer was going to do, they intercepted some of his communications and learned about "morning" and "broken".
Thank you, Mr. Murdoch. We can always count on you for honest journalism. (/sarcasm)
I think, that quote said it all: "The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle"
Anyone remember these "CO2 is life" commercials?
Lets make a list of the companies involved in funding for that crap, so we know whom to disposses in 20 years.
Slashdot Mirror
With time, the dinosaurs might have evolved to create civilization.
They actually had an advanced civilization but it collapsed. When the time came to actually DO something about the massive rock heading for the planet, they built a trajectory altering rocket that would land on the asteroid .dig itself in, and then fire its engines to steer the asteroid the necessary fraction of a degree away to save the planet...
+1 informative
Because, I always thought it was the asteroid deniers that blocked funding for the project till it was too late.
A damaged passport is unusable, period.
Excellent example of using ", period" to mean "everything I just said only makes sense if you don't think about it at all so for the LOVE OF GOD please don't!"
Spelling out the word "period" at the end of one's sentence just reminds me of an SNL skit. And I have to agree with the parent, it could pretty make your passport unusable. Depending on where you carry it of course.
Splash screens were originally designed to let you know the program was launching, so you weren't sitting there wondering "is it opening or not"..
So, what we'd really need is a Program Launch Request Received - Screen
This screen could then offer the options to (a) request program use at some point in the future, (b) hold program available for future use, or (c) request immediate program use.
Option (a) simply schedules a cron job three minutes before intended program use, (b) loads the program in the background like any quick load scheme from dos tsr to openoffice quick loader does. And (c) let's you acknowledge immediate program start on the Acknowledgment Screen Form 37v, while secretly loading the program in the background, so as to seem instant - or at least reduce the time you have to look at the splash screen.
(patent pending)
Sign up with a new account and compartmentalize your activities appropriately.
Unless a network enforces one account per individual.
What stupid network would do something like that?
Holy Schmidt!
Are there still social-network companies out there that don't get the concept of online aliases versus IRL, or role based aliases??
"Hey, would you want a computer? It's a city block large, uses all of these punchcards for I/O, and doesn't really do much other than crack Enigma. Hey, where are you going?" "Hey, would you want a computer? It can fit in your pocket, let you talk to anyone in the world, can take pictures and provide you god damn near any information written down by a human being, and you can watch porn on it!" Computers are the same thing they were even 20 years ago in name only.
20 years ago? 1992?
Yes, you are right. The 1990s were the decade of punch card porn.
And now get off my lawn!
Emails to both of you, shared address book with common friends, pictures of your romantic getaway? Yes.
But that second life island you built for the last 2 years of your marriage while your lazy wife was asleep, played with the kids, or did some diddly house cleaning? No way!
FYI not all hippies are against it. I'm an old hippy, and I think people who are refusing them are goddamned idiots.
Valid point. Hippies don't trust authority but believe in the common good. If a vaccine is proven to be effective a Hippy will take it even if it benefits only others.
He'll either select a vaccine that's made without eggs or one that is known not to cause an allergic reaction in egg protein sensitive patients.
"known not to cause an allergic reaction" or "not known to cause an allergic reaction" or "known not to cause an allergic reaction in a study with egg protein sensitive patients" (who were all adults, or not screened for antihistamines, or...) ?
Again, bullshit. Just like all the other antivaxxers.
Maybe bullshit, maybe not.
And hard to tell from a distance. Sure, sometimes it is easy to call bullshit, especially with "antivaxxers" and some crazy pseudo-scientific theories. But on the other hand: If someone with healthy teeth decides to go from a 12 to a 18 month x-ray schedule, that's just weighing the risks and should be respected. And if someone with a very young child would decide to wait a couple months with a vaccine that used to be not approved for that age group, same thing. And if you have a healthy child that makes it through flu season usually without severe fever but could end up with severe reactions from a vaccine that isn't all that effective anyhow? That's a decision to make. But not the doctor's.
It's not like truly biodegradable plastics made from corn or potato starch wouldn't already exist.
That's why it's such a scam that "oxo biodegradable" can be called biodegradable at all and trick people into it.
Yes. I started laughing when I read the headline. No,no,no, the Swiss, a cleaning satellite. Can you do anything more hilarious to reinforce stereotypes?!
And for all who didn't see the pun: Kishon about Swiss cleanliness
It's a step in the right direction.
Or not.
If it is like these "biodegradable" plastic bags, than it isn't. I put "biodegradeable" in quotation marks because it should be called "out-of-sight-out-of-mind plastic". They add metals into the plastic, so it brakes down quicker. But while it looks like it's rotting away, it just brakes down into tiny strands that remain present in the soil.
And that so called "compound" stuff? I can somehow understand it with park benches. It at least keeps stuff out of the landfill and reduces the amount of treated wood. But computer cases? End of the recycling for all the material, in a case where one could easily use pure materials. Just use steel, aluminum, or PP. Put QR codes or something on the material and offer free recycling or a discount like with toner cartridges.
"All you find"? I just googled "santorum". #2 was Rick Santorum's Wikipedia page. #4 was his official website. I could see both of these without scrolling the page. So what's the problem?
The problem is that you also find these other results.
- asking search engines to sanitize their results, sounds a lot like a guardian state. Ah, never mind, my medication must be wearing of, I am getting these radical thoughts again.
If Google _were_ to include a disclaimer, it would be pushing a political agenda.
Unless, they do it _completely_ objectively:
Showing results for Santorum the Republican candidate.
Search instead for santorum the sexual by-product.
Scammers.. no kidding. This one literally reads like one of those nigerian emails.
Definitely not a scam. "Hagan" doesn't even sound Nigerian.
But if it were real, would I want a co-worker to post my first name, last name, age, location, and the fact that I'am a single mom???
imdb is still up
Now, that is a site that really is accountable for lost revenues to the movie industry.
(On the other hand, it saves me a lot of money.)
Having said that Google's search has noticeably deteriorated over the last couple of years. I often have to hit the Nth page now to find stuff I'm looking for.
Amen.
It used to be that one could type in a quote in quotation marks and Google would find the page for you. Now it seems like anything above three words is ignored. Worse, I want something very specific but Google decides I should look at something popular instead. If I type in something like "gphoto2 support cameraX" I probably don't want consumer reviews of cameraX or Target's latest offer on cameraX. And if I want to find out if someone managed to hookup an external antenna to a wifi card, I don't want antenna stores, wifi card offers, and windows driver problems on the first four pages.
At some point in time, Google decided that (match for term1+match for term2) would get a lower ranking than (match for term1+similar technical term+very popular site). And that's my only reason to use "social searches": Knowing someone or some site that knows the site I am looking for.
<sarcasm> I can't wait for webrings to come back... </sarcasm>
No really, in principle it is a good idea.
Crucial system should be mandated to follow good practice and have some minimum security and redundancy available. Totally counter-productive and beyond harmful to put DHS in charge of it of course. On the other hand, the article is full of neo-capitalist bull as well:
"Businesses already know hacking is costing them money – this is really the only incentive needed for them."
Right... That's like saying, "we don't need the FAA, a plane costs a lot of money, and not losing too many planes is all the incentive an airline needs."
The problem with the proposal is the DHS, not the idea behind it. There is a National Electric Code and there is UL, something similar could be done to critical data infrastructure without putting Homefront-Safety in charge.
Anonymous isn't more a coherent group than the "people who like garlic bread".
It is much easier to determine who is a member of the second group. Plus the "people who like garlic bread" can't sneak up on you.
Sigh - straw man arguments are so tiresome.
These social sites are not your ISP.
These social sites are like inviting a business into your living room to eavesdrop on conversations with your acquaintances.
Except that they do sell themselves as that friendly neighborhood cafe where everyone hangs out - like in the dream world of Friends.
- Just that the owner listens in on your conversations and keeps a file on all of the guests.
Your ISP can see which websites you visit, how long you spend there, how often ....
Yes, but it is not part of their business model to do that.
People would be quite out-raged to receive an email from their ISP, that reads: ... P.S.: Has your daughter looked at planned parenthood?
Based on the web-sites you visited, we recommend following companies to you.
The tasty cream filling. Duh.
Don't forget the Berliners.
The Berliner are the same as the Polish Paczki, and in the US some call them Bismarck. Which in Germany is a pickled fish.
Confusing, I know. The only thing I get out of this is that Bismarck must have been some kind of chef - like Julius Cesar, who invented the salad dressing.
Oh good grief, Slashdot comments have reached a new low.
Can you show me a single, solitary instance of where badmouthing the president has been treated as a criminal (or civil) offense, in the last 50 years?
2008 RNC St. Paul
It seems the terrorist truly have one. America lost its sense of humour somewhere in the past 10 years.
Stupid feminist. Having one doesn't make you a terrorist.
- And no. I haven't lost my cent of humour
We cannot be too careful, I hear that those Brits are planning something for the War of 1812 bicentennial. This time, not only will they burn down the white house, but they will also steal our celebrities' remains!
Fear not, the DHS is monitoring every online activity. And they keep you safe by going after posts that contain words like "bomb", "destroy", or "Islam". "Islam"? you ask. Yes, Yusuf Islam. Another one of these British terrorists. But DHS prevented him from entering the US as well. While it is still unclear what this evil-doer was going to do, they intercepted some of his communications and learned about "morning" and "broken".
Thank you, Mr. Murdoch. We can always count on you for honest journalism. (/sarcasm)
I think, that quote said it all: "The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle"
Anyone remember these "CO2 is life" commercials?
Lets make a list of the companies involved in funding for that crap, so we know whom to disposses in 20 years.