Note. The poster stated 'XBox'. Not "XBox360" (which, by the way is a great example of a stupid sodding name...why the 360? It's not the third version, and it's got nothing to do with 3d gaming, as the first xbox did that too). The original xbox was a (if i remember correctly) 400MHz celery onion.
And, for the record, the XBox360 is pretty damned near a pc, since it uses powerpc chips (which apple used in their pc's). And I guarantee you that somewhere in Apple, someone's got OS X running on one, just for a laugh.
Depends on what sort of british note you're talking about.... The english bank notes are different entirely to the various different scottish bank notes, and the northern irish ones are different again. I think they;re all the same size though (as in £10's are all the same, £20's are all the same etc). Then again, I haven't seen any english notes in a while, so I wouldn't know for sure. I think they changed design a while back...I occasionally see english £5's, and they've all got holograms and stuff now. The Clydesdale notes don't, and are different in colour, ditto the RBS ones.... Last time I went down to england, I tried to spend some money, and the gormless checkout staff were like "is this real, can we take scotch (sic) notes 'ere?". I had to patiently explain that since it has the words "pounds sterling" on it, and because scotland, england, northern ireland and wales are all in the UK (along with the likes of Jersey et al, not sure, if they have different notes, but they certainly have their own unique coinage), then yes, scottish money is just as valid to spend in england as english money is here.
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Oooh, you are so getting bitchlapped by Eostre. She WILL come for you!!:)
Picture's a huge 8ft bunny chasing a guy down the street LOL
I agree with part of what you're saying, hence why I said, ok, so there won't be 5% the number of virii for mac as windows, maybe just 1%. Or even.1%. maybe even.01%. There's not though, and there's my point. Surely some hacker out there, motivated by nothing more than pride in his/her work and the desire to do something no-one else has managed to would have coded up a Mac OS X virus by now? Except that it's really really hard to do so. I'm sure at some point there will be one. But the security hole it exploits will be patched instantly by Apple. Even the proof-of-concept one that floated out about a year back wasn't that. It didn't work. It was a social engineering malware, sure, since it tricked (really really) stupid users into giving u their admin password to a dodgy app. But that's not what a virus, trojan or worm is. It's not self-replicating, and it can't self-execute.
Two things:
1) I'd say Apple's Macintosh was famous before Windows was. Although Apple didn't invent the mouse-windowed GUI. They nicked it from Xerox. Difference is they never denied nicking it from Xerox.
2) The reason OS X is so secure is nothing to do with Apple's lower market share. First off there's the notable fact that Apple machines tend to be used longer than pc's, and when they are sold, their depreciation rate is tiny in comparison, so in effect, the 'market-share' isn't really realistic. If you look at net usage statistics, you're probably closer to 10-15% Mac OS X usage with another 2-3% pre OS X. So the market share thing isn't even true. But even saying it is, say 5% of all 'net machines are Macs. Now, there are 150,000+ virii for Windows. So, if your argument holds water, then Mac's should have a paltry 5% of that sorta figure, or at least 1% (taking into account scaling issues and cascade thresholds). Sadly for you, there's not 1,500 Mac virii. Not even 150 (.1%). Not even 15. There's none. There was a 'proof-of-concept' that didn't really do even that, since it couldn't self replicate, and I'd hardly call a program that can do bad things if you tell it to a virus. The reason there are no Mac OS X virii is because OS X has a far more secure base than Windows. Any (rare) vunerabilities that do pop up are (usually) patched quickly, and the culture of Apple's development process means if a virus was to emerge, they'd drop everything to make sure it couldn't possibly effect anything ever again. Steve Jobs would probably find the programmer responsible for the security hole and kill his first-born as a warning not to fuck up again.
That's not to say there are NO vulnerabilities in OS X. There are. Quite a few. Some of them are even exploitable. But there is a big shit difference between a vulnerability that's exploitable, and one that's automatable (if that's even a word). A qualified, well educated hacker will probably always be able to get in unless you're watching carefully 24/7. But with windows, you don't need a CS degree and a PhD in C++ programming. You need a dodgy exe file from some russian website, and bingo, you're a hacker. Won't happen for Mac OS X. I'm not saying this because I'm some fanboi with his head up Steve Jobs' arsehole. I'm saying this because I understand the underpinnings of Unix (to a degree) and I kow how hard it'd be to hack Mac OS X. Doesn't matter even if Mac OS X reached parity with windows tomorrow. People'll still hack windows, because it's pathetically easy, compared to OS X's extraordinarily hard. Only if Mac OS X completely obliterated Windows to a 90/10 split would you start to see any major exploits out there. And then, thanx to the culture inside Apple, they'd get patched overnight via automatic update, and it wouldn't be a problem.
Almost as much as I hate people who don't read post's properly. The AC clearly didn't see that I never claimed apple invented encrypted binaries, merely that because of Apple's standing in the computer industry, Apple using encrypted binaries will most likely cause a cascade effect with companies such as Microsoft 'ripping off' the idea of using said technology. The fact Apple may not have come up with said technology is fairly immaterial; the point is that the mere act of apple using it causes it's popularity to increase dramatically.
Actually they're up to about 6% marketshare in the USA, and I think about 8% in the EU.
And as for relevance, Apple, like Google are figureheads. When Apple do something, the rest of the market take notice. Like Widgets in OS X 10.4.....after Apple released this, Microsoft weighed in with 'Gadgets' (Yes, I know widgets come from Konfabulator, but Apple made them famous, and after Apple did so, Yahoo! bought Konfabulator, something that wouldn't have happened without Apple copying it in Tiger). So what Apple do is important because you tend to find 6 months after Apple do something, everyone else does too.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft use the encrypted binary idea in Vista SP1 or whatever comes after Vista (too late to put in Vista). I also wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft totally screw it up.
I believe that Canis Canem Edit is the motto of the school in the game. Of note, it wouldn't really be that much of a biggie in Europe, since europeans are used to games being in either a foreign language (english) or having elements in a foreign language (often even if a game is translated, characters names, levels, and other in-game stuff isn't.). Of course, here in the UK, we'd probably find it a little baffling as to why a game is in latin, just as the yanks will. I guess the only difference between us and the USA in this area is that a fair number of UK people will realise it's latin, not some weird language or alien pseudo-language. There may even be some total freaks like me that know a little latin.
Thank you for your enlightened comment, Anonymous one.
However, if you had read my comment, you would have noticed that;
a) I am not circumcised
b) I don't have a problem with consensual adults doing weird things to their own bodies; that's their choice
c) The main thrust of my vitriolic 'rant' (to use your term) was that people are doing his to young babies who have absolutely no way of giving informed consent, and that as such, being it an unnecessary medical procedure, it should not be carried out until the child has reached an age where they can make a mature decision of their own. And no, playing the religion card doesn't get you out of it either. It doesn't excuse the barbaric circumcision of girls in some cultures; it's illegal in virtually every western nation. What difference is there between female and male circumcision on an ethical level (I know female circumcision is waay nastier in terms of the level of abuse) ?? It is nothing more than abuse, whether it be abuse for religious reasons, or abuse for reasons of medical ignorance, (as I explained above, the medical thing came from pro-circumcision jewish doctors fearing a ban and wanting to get circumcisions performed in the mainstream).
Either way, it is an unacceptable practice in a fair and enlightened civilization. it is akin to the binding of feet; purely unnecessary and potentially very harmful.
In general, the scar tissue overs the entirety of the glans (aka helmet), and thus is indistinguishable. Basically removing the foreskin, which exists to protect the sensitive flesh of the head, causes said sensitive tissue to have some kalloid (sp) scarring on it, reducing sensitivity and preventing effective lubrication via the foreskin. Of course, if an adult male has this done, he'll probably notice the difference, but if you were circumcised at birth, you'll not have known any different.
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but outside of freakworldUSA (and Israel, one would assume), most men are not circumcised. Where circumcision does exist it is almost always done for religious reasons or totally valid medical reasons (ie sometimes complications can occur that mean if the child is not circumcised, their penis will get gangrene). As far as I can discover, the USA is virtually the only nation on earth that routinely circumcises baby boys with the false and totally bogus claim that it is somehow healthier that way. Balls it is. Unlike the appendix, the foreskin is NOT a relic of a bygone era of evolution. It is a totally functional and required piece of our anatomy. Those poor individuals that were abused at a young age by their parents (were circumcised) have a large amount of scar tissue on their glans that those of us whose genitalia has not been mutilated do not have. Quite aside from the fact that the pro-circumcision medical lobby in the USA was totally driven by Jewish doctors in the 19th century, who, fearing an outright ban on circumcision tried to spread the myth that it's 'healthier' or 'cleaner', there is also a personal rights issue; it is NOT a necessary medical procedure in the least (except in the aforementioned individuals at risk of gangrene et al), and performing a non-necessary medical procedure on someone who is unable to give their consent is abhorrent. It is on a level with female-circumcision (illegal in most nations) and feet-binding (illegal in most nations). If you've got some weirdo religious belief that requires you to mutilate your genitalia, feel free, by all means to go and do it; hell, I'd even support it being done in hospitals so you don't end up bleeding to death or something. But to do it to a child who isn't even old enough to know they've got one, that's just plain wrong. Apart from anything else, you're causing them a world of unnecessary pain, and the prospect of a loss of sensation when they have sex, having to masturbate with lube instead of just their hand, and numerous other oddities.
And for the record, I've gotten plenty of head (referring to a poster down the way). And of all the girls I've been with, not one of them has ever known a guy with an uncut cock (it's one of these things I ask from time to time, out of interest). And some of those girls were fairly promiscous, and have 'put it about a bit'.
Stop mutilating babies. You wouldn't circumcise a baby girl, stop doing it to baby boy's.
They do.
I've used one, and most macs have 2 or three firewire ports anyway.
Firewire is more handy as a direct connection between 2 machines though. Perfect for file transferring and fairly simple to achieve in windows without messing up your existing network settings (for ethernet) since windows is too naff to set different locations as in Mac OS X.
Nobody uses it??
Since when. I find firewire the nicest way (by far) to network two machines when one of them is already configured for ethernet into another network.
This is particularly true when (for instance) I want to transfer large files from my laptop to a machine on my Uni's (and before that, my college's) network.
Then there is also the fact that most pc's lack gigabit ethernet, so firewire is at the least, 4 times faster for transfer speed. Which, when coupled with the above ease of connectivity (don't have to change settings back and forth for the ethernet etc) makes it a total winner.
There's a reason why firewire networking is the default method of files between two macs when you buy a new one......
I currently do this regularly between my Macbook and said Uni pc's with little hassle. Looks like Windows Vista is gonna be even shitter than it was looking to be.....
True. Well, the english. We get very little input on what the english do. That said, fairs fair, we did create Israel. But then we've mostly left it alone. America has been bankrolling, like america does. Annoying really. Like the IRA or the BSM. Maybe what we need is the UN to say, 'enough' and send in some non-partisan troops. So, maybe Japan, South America and possibly eastern europeans. Everyone else is too involved.
Either that or we should totally stop funding both sides, and let them fight it out. Then after Israel's gotten totally stomped, we can negotiate with the Arabs to create peace.
Blatantly flamebait, but hell, I'll bite. The USA does and always will support any government that'll bend over and kiss american arse. Doesn't matter if said government is a totally pacifist democratic republic, or a tyranny consisting of a resurrected Adolf Hitler with Stalin as Minister for Information, Pol Pot as Minister for 'Justice' and Alexander The Great as Minister of War. The USA will happily support such regimes and give them cheap weapons, aid etc as long as said regime gives America whatever it wants, typically oil, military bases, freedom to roam through the regime's airspace or use it as a staging area, or the regime's backing against a larger enemy, like the USSR, or China or Iran, for example. Only way that'll ever change is if the US people get some balls and overthrow corrupt governments, stop electing them in the first place, or a decent US government gets into power and actually changes a few rules to stop it happening again. Don't hold your breath waiting. In fact, what am I saying? Please, feel free to hold your breath. One less of you to put against the wall when the revolution comes.
Actually, I would say that USA is at fault here, since the USA has totally bankrolled Israel's wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians. That's right, your tax dollars are paying for Israel to butcher innocent civilians. And has been for years. In my mind there is virtually no difference between the gutless cowards that blow up isreali children and the gutless cowards that blow up palestinian/lebanese children, all in the name of their Gods. Oh, wait, there is one difference; one of the party's fighting for it's very survival and existence against one of the largest and well-funded armies in the world, fighting against a country that invaded and took over an entire state, all with the backing of the worlds largest superpower. The other is a tiny guerilla group that has minimal backing from dubious and inconsistent funding sources. The welsh in me says to root for the underdog, all things being equal. And believe, they are equal. The Jews and the Arabs are gonna continue to name-call over this for decades, possibly centuries to come (if we survive that long), but at the end of the day, anyone who can bomb and kill innocent human beings, including children for fucks sake, deserve neither pity, support nor encouragement. Nor do those who fund these atrocities. I'm looking at you Syria, Iran, USA. It's sickening.
So yeah, thanks America. Nice 'ethical foreign policy'. As far as I can understand, that means 'back the winner, and sell them guns'. Sick.
You can get little lockable safe-boxes about the size of a packed-lunch box, made of steel, so your food stays cold, and requires either a key or one of those combination number locks, so you need the code. And, you can even put one of those freeze-box ice-tablet things inside in case you have to remove it from the fridge for a period of time. Perfect. Might make you appear a tad anti-social though. It's up to you as to whether you care when you're eating your expensive gourmet food in front of your cheap-sarnie workmates, knowing they can't have any!
Mindshare. IE is Microsoft, and to a lot of people, they see IE as part and parcel of windows. Which it is. So when they see a new version of IE out, they don't just think they're updating their browser, but they're updating Windows. This is why anti-trust was so important. And why it was so bad the US Govt caved in to Microsoft. No absolutely massive huge fines from them, or actual company breakage (although that was rumoured to on the cards, probably just to scare Microsoft shitless. Mind you, I don't think the EU politicians have campaign funding from Microsoft. Probably because campaign finance laws are a hell of a lot stricter here than in the USA. You guys actually have people who are paid to buy politicians off for big business (lobbyists). How the hell can that be right, and more relevantly, how the hell can a small, independent relatively poor outfit like the Mozilla Foundation hope to compete with Microsoft, who if they wanted could probably buy the USA outright, and if that failed, could afford the money for a military campaign to win the USA by conquest.
I rather like the work of Anne McCaffrey's 'Talent' series, in which she writes about a future earth where telepathy makes it out of the parlour-room and into the lab. She uses the theory that the 'talented' use their psychic powers by being 'observers' at the quantum level; that is, where a normal observation can change the state of a thing at the quantum level (or so I recall from physics), a Talent can observe what they want to see; literally, seeing is believing. Like the old Shrodingers Cat paradime, they 'believe' the cat is alive, and so when they open the box, causing the change, the cat is alive. What they observe therefore causes a certain change in the state of things, and so they exercise their talent. I think the point she was making, not to get into the heady world of quantum physics was that all of the above is done subconsciously, as is most of the actual talent, and whilst everyone seems to possess the ability for psychic powers, only a few can actually do it, and most of them can only do it subconsciously. Tis an interesting theory, to be sure, although me thinks it's not true, somehow. It would be nice however, and would bring truth to the saying 'no smoke without fire' if telepathy is proven. After all, there are legends and tales going back through every human civilisation that ever lived about telepathy, so there must be some basis for it other than wishful thinking.
Could this finally be the answer to Haber's problem of how to profitably extract gold from seawater. If so, I doubt anyone will let it happen for anywhere near the true cost of extraction (probably around a few dollars a troy ounce, once up & running). Which means a lot of biotech companies are going to be very very rich. Maybe I should patent the method of using a bioengineered bacterium to extract gold particles from seawater. Then I'd be richer than the biotech companies. Me thinks someone else got in that pie a fair while back though.....
No, people fear what their government doesn't understand.
Just because the Aussie government went the encrypted & secure route doesn't mean the US Govt will. Hell, the yanks are worse at government IT than our British Government (oh they of the massive all-singing all dancing ID Card/National DNA/Crime/Social Security/Mass Transit Database hell..delayed again this week!!!)
WOW....
50TB of porn on a single disc. That's a lot of hot XXX action.
You could put an entire internet's worth of porn on one disc.
hmmmmm....
1) Get hold of 'bacteria-ray' discs.
2) Download all internet (Or just get Slashdotter to bittorrent their stashes-same thing)
3) ??????
4) Profit!!
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Note. The poster stated 'XBox'. Not "XBox360" (which, by the way is a great example of a stupid sodding name...why the 360? It's not the third version, and it's got nothing to do with 3d gaming, as the first xbox did that too). The original xbox was a (if i remember correctly) 400MHz celery onion. And, for the record, the XBox360 is pretty damned near a pc, since it uses powerpc chips (which apple used in their pc's). And I guarantee you that somewhere in Apple, someone's got OS X running on one, just for a laugh.
LOL You owe me one Apple Pro Keyboard. Mines now covered in coffee, you insensitive clod!
Depends on what sort of british note you're talking about....
The english bank notes are different entirely to the various different scottish bank notes, and the northern irish ones are different again.
I think they;re all the same size though (as in £10's are all the same, £20's are all the same etc). Then again, I haven't seen any english notes in a while, so I wouldn't know for sure. I think they changed design a while back...I occasionally see english £5's, and they've all got holograms and stuff now. The Clydesdale notes don't, and are different in colour, ditto the RBS ones....
Last time I went down to england, I tried to spend some money, and the gormless checkout staff were like "is this real, can we take scotch (sic) notes 'ere?". I had to patiently explain that since it has the words "pounds sterling" on it, and because scotland, england, northern ireland and wales are all in the UK (along with the likes of Jersey et al, not sure, if they have different notes, but they certainly have their own unique coinage), then yes, scottish money is just as valid to spend in england as english money is here.
Oooh, you are so getting bitchlapped by Eostre. She WILL come for you!! :)
Picture's a huge 8ft bunny chasing a guy down the street LOL
I agree with part of what you're saying, hence why I said, ok, so there won't be 5% the number of virii for mac as windows, maybe just 1%. Or even .1%. maybe even .01%. There's not though, and there's my point. Surely some hacker out there, motivated by nothing more than pride in his/her work and the desire to do something no-one else has managed to would have coded up a Mac OS X virus by now? Except that it's really really hard to do so. I'm sure at some point there will be one. But the security hole it exploits will be patched instantly by Apple. Even the proof-of-concept one that floated out about a year back wasn't that. It didn't work. It was a social engineering malware, sure, since it tricked (really really) stupid users into giving u their admin password to a dodgy app. But that's not what a virus, trojan or worm is. It's not self-replicating, and it can't self-execute.
Two things: 1) I'd say Apple's Macintosh was famous before Windows was. Although Apple didn't invent the mouse-windowed GUI. They nicked it from Xerox. Difference is they never denied nicking it from Xerox. 2) The reason OS X is so secure is nothing to do with Apple's lower market share. First off there's the notable fact that Apple machines tend to be used longer than pc's, and when they are sold, their depreciation rate is tiny in comparison, so in effect, the 'market-share' isn't really realistic. If you look at net usage statistics, you're probably closer to 10-15% Mac OS X usage with another 2-3% pre OS X. So the market share thing isn't even true. But even saying it is, say 5% of all 'net machines are Macs. Now, there are 150,000+ virii for Windows. So, if your argument holds water, then Mac's should have a paltry 5% of that sorta figure, or at least 1% (taking into account scaling issues and cascade thresholds). Sadly for you, there's not 1,500 Mac virii. Not even 150 (.1%). Not even 15. There's none. There was a 'proof-of-concept' that didn't really do even that, since it couldn't self replicate, and I'd hardly call a program that can do bad things if you tell it to a virus. The reason there are no Mac OS X virii is because OS X has a far more secure base than Windows. Any (rare) vunerabilities that do pop up are (usually) patched quickly, and the culture of Apple's development process means if a virus was to emerge, they'd drop everything to make sure it couldn't possibly effect anything ever again. Steve Jobs would probably find the programmer responsible for the security hole and kill his first-born as a warning not to fuck up again. That's not to say there are NO vulnerabilities in OS X. There are. Quite a few. Some of them are even exploitable. But there is a big shit difference between a vulnerability that's exploitable, and one that's automatable (if that's even a word). A qualified, well educated hacker will probably always be able to get in unless you're watching carefully 24/7. But with windows, you don't need a CS degree and a PhD in C++ programming. You need a dodgy exe file from some russian website, and bingo, you're a hacker. Won't happen for Mac OS X. I'm not saying this because I'm some fanboi with his head up Steve Jobs' arsehole. I'm saying this because I understand the underpinnings of Unix (to a degree) and I kow how hard it'd be to hack Mac OS X. Doesn't matter even if Mac OS X reached parity with windows tomorrow. People'll still hack windows, because it's pathetically easy, compared to OS X's extraordinarily hard. Only if Mac OS X completely obliterated Windows to a 90/10 split would you start to see any major exploits out there. And then, thanx to the culture inside Apple, they'd get patched overnight via automatic update, and it wouldn't be a problem.
Almost as much as I hate people who don't read post's properly. The AC clearly didn't see that I never claimed apple invented encrypted binaries, merely that because of Apple's standing in the computer industry, Apple using encrypted binaries will most likely cause a cascade effect with companies such as Microsoft 'ripping off' the idea of using said technology. The fact Apple may not have come up with said technology is fairly immaterial; the point is that the mere act of apple using it causes it's popularity to increase dramatically.
Actually they're up to about 6% marketshare in the USA, and I think about 8% in the EU. And as for relevance, Apple, like Google are figureheads. When Apple do something, the rest of the market take notice. Like Widgets in OS X 10.4.....after Apple released this, Microsoft weighed in with 'Gadgets' (Yes, I know widgets come from Konfabulator, but Apple made them famous, and after Apple did so, Yahoo! bought Konfabulator, something that wouldn't have happened without Apple copying it in Tiger). So what Apple do is important because you tend to find 6 months after Apple do something, everyone else does too. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft use the encrypted binary idea in Vista SP1 or whatever comes after Vista (too late to put in Vista). I also wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft totally screw it up.
I believe that Canis Canem Edit is the motto of the school in the game. Of note, it wouldn't really be that much of a biggie in Europe, since europeans are used to games being in either a foreign language (english) or having elements in a foreign language (often even if a game is translated, characters names, levels, and other in-game stuff isn't.). Of course, here in the UK, we'd probably find it a little baffling as to why a game is in latin, just as the yanks will. I guess the only difference between us and the USA in this area is that a fair number of UK people will realise it's latin, not some weird language or alien pseudo-language. There may even be some total freaks like me that know a little latin.
Thank you for your enlightened comment, Anonymous one. However, if you had read my comment, you would have noticed that; a) I am not circumcised b) I don't have a problem with consensual adults doing weird things to their own bodies; that's their choice c) The main thrust of my vitriolic 'rant' (to use your term) was that people are doing his to young babies who have absolutely no way of giving informed consent, and that as such, being it an unnecessary medical procedure, it should not be carried out until the child has reached an age where they can make a mature decision of their own. And no, playing the religion card doesn't get you out of it either. It doesn't excuse the barbaric circumcision of girls in some cultures; it's illegal in virtually every western nation. What difference is there between female and male circumcision on an ethical level (I know female circumcision is waay nastier in terms of the level of abuse) ?? It is nothing more than abuse, whether it be abuse for religious reasons, or abuse for reasons of medical ignorance, (as I explained above, the medical thing came from pro-circumcision jewish doctors fearing a ban and wanting to get circumcisions performed in the mainstream). Either way, it is an unacceptable practice in a fair and enlightened civilization. it is akin to the binding of feet; purely unnecessary and potentially very harmful.
In general, the scar tissue overs the entirety of the glans (aka helmet), and thus is indistinguishable. Basically removing the foreskin, which exists to protect the sensitive flesh of the head, causes said sensitive tissue to have some kalloid (sp) scarring on it, reducing sensitivity and preventing effective lubrication via the foreskin. Of course, if an adult male has this done, he'll probably notice the difference, but if you were circumcised at birth, you'll not have known any different.
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but outside of freakworldUSA (and Israel, one would assume), most men are not circumcised. Where circumcision does exist it is almost always done for religious reasons or totally valid medical reasons (ie sometimes complications can occur that mean if the child is not circumcised, their penis will get gangrene). As far as I can discover, the USA is virtually the only nation on earth that routinely circumcises baby boys with the false and totally bogus claim that it is somehow healthier that way. Balls it is. Unlike the appendix, the foreskin is NOT a relic of a bygone era of evolution. It is a totally functional and required piece of our anatomy. Those poor individuals that were abused at a young age by their parents (were circumcised) have a large amount of scar tissue on their glans that those of us whose genitalia has not been mutilated do not have. Quite aside from the fact that the pro-circumcision medical lobby in the USA was totally driven by Jewish doctors in the 19th century, who, fearing an outright ban on circumcision tried to spread the myth that it's 'healthier' or 'cleaner', there is also a personal rights issue; it is NOT a necessary medical procedure in the least (except in the aforementioned individuals at risk of gangrene et al), and performing a non-necessary medical procedure on someone who is unable to give their consent is abhorrent. It is on a level with female-circumcision (illegal in most nations) and feet-binding (illegal in most nations). If you've got some weirdo religious belief that requires you to mutilate your genitalia, feel free, by all means to go and do it; hell, I'd even support it being done in hospitals so you don't end up bleeding to death or something. But to do it to a child who isn't even old enough to know they've got one, that's just plain wrong. Apart from anything else, you're causing them a world of unnecessary pain, and the prospect of a loss of sensation when they have sex, having to masturbate with lube instead of just their hand, and numerous other oddities. And for the record, I've gotten plenty of head (referring to a poster down the way). And of all the girls I've been with, not one of them has ever known a guy with an uncut cock (it's one of these things I ask from time to time, out of interest). And some of those girls were fairly promiscous, and have 'put it about a bit'. Stop mutilating babies. You wouldn't circumcise a baby girl, stop doing it to baby boy's.
They do. I've used one, and most macs have 2 or three firewire ports anyway. Firewire is more handy as a direct connection between 2 machines though. Perfect for file transferring and fairly simple to achieve in windows without messing up your existing network settings (for ethernet) since windows is too naff to set different locations as in Mac OS X.
Nobody uses it?? Since when. I find firewire the nicest way (by far) to network two machines when one of them is already configured for ethernet into another network. This is particularly true when (for instance) I want to transfer large files from my laptop to a machine on my Uni's (and before that, my college's) network. Then there is also the fact that most pc's lack gigabit ethernet, so firewire is at the least, 4 times faster for transfer speed. Which, when coupled with the above ease of connectivity (don't have to change settings back and forth for the ethernet etc) makes it a total winner. There's a reason why firewire networking is the default method of files between two macs when you buy a new one...... I currently do this regularly between my Macbook and said Uni pc's with little hassle. Looks like Windows Vista is gonna be even shitter than it was looking to be.....
Petty I know, but that sentence really should read "I, like a good number of you..". Commas are important. Please don't forget to use them.
Re-correction of the aforementioned correction:
In a recent interview with DVD newsroom, a late ex-Apple employee talks WWDC rumors.
This is His Steveness we're talking about here....
True. Well, the english. We get very little input on what the english do. That said, fairs fair, we did create Israel. But then we've mostly left it alone. America has been bankrolling, like america does. Annoying really. Like the IRA or the BSM. Maybe what we need is the UN to say, 'enough' and send in some non-partisan troops. So, maybe Japan, South America and possibly eastern europeans. Everyone else is too involved. Either that or we should totally stop funding both sides, and let them fight it out. Then after Israel's gotten totally stomped, we can negotiate with the Arabs to create peace.
Blatantly flamebait, but hell, I'll bite. The USA does and always will support any government that'll bend over and kiss american arse. Doesn't matter if said government is a totally pacifist democratic republic, or a tyranny consisting of a resurrected Adolf Hitler with Stalin as Minister for Information, Pol Pot as Minister for 'Justice' and Alexander The Great as Minister of War. The USA will happily support such regimes and give them cheap weapons, aid etc as long as said regime gives America whatever it wants, typically oil, military bases, freedom to roam through the regime's airspace or use it as a staging area, or the regime's backing against a larger enemy, like the USSR, or China or Iran, for example. Only way that'll ever change is if the US people get some balls and overthrow corrupt governments, stop electing them in the first place, or a decent US government gets into power and actually changes a few rules to stop it happening again. Don't hold your breath waiting. In fact, what am I saying? Please, feel free to hold your breath. One less of you to put against the wall when the revolution comes.
Actually, I would say that USA is at fault here, since the USA has totally bankrolled Israel's wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians. That's right, your tax dollars are paying for Israel to butcher innocent civilians. And has been for years. In my mind there is virtually no difference between the gutless cowards that blow up isreali children and the gutless cowards that blow up palestinian/lebanese children, all in the name of their Gods. Oh, wait, there is one difference; one of the party's fighting for it's very survival and existence against one of the largest and well-funded armies in the world, fighting against a country that invaded and took over an entire state, all with the backing of the worlds largest superpower. The other is a tiny guerilla group that has minimal backing from dubious and inconsistent funding sources. The welsh in me says to root for the underdog, all things being equal. And believe, they are equal. The Jews and the Arabs are gonna continue to name-call over this for decades, possibly centuries to come (if we survive that long), but at the end of the day, anyone who can bomb and kill innocent human beings, including children for fucks sake, deserve neither pity, support nor encouragement. Nor do those who fund these atrocities. I'm looking at you Syria, Iran, USA. It's sickening. So yeah, thanks America. Nice 'ethical foreign policy'. As far as I can understand, that means 'back the winner, and sell them guns'. Sick.
You can get little lockable safe-boxes about the size of a packed-lunch box, made of steel, so your food stays cold, and requires either a key or one of those combination number locks, so you need the code. And, you can even put one of those freeze-box ice-tablet things inside in case you have to remove it from the fridge for a period of time. Perfect. Might make you appear a tad anti-social though. It's up to you as to whether you care when you're eating your expensive gourmet food in front of your cheap-sarnie workmates, knowing they can't have any!
Mindshare. IE is Microsoft, and to a lot of people, they see IE as part and parcel of windows. Which it is. So when they see a new version of IE out, they don't just think they're updating their browser, but they're updating Windows. This is why anti-trust was so important. And why it was so bad the US Govt caved in to Microsoft. No absolutely massive huge fines from them, or actual company breakage (although that was rumoured to on the cards, probably just to scare Microsoft shitless. Mind you, I don't think the EU politicians have campaign funding from Microsoft. Probably because campaign finance laws are a hell of a lot stricter here than in the USA. You guys actually have people who are paid to buy politicians off for big business (lobbyists). How the hell can that be right, and more relevantly, how the hell can a small, independent relatively poor outfit like the Mozilla Foundation hope to compete with Microsoft, who if they wanted could probably buy the USA outright, and if that failed, could afford the money for a military campaign to win the USA by conquest.
I rather like the work of Anne McCaffrey's 'Talent' series, in which she writes about a future earth where telepathy makes it out of the parlour-room and into the lab. She uses the theory that the 'talented' use their psychic powers by being 'observers' at the quantum level; that is, where a normal observation can change the state of a thing at the quantum level (or so I recall from physics), a Talent can observe what they want to see; literally, seeing is believing. Like the old Shrodingers Cat paradime, they 'believe' the cat is alive, and so when they open the box, causing the change, the cat is alive. What they observe therefore causes a certain change in the state of things, and so they exercise their talent. I think the point she was making, not to get into the heady world of quantum physics was that all of the above is done subconsciously, as is most of the actual talent, and whilst everyone seems to possess the ability for psychic powers, only a few can actually do it, and most of them can only do it subconsciously. Tis an interesting theory, to be sure, although me thinks it's not true, somehow. It would be nice however, and would bring truth to the saying 'no smoke without fire' if telepathy is proven. After all, there are legends and tales going back through every human civilisation that ever lived about telepathy, so there must be some basis for it other than wishful thinking.
Could this finally be the answer to Haber's problem of how to profitably extract gold from seawater. If so, I doubt anyone will let it happen for anywhere near the true cost of extraction (probably around a few dollars a troy ounce, once up & running). Which means a lot of biotech companies are going to be very very rich.
Maybe I should patent the method of using a bioengineered bacterium to extract gold particles from seawater. Then I'd be richer than the biotech companies. Me thinks someone else got in that pie a fair while back though.....
No, people fear what their government doesn't understand.
Just because the Aussie government went the encrypted & secure route doesn't mean the US Govt will. Hell, the yanks are worse at government IT than our British Government (oh they of the massive all-singing all dancing ID Card/National DNA/Crime/Social Security/Mass Transit Database hell..delayed again this week!!!)
WOW.... 50TB of porn on a single disc. That's a lot of hot XXX action. You could put an entire internet's worth of porn on one disc. hmmmmm.... 1) Get hold of 'bacteria-ray' discs. 2) Download all internet (Or just get Slashdotter to bittorrent their stashes-same thing) 3) ?????? 4) Profit!!