On most XP installations, the only user is "Administrator".
Ain't that the truth. At work, we would love to lock down users to just user privledges but when we tried that so many people screamed bloody murder to their department heads that it became a political impossibility (even though we had already gotten a grudging buy in from them). Therefore we still have to track down about every new virus and worm that comes out and fix hundreds of screwed windows machines that the users have happily mucked up.
Yes, the article does say 'all 26 million books in the US Library of Congress.' I think all the books should be scanned. Imagine if a terrorist detonated a nuclear bomb there and destroyed the largest library in the world. What a loss that would be. But just because we would have a backup of the data doesn't mean they must allow full access to copyrighted works. They could release DVDs of a subset which includes only information in the Public Domain. It would be a huge boon for Project Gutenberg though each scanned work would still need to be transcribed to text.
I agree. I would not switch from Linux to it but I would love to play with it at work. My boss is a former Mac addict and still a big fan so I think he would buy at least a few licenses to evaluate. I think OS X is ber-cool but at home I do open source development and love the coding tools that are Free so I'm not going to switch here. Maybe when I buy a new system I would load it on the one I have now since I have a KVM. It's just one more cable to buy.
You know I kind of wish I worked for the government as a name server admin. I would make trollish web pages for ficticious departments and post them in the.gov block just to amuse myself. Then I'd submit them to Slashdot. Cause who's gonna know? There are so many branches and departments and bureaus and agencies of this and that and the other thing that no one could say for sure that it does or doesn't really exist or who it even reports to. In fact I could make a web site for something called the Office of Exospheric Economic Development and list myself as the senior director. Who knows maybe if it got featured on Slashdot and the idea caught on with the public some whitehouse staffer might make a mistake and allocate money for it in the next budget. If nothing else I could list on my resume.
I swear I saw a documentary on PBS about how a tiny percentage of mostly european descendants are immune and it was because of the Black Death (or Bubonic plague, I'm not sure that those are the same thing.) But googling for answers lead me to
this article which says that 10-15 percent of northern europeans have limited immunity due to inheriting 1 resistant gene and 1% inherited the gene from both parents giving them full immunity. And Swedes have the highest percentage. Also it says the Plague is debunked and suggests the everpresent Smallpox as the culprit.
It was supposed to be gbrouser.com as a part of a get out the vote for George Bush campaign. You know,
to stir up excitement for George Bush. </tongue-in-cheek>
If your cell phone is sitting on the dash of your two and a half ton SUV and you measure your fuel consumption in units of gallons/mile, you are proabably a republican.
If your cell phone is in your jacket pocket and you are pretending it is a gun while you hold up a liquer store because you lost your factory job, you are proably a democrat.
If you don't have a cell phone because you don't want to feed a huge greedy corporate oligopoly you are a Nader supporter.
If your cell phone is inserted in your boyfriends ass, you are either a Barney Frank supporter, a log cabin republican, or possibly just a seriously disturbed individual.
No WMD's and I'm sure Saddam is still laughing inside about it.
I'll bet he's not laughing about anything. They probably let him have 3 hours of sleep a night and make him listen to Britney Spears "music" the other 21 hours. Likely nutty as a fruitcake by now.
warming ocean temperatures are going to make for stronger, wetter hurricanes in the coming years and decades
Maybe if we put up enough 5 megawatt wind turbines we can suck that energy right back out of the system before tropical depressions can become hurricanes.
This immediately reminded me of Heinlein's Starship Troopers and when I went to look up some info I
learned a few things about the author that I did not know back in high school when I was reading all his stuff. I was aware that he had been a WW2 era veteran though as a teenager I didn't fully understand how that affected his generation and therefore his writing.
Senator Kerry, we all know that George W. Bush (43) looks just like George H. W. Bush (41) for obvious reasons, but can you explain your
own peculiar resemblance
to
Andrew Jackson
?
This is an excellent question especially since Nader addressed this in the Nader-Libertarian-Reform Parties Debate.
Here is
some background if anyone is interested.
It takes just as long to load apps now as it did 10 years ago, even though machines are 10 times faster with 100 times more memory.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. btw cpu's are way faster than 10x faster. In 1994 I could only afford a 386sx at 16Mhz. Not only is the clock speed faster but the chip has gone through several major revisions. Yet I think that 386sx booted up faster and ran Lotus and Wordperfect under DOS just as fast as anything out there on Windows today. Of course there are some advantages to windows but speed sure isn't one of them!
Ladies and Gentlemen, at this time the Captain would like to ask you to remain seated with your seatbelt firmly fastened, however if there are any computer technicians flying with us today, especially if they know what to do when a 'Fatal Exception has occured at 0029:C02FDEC6', would that person please come forward to the cabin immediately?
Saying Windows 2000 is a different OS than NT 4 would be like Ford renaming the 2005 Explorer to be called the Ford Expansionist then Car and Driver saying 'The new Ford Expansionist has a perfect safety record. It's tires have never disintegrated during use and no one has ever died driving one of these.' But the only difference is just a different grille and a wing at the rear and new paint colors while 98% of it is really the same old thing.
ROFL! I can't count the number of idiots I have talked to who think 2000 and XP aren't NT 5.x just because the splashscreens don't say NT anymore (except for the beta versions).
The report said any reward should come from taxpayer funds because collection of civil penalties from spammers will not be enough to finance the system
They should pay for it from the anti-terrorism funds that have already been allocated. After all, what is the largest flow of unregulated information into the US? Spam of course. They already talked about looking for steganography in pornography but sending secret messages to unidentifiable recipients using spam would be childsplay. Millions would receive the spams so the terror cell members couldn't be identified and the sender is virtually untraceable because of using rooted zombies. And due to the infinite variety of spam, what G-man could determine which spams even contain messages?
I had particularly ugly neighbors and a lot of LCD panels laying around...
I would rather replace my neighbors with bikini clad beer spokesmodels. But since that'll never happen I guess I could build a virtual window and play my Girls Gone Wild video in it.
Don't say goodbye to coal and oil, yet, though; unless cell technology increases substantially, when we run out of oil we will convert coal to synthetic fuel.
Well hopefully there will still be plenty of cheap oil left when we have shifted to alternatives such as fuel cells, windpower, fusion (I can dream can't I?), and solar power... since petroleum is the major ingredient in plastics and asphalt.
Yes but do you remember who developed the super wheat called Quatrotriticale and the other famous Iowan who allowed the quatrotriticale to be eaten by tribbles when it was desperately needed on Sherman's Planet?
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
Normally I would never reply to a sig but in this case I feel it is important. The water I drink every day comes from my backyard and your sig seems to be encouraging people to pour used motor oil on their lawn to fertilize it. If any of my neighbors were to do this they would not only contaminate their own water supply but the well water of everyone in this neighborhood. One quart of oil can contaminate tens of thousands of gallons in an aquifer or even millions of gallons when spread into a slick on a body of water. And when it is in an aquifer it can take decades to dissipate. Please read some of these links: http://www.nj.gov/dep/watershedmgt/cleanwaterbook/ waterbook_chp10.htm
http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/Tips/you_help_ dispose_oil.asp http://www.princeton.edu/~njh2o/tips.htm
Pouring oil on the soil can make groundwater unsafe to drink at high concentrations, taste bad at low concentrations, raise your taxes due to government mandated cleanups. Please don't encourage anyone to do that.
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Ain't that the truth. At work, we would love to lock down users to just user privledges but when we tried that so many people screamed bloody murder to their department heads that it became a political impossibility (even though we had already gotten a grudging buy in from them). Therefore we still have to track down about every new virus and worm that comes out and fix hundreds of screwed windows machines that the users have happily mucked up.
Yes, the article does say 'all 26 million books in the US Library of Congress.' I think all the books should be scanned. Imagine if a terrorist detonated a nuclear bomb there and destroyed the largest library in the world. What a loss that would be. But just because we would have a backup of the data doesn't mean they must allow full access to copyrighted works. They could release DVDs of a subset which includes only information in the Public Domain. It would be a huge boon for Project Gutenberg though each scanned work would still need to be transcribed to text.
I agree. I would not switch from Linux to it but I would love to play with it at work. My boss is a former Mac addict and still a big fan so I think he would buy at least a few licenses to evaluate. I think OS X is ber-cool but at home I do open source development and love the coding tools that are Free so I'm not going to switch here. Maybe when I buy a new system I would load it on the one I have now since I have a KVM. It's just one more cable to buy.
I swear I saw a documentary on PBS about how a tiny percentage of mostly european descendants are immune and it was because of the Black Death (or Bubonic plague, I'm not sure that those are the same thing.) But googling for answers lead me to this article which says that 10-15 percent of northern europeans have limited immunity due to inheriting 1 resistant gene and 1% inherited the gene from both parents giving them full immunity. And Swedes have the highest percentage. Also it says the Plague is debunked and suggests the everpresent Smallpox as the culprit.
What you will get is the Windows retail CD plus a Linux installer CD and the count goes toward Linux gaming.
It was supposed to be gbrouser.com as a part of a get out the vote for George Bush campaign. You know, to stir up excitement for George Bush. </tongue-in-cheek>
If your cell phone is sitting on the dash of your two and a half ton SUV and you measure your fuel consumption in units of gallons/mile, you are proabably a republican.
If your cell phone is in your jacket pocket and you are pretending it is a gun while you hold up a liquer store because you lost your factory job, you are proably a democrat.
If you don't have a cell phone because you don't want to feed a huge greedy corporate oligopoly you are a Nader supporter.
If your cell phone is inserted in your boyfriends ass, you are either a Barney Frank supporter, a log cabin republican, or possibly just a seriously disturbed individual.
I'll bet he's not laughing about anything. They probably let him have 3 hours of sleep a night and make him listen to Britney Spears "music" the other 21 hours. Likely nutty as a fruitcake by now.
Maybe if we put up enough 5 megawatt wind turbines we can suck that energy right back out of the system before tropical depressions can become hurricanes.
This immediately reminded me of Heinlein's Starship Troopers and when I went to look up some info I learned a few things about the author that I did not know back in high school when I was reading all his stuff. I was aware that he had been a WW2 era veteran though as a teenager I didn't fully understand how that affected his generation and therefore his writing.
Senator Kerry, we all know that George W. Bush (43) looks just like George H. W. Bush (41) for obvious reasons, but can you explain your own peculiar resemblance to Andrew Jackson ?
This is an excellent question especially since Nader addressed this in the Nader-Libertarian-Reform Parties Debate. Here is some background if anyone is interested.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. btw cpu's are way faster than 10x faster. In 1994 I could only afford a 386sx at 16Mhz. Not only is the clock speed faster but the chip has gone through several major revisions. Yet I think that 386sx booted up faster and ran Lotus and Wordperfect under DOS just as fast as anything out there on Windows today. Of course there are some advantages to windows but speed sure isn't one of them!
Ladies and Gentlemen, at this time the Captain would like to ask you to remain seated with your seatbelt firmly fastened, however if there are any computer technicians flying with us today, especially if they know what to do when a 'Fatal Exception has occured at 0029:C02FDEC6', would that person please come forward to the cabin immediately?
History. Accountability.
Saying Windows 2000 is a different OS than NT 4 would be like Ford renaming the 2005 Explorer to be called the Ford Expansionist then Car and Driver saying 'The new Ford Expansionist has a perfect safety record. It's tires have never disintegrated during use and no one has ever died driving one of these.' But the only difference is just a different grille and a wing at the rear and new paint colors while 98% of it is really the same old thing.
ROFL! I can't count the number of idiots I have talked to who think 2000 and XP aren't NT 5.x just because the splashscreens don't say NT anymore (except for the beta versions).
They should pay for it from the anti-terrorism funds that have already been allocated. After all, what is the largest flow of unregulated information into the US? Spam of course. They already talked about looking for steganography in pornography but sending secret messages to unidentifiable recipients using spam would be childsplay. Millions would receive the spams so the terror cell members couldn't be identified and the sender is virtually untraceable because of using rooted zombies. And due to the infinite variety of spam, what G-man could determine which spams even contain messages?
By removing the N from the mouse that Spellbinder had turned into a nouse, and replacing it with an 'H', Letterman turns the nouse into a house!
I would rather replace my neighbors with bikini clad beer spokesmodels. But since that'll never happen I guess I could build a virtual window and play my Girls Gone Wild video in it.
Well hopefully there will still be plenty of cheap oil left when we have shifted to alternatives such as fuel cells, windpower, fusion (I can dream can't I?), and solar power... since petroleum is the major ingredient in plastics and asphalt.
Yes but do you remember who developed the super wheat called Quatrotriticale and the other famous Iowan who allowed the quatrotriticale to be eaten by tribbles when it was desperately needed on Sherman's Planet?
Normally I would never reply to a sig but in this case I feel it is important. The water I drink every day comes from my backyard and your sig seems to be encouraging people to pour used motor oil on their lawn to fertilize it. If any of my neighbors were to do this they would not only contaminate their own water supply but the well water of everyone in this neighborhood. One quart of oil can contaminate tens of thousands of gallons in an aquifer or even millions of gallons when spread into a slick on a body of water. And when it is in an aquifer it can take decades to dissipate. Please read some of these links:/ waterbook_chp10.htm _ dispose_oil.asp
http://www.nj.gov/dep/watershedmgt/cleanwaterbook
http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/Tips/you_help
http://www.princeton.edu/~njh2o/tips.htm
Pouring oil on the soil can make groundwater unsafe to drink at high concentrations, taste bad at low concentrations, raise your taxes due to government mandated cleanups. Please don't encourage anyone to do that.