What goes Vroom..Screech...Vroom...Screech....Vroom...Screech?
A car driven by a blonde at a flashing red light.
Seriously, I talked with a guy one time that had been driving for several years but had no idea what a flashing red light meant. Not to mention being able to tell the difference between a flashing red light and a flashing yellow light.
TFA is still a bit confusing. At one point they are talking about 20 pipes, each of them being 1 km long, and at another point someone starts talking about the pressure needed to move the water 20 km up.
I am surprised. My mother-in-law, who was born in Mexico near the southern tip of Texas, will often tell me, "Yo no mensa." She uses it in the context of "I'm not stupid" or "stop treating me like I am stupid."
Okay, I was slightly mistaken. If you installed Netscape first and then installed IE, IE would delete Netscape files making Netscape unusable. The effect was the same.
Yes you were. At one point IE would delete Netscape files if it found a copy of Netscape. This made Netscape unusable. So you could not have both browsers on the same computer. If you installed IE, you were forced to use it.
Another thing that caused the anti-trust case was the fact that IE not only checked to see if it was the default browser, it checked to see if it was the only browser. In the early days, it would even check for Netscape and un-install it if it found that it was installed.
So does Android install itself on an iPhone, and un-install IOS?
Android is an OS, not an application. A better comparison would be computers with the OS pre-installed. Shouldn't MS, Apple, Sun, IBM and HP joined forces and sued Commadore and Atari for providing a free OS and attempting to drive each of them out of the market by providing a free OS that was built into the hardware without providing an alternative OS?
I looked at the comments on the announcement page. (Did I violate/. standards by reading the comments from the link even if I didn't read the article?) From what I could see, the board runs on 6V-20V rather than the 5V provided by USB. One discussion seemed to revolve around why they had to use 6V and if they could find a 5V to 6V converter cheap, while another wanted to know if they could power it with PoE.
Although the story of Noah is the first time rain is mentioned in the bible, it does not state that it never rained before Noah
Not true, I'm afraid. Genesis 2: 5-6, after creation:
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
The flood is in chapter 7.
The Bible does state that before Adam, God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. It does not talk about rain between Adam being cast out from the Garden of Eden and the flood. That does not mean that there was no rain during that period of time.
What part of the new testament tries to explain the origin of rain again...
1) The New Testament never tries to explain the origin of rain. (Neither does the Old Testament. Although the story of Noah is the first time rain is mentioned in the bible, it does not state that it never rained before Noah.)
or states that the point is to live well with your neighbor?
2) Several places. In Matthew, Christ teaches that peace makers are blessed. In fact, He specifically states that although the Old Testament states thou shalt not kill, even calling someone names in anger places them in danger of judgement. The story of the Good Samaritan was told when someone wanted to justify who their bad behavior. When asked what the greatest commandments in the Law was, Christ told us that to love God was the first and greatest commandment and the second was to love your neighbor as yourself.
I seem to remember Jesus specifically going after those who placed too much emphasis on personal righteousness and rebuking them-- to the point where they desired his death.
3) Jesus did not condemn those emphasising personal righteousness, he condemned hypocrites that CLAIMED that they were more righteous than everyone else. He even compared them to a whitewashed sepulchre which appeared to be clean on the outside but was filthy and full of death on the inside. He stated that the hypocrite that appeared to be righteous in order to be seen of others already had their reward, but that his disciples should do good works and not boast of them.
Don't get me wrong, I am not asking you to believe any part of the Bible. My words will not change your mind or anyone else's mind in the least. But you did ask the questions and here are a couple of answers.
It is an old decision. I had a look at the article and saw that it was dated June 10, 2010.
It was also posted on/. back in June.
Haven't really looked for any.xxx domains, but if/. is not aware of them by now, how much can they be used?
On the other hand, it took nine months for the dupe to show up. Coincidence?
No, an RFID chip implanted in each employee's head would be a good idea.
(Stolen from Dogbert's School of Managment's How to spread rumours.)
Boss: No, we are not considering implanting implanting RFID chips into each employee's head! Not even with the added bonus of a partial lobotomy during the same surgery. It never even occurred to us to think about that. And certainly not at the prices we were quoted.
Funnily enough we have a DBA who insists on using remote X sessions, then opens up the console in the X session to do his work and wonders why we have memory overhead issues.
Blame Oracle for this one. Although it can run in a CLI environment, it cannot be installed on a headless system. You have to install a Graphical Desktop in order to install Oracle. I could not believe it until I started working at a company that could afford the outrageous prices Oracle charges. (My other pet peeve with Oracle is that during the install process, you have to run a script as root. It cannot be sudo, it cannot be as a user with root privileges, it must be run as a user named "root.")
Once some DBAs get used to that environment, they forget that other databases do not need a GUI environment and demand that GNOME or KDE be installed on the database server.
My biggest problem with the movies was the way they handled the basic premise of the book. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movies, but they did not tell the same story as the book.
The book tells a story of halflings who, although great people were doing great things all around them, still grew up and managed to do great things. It was possible, even if they were looked down upon as unimportant, for them to do great things. They did not have to rely on another hero, they could become their own hero.
The movie told more of a story about great people doing great things and the hobbits were more of a side story. Their story was told only as it connected with Aragorn's story, or Legolas's story, or Gimli's story. The story of how the hobbits learned that they had to fight and when they first met real danger with the barrow wights wasn't important to Aragorn's story, so it wasn't told. When they learned that they could fight by themselves and did not need men, elves or wizards to clean up a mess in their own land, it was not told because it had no effect on Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas or Gimli.
Yes, I know that the hobbits were central to the quest of the ring. Without the hobbits, there would be story to tell. Aragorn would still have the choice to become King of Gondor, but there would be no hobbits to help him choose what was more important to him. Still, the book presented many of the actions of the times only as they dealt with the hobbits. The movie was exactly backwards. It presented all the actions from a human perspective.
Again, I loved the movies. They did a wonderful job with much of the story, and added some insights that I had not seen before. I own the DVDs of both the extended edition as well as the standard release, and I continue to watch them as time permits. (not often enough, of course.) Still, I kind of wish the movies did a better job of showing how the hobbits grew up and took responsibility for their own lands and problems.
Not if you make it complicated enough. Force them to use a different doodle or a different squirrel noise each time that can't be written down, and you get rid of the yellow sticky note issue. And in 1998 they had no real comprehension of how to prevent access to useful systems. Take a look at an updated Dilbert from 2005 for how to really prevent stolen passwords as well as how to prevent access.
I used to vote for the person I thought was more honest and better reflected my views. Now I tend to vote for the one who is better at covering up his/her lies.
In politics, it is impossible to vote for the lesser of two evils. There is no such thing as "lesser evil" in politics.
No matter who wins the elections, the voters are the ones that lose.
And, where do citizens get their money? From businesses. Aren't circles fun?
And where do the businesses get the money needed to pay these citizens? From capitalizing on the labor and/or knowledge of the citizens in their employ. Yep. Circles are fun.
Another method, although not as secure, is to simply break up words with numbers. Simply pick a three or four digit number and place it in the middle of a word. The number can be an area code or any part of a phone number, a zip code, a PIN, or any part of an address.
For example,
Slashdot and 943 can become Slas943hdot.
If special characters are required, $la$943hd0t.
For rotating passwords, a combination of two or three words, and two or three sets of numbers can fulfil the requirement that the password be significantly different from the previous one.
I really like using this method on web sites that don't require really, really secure passwords, since the word is often the name of the company or the name of the web site. Plus, if one password is guessed or stolen, the other sites are still secure since they use a different password.
I remember a web site (no longer around) that required a password. Someone liked to use vulgar words as his password. (His thought? process was something like "no one will ever try vulgar words") When he entered the word "penis" as his password, he received the response:
Password rejected
Not long enough
Please try another
We about died laughing and teased him for months after that.
While I personally do not want to get a tattoo, each person must decide for themselves if a tattoo is right for them. However, a there is a good test that one can perform in deciding whether to get a tattoo, and which one to get.
1. Draw the equation/design in PENCIL on regular paper
2. Take silly putty and press down on the design.
3. Stretch the putty in different directions so that you know what the design will look like in 20 years.
I have heard about a female that got a tattoo of a butterfly around her belly button. After 3 children, I am told that it now looks like a pterodactyl being struck by lightning. I have seen a rose tattooed on a woman's breast that was turning into a long stem rose.
If you are going to tattoo an equation, make sure that the equation you have in 20 years is the same one that you originally wanted.
A spelling or grammar course might also be advised.
I still think there should be a course given for an Internet License. This way if you don't base(pass?),you're not allowed to go on the internet. Well, at least in large corporations/government facilities.
What really scares me is that this might really reflect the "upper crust" of today's government employee.
Tried that. Didn't work. If you look at the Testing Procedures under 5.1 you will find "For a sample of system components including all operating system types commonly affected by malicious software, verify that anti-virus software is deployed if applicable anti-virus technology exists." It did not matter that the first part of that statement included the "commonly affected by malicious software", the auditor read the part about "if applicable anti-virus technology exists." His argument went along the lines of "If there is AV software for an OS, it needs to be deployed on all servers running that OS." Since there is ClamAV, as well as a few Linux clients made by AV companies, we needed to have it installed. After all, why would an AV company program a Linux client unless it was needed? (And yes, his primary experience was with Windows systems.)
I will say that I finally got through to the auditor, although it did take hours. I finally convinced him that SELinux was performing that role and that a specialized AV client was not necessary.
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What goes Vroom..Screech...Vroom...Screech....Vroom...Screech?
A car driven by a blonde at a flashing red light.
Seriously, I talked with a guy one time that had been driving for several years but had no idea what a flashing red light meant. Not to mention being able to tell the difference between a flashing red light and a flashing yellow light.
WHOOSH is actually an acronym for When Humor Orbits Over Someone's Head.
Brought to you by the American Association Against Acronym Abuse
TFA is still a bit confusing. At one point they are talking about 20 pipes, each of them being 1 km long, and at another point someone starts talking about the pressure needed to move the water 20 km up.
I am surprised. My mother-in-law, who was born in Mexico near the southern tip of Texas, will often tell me, "Yo no mensa." She uses it in the context of "I'm not stupid" or "stop treating me like I am stupid."
An expensive rug lies all the time as well. It just makes you feel good and really important as you show off the fact that it lies.
Okay, I was slightly mistaken. If you installed Netscape first and then installed IE, IE would delete Netscape files making Netscape unusable. The effect was the same.
Yes you were. At one point IE would delete Netscape files if it found a copy of Netscape. This made Netscape unusable. So you could not have both browsers on the same computer. If you installed IE, you were forced to use it.
Another thing that caused the anti-trust case was the fact that IE not only checked to see if it was the default browser, it checked to see if it was the only browser. In the early days, it would even check for Netscape and un-install it if it found that it was installed.
So does Android install itself on an iPhone, and un-install IOS?
Android is an OS, not an application. A better comparison would be computers with the OS pre-installed. Shouldn't MS, Apple, Sun, IBM and HP joined forces and sued Commadore and Atari for providing a free OS and attempting to drive each of them out of the market by providing a free OS that was built into the hardware without providing an alternative OS?
I looked at the comments on the announcement page. (Did I violate /. standards by reading the comments from the link even if I didn't read the article?) From what I could see, the board runs on 6V-20V rather than the 5V provided by USB. One discussion seemed to revolve around why they had to use 6V and if they could find a 5V to 6V converter cheap, while another wanted to know if they could power it with PoE.
Although the story of Noah is the first time rain is mentioned in the bible, it does not state that it never rained before Noah
Not true, I'm afraid. Genesis 2: 5-6, after creation:
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The flood is in chapter 7.
The Bible does state that before Adam, God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. It does not talk about rain between Adam being cast out from the Garden of Eden and the flood. That does not mean that there was no rain during that period of time.
What part of the new testament tries to explain the origin of rain again...
1) The New Testament never tries to explain the origin of rain. (Neither does the Old Testament. Although the story of Noah is the first time rain is mentioned in the bible, it does not state that it never rained before Noah.)
or states that the point is to live well with your neighbor?
2) Several places. In Matthew, Christ teaches that peace makers are blessed. In fact, He specifically states that although the Old Testament states thou shalt not kill, even calling someone names in anger places them in danger of judgement. The story of the Good Samaritan was told when someone wanted to justify who their bad behavior. When asked what the greatest commandments in the Law was, Christ told us that to love God was the first and greatest commandment and the second was to love your neighbor as yourself.
I seem to remember Jesus specifically going after those who placed too much emphasis on personal righteousness and rebuking them-- to the point where they desired his death.
3) Jesus did not condemn those emphasising personal righteousness, he condemned hypocrites that CLAIMED that they were more righteous than everyone else. He even compared them to a whitewashed sepulchre which appeared to be clean on the outside but was filthy and full of death on the inside. He stated that the hypocrite that appeared to be righteous in order to be seen of others already had their reward, but that his disciples should do good works and not boast of them.
Don't get me wrong, I am not asking you to believe any part of the Bible. My words will not change your mind or anyone else's mind in the least. But you did ask the questions and here are a couple of answers.
Should have looked closer. The June 2010 was only a preliminary decision. Took That long for the debate to make a final decision.
It is an old decision. I had a look at the article and saw that it was dated June 10, 2010. /. back in June. .xxx domains, but if /. is not aware of them by now, how much can they be used?
It was also posted on
Haven't really looked for any
On the other hand, it took nine months for the dupe to show up. Coincidence?
"Hey! We've found this earth-like planet orbiting a particular star. Wait a minute . . . Wrong star. And it really isn't earth-like at all."
Sound a lot like a Steven Wright.
"A funny thing happened to me this morning. Wait a minute . . . That wasn't me."
No, an RFID chip implanted in each employee's head would be a good idea.
(Stolen from Dogbert's School of Managment's How to spread rumours.)
Boss: No, we are not considering implanting implanting RFID chips into each employee's head! Not even with the added bonus of a partial lobotomy during the same surgery. It never even occurred to us to think about that. And certainly not at the prices we were quoted.
Funnily enough we have a DBA who insists on using remote X sessions, then opens up the console in the X session to do his work and wonders why we have memory overhead issues.
Blame Oracle for this one. Although it can run in a CLI environment, it cannot be installed on a headless system. You have to install a Graphical Desktop in order to install Oracle. I could not believe it until I started working at a company that could afford the outrageous prices Oracle charges. (My other pet peeve with Oracle is that during the install process, you have to run a script as root. It cannot be sudo, it cannot be as a user with root privileges, it must be run as a user named "root.")
Once some DBAs get used to that environment, they forget that other databases do not need a GUI environment and demand that GNOME or KDE be installed on the database server.
The book tells a story of halflings who, although great people were doing great things all around them, still grew up and managed to do great things. It was possible, even if they were looked down upon as unimportant, for them to do great things. They did not have to rely on another hero, they could become their own hero.
The movie told more of a story about great people doing great things and the hobbits were more of a side story. Their story was told only as it connected with Aragorn's story, or Legolas's story, or Gimli's story. The story of how the hobbits learned that they had to fight and when they first met real danger with the barrow wights wasn't important to Aragorn's story, so it wasn't told. When they learned that they could fight by themselves and did not need men, elves or wizards to clean up a mess in their own land, it was not told because it had no effect on Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas or Gimli.
Yes, I know that the hobbits were central to the quest of the ring. Without the hobbits, there would be story to tell. Aragorn would still have the choice to become King of Gondor, but there would be no hobbits to help him choose what was more important to him. Still, the book presented many of the actions of the times only as they dealt with the hobbits. The movie was exactly backwards. It presented all the actions from a human perspective.
Again, I loved the movies. They did a wonderful job with much of the story, and added some insights that I had not seen before. I own the DVDs of both the extended edition as well as the standard release, and I continue to watch them as time permits. (not often enough, of course.) Still, I kind of wish the movies did a better job of showing how the hobbits grew up and took responsibility for their own lands and problems.
Make the requirement too complicated and users will work arround it.
PS.. greetings from mordoc the information preventer in 1998
Not if you make it complicated enough. Force them to use a different doodle or a different squirrel noise each time that can't be written down, and you get rid of the yellow sticky note issue. And in 1998 they had no real comprehension of how to prevent access to useful systems. Take a look at an updated Dilbert from 2005 for how to really prevent stolen passwords as well as how to prevent access.
I used to vote for the person I thought was more honest and better reflected my views. Now I tend to vote for the one who is better at covering up his/her lies.
In politics, it is impossible to vote for the lesser of two evils. There is no such thing as "lesser evil" in politics.
No matter who wins the elections, the voters are the ones that lose.
And, where do citizens get their money? From businesses. Aren't circles fun?
And where do the businesses get the money needed to pay these citizens? From capitalizing on the labor and/or knowledge of the citizens in their employ. Yep. Circles are fun.
Another method, although not as secure, is to simply break up words with numbers. Simply pick a three or four digit number and place it in the middle of a word. The number can be an area code or any part of a phone number, a zip code, a PIN, or any part of an address.
For example,
Slashdot and 943 can become Slas943hdot.
If special characters are required, $la$943hd0t.
For rotating passwords, a combination of two or three words, and two or three sets of numbers can fulfil the requirement that the password be significantly different from the previous one.
I really like using this method on web sites that don't require really, really secure passwords, since the word is often the name of the company or the name of the web site. Plus, if one password is guessed or stolen, the other sites are still secure since they use a different password.
I remember a web site (no longer around) that required a password. Someone liked to use vulgar words as his password. (His thought? process was something like "no one will ever try vulgar words") When he entered the word "penis" as his password, he received the response:
Password rejected
Not long enough
Please try another
We about died laughing and teased him for months after that.
While I personally do not want to get a tattoo, each person must decide for themselves if a tattoo is right for them. However, a there is a good test that one can perform in deciding whether to get a tattoo, and which one to get.
1. Draw the equation/design in PENCIL on regular paper
2. Take silly putty and press down on the design.
3. Stretch the putty in different directions so that you know what the design will look like in 20 years.
I have heard about a female that got a tattoo of a butterfly around her belly button. After 3 children, I am told that it now looks like a pterodactyl being struck by lightning. I have seen a rose tattooed on a woman's breast that was turning into a long stem rose.
If you are going to tattoo an equation, make sure that the equation you have in 20 years is the same one that you originally wanted.
I still think there should be a course given for an Internet License. This way if you don't base(pass?), you're not allowed to go on the internet. Well, at least in large corporations/government facilities.
What really scares me is that this might really reflect the "upper crust" of today's government employee.
Tried that. Didn't work. If you look at the Testing Procedures under 5.1 you will find "For a sample of system components including all operating system types commonly affected by malicious software, verify that anti-virus software is deployed if applicable anti-virus technology exists." It did not matter that the first part of that statement included the "commonly affected by malicious software", the auditor read the part about "if applicable anti-virus technology exists." His argument went along the lines of "If there is AV software for an OS, it needs to be deployed on all servers running that OS." Since there is ClamAV, as well as a few Linux clients made by AV companies, we needed to have it installed. After all, why would an AV company program a Linux client unless it was needed? (And yes, his primary experience was with Windows systems.)
I will say that I finally got through to the auditor, although it did take hours. I finally convinced him that SELinux was performing that role and that a specialized AV client was not necessary.