That would be fun! I am sure WalMart would like that power to direct their shoppers to the latest thing they are trying to flog.
I have always wanted a way to do a broadcast ping of all the local cellphones to get them all to ring at once. I bet theatres would like a device that could do this in order to get patrons to turn off their ringers before shows start.
I can't give you the hard figures, but I can point you to where to look. I'd start with Levitt and Dubner's "Freakenomics", which will give you some insight into the way the statistics regarding educational performance have changed. Since the No Kid Left Behind initiative, it has been an imparative to schools financially that students do better on these tests. Because of this, there is a great deal of motivation for teachers to cheat as well as better coach their kids for the specific tests that were once used only as an overall study rather than a metric to base teacher job performance and school funding.
From what I have heard from my kid, the "No Kid Left Behind" initiative has also caused classes to teach at the lowest level rather than split out the stragglers from the leaders.
I really can't tell whether education has gotten worse overall. This may be, but there is also a large number of families that are very pro-education and with multimedia pc's and internet resources there are far greater educational opportunities then was available 25 years ago.
On the other hand much of the deterioration of education has been the watering down of thought and reading to fulfill the "PC" movement where the classics were dismissed as being "Dead White Men" and the intentional avoidance of hard topics such as advanced math and grammar because teachers don't want to hurt the kids' self esteem. Fortunately even this is being put to pasture and I have noticed a resurgence of the classics being taught even as early as Kindergarten.
Overall, I find for the motivated, there are far more chances to better education than ever before. However, for the unmotivated it seems easier than ever to achieve a valued mediocrity -- heck even your teacher will fix your standardized testing. What I see is a widening gulf between the educated and uneducated where education is being replaced by self-esteem and false flattery. The fact that a majority of these video games, highly complex pieces of mathematics, are being made by young people is evidence that someone is learning something. Unfortunately, for the demands our highly technical society, not enough kids are reaching this mark and a new cultural divide is emerging and the US in particular large portions of the US are giving away its lead to countries like China who value education.
One final note, it's not the entie US that is falling behind. Many States, such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, if ranked as individual countries, would fall just behind Hong Kong in academic performance.
Gitmo wouldn't exist without the Maine. Remember the Maine??? The US successfully based the whole Spanish American war on a terrorist attach that was self inflicted. Certainly it could be done again.
In a historical perspective, it is wise to be sceptical of such an event and even more sceptical of the reactions to such an event.Questioning what really happened doesn't make one a "Tinfoil Hat", but an engaged citizen who is unwilling to binge at the trough that is mass media.
Was Einstein a Dale Gribble for leaving Germany and putting aside his pacifist views to support a war against his native land? Was he a tinfoil hat for not trusting the publically accepted explaination for the burning of the Reichstag?
If any 'conspiricy; account of 9/11 seems to fit, it's the movie Long Kiss Goodnight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/ which was released six years before the attack and describes a CIA teaming up with old rivals to fabricate a terrorist attack in New York to be blamed on Muslim terrorist in an effort to get more funding away from social programs and create a center of importance for CIA now that the cold war is over.
And even if this is a far fetched reaction to the events, it is important that free speech and freedom of the press exist because with out the counterpoint the facts are unexamined and sullied propaganda.
Without the freely made cellular call from the plane over Pennsylvania the attacks victims were anonymous dead rather than heroes who went down fighting to the motto "Let's Roll!"
If cellular calls were being controlled as the current administration wants to control broadband, the statement that echos of heroics would be empty.
It is unlikely such a curtailing of freedom would hinder guerrilla warriors, rather it would be another indicator that the terrorists have won in terrorizing us to give up the freedom we supposedly so strongly believe in and cherish.
I agree, plus Amazon has gone downhill fast. If I buy anything from them it's thru an associate who will deliver books days, often weeks faster... although I have found books on ebay to be an even better deal and faster than an amazon associate especially considering I am paying for the ebay books with personal check vs. cc w/ amazon.
Seems like Amazon is putting all of their effort in to patenting their competition out of business rather than plain outperformance. If they keep this up, they'll be out of business of books and doing lawsuits fulltime keeping the world from doing business on the internet.
In the US, landline calls don't get charged by the minute to recieve as I understand they do in the UK. Nor do most landline users get charged to make local calls. Thus, Americans are really new to this concept. I imagine US phone companies were jealous of the UK and saw cell phones as a way to start this new scheme.
So, to answer your question, if a person calls a cell phone from a landline (as long as it's not long distance) he doesn't get charged by the minute -- only the person receiving the call. In effect, US cell phone users pay to receive calls from telemarketers who is probably making a free local or VoIP call... Cool, eh..
As far as receiving calls when out of the area, as long as the cellphone is within reach of a tower of his service provider it doesn't matter to either party. The caller is only charged for a call to the area code the cellphone is registered and the cell user is not charged extra. In fact, most cellphone contracts include free nationwide long distance, which is often a better deal than using a landline.
However, if a celluser receives a call from a competing companies tower a roaming fee is incurred, and even if he is in his neighborhood the cost can be substantial. I had this problem near lake superior, I would get roaming fees since I was picking up a tower across the lake about a hundred miles away rather than the local tower six miles away. It sucked. In this case, the cellphone user receiving a call would pay extra, although the word roaming is usually indicated on the display so they know the situation.
You may be right, but they sure do look the same and it makes watching the show a lot more fun!
I always imagine James Cramer is Zippy.
If our behavior is strict, we don't need fun!!!
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sounds like a zippyism... zippy is a cult hero comic strip by Bill Griffith (who I am pretty sure is the same Bill Griffith who is an anchor on CNBC) http://www.zippythepinhead.com/
Zippy is an idiot savant who burbles out odd amalgams of pop culture in a halucinogenically insightful manner.
What does it mean, indeed.
Look DEEP into the OPENINGS!! Do you see any ELVES or EDSELS...
or a HIGHBALL??...
There are a lot of Barnes and Nobles around, go to another one that isn't so agonistic -- or try Chapters, or Borders.
They never asked me for ID and I've borrowed loads of books from them. I keep a lot too, but I don't see much point in keeping a $70 book that sucks. And I don't like being in databases if I can avoid it. Last summer I was returning a book or two a month because I was burning through a lot of new territory and never was required to give ID -- as long as you have a receipt and the book is in good enough shape to resell and you don't look like a homeless pirate I don't think they care. They have asked me for my name and phone number, but never demanded ID. I have even been given refund on a Red Hat book because I told them the CD's wouldn't install on my computer. They aren't supposed to take opened media, you're supposed to mail it back to the publisher.
The thing is, if you are nice and polite, people are usually quite helpful. Most people who work at those places don't make enough money to care. Most people who shop at these places make too much money to treat store clerks like people. A little charity can go a long way.
Or if your really worried, to get a library card most only require a piece of mail and no ID card. But most public libraries have sorry tech sections.
Of course the real anti-socials would just steal the Anarchists Cookbook so really, these lists are pretty pointless.
The anonymous card is called your reciept. You pay cash, return the book within a month and you get your money back.
Public Libraries should be free for everyone. It is only a short period where there was any sense of anonimity in the Library. When I was a kid, we had to sign our names on the cards which was public for anyone to see. I made a lot of friends just because we knew we checked out the same sort of books.
And this is the really scary part of library record snooping -- not the ones who are looking at people who check out The Anarchist's cookbook, but doing searches and serveillance for more casual connections -- hunting down trekkies because they might be pedophiles. -- Hunting down people who read american history because they might be "too patriotic" -- where does it end!?
I see your point, but in the windows world the "My Computer" icon is more than just the local hard drive... clicking on it will reveal access to the home directory, all network drives, optical drives and attached peripherals such as pda's. With a right click (Windows computers usually have two buttons on the mouse) you can access a ton of stuff on your computer, set paths and environment variables, manage drivers, set up network identities... pretty much everything.
For simplicity's sake, I usually refer to the tower as "the hard drive" and the monitor as "the television." I have come across these terms in my days as a technician and find them to be clear and understandable, even endearing, to the average user and just smutty to snotty techies who will then treat you like a dumbass and will then either fix your computer just to spite you (if they know their stuff and are seasoned pros) or drop their 3l33tist guard enough to let you know that they don't know as much as they try to make it seem.
Yeah, I doublechecked too (because you're post made me think I was turning into a bot), the only thing I posted more than once(and I wrote both posts separately) was my testing of search engines that found Yahoo to be the best at finding answers for VB and Access... I get hyper-puppy when I find things that go against the status quo. I apologize.
For full disclosure, while I used to sell a lot of Panda when I worked in a comuter shop, I wasn't on commission -- I sold it because it worked and I wouldn't have to fix their computer again. I haven't sold the stuff in about two years. Additionally, I don't use Antivirus software except at work where we have enterprise Norton's >> which isn't as bad as personal edition. Still, I'd rather use Panda's Enterprise, but I am just a coder not an admin.
I have downloaded the trial version of Platinum to fix a friend's computer and was impressed how it did what adaware, spybot and spysweeper couldn't.
Sorry about the sales pitch, but I am amazed that Panda is so unknown and I figured where better than an slashvert for Norton's to spout about!? It's a good tool for any tech.
I have had the opportunity to test AV in my lab, okay I worked in a computer shop... but I was able to crack some really infected machines..
Far and away, the best at finding viruses is Panda. Not only does it find on average two to three viruses that Norton's and Mcafee will miss, but it also doesn't bog down your system.
It used to be the lowest priced AV, and while this is no longer the case (probably due to the drop in the dollar -- they are Spanish, er Basque) it is worth the price. Their latest product -- Panda Platinum outscans most products for spyware: even webroot, Spybot and adaware. It also head and shoulders above any anti virus and includes a nice firewall (which I haven't tested, but if it is like their other products, it's the best)
I highly recommend their free online scan and would also recommend downloading a free trial of their software.
There seems to be a number of factors that can contribute to being skinny: smoking and poor diet offer different challenges.
If you're smoking, quit. You will soon replace your smoking with snacking and fill out in no time.
If you are young and not eating well, which seems to be the case, you've got to worry. It seems that people like this have a tendency to just go to obesity once their metabolism slows down.
So just start working on eating regular, healthy meals that are easy to make and eat. I'd stick with stuff like pork stir fry, it's easy to make, easy to store and reheat and has a lot of good fat calories. London Broils are also a good source of calories and nutrients. Don't over cook your food, use real butter, drink whole milk and stay away from prefab food -- it's all salt and no helpful calories. -- at least not the right kind.
Eat breakfast every morning, and go for a walk or some other sort of exercise daily to get your body hungry. Also work on drinking more water, this will help open up your ailementary canal to more food.
let's get over a few of these preconceptions. When I was in school some time back I didn't have internet where I lived, okay, I didn't even have electricity. Anyways, I spent a ton of time at the local truckstop since it offered reasonable dialup (25 cents unlimited) and strong coffee (65 cents unlimited). I'd bring my laptop and work on code, surf the net, etc.
Everyone there knew me and I got to know a good deal of truckers. Many had laptops even back then. I am sure these days with laptops being as cheap as a dvd player it's standard equipment.
Now mind you, you probably think I am an ignorant hick, but I found the people at the truck stop to be generally quite intelligent. I even got to know a driver whose brother was one of the top engineers at Nortel. And some actually read Slashdot.
I would even go so far as to posit that most truckers have more of a hacker mind than most deskjockies. Further, this is why the internet bubble crashed -- there was not enough of a hacker community to create an anthem as compelling as Convoy . I would even go so far to say that Texas doesn't want an internet version of Convoy so they are trying to put the kaibosh on all of that with the excuse of porn when they realized truckers used the net more than tourists in caravans.
And yes, most experienced truck drivers would be taking a pay cut to become Network Admins and where did you get the idea that becoming an admin would help you loose weight...face it, physically, driving a computer is about the same thing as driving a truck.. nonstop sitting and snacking
One of the stronger arguements against african origin is called the multiregional model which purports that humans evolved through variety of location.
So, as the evidence mounts in favour of a recent African origin, one might ask why we continue to speculate about our evolutionary history. Why are we still digging if the roots have been unearthed? The answer is that in spite of the facts, there is still no final answer. None of the deductions made thus far are watertight, and the methods and approaches employed are continually being reassessed. For instance, over recent years the assumption that mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited and thereby free from recombination has been disputed. If sperm mitochondria are found to recombine with mitochondria present in the ovum, the credibility of the mitochondrial evidence may be called into question. Similarly, flaws in the molecular clock technique have been highlighted.
The story is further complicated by the possibility that neither of the principal models (OAR and Multiregional) is correct. The true explanation may be an amalgamation of the two, which is reflected in the alternate "Hybridisation" and "Assimilation" models. These theories tone down the role of replacement in human evolution by incorporating gene flow and hybridisation yet still allow that Africa has a prime position in human genetic history. The exact importance of Africa, and indeed the full narrative, remains to be told. But with further advances in molecular techniques, and the use of alternate gene systems, we may finally be getting closer to solving the mystery of where we came from...
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There are other arguements against the african origin, just as there are mounting arguments against the land bridge theory. Much of the arguements is that we are finding the oldest humans in Africa because that is where we are looking. It's easy to find things in Africa, as opposed to say the frozen North, which may have older fossil evidence from when those latitudes were much warmer but are now buried beneath snow and ice. Regardless, these theories being held as "law" are making it quite difficult to do real science.
Proponents of the Land Bridge Migration have made it very difficult to accept dating clovis man, mummies in South America and sites in South Carolina older because they so conflict with their precious theory. In the same manner, evidence that conflicts with the African Origin theory is ruled as wrong rather than as interesting. To me, this doesn't seem like science but rather religion: if data conflicts with a theory, it should call the theory into question rather than the data, particularily when there are many data points that do not support a theory that is based on very little data.
Look at where these tennents are coming from -- victorian notions. We see our Christian views as central to everything and we try to fit our observations to fit these views. Rather than searching for "Adam & Eve", science should be searching for early humans and try to figure out what it might mean. We have very little data on humans past 100,000 years. It could very likely turn out that humans migrated to Africa for the weather when other regions became too cold. Older human remains than those found in South Africa where "Adam" is placed on the articles map have been found far to the North in Ethiopia.
-- don't anthropomorphize ancient people, they don't like it
hey, it's a moovie quote from repoman A story about a mad scientist, J Frank Parnell, who kidnaps aliens.
I was trying to give a lighthearted response to Aggamemnon's question. Certainly the production of such lethal weapons is a grave topic. Neutron Bombs really don't leave buildings standing. They are a highly focused explosion and release incredible amounts of radioactivity to kill surrounding populations immediately rather than the hours, days or weeks that the radioactive fallout regular nuclear bombs produce. Additionally, it is ideally suited to frying tank crews, since the nutron rays aren't shielded by the tank as normal nuclear device's gamma rays would be.
Would there be melting eyes and exploding skin? I don't know but I am guessing there would be. This radiation is extremely destructive to living tissue. I mean we are talking about accelerated radioactive exposure that would kill in minutes.
And just for the record, the nutron bomb designer, Sam Cohen is nothing like Frank Parnell. He's crazy in a different manner. Rather than eaten away by guilt over his invention he has a sort of obsession with the weapon, seeing every problem to have a nutron bomb answer. He even insisted that the Iraqi's were building a nuetron bomb.
In reality, I think building weapons systems would drive me insane. The few people I know who do the death and destruction design need to be heavily medicated to function somewhat normally. I think that if you couldn't build up some super gungho facade as Cohen seems to have, the guilt would be detremental.
This said, I don't think creators of free software need to loose sleep over the moralaty of their work being used for nefarious means. That is the whole bargain of freedom -- freedom means the ability to choose for one's self. For the small number of psychopaths who use open source for weapons, organized crime and whatever variety of activity that could be deemed immoral on some scale there are equal if not greater amounts of people using free software to make life better.
Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?
Parnell: Not at all.Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.
The radiation coming out of the back of the moniter is the scary part that is most overlooked. I had a cat who loved to sit on the back of the moniter (it's warm).
She died of Leukemia in three years.
I hate sitting with the back of a moniter pointed at me or sitting in front of a CRT with its back pointed toward a reflective surface like a window or white wall and I don't let cats sit there anymore.
Besides, most pda's don't have room for a tv show... at least not at the annointed DVD DeCSS size they don't.
Anyways, it's **only** twenty bucks a month. How can you beat that!? That's like if you download one item every day to your PDA it's less than 99 cents per day for stuff you can watch on your big TV for free or $15/month for basic cable.
It is interestingthe media's insistance to mispronounce her name. Schiavo is an Italian name and it is pronounced "ski-Ah-vo" not "SHavo"... The 'h' after a 'c' makes a hard sound to make up for the Italian alphabets lack of a 'k'.
Ironically, the word literally means "slave" in Italian. And she died a slave, the poor girl.
The wierdest part is to to die of an eating disorder and have a tube forced down your vegtable corpse for 15 years. It's very Dantesque.
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That would be fun! I am sure WalMart would like that power to direct their shoppers to the latest thing they are trying to flog.
I have always wanted a way to do a broadcast ping of all the local cellphones to get them all to ring at once. I bet theatres would like a device that could do this in order to get patrons to turn off their ringers before shows start.
I can't give you the hard figures, but I can point you to where to look. I'd start with Levitt and Dubner's "Freakenomics", which will give you some insight into the way the statistics regarding educational performance have changed. Since the No Kid Left Behind initiative, it has been an imparative to schools financially that students do better on these tests. Because of this, there is a great deal of motivation for teachers to cheat as well as better coach their kids for the specific tests that were once used only as an overall study rather than a metric to base teacher job performance and school funding.
From what I have heard from my kid, the "No Kid Left Behind" initiative has also caused classes to teach at the lowest level rather than split out the stragglers from the leaders.
I really can't tell whether education has gotten worse overall. This may be, but there is also a large number of families that are very pro-education and with multimedia pc's and internet resources there are far greater educational opportunities then was available 25 years ago.
On the other hand much of the deterioration of education has been the watering down of thought and reading to fulfill the "PC" movement where the classics were dismissed as being "Dead White Men" and the intentional avoidance of hard topics such as advanced math and grammar because teachers don't want to hurt the kids' self esteem. Fortunately even this is being put to pasture and I have noticed a resurgence of the classics being taught even as early as Kindergarten.
Overall, I find for the motivated, there are far more chances to better education than ever before. However, for the unmotivated it seems easier than ever to achieve a valued mediocrity -- heck even your teacher will fix your standardized testing. What I see is a widening gulf between the educated and uneducated where education is being replaced by self-esteem and false flattery. The fact that a majority of these video games, highly complex pieces of mathematics, are being made by young people is evidence that someone is learning something. Unfortunately, for the demands our highly technical society, not enough kids are reaching this mark and a new cultural divide is emerging and the US in particular large portions of the US are giving away its lead to countries like China who value education.
One final note, it's not the entie US that is falling behind. Many States, such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, if ranked as individual countries, would fall just behind Hong Kong in academic performance.
when you are going upscale to 64-bit, you might have better luck calling them "chauffeurs" in your search entries.
PC's use drivers; big iron employs chauffeurs.
I would have prefered more adult oriented humor -- Like when you zoom in on the moon it turns into a goatse moon!
At least it was american colored cheese and not green, after all it is american moon!
Gitmo wouldn't exist without the Maine. Remember the Maine??? The US successfully based the whole Spanish American war on a terrorist attach that was self inflicted. Certainly it could be done again.
In a historical perspective, it is wise to be sceptical of such an event and even more sceptical of the reactions to such an event.Questioning what really happened doesn't make one a "Tinfoil Hat", but an engaged citizen who is unwilling to binge at the trough that is mass media.
Was Einstein a Dale Gribble for leaving Germany and putting aside his pacifist views to support a war against his native land? Was he a tinfoil hat for not trusting the publically accepted explaination for the burning of the Reichstag?
If any 'conspiricy; account of 9/11 seems to fit, it's the movie Long Kiss Goodnight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/ which was released six years before the attack and describes a CIA teaming up with old rivals to fabricate a terrorist attack in New York to be blamed on Muslim terrorist in an effort to get more funding away from social programs and create a center of importance for CIA now that the cold war is over.
And even if this is a far fetched reaction to the events, it is important that free speech and freedom of the press exist because with out the counterpoint the facts are unexamined and sullied propaganda.
Without the freely made cellular call from the plane over Pennsylvania the attacks victims were anonymous dead rather than heroes who went down fighting to the motto "Let's Roll!"
If cellular calls were being controlled as the current administration wants to control broadband, the statement that echos of heroics would be empty.
It is unlikely such a curtailing of freedom would hinder guerrilla warriors, rather it would be another indicator that the terrorists have won in terrorizing us to give up the freedom we supposedly so strongly believe in and cherish.
I agree, plus Amazon has gone downhill fast. If I buy anything from them it's thru an associate who will deliver books days, often weeks faster... although I have found books on ebay to be an even better deal and faster than an amazon associate especially considering I am paying for the ebay books with personal check vs. cc w/ amazon.
Seems like Amazon is putting all of their effort in to patenting their competition out of business rather than plain outperformance. If they keep this up, they'll be out of business of books and doing lawsuits fulltime keeping the world from doing business on the internet.
In the US, landline calls don't get charged by the minute to recieve as I understand they do in the UK. Nor do most landline users get charged to make local calls. Thus, Americans are really new to this concept. I imagine US phone companies were jealous of the UK and saw cell phones as a way to start this new scheme.
So, to answer your question, if a person calls a cell phone from a landline (as long as it's not long distance) he doesn't get charged by the minute -- only the person receiving the call. In effect, US cell phone users pay to receive calls from telemarketers who is probably making a free local or VoIP call... Cool, eh..
As far as receiving calls when out of the area, as long as the cellphone is within reach of a tower of his service provider it doesn't matter to either party. The caller is only charged for a call to the area code the cellphone is registered and the cell user is not charged extra. In fact, most cellphone contracts include free nationwide long distance, which is often a better deal than using a landline.
However, if a celluser receives a call from a competing companies tower a roaming fee is incurred, and even if he is in his neighborhood the cost can be substantial. I had this problem near lake superior, I would get roaming fees since I was picking up a tower across the lake about a hundred miles away rather than the local tower six miles away. It sucked. In this case, the cellphone user receiving a call would pay extra, although the word roaming is usually indicated on the display so they know the situation.
You may be right, but they sure do look the same and it makes watching the show a lot more fun!
I always imagine James Cramer is Zippy.
If our behavior is strict, we don't need fun!!!
sounds like a zippyism... zippy is a cult hero comic strip by Bill Griffith (who I am pretty sure is the same Bill Griffith who is an anchor on CNBC) http://www.zippythepinhead.com/
Zippy is an idiot savant who burbles out odd amalgams of pop culture in a halucinogenically insightful manner.
What does it mean, indeed.
Look DEEP into the OPENINGS!! Do you see any ELVES or EDSELS... or a HIGHBALL??...
There are a lot of Barnes and Nobles around, go to another one that isn't so agonistic -- or try Chapters, or Borders.
They never asked me for ID and I've borrowed loads of books from them. I keep a lot too, but I don't see much point in keeping a $70 book that sucks. And I don't like being in databases if I can avoid it. Last summer I was returning a book or two a month because I was burning through a lot of new territory and never was required to give ID -- as long as you have a receipt and the book is in good enough shape to resell and you don't look like a homeless pirate I don't think they care. They have asked me for my name and phone number, but never demanded ID. I have even been given refund on a Red Hat book because I told them the CD's wouldn't install on my computer. They aren't supposed to take opened media, you're supposed to mail it back to the publisher.
The thing is, if you are nice and polite, people are usually quite helpful. Most people who work at those places don't make enough money to care. Most people who shop at these places make too much money to treat store clerks like people. A little charity can go a long way.
Or if your really worried, to get a library card most only require a piece of mail and no ID card. But most public libraries have sorry tech sections.
Of course the real anti-socials would just steal the Anarchists Cookbook so really, these lists are pretty pointless.
The anonymous card is called your reciept. You pay cash, return the book within a month and you get your money back.
Public Libraries should be free for everyone. It is only a short period where there was any sense of anonimity in the Library. When I was a kid, we had to sign our names on the cards which was public for anyone to see. I made a lot of friends just because we knew we checked out the same sort of books.
Yeah, you know the Star Trek readers are definitely being watched.
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http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/justice/article
And this is the really scary part of library record snooping -- not the ones who are looking at people who check out The Anarchist's cookbook, but doing searches and serveillance for more casual connections -- hunting down trekkies because they might be pedophiles. -- Hunting down people who read american history because they might be "too patriotic" -- where does it end!?
I see your point, but in the windows world the "My Computer" icon is more than just the local hard drive... clicking on it will reveal access to the home directory, all network drives, optical drives and attached peripherals such as pda's. With a right click (Windows computers usually have two buttons on the mouse) you can access a ton of stuff on your computer, set paths and environment variables, manage drivers, set up network identities... pretty much everything.
For simplicity's sake, I usually refer to the tower as "the hard drive" and the monitor as "the television." I have come across these terms in my days as a technician and find them to be clear and understandable, even endearing, to the average user and just smutty to snotty techies who will then treat you like a dumbass and will then either fix your computer just to spite you (if they know their stuff and are seasoned pros) or drop their 3l33tist guard enough to let you know that they don't know as much as they try to make it seem.
Yeah, I doublechecked too (because you're post made me think I was turning into a bot), the only thing I posted more than once(and I wrote both posts separately) was my testing of search engines that found Yahoo to be the best at finding answers for VB and Access... I get hyper-puppy when I find things that go against the status quo. I apologize.
For full disclosure, while I used to sell a lot of Panda when I worked in a comuter shop, I wasn't on commission -- I sold it because it worked and I wouldn't have to fix their computer again. I haven't sold the stuff in about two years. Additionally, I don't use Antivirus software except at work where we have enterprise Norton's >> which isn't as bad as personal edition. Still, I'd rather use Panda's Enterprise, but I am just a coder not an admin.
I have downloaded the trial version of Platinum to fix a friend's computer and was impressed how it did what adaware, spybot and spysweeper couldn't.
Sorry about the sales pitch, but I am amazed that Panda is so unknown and I figured where better than an slashvert for Norton's to spout about!? It's a good tool for any tech.
See you at the MIT meeting.
I have had the opportunity to test AV in my lab, okay I worked in a computer shop... but I was able to crack some really infected machines..
Far and away, the best at finding viruses is Panda. Not only does it find on average two to three viruses that Norton's and Mcafee will miss, but it also doesn't bog down your system.
It used to be the lowest priced AV, and while this is no longer the case (probably due to the drop in the dollar -- they are Spanish, er Basque) it is worth the price. Their latest product -- Panda Platinum outscans most products for spyware: even webroot, Spybot and adaware. It also head and shoulders above any anti virus and includes a nice firewall (which I haven't tested, but if it is like their other products, it's the best)
I highly recommend their free online scan and would also recommend downloading a free trial of their software.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/default.asp
There seems to be a number of factors that can contribute to being skinny: smoking and poor diet offer different challenges.
If you're smoking, quit. You will soon replace your smoking with snacking and fill out in no time.
If you are young and not eating well, which seems to be the case, you've got to worry. It seems that people like this have a tendency to just go to obesity once their metabolism slows down.
So just start working on eating regular, healthy meals that are easy to make and eat. I'd stick with stuff like pork stir fry, it's easy to make, easy to store and reheat and has a lot of good fat calories. London Broils are also a good source of calories and nutrients. Don't over cook your food, use real butter, drink whole milk and stay away from prefab food -- it's all salt and no helpful calories. -- at least not the right kind.
Eat breakfast every morning, and go for a walk or some other sort of exercise daily to get your body hungry. Also work on drinking more water, this will help open up your ailementary canal to more food.
Good luck!
let's get over a few of these preconceptions. When I was in school some time back I didn't have internet where I lived, okay, I didn't even have electricity. Anyways, I spent a ton of time at the local truckstop since it offered reasonable dialup (25 cents unlimited) and strong coffee (65 cents unlimited). I'd bring my laptop and work on code, surf the net, etc.
Everyone there knew me and I got to know a good deal of truckers. Many had laptops even back then. I am sure these days with laptops being as cheap as a dvd player it's standard equipment.
Now mind you, you probably think I am an ignorant hick, but I found the people at the truck stop to be generally quite intelligent. I even got to know a driver whose brother was one of the top engineers at Nortel. And some actually read Slashdot.
I would even go so far as to posit that most truckers have more of a hacker mind than most deskjockies. Further, this is why the internet bubble crashed -- there was not enough of a hacker community to create an anthem as compelling as Convoy . I would even go so far to say that Texas doesn't want an internet version of Convoy so they are trying to put the kaibosh on all of that with the excuse of porn when they realized truckers used the net more than tourists in caravans.
And yes, most experienced truck drivers would be taking a pay cut to become Network Admins and where did you get the idea that becoming an admin would help you loose weight...face it, physically, driving a computer is about the same thing as driving a truck.. nonstop sitting and snacking
One of the stronger arguements against african origin is called the multiregional model which purports that humans evolved through variety of location.
So, as the evidence mounts in favour of a recent African origin, one might ask why we continue to speculate about our evolutionary history. Why are we still digging if the roots have been unearthed? The answer is that in spite of the facts, there is still no final answer. None of the deductions made thus far are watertight, and the methods and approaches employed are continually being reassessed. For instance, over recent years the assumption that mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited and thereby free from recombination has been disputed. If sperm mitochondria are found to recombine with mitochondria present in the ovum, the credibility of the mitochondrial evidence may be called into question. Similarly, flaws in the molecular clock technique have been highlighted.
The story is further complicated by the possibility that neither of the principal models (OAR and Multiregional) is correct. The true explanation may be an amalgamation of the two, which is reflected in the alternate "Hybridisation" and "Assimilation" models. These theories tone down the role of replacement in human evolution by incorporating gene flow and hybridisation yet still allow that Africa has a prime position in human genetic history. The exact importance of Africa, and indeed the full narrative, remains to be told. But with further advances in molecular techniques, and the use of alternate gene systems, we may finally be getting closer to solving the mystery of where we came from...
Paraminder Dhillon
There are other arguements against the african origin, just as there are mounting arguments against the land bridge theory. Much of the arguements is that we are finding the oldest humans in Africa because that is where we are looking. It's easy to find things in Africa, as opposed to say the frozen North, which may have older fossil evidence from when those latitudes were much warmer but are now buried beneath snow and ice. Regardless, these theories being held as "law" are making it quite difficult to do real science.
Proponents of the Land Bridge Migration have made it very difficult to accept dating clovis man, mummies in South America and sites in South Carolina older because they so conflict with their precious theory. In the same manner, evidence that conflicts with the African Origin theory is ruled as wrong rather than as interesting. To me, this doesn't seem like science but rather religion: if data conflicts with a theory, it should call the theory into question rather than the data, particularily when there are many data points that do not support a theory that is based on very little data.
Look at where these tennents are coming from -- victorian notions. We see our Christian views as central to everything and we try to fit our observations to fit these views. Rather than searching for "Adam & Eve", science should be searching for early humans and try to figure out what it might mean. We have very little data on humans past 100,000 years. It could very likely turn out that humans migrated to Africa for the weather when other regions became too cold. Older human remains than those found in South Africa where "Adam" is placed on the articles map have been found far to the North in Ethiopia.
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don't anthropomorphize ancient people, they don't like it
Firstly, the contention that human's originated from Africa is highly debatable.
Secondly, according to their map, the first man was Adam!? This sounds more like Sunday School rather than science.
Lastly, if they are trying to trace migrations, and they already have their map made up will they be fitting their data to their preconceived notions?
hey, it's a moovie quote from repoman A story about a mad scientist, J Frank Parnell, who kidnaps aliens.
I was trying to give a lighthearted response to Aggamemnon's question. Certainly the production of such lethal weapons is a grave topic. Neutron Bombs really don't leave buildings standing. They are a highly focused explosion and release incredible amounts of radioactivity to kill surrounding populations immediately rather than the hours, days or weeks that the radioactive fallout regular nuclear bombs produce. Additionally, it is ideally suited to frying tank crews, since the nutron rays aren't shielded by the tank as normal nuclear device's gamma rays would be.
Would there be melting eyes and exploding skin? I don't know but I am guessing there would be. This radiation is extremely destructive to living tissue. I mean we are talking about accelerated radioactive exposure that would kill in minutes.
And just for the record, the nutron bomb designer, Sam Cohen is nothing like Frank Parnell. He's crazy in a different manner. Rather than eaten away by guilt over his invention he has a sort of obsession with the weapon, seeing every problem to have a nutron bomb answer. He even insisted that the Iraqi's were building a nuetron bomb.
In reality, I think building weapons systems would drive me insane. The few people I know who do the death and destruction design need to be heavily medicated to function somewhat normally. I think that if you couldn't build up some super gungho facade as Cohen seems to have, the guilt would be detremental.
This said, I don't think creators of free software need to loose sleep over the moralaty of their work being used for nefarious means. That is the whole bargain of freedom -- freedom means the ability to choose for one's self. For the small number of psychopaths who use open source for weapons, organized crime and whatever variety of activity that could be deemed immoral on some scale there are equal if not greater amounts of people using free software to make life better.
Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?
Parnell: Not at all.Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.
Some people believe it holds insight into patterns. Thus if you could crack PI, you could crack the stockmarket, the bible, etc.
See the movie:
PI
There are also several interesting books on the topic including The History of PI, by Peter Beckmann.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, however, has nothing to do with the number.
The radiation coming out of the back of the moniter is the scary part that is most overlooked. I had a cat who loved to sit on the back of the moniter (it's warm).
She died of Leukemia in three years.
I hate sitting with the back of a moniter pointed at me or sitting in front of a CRT with its back pointed toward a reflective surface like a window or white wall and I don't let cats sit there anymore.
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the plural of Anecdote is not Data
Besides, most pda's don't have room for a tv show... at least not at the annointed DVD DeCSS size they don't.
Anyways, it's **only** twenty bucks a month. How can you beat that!? That's like if you download one item every day to your PDA it's less than 99 cents per day for stuff you can watch on your big TV for free or $15/month for basic cable.
Oh yeah, it is a bad deal, isn't it!?
It is interestingthe media's insistance to mispronounce her name. Schiavo is an Italian name and it is pronounced "ski-Ah-vo" not "SHavo"... The 'h' after a 'c' makes a hard sound to make up for the Italian alphabets lack of a 'k'. Ironically, the word literally means "slave" in Italian. And she died a slave, the poor girl. The wierdest part is to to die of an eating disorder and have a tube forced down your vegtable corpse for 15 years. It's very Dantesque.