Last anyone has heard of him, he's writing articles about lap dogs targeted at overweight Southern women in their 50's. He's found that to be a much easier demographic to impress than 12 year old HaX0r wannabees.
Remember Junis and his Commodore 64 in Afghanistan? After we called shenanigans on his tall tale, he decided to find an easier way to make a living.
Don't mod me down, this is a semi-true story. It has only been embellished a little bit.
Particularly insightful, considering that they couldn't even get their cable boxes to change channels in a reasonable amount of time. Slowest channel-surfing EVAR.
There's three categories where most of these amateur discoveries usually happen. New comets, new asteroids, and measurements of variable stars. Sometimes amateurs will refine measurements of variable stars, or they will sometimes discover that a star is variable when it was previously not thought to be.
This one is really exciting because it's a discovery in a category where amateur discoveries are very rare.
The ethical questions are bigger than that. Making babies without the usual mother and father will allow people who shouldn't have babies (think Massacuhusts here) to have them.
This is wrong, and should be stopped. Life is a gift, not a tinkertoy set.
Thw browser wars were overrated I think. There's more to the desktop experience than the browser.
Look at the kinds of games that are popular on the internet, for example. Flash, Shockwave, java, etc. These areas are still dominated by Microsoft, and I don't see much progress with Linux. A lot of people are still having trouble getting something like Flash working properly. I keep getting pages that say that I need to upgrade to Flash 6. I have Flash 6 installed on my Linux box, and it works well on most pages. But there are the corner cases that it fails on.
We don't need just the browser to work. We need everything to work. Does the Firefox browser have Java in it out of the box? Java was terribly difficult to get working under Mozilla, and like Flash, didn't work all the time.
Even something as simple as playing two sounds at once would hang the browser. We've got to fix these problems before Linux becomes big on the desktop, or the users will not have a good time.
GW Bush hasn't done anything that anyone with a brain wouldn't have done. Enemies of this country like to point out that GW has no brain, yet he has consistently and intelligently dealt with the terrorists. The best intelligence we had showed that Iraq was a problem, and you know what? Iraq was a problem. With the American presence there, the entire Middle East will become much more stable. Liberals decry the export of American culture overseas, but we need to export a few more American values overseas if you ask me. Many of the most troublesome countries in the world seem to have problems running themselves, and they never fix the problems. This becomes our problem, and it costs American lives. GW is doing the right thing, and I'm proud to say that I'll vote for him this year.
I don't know of a single copier that can copy real money. All these copiers are doing is reproducing worthless pieces of paper that the government tells us to use for money. I'll be impressed when I can use a copier to reproduce my wedding ring.
Don't get too attached to this planet, or Mars either. Someday, we're going to be building gigantic structures in space. We'll be using the energy equivalent of many many stars total output. If you think that we're going to leave a planet in one piece, you're mistaken.
The ultimate future of Earth and Mars, and all the other planets in our system, is that they will be complete dissassembled for raw materials.
How will the world end? In fire? In ice? More like in a bunch of tiny pieces that were smelted into raw metals.
Yes, I know that this isn't a popular opinion here, but I really think that there are two types of games that should be banned.
1) Bad, boring, unfun games. Nobody likes these, not even me.
2) Satanic/sinful/sexual games. OK, stick with me here. A lot of games today touch on these themes, which I see some people defend staunchly. But, I would argue that these types of games are harmful in their effect on society. If something is readily available in society, it's difficult for a parent to keep their kids away from it. This is the answer to those people who will fill the streets with filth and sin, and tell me to "just parent my own kids." It's practically impossible for me to keep my children away from demonic images, since they are everywhere. I also see these demonic images as a crutch. Imagine two games on the shelf - one with a firey image of a demon chewing on a naked body of a woman, and the other with a little bunny rabbit. Which one will sell better? The sinful box of course. It doesn't matter if the little bunny rabbit game is 10 times better than the boring demon game. Demons sell, sex sells, sin sells. Ultimately it's a crutch that allows bad games to be sold. Who needs a good game when you've got the devil to sell your game for you?
It's reasonable to expect accurate information in the registration records, and it's harmless to require it. As we all know, this country has many enemies, and every tool we can give law enforcement to prosecute terrorists is something that should be considered. Terrorists run websites too, and while it's not necessary to have good contact information to find the owner of a website, it can provide a good excuse for law enforcement to dig around in a suspected terrorist's business. The liberals in this country have completely gutted the ability of the law to do it's job ("I got my rights, officer. You can't touch me.") that we need to start to unbind the long arm of the law.
Why are you just thinking about it? Adwords are so cheap that for a business dropping $300 or whatever into an advertising test should reveal very quickly how successful it will be. $300 is nothing to risk compared to the money you could make if it works. And if it's true that people who visit your site become customers, you could make a bunch of money even with $300 in ads on Google.
Forgive me, but everyone loves a winner. You can't be a winner unless you're going to take a chance with a minor amount of money. If I were your boss, I'd direct you to put the ad up, and I'd want to see it there by the end of the day.
I am asked all the time to help fix people's computers, because I'm well known in my church as "the computer guy". I used to be asked a lot more in the past, but I started telling people that I work on computers for a living, and if they needed my services, they should pay me.
There are some people who get very offended at this, because they expect something for free, which I find astonishing and repulsive at the same time. I would not attend the type of church that caters to the class of people who constantly want handouts. One of my best friends at church is a florist. Do these people expect him to bring free flowers to them every Sunday? Of course not. I am no different.
Anyway, this past Sunday I spent all afternoon fixing the computer that belongs to the church. The secretary had clicked on one of those viruses, and infected her computer. She's been told not to click on attachments before, so this is clearly a problem with incompetency or even insubordination. I agree with the article. Users need to get smart, quick. If not, they will have to face the consequences.
When I was in grade school I left a note on the teacher's desk that said "Randy is dumb, from Bill". The teacher was so stupid that Bill got paddled for it. (I'm not Bill).
This writer is as stupid as that teacher was. Believing the obvious is easy. Thinking is the hard part.
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Last anyone has heard of him, he's writing articles about lap dogs targeted at overweight Southern women in their 50's. He's found that to be a much easier demographic to impress than 12 year old HaX0r wannabees.
Remember Junis and his Commodore 64 in Afghanistan? After we called shenanigans on his tall tale, he decided to find an easier way to make a living.
Don't mod me down, this is a semi-true story. It has only been embellished a little bit.
And then subjected to a fairly simple mastication and extrusion process.
Good News! Toyota announces a robot that can play the trumpet!
Still working on the cure for the common cold, world peace, and an end to poverty.
blah blah blah Gentoo blah blah blah blah compile yourself blah blah blah blah blah blah took me only three days blah blah blah blah blah blah
Those layers of clear material would probably filter out some of the frequencies that would have been turned into electricity.
And, the obvious question is: did the person turn out to be the gender you expected?
Particularly insightful, considering that they couldn't even get their cable boxes to change channels in a reasonable amount of time. Slowest channel-surfing EVAR.
He didn't want to rob the cradle; he just wanted to sleep in it for a while.
No, it hasn't been seen before. Read the article.
My parent's basement had a light controlled by two switches. It was SMP! And there were two lights on the same circuit. A check bit!
I won't be impressed unless I see transparent aluminum M&M's.
There's three categories where most of these amateur discoveries usually happen. New comets, new asteroids, and measurements of variable stars. Sometimes amateurs will refine measurements of variable stars, or they will sometimes discover that a star is variable when it was previously not thought to be.
This one is really exciting because it's a discovery in a category where amateur discoveries are very rare.
The ethical questions are bigger than that. Making babies without the usual mother and father will allow people who shouldn't have babies (think Massacuhusts here) to have them.
This is wrong, and should be stopped. Life is a gift, not a tinkertoy set.
Thw browser wars were overrated I think. There's more to the desktop experience than the browser.
Look at the kinds of games that are popular on the internet, for example. Flash, Shockwave, java, etc. These areas are still dominated by Microsoft, and I don't see much progress with Linux. A lot of people are still having trouble getting something like Flash working properly. I keep getting pages that say that I need to upgrade to Flash 6. I have Flash 6 installed on my Linux box, and it works well on most pages. But there are the corner cases that it fails on.
We don't need just the browser to work. We need everything to work. Does the Firefox browser have Java in it out of the box? Java was terribly difficult to get working under Mozilla, and like Flash, didn't work all the time.
Even something as simple as playing two sounds at once would hang the browser. We've got to fix these problems before Linux becomes big on the desktop, or the users will not have a good time.
GW Bush hasn't done anything that anyone with a brain wouldn't have done. Enemies of this country like to point out that GW has no brain, yet he has consistently and intelligently dealt with the terrorists. The best intelligence we had showed that Iraq was a problem, and you know what? Iraq was a problem. With the American presence there, the entire Middle East will become much more stable. Liberals decry the export of American culture overseas, but we need to export a few more American values overseas if you ask me. Many of the most troublesome countries in the world seem to have problems running themselves, and they never fix the problems. This becomes our problem, and it costs American lives. GW is doing the right thing, and I'm proud to say that I'll vote for him this year.
I don't call for the banning of things I don't agree with, why do you?
Because these are the things that will send you to hell. You seem not to care, but I do.
I don't know of a single copier that can copy real money. All these copiers are doing is reproducing worthless pieces of paper that the government tells us to use for money. I'll be impressed when I can use a copier to reproduce my wedding ring.
Oh, and another thing.
Don't get too attached to this planet, or Mars either. Someday, we're going to be building gigantic structures in space. We'll be using the energy equivalent of many many stars total output. If you think that we're going to leave a planet in one piece, you're mistaken.
The ultimate future of Earth and Mars, and all the other planets in our system, is that they will be complete dissassembled for raw materials.
How will the world end? In fire? In ice? More like in a bunch of tiny pieces that were smelted into raw metals.
Mars may not be a large planet, but it has roughly the same land area as Earth.
Yes, I know that this isn't a popular opinion here, but I really think that there are two types of games that should be banned.
1) Bad, boring, unfun games. Nobody likes these, not even me.
2) Satanic/sinful/sexual games. OK, stick with me here. A lot of games today touch on these themes, which I see some people defend staunchly. But, I would argue that these types of games are harmful in their effect on society. If something is readily available in society, it's difficult for a parent to keep their kids away from it. This is the answer to those people who will fill the streets with filth and sin, and tell me to "just parent my own kids." It's practically impossible for me to keep my children away from demonic images, since they are everywhere. I also see these demonic images as a crutch. Imagine two games on the shelf - one with a firey image of a demon chewing on a naked body of a woman, and the other with a little bunny rabbit. Which one will sell better? The sinful box of course. It doesn't matter if the little bunny rabbit game is 10 times better than the boring demon game. Demons sell, sex sells, sin sells. Ultimately it's a crutch that allows bad games to be sold. Who needs a good game when you've got the devil to sell your game for you?
It's reasonable to expect accurate information in the registration records, and it's harmless to require it. As we all know, this country has many enemies, and every tool we can give law enforcement to prosecute terrorists is something that should be considered. Terrorists run websites too, and while it's not necessary to have good contact information to find the owner of a website, it can provide a good excuse for law enforcement to dig around in a suspected terrorist's business. The liberals in this country have completely gutted the ability of the law to do it's job ("I got my rights, officer. You can't touch me.") that we need to start to unbind the long arm of the law.
Why are you just thinking about it? Adwords are so cheap that for a business dropping $300 or whatever into an advertising test should reveal very quickly how successful it will be. $300 is nothing to risk compared to the money you could make if it works. And if it's true that people who visit your site become customers, you could make a bunch of money even with $300 in ads on Google.
Forgive me, but everyone loves a winner. You can't be a winner unless you're going to take a chance with a minor amount of money. If I were your boss, I'd direct you to put the ad up, and I'd want to see it there by the end of the day.
I am asked all the time to help fix people's computers, because I'm well known in my church as "the computer guy". I used to be asked a lot more in the past, but I started telling people that I work on computers for a living, and if they needed my services, they should pay me.
There are some people who get very offended at this, because they expect something for free, which I find astonishing and repulsive at the same time. I would not attend the type of church that caters to the class of people who constantly want handouts. One of my best friends at church is a florist. Do these people expect him to bring free flowers to them every Sunday? Of course not. I am no different.
Anyway, this past Sunday I spent all afternoon fixing the computer that belongs to the church. The secretary had clicked on one of those viruses, and infected her computer. She's been told not to click on attachments before, so this is clearly a problem with incompetency or even insubordination. I agree with the article. Users need to get smart, quick. If not, they will have to face the consequences.
When I was in grade school I left a note on the teacher's desk that said "Randy is dumb, from Bill". The teacher was so stupid that Bill got paddled for it. (I'm not Bill).
This writer is as stupid as that teacher was. Believing the obvious is easy. Thinking is the hard part.