As much as I hate it when people who do things I think are dumb become fabulously successful, I have to say that Facebook has made its creator a billionaire and has 500 million users. How is that "not getting it"?
I hate to break the news to all you revolutionaries in China and Cuba, but when the revolution succeeds, it becomes the establishment. You can't be in power and still claim to be revolutionary! Who are you revolting against?
What, no music? This plays well and I can't believe I pasted something unknown into my browser. If you can do this, certainly you can fix the gray text on gray background on Slashdot...
I just heard a news reporter saying that this could be "another Three Mile Island". So I googled "Three Mile Island deaths". NRC says there were no deaths. Wiki says: "Based on these low emission figures, early scientific publications on the health effects of the fallout estimated one or two additional cancer deaths in the 10 mi (16 km) area around TMI.[38][unreliable source?] Disease rates in areas further than 10 miles from the plant were never examined.[38] Local activism in the 1980s, based on anecdotal reports of negative health effects, led to scientific studies being commissioned. A variety of studies have been unable to conclude that the accident had substantial health effects." Compared to deaths from drowning in the tsunami and the fumes from a burning oil refinery, another Three Mile Island is nothing.
First of all, why are the Slashdot abbreviated comments using gray type on a gray background! This is painful.
Secondly, given human nature, if the GPS info is reliable for more than a few days at a time someone will make an app for that... After a while it will end up controlling our nuclear arsenal. It's the same reason people live on the sides of volcanoes. If it hasn't blown up for a while, someone has to move there.
Combine this with "Buy Real Estate with No Money Down" and the read and green stock purchasing arrows software and all poverty will be removed! All we have to do to improve this is to consider Twitter/Facebook posts to be "books" and charge 99cents for each one and we'll all be rich!
Well my wife is not a nagging sort, but she won't listen to the GPS directions for sure. If it says "Turn right.", she says, "No, that's wrong." and goes her own way. Never gets lost though. She won't go on any expressway or over any tall bridges so she can't follow directions that might take her someplace she won't go. GPS is useless even if I'm driving. By myself I use it all the time.
I have a hard time being sympathetic. If there were some particular issue of malfeasance addressed by these documents then that's one thing. "Entity X has done something wrong and here are the docs to prove it." No problems. However I just can't believe anyone actually read 300000 documents before casting them into the wind. That goes for Manning and Wikileaks. They seem to think that every secret is something evil that needs to be exposed, which is just not true. All tech companies have proprietary info that they keep under wraps etc. If all secrets are bad, then I want Assange's personal info: credit cards, phone numbers, bank accounts and physical location tracking every 5 minutes. What is he trying to hide? He must be doing something bad!!!
Isn't it so big that you can't carry it around? Maybe Flavor Flav can wear it around his neck like his famous clock http://www.shitznit365.com/?attachment_id=1418. I hate it when the latest whiz-bang gadget is of no use to me. Means I'm OLD.
You mean like touch screens? http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=43
When I first started working at Kodak people had these touch screen terminals/PCs. They complained that the screens got full of fingerprints and looked ugly after a while. Not well liked, but at least they had a real keyboard.
Watching This Old House I saw a project involving a California house built on the side of a hill in an area with mudslides, earthquakes and wildfires. My first reaction was: How could anyone dumb enough to buy this home earn enough money to pay for it? It did have a nice view though...
I have had many CFL lamps fail in a matter of weeks or DAYS in some cases. I think many are just cheaply made; they go out, you hit them, they come on for a while. Color temperature is not always appropriate. Also you are not supposed to use them in an application where you flick them on, leave them on for a few seconds and then turn them off. Many applications are like this: closet light, basement light, fridge light. Some take a few minutes to reach full brightness although this improves with age. Also, use outdoors in frigid weather is a problem. I have changed most of my house lights to CFLs, but there are some decorative candelabra-base fixtures where you can't use them. Be aware that any electricity savings will necessarily be countered by rate increases so we're not doing this to save money, just electrons.
Replace "cell phone use" with "wearing a hat" or "doing a crossword puzzle" or "seeing an attractive jogger while driving" or "playing BioShock". Don't lots of things increase the brain's metabolism? So what? My brain needs all the metabolism it can get! So the evil plot goes like this: 1) Show cell phones do something to your brain. 2) Become media darling. 3) Get on Dr. Oz. 4) Profit!
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As much as I hate it when people who do things I think are dumb become fabulously successful, I have to say that Facebook has made its creator a billionaire and has 500 million users. How is that "not getting it"?
I hate to break the news to all you revolutionaries in China and Cuba, but when the revolution succeeds, it becomes the establishment. You can't be in power and still claim to be revolutionary! Who are you revolting against?
I hope it is like Three Mile Island - no fatalities.
What, no music? This plays well and I can't believe I pasted something unknown into my browser. If you can do this, certainly you can fix the gray text on gray background on Slashdot...
I just heard a news reporter saying that this could be "another Three Mile Island". So I googled "Three Mile Island deaths". NRC says there were no deaths. Wiki says: "Based on these low emission figures, early scientific publications on the health effects of the fallout estimated one or two additional cancer deaths in the 10 mi (16 km) area around TMI.[38][unreliable source?] Disease rates in areas further than 10 miles from the plant were never examined.[38] Local activism in the 1980s, based on anecdotal reports of negative health effects, led to scientific studies being commissioned. A variety of studies have been unable to conclude that the accident had substantial health effects." Compared to deaths from drowning in the tsunami and the fumes from a burning oil refinery, another Three Mile Island is nothing.
So you are the guy.
You had stars? You were lucky...
First of all, why are the Slashdot abbreviated comments using gray type on a gray background! This is painful. Secondly, given human nature, if the GPS info is reliable for more than a few days at a time someone will make an app for that... After a while it will end up controlling our nuclear arsenal. It's the same reason people live on the sides of volcanoes. If it hasn't blown up for a while, someone has to move there.
Combine this with "Buy Real Estate with No Money Down" and the read and green stock purchasing arrows software and all poverty will be removed! All we have to do to improve this is to consider Twitter/Facebook posts to be "books" and charge 99cents for each one and we'll all be rich!
Well my wife is not a nagging sort, but she won't listen to the GPS directions for sure. If it says "Turn right.", she says, "No, that's wrong." and goes her own way. Never gets lost though. She won't go on any expressway or over any tall bridges so she can't follow directions that might take her someplace she won't go. GPS is useless even if I'm driving. By myself I use it all the time.
How about this? http://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers.html Don't know if these are actually available in the US. Could be they are blocked like high-power laser pointers etc.
Long live Gidney and Cloyd! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidney_&_Cloyd
It's the old - "The police wouldn't have arrested him if he weren't guilty of SOMETHING!"
What will happen? The same thing that happened to my AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy profiles. They ascended to a higher plane of consciousness.
I have a hard time being sympathetic. If there were some particular issue of malfeasance addressed by these documents then that's one thing. "Entity X has done something wrong and here are the docs to prove it." No problems. However I just can't believe anyone actually read 300000 documents before casting them into the wind. That goes for Manning and Wikileaks. They seem to think that every secret is something evil that needs to be exposed, which is just not true. All tech companies have proprietary info that they keep under wraps etc. If all secrets are bad, then I want Assange's personal info: credit cards, phone numbers, bank accounts and physical location tracking every 5 minutes. What is he trying to hide? He must be doing something bad!!!
Isn't it so big that you can't carry it around? Maybe Flavor Flav can wear it around his neck like his famous clock http://www.shitznit365.com/?attachment_id=1418. I hate it when the latest whiz-bang gadget is of no use to me. Means I'm OLD.
You mean like touch screens? http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=43 When I first started working at Kodak people had these touch screen terminals/PCs. They complained that the screens got full of fingerprints and looked ugly after a while. Not well liked, but at least they had a real keyboard.
Are people required to pay taxes on illegally obtained income even after they have to give it back??
Kevin Trudeau makes me want to punch out the TV every time I see his smarmy face and baseless claims on TV!!!! Time for a Valium.
Watching This Old House I saw a project involving a California house built on the side of a hill in an area with mudslides, earthquakes and wildfires. My first reaction was: How could anyone dumb enough to buy this home earn enough money to pay for it? It did have a nice view though...
I would be worrying about my precious bodily fluids, not the internet.
Fox News? For a story about something other than Paris Hilton or Anna Nicole Whatever? Please...
We save electricity. Income for utilities goes down. They ask for rate increases. Profit!
I have had many CFL lamps fail in a matter of weeks or DAYS in some cases. I think many are just cheaply made; they go out, you hit them, they come on for a while. Color temperature is not always appropriate. Also you are not supposed to use them in an application where you flick them on, leave them on for a few seconds and then turn them off. Many applications are like this: closet light, basement light, fridge light. Some take a few minutes to reach full brightness although this improves with age. Also, use outdoors in frigid weather is a problem. I have changed most of my house lights to CFLs, but there are some decorative candelabra-base fixtures where you can't use them. Be aware that any electricity savings will necessarily be countered by rate increases so we're not doing this to save money, just electrons.
Replace "cell phone use" with "wearing a hat" or "doing a crossword puzzle" or "seeing an attractive jogger while driving" or "playing BioShock". Don't lots of things increase the brain's metabolism? So what? My brain needs all the metabolism it can get! So the evil plot goes like this: 1) Show cell phones do something to your brain. 2) Become media darling. 3) Get on Dr. Oz. 4) Profit!