..but how about politely telling the people to simply STFU and let you get your work done? This is an office environment and not a rowdy bar, correct?
Try asking them to keep it down. Do so a few times daily for a few days. They keep it up, complain to your manager or theirs.
As far as drowning the loudmouths out, you dont necessarily have to get noise-cancelling headphones. I have a pair of ($20) Philips SBC HP170 Stereo headphones (over-the-ear oldschool-style) that work well enough to drown out the old hags that sit the other side of my cube wall.
Now I no longer have to hear about whos sleeping with whom on Desperate Housewives and can listen to Defcon radio instead.
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's a bit weird to have a computer pick out everything in our lives? Do we really need a computer to tell us what music we like to listen to? I don't think so.
Why not? Works for the idiots who listen to Clear Channel and watch MTV.
AFAIK, it is illegal to expose minors to pr0n. However, video games like these aren't pr0n.
The problem I have is that we've already got too much of government sticking its nose into the business and responsibility of parents.
If people don't want to be responsible parents, don't breed.
I take an active role in the upbringing on my sons (gasp!) and plan on seeing this through 'til the end. I'll be the one making the decisions as to whats appropriate for my children, not my government.
Small note: Next time you want to troll about someone pimping their grammatcal skills on Slashdot, perhaps you should look at the original post.
"their" was left as such because it was in the middle of the sentence:
Furanones don't kill such microbes but simply "jam" their ability to signal each other, meaning their use less likely to create the drug-resistance problems."
The info with the picture says that the image isnt present on the picture before or after. And that the glass atop the post was not damaged, although the bulb wasn't working.
All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus
I would like to see less sex, senseless violence and empty head crap but by the networks taking responsibility for producing and broadcasting more quality programming.
Turn the channel. Sex and senseless violence are popular. Otherwise the Neilsen ratings wouldn't reflect this.
Television is total crap. There are maybe a half dozen decent channels, like National Geographic, Discovery/Science, Learning, etc.. Crap like Cartoon Network and MTV are perverted filth that should be outlawed.
I'll give you MTV is crap. Outlawed? What happened to freedom of speech? Who decides what gets outlawed? You? The PTC?
Why is it anyone thinks they have the right to tell anyone else what they can and cannot watch? Some of us are adults and are capable of making that choice for ourselves.
And some of us have kids, and should retain the right to make their decisions for them, not some anonymous, faceless, letter-writing zealot.
Based on the fact of where the group is located, it wouldn't be difficult to find them.
In case their page gets changed, here it is:
" To arrange a press interview with PTC President Brent Bozell, Director of Research and Publications Melissa Caldwell, Director of Entertainment and Corporate Affairs Lara Mahaney, Executive Director Tim Winter or any of the PTC's Advisory Board members, call our public relations consultant Kelly Walmsley at Creative Response Concepts at 703.683.5004. To schedule a speaking engagement with PTC President Brent Bozell, call his assistant Darlene Nelson at 703.684.1699. "
Possibly, but the fact lost on you is that a single group of idiots are complaining to the FCC about what *they* find objectionable. If left unchecked, *they'll* be able to steer the FCC into only airing the kind of crap *they* want to see.
Would you like to see all network TV and all cable channels like PAX?
What's to stop them from complaining to the FCC that the news is too graphic, too depressing, etc?
Why should one group of religious zealots be allowed influence control on what the rest of the country sees and hears?
And why the hell is the FCC allowing this to happen? What? They figure that since a single group is complaining then its indicative of what the rest of us want?
Why is this a bad idea for 'geeky' teens? So what if the computers are in a common area? Its not like he'll be telling them not to code or study.
Having the computers in a common area isn't going to keep the teens from using them for something other than chatting and could keep them from chatting too much.
Back when I was in highschool, I'd put a little piece of paper on my tounge and in about an hour I'd get the sensation of flight, could "see" sound, speak to animals and the like.
Plus, I didnt have to wear a helmet when I dropped acid.
Slashdot Mirror
What's strange about that? You can have WEP or WPA enabled and still broadcast. You have to specifically disable SSID broadcasting.
goatse and tubgirl
..but how about politely telling the people to simply STFU and let you get your work done? This is an office environment and not a rowdy bar, correct?
Try asking them to keep it down. Do so a few times daily for a few days. They keep it up, complain to your manager or theirs.
As far as drowning the loudmouths out, you dont necessarily have to get noise-cancelling headphones. I have a pair of ($20) Philips SBC HP170 Stereo headphones (over-the-ear oldschool-style) that work well enough to drown out the old hags that sit the other side of my cube wall.
Now I no longer have to hear about whos sleeping with whom on Desperate Housewives and can listen to Defcon radio instead.
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's a bit weird to have a computer pick out everything in our lives? Do we really need a computer to tell us what music we like to listen to? I don't think so.
Why not? Works for the idiots who listen to Clear Channel and watch MTV.
AFAIK, it is illegal to expose minors to pr0n. However, video games like these aren't pr0n.
The problem I have is that we've already got too much of government sticking its nose into the business and responsibility of parents.
If people don't want to be responsible parents, don't breed.
I take an active role in the upbringing on my sons (gasp!) and plan on seeing this through 'til the end. I'll be the one making the decisions as to whats appropriate for my children, not my government.
Renting or buying may be upto the state legislature but playing isn't anyones business but their parents'.
..that seem randomly-generated to the end luser:
Pick a passphrase, take each letter and then substitute the letter/number immediately above and to the right of it.
In other words,
PASSWORD becomes _WEE305R
Slashdot becomes Epweur06
Goatse becomes Y0w6e4
Tubgirl becomes 68hy95p
etc.
If your passphrase already contains a number, just use the extended character for it ("5" is now "%", etc)
Small note: Next time you want to troll about someone pimping their grammatcal skills on Slashdot, perhaps you should look at the original post.
:
"their" was left as such because it was in the middle of the sentence
Furanones don't kill such microbes but simply "jam" their ability to signal each other, meaning their use less likely to create the drug-resistance problems."
C'mon people. Go look at
http://www.mirrordot.org/.
Unfortunately, you only get the 1st page, but its better than nothing.
Great! Now someone go tell the dumbasses that run RoadRunner's mail servers to add greylisting.
I've seen an 80% increase in spam to all of my RR accounts, including a couple that were recently created.
It's /.'d, so I can't RTFA
Sure you can. See Mirror Dot.
See https://www.parentstv.org/ptc/fcc/fcccomplaint2.as p.
Feel free to use any of the names from the PTC as well as their business address.
Complain about crap like 7th Heaven, Full House, and the other mindless cookie-cutter crap that the networks are churning out.
I sure did!
Also, notice the results when searching both for Slashdot.
= mc&qt=Slashdot
e =UTF-8&q=Slashdot.
First, the challenger:
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col
Next, reigning champion:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i
On a side note, Accoona shows http://www.mirrordot.org/ which claims to mirror sites when the slash effect takes hold.
What happens when mirrordot gets slashdotted? Does it mirror itself? Does it then mirror itself mirrorring itself?
Does it mirror itself mirrorring itself mirrorring itself?
Someone mod this up, let's all hit it and see if their servers get pwned.
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Google+Search+Engine
S earch+Engine
= mc&qt=Goatse
= mc&qt=tubgirl
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Accoona+
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=goats e
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tubgi rl
The links for goatse and tubgirl are just search engine results NOT the actual links.
The info with the picture says that the image isnt present on the picture before or after. And that the glass atop the post was not damaged, although the bulb wasn't working.
All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus
I would like to see less sex, senseless violence and empty head crap but by the networks taking responsibility for producing and broadcasting more quality programming.
Turn the channel. Sex and senseless violence are popular. Otherwise the Neilsen ratings wouldn't reflect this.
Television is total crap. There are maybe a half dozen decent channels, like National Geographic, Discovery/Science, Learning, etc.. Crap like Cartoon Network and MTV are perverted filth that should be outlawed.
I'll give you MTV is crap. Outlawed? What happened to freedom of speech? Who decides what gets outlawed? You? The PTC?
Why is it anyone thinks they have the right to tell anyone else what they can and cannot watch? Some of us are adults and are capable of making that choice for ourselves.
And some of us have kids, and should retain the right to make their decisions for them, not some anonymous, faceless, letter-writing zealot.
From their webpage, http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/aboutus/main.asp you can get the names of their top people.
Based on the fact of where the group is located, it wouldn't be difficult to find them.
In case their page gets changed, here it is:
"
To arrange a press interview with PTC President Brent Bozell, Director of Research and Publications Melissa Caldwell, Director of Entertainment and Corporate Affairs Lara Mahaney, Executive Director Tim Winter or any of the PTC's Advisory Board members, call our public relations consultant Kelly Walmsley at Creative Response Concepts at 703.683.5004. To schedule a speaking engagement with PTC President Brent Bozell, call his assistant Darlene Nelson at 703.684.1699.
"
Possibly, but the fact lost on you is that a single group of idiots are complaining to the FCC about what *they* find objectionable. If left unchecked, *they'll* be able to steer the FCC into only airing the kind of crap *they* want to see.
Would you like to see all network TV and all cable channels like PAX?
What's to stop them from complaining to the FCC that the news is too graphic, too depressing, etc?
Why should one group of religious zealots be allowed influence control on what the rest of the country sees and hears?
And why the hell is the FCC allowing this to happen? What? They figure that since a single group is complaining then its indicative of what the rest of us want?
BUT, obviously in this case the OP wouldn't flip out like your friend's mom did.
I doubt your friend's mom reads Slashdot.
Why is this a bad idea for 'geeky' teens? So what if the computers are in a common area? Its not like he'll be telling them not to code or study.
Having the computers in a common area isn't going to keep the teens from using them for something other than chatting and could keep them from chatting too much.
.. a high-powered lazer. Have the kiss-ass in the class build and polish the lense. All while secretly in cahoots with the military.
Just make sure that they don't put a huge Jiffy-Pop in your living room.
Back when I was in highschool, I'd put a little piece of paper on my tounge and in about an hour I'd get the sensation of flight, could "see" sound, speak to animals and the like.
Plus, I didnt have to wear a helmet when I dropped acid.
Damn. If that's the case, I'll surely be able to convince the wife that we need a 50" tv.
:D
Or maybe two.
Sure beats paying upwards of $1500 for the 50" tvs that are on the market now.
Checkmate