The police told my brother that the best he could do was to show up at a meeting with the burglar (remember a hardcore drug addict), confront him and then call 911 (or local equivalent) after confirming the serial numbers match. French police.
Maybe he could meet the burglar... but show up with some friends. That'd be my inclination.
While we're at it, maybe this is a good time for you colonials to finally learn how to spell?
Okay, I'll feed the troll.
The name originates from the Latin word 'sulfur' and Middle English 'sulfre' meaning brimstone. [cite]
On the other hand, the other word is a bit more blurry as to who "wins"
...In 1807, Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum.
Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by IUPAC to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard.
Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".
"If there must be such a thing as a Caps Lock key on conventional keyboards, I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop."
Sorry, I have never been so pissed of in my/. life and I've got to say: "timothy, you're an idiot".
People that don't use the whole keyboard and key combos have no idea how much productivity they are throwing away. That's one of the thing I hate about mac keyboards and Apple's inability to understand that people have a limited number of fingers.
Additionally, those of us accustomed to working with *nix operating systems know that CTRL-INS and SHIFT-INS are handy combinations for copy & paste, especially when you don't want to actually send CTRL characters to the terminal. And they work in Windows, too. Speaking of which... Timothy, what would you recommend as an alternative to the 'three-finger salute'?
why the hell does the media pay so much attention to her?
Because she is even more hilarious than when Tina Fey makes fun of her.
Absolutely. Tina Fey recently appeared on Letterman and asked (paraphrased), "Why do some address her as 'Governor Palin'? I used to work at Dairy Queen... but I QUIT."
If you don't find your answer in forums, there's nothing stopping you from looking into the extension yourself, in most cases. Take the XPI file,change the extension to.zip (presuming you're in windows) and extract its contents. View source of the.JS files, and there you have it.
For example, my car has a seat belt light that comes on if there is a front-seat passenger who is not wearing a seat belt. No passenger, no light. My car also has a passenger-side airbag, which is disabled if there is no passenger.
But for the built-in nav system, the controls are disabled even when there is a passenger.
We used to have a Pontiac Vibe that had a crude sensor in the passenger seat that would give us a dummy alert about the passenger not using a seatbelt. It also went off if I set a gallon of milk on the seat. Don't expect common sense from manufacturers OR legislators.
JC: I respect what you're saying, and certainly it's admirable to make websites accessible not only for different people, but also from different devices. At the same time (please, forgive me, here), your homepage is straight out of 1998. Of course your goals and audience are far different from those of a large commercial enterprise (choose any gigantic dot-com).
But when I'm asked to make changes for one site or another, what's frequently desired is dynamic behavior; using javascript frameworks to make not only simple things like tree-menus, but also elements which are interactive, animated, and so on. Are you aware of ways to meet both goals, to provide dynamic behavior AND have a site be accessible? Do you know of any javascript frameworks which would allow this? It seems that wiping out our recent years of progress with javascript would be just that -- rolling back the years. And few clients want that.
You really believe either of the two parties in power in the US gives a shit about you and your individual rights? Obama is just as bad as Bush was, and Clinton and Bush before them.
The reason why people haven't burned DC down is because 90+% vote for those two parties, thinking that they are different. They are just two sides of the same coin. If you vote, and vote for "change" and yet vote for one of the two parties, and you deserve to get what you get, more of the same.
Libertarians are outraged, but we're also marginalized to meaninglessness. Nobody cares, and that is why DC still stands.
Ahh, but if you're a Libertarian, and someone is burning down DC, you'll need to find out if they've paid their annual firefighting insurance payment before putting out said fire.
(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether I'm making a joke, social commentary, both, or neither.)
The libraries don't even need a scanner to accomplish the same thing. Just trawl through their database and look up the Amazon price / volume. Filter out the more valuable volumes, separate them, mark them for prices that are closer to market value. And anything the locals don't buy, list online.
Do that and you remove the easy profit from scalpers, removing the problem.
Or better yet, provide on demand a complete list of author/title/ISBN of books in the sale on the website. No more PDA campers, right?
Good points. Being a good parent means not just teaching your kids how to act properly when they are unsupervised but also instilling the desire to do so.
Actually a good comment, and reminded me of a quote, summarized:
(Character|Integrity|Morality) is how you act when you think nobody is watching.
Respectfully, your use of "sodding" strongly suggested you're from the other side of the pond, and I see from your blog you've got family in Scotland. Laura Ingalls Wilder is quite famous, and not only did she write books, but a television series ran widely here in the US for many years, and still occasionally may be found on Public Broadcasting stations. Her story (both personal as well as her fiction) is a slice of Americana, you might say. If the author is American, as is the original target audience (you've got to start somewhere), you shouldn't hold it against her.
Without having read TFA (hey, it's a venerable Slashdot tradition!), I'm not sure what they actually hope to gain by eliminating anonymous comments. Surely as long as people are free to create throwaway accounts that are not actually tied to their real identities, trolling etc. will persist?
Signed, an AC of many years (by choice)
I admit to reading a portion of one of the links provided, and it seems their goal is to indeed create a Slashdot-like moderation system, but without Anonymous Cowards. So I suspect that you're right... people can create throwaway accounts. If they have something constructive to contribute to the discussion (as you have, dear AC), then others will recognize it and allow that contribution to be heard (with all the caveats that go along with a slashdot-like moderation system like groupthink, etc).
Let's amend the summary, though, shall we? TFS says "against anonymity online", but the argument is actually against allowing anonymous comments on one site.
... but how do these "trawlers" get to see what's on, say, a Facebook page if viewing permission has been given only to a limited set of trusted people? Does Facebook permit trawlers access to such restricted information? Do they use subterfuge to get past the restrictions? How?
Maybe they don't need to get past restrictions. Perhaps there's already enough info out there to hang you with. Go search for yourself at www.pipl.com. It's frightening... I just searched and found a usenet posts I made in '97. Thankfully they're just posts to technical discussions (hardware, programming, etc).
I once spoke to a woman who said she uses pipl.com to attempt to gather information proving people are fraudulently obtaining worker's compensation benefits, such as a person who says they can no longer walk, but post photos this week of them out dancing.
I’m surprised at how often project names for secret projects have some relation on the project. This is really for you conspiracy theorists, but read the Book of Esther in the bible where Esther informs the King of a plot against the Jews. The King then allows the Jews to defend themselves, kill their enemies, Esther’s was born as Hadassah which means Myrtle. According to Symantec, “While we don’t know who the attackers are yet, they did leave a clue. The project string b:\myrtus\src\objfre_w2k_x86\i386\guava.pdb appears in one of their drivers.” Myrtus is Myrtle. Yes this is a stretch, and of course even if this naming meant something it could be a feint to draw suspicion away from the actual attacker.
In Jewish liturgy, it is one of the four sacred plants of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles representing the different types of personality making up the community - the myrtle having fragrance but not pleasant taste, represents those who have good deeds to their credit despite not having knowledge from Torah study. Three branches are held by the worshippers along with a citron, a palm leaf, and two willow branches. In Jewish mysticism, the myrtle represents the phallic, masculine force at work in the universe.
Apropos of nothing, actually, you can run down a deer, much like you can run down an antelope. Whether you've got the energy and the patience, on the other hand, is up to you.
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The police told my brother that the best he could do was to show up at a meeting with the burglar (remember a hardcore drug addict), confront him and then call 911 (or local equivalent) after confirming the serial numbers match. French police.
Maybe he could meet the burglar... but show up with some friends. That'd be my inclination.
Re:Aluminium. Sulphur.
While we're at it, maybe this is a good time for you colonials to finally learn how to spell?
Okay, I'll feed the troll.
The name originates from the Latin word 'sulfur' and Middle English 'sulfre' meaning brimstone. [cite]
On the other hand, the other word is a bit more blurry as to who "wins"
...In 1807, Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum.
Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by IUPAC to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard.
Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".
[cite]
Who would have thought that Dr. Who would be the only scifi show on the air at one point?
And yet, Sir Terry Pratchett himself opined that Dr. Who isn't sci-fi.
"If there must be such a thing as a Caps Lock key on conventional keyboards, I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop."
Sorry, I have never been so pissed of in my /. life and I've got to say: "timothy, you're an idiot".
People that don't use the whole keyboard and key combos have no idea how much productivity they are throwing away. That's one of the thing I hate about mac keyboards and Apple's inability to understand that people have a limited number of fingers.
Additionally, those of us accustomed to working with *nix operating systems know that CTRL-INS and SHIFT-INS are handy combinations for copy & paste, especially when you don't want to actually send CTRL characters to the terminal. And they work in Windows, too. Speaking of which... Timothy, what would you recommend as an alternative to the 'three-finger salute'?
why the hell does the media pay so much attention to her?
Because she is even more hilarious than when Tina Fey makes fun of her.
Absolutely. Tina Fey recently appeared on Letterman and asked (paraphrased), "Why do some address her as 'Governor Palin'? I used to work at Dairy Queen... but I QUIT."
It is easier to force everyone down a level then try to give people the means to raise themselves a level.
See also: No Child Left Behind.
If you don't find your answer in forums, there's nothing stopping you from looking into the extension yourself, in most cases. Take the XPI file,change the extension to .zip (presuming you're in windows) and extract its contents. View source of the .JS files, and there you have it.
For example, my car has a seat belt light that comes on if there is a front-seat passenger who is not wearing a seat belt. No passenger, no light. My car also has a passenger-side airbag, which is disabled if there is no passenger.
But for the built-in nav system, the controls are disabled even when there is a passenger.
We used to have a Pontiac Vibe that had a crude sensor in the passenger seat that would give us a dummy alert about the passenger not using a seatbelt. It also went off if I set a gallon of milk on the seat. Don't expect common sense from manufacturers OR legislators.
FRIEND: what!? how'd you manage that one? ZUCK: people just submitted it ZUCK: i don't know why ZUCK: they "trust me" ZUCK: dumb fucks
Honestly, is this real, or satire? I can't tell, because 1) I swear I'd read it before, and 2) I wouldn't put it past him.
JC: I respect what you're saying, and certainly it's admirable to make websites accessible not only for different people, but also from different devices. At the same time (please, forgive me, here), your homepage is straight out of 1998. Of course your goals and audience are far different from those of a large commercial enterprise (choose any gigantic dot-com).
But when I'm asked to make changes for one site or another, what's frequently desired is dynamic behavior; using javascript frameworks to make not only simple things like tree-menus, but also elements which are interactive, animated, and so on. Are you aware of ways to meet both goals, to provide dynamic behavior AND have a site be accessible? Do you know of any javascript frameworks which would allow this? It seems that wiping out our recent years of progress with javascript would be just that -- rolling back the years. And few clients want that.
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ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
On the upside, Hollywood keeps turning out crap so I feel like I'm not missing much by waiting for the movie to come out on video so I can torrent it.
FTFY.
It'd have to be something really compelling to make me endure that kind of abuse.
You mean, like ... porn?
You really believe either of the two parties in power in the US gives a shit about you and your individual rights? Obama is just as bad as Bush was, and Clinton and Bush before them.
The reason why people haven't burned DC down is because 90+% vote for those two parties, thinking that they are different. They are just two sides of the same coin. If you vote, and vote for "change" and yet vote for one of the two parties, and you deserve to get what you get, more of the same.
Libertarians are outraged, but we're also marginalized to meaninglessness. Nobody cares, and that is why DC still stands.
Ahh, but if you're a Libertarian, and someone is burning down DC, you'll need to find out if they've paid their annual firefighting insurance payment before putting out said fire.
(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether I'm making a joke, social commentary, both, or neither.)
...They should all sit down together and get drunk and forget about the whole thing.
So, like, a Molson Summit, eh?
News flash: in English, words can have multiple definitions. I'm a hacker and I break golf clubs in frustration.
I'm a cracker, though I prefer the term "honky".
The libraries don't even need a scanner to accomplish the same thing. Just trawl through their database and look up the Amazon price / volume. Filter out the more valuable volumes, separate them, mark them for prices that are closer to market value. And anything the locals don't buy, list online.
Do that and you remove the easy profit from scalpers, removing the problem.
Or better yet, provide on demand a complete list of author/title/ISBN of books in the sale on the website. No more PDA campers, right?
Good points. Being a good parent means not just teaching your kids how to act properly when they are unsupervised but also instilling the desire to do so.
Actually a good comment, and reminded me of a quote, summarized:
(Character|Integrity|Morality) is how you act when you think nobody is watching.
Respectfully, your use of "sodding" strongly suggested you're from the other side of the pond, and I see from your blog you've got family in Scotland. Laura Ingalls Wilder is quite famous, and not only did she write books, but a television series ran widely here in the US for many years, and still occasionally may be found on Public Broadcasting stations. Her story (both personal as well as her fiction) is a slice of Americana, you might say. If the author is American, as is the original target audience (you've got to start somewhere), you shouldn't hold it against her.
Get all the terrorists stoned, and they'll most likely be far too demotivated and/or tranquilised to carry out terrorist acts.
That's right. They may not carry out terrorist acts, but they'll think about it a lot.
Without having read TFA (hey, it's a venerable Slashdot tradition!), I'm not sure what they actually hope to gain by eliminating anonymous comments. Surely as long as people are free to create throwaway accounts that are not actually tied to their real identities, trolling etc. will persist?
Signed, an AC of many years (by choice)
I admit to reading a portion of one of the links provided, and it seems their goal is to indeed create a Slashdot-like moderation system, but without Anonymous Cowards. So I suspect that you're right... people can create throwaway accounts. If they have something constructive to contribute to the discussion (as you have, dear AC), then others will recognize it and allow that contribution to be heard (with all the caveats that go along with a slashdot-like moderation system like groupthink, etc).
Let's amend the summary, though, shall we? TFS says "against anonymity online", but the argument is actually against allowing anonymous comments on one site.
The hash checks performed by BT will do well to prevent errors ...
Please, please tell this to all the dipshits who post torrents of RAR archives.
... but how do these "trawlers" get to see what's on, say, a Facebook page if viewing permission has been given only to a limited set of trusted people? Does Facebook permit trawlers access to such restricted information? Do they use subterfuge to get past the restrictions? How?
Maybe they don't need to get past restrictions. Perhaps there's already enough info out there to hang you with. Go search for yourself at www.pipl.com. It's frightening... I just searched and found a usenet posts I made in '97. Thankfully they're just posts to technical discussions (hardware, programming, etc).
I once spoke to a woman who said she uses pipl.com to attempt to gather information proving people are fraudulently obtaining worker's compensation benefits, such as a person who says they can no longer walk, but post photos this week of them out dancing.
from here
Or, from the Guava wikipedia page, the fruit is part of the Myrtle family. Furthermore, From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtus#Uses_in_myth_and_ritual,
In Jewish liturgy, it is one of the four sacred plants of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles representing the different types of personality making up the community - the myrtle having fragrance but not pleasant taste, represents those who have good deeds to their credit despite not having knowledge from Torah study. Three branches are held by the worshippers along with a citron, a palm leaf, and two willow branches. In Jewish mysticism, the myrtle represents the phallic, masculine force at work in the universe.
You can't simply chase down a deer...
Apropos of nothing, actually, you can run down a deer, much like you can run down an antelope. Whether you've got the energy and the patience, on the other hand, is up to you.