No, because then every time your computer reboots, you need to fill the cache again. Using a solid state cache, you need to fill the cache only once and then keep it updated according to your usage, but a reboot wont harm performance at all.
Unless of course you spend most of your time on a work laptop that does not belong to you. Then after the initial boot, you click the shortcuts for Outlook, Firefox and Eclipse, and then get a coffee and work in your Sudoku book for 5 minutes while waiting for the gorram networking and policy-related scripts to finish... whatever the hell they're doing so your apps can actually start and you can begin working. Not that I'm irritated or anything.
No kidding. I have headphones plugged in always, even when I'm not using them. That way when I click on a troll link, I'm the only one that will hear, "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!"
Fuck Attorney General Tom Corbett and his public corruption investigation. Fuck him in his stupid ass. He is fucking clown shoes.
The beauty of what you said right there is that it is protected free speech and not libelous. Unless your final use of "fucking" is intended as a transitive verb rather than an adjective. Which is actually funnier.
It's voluntary, so there is no invasion of privacy going on, when you give up your DNA willingly you can't be expected it to be held very strongly in confidentiality.
Members of the tiny, isolated tribe had given DNA samples to university researchers starting in 1990, in the hope that they might provide genetic clues to the tribe’s devastating rate of diabetes. But they learned that their blood samples had been used to study many other things, including mental illness and theories of the tribe’s geographical origins that contradict their traditional stories.
We all know what the majority of slashdotters probably think about the tribe's beliefs, origin myths, etc. But the fact is that the researches thought that once they had the material (the DNA/blood), they could crunch the numbers in attempts to answer many questions. But the donors of said material didn't approve all that was done. I'm not trying to say who is right or wrong, but it's a cautionary tale for any organization that wants to conduct research of this kind.
From an Ev Psych perspective, ugliness is a possible marker of some kind of degeneracy,..
There's pictures spread all over the web of a guy who I believe had conviction(s?) for sexual assault. If you know the photos I'm talking about, they don't look like a real person. He appears to be very, very short, with an oversized head, crooked teeth and a completely bashed-in-looking face. Doesn't actually look real. Someone surely knows what I'm talking about and can post links.
Best DVD Easter Egg ever, and this really works on nearly all discs and all players. When you pop in the disc and the auto-preview garbage starts up, hit STOP, STOP, and then PLAY. In most players, this automatically starts the main feature on the disc. I found this info in a youtube vid some weeks ago. I'd credit it, but don't have the URL.
Good for you! I think sending a little "ping" of satisfaction would be kinda nice, better than simply another entry in your Apache log, right? (btw, if you want to promote your project, best to use the hyperlinks).
I've had projects I've enjoyed, navigated to the hell that is sourceforge site structure (really, it does suck) to get to the right forum to ask whether the project was alive, and how I could help. I got nothing but crickets.
Why inconceivable? Since Acer already is big with netbooks, they don't have to prove much there.
And considering that ChromeOS device could be just as well based on ARM chip (with many advantages of that route), it could as well be a new kind of devices, at least as far Acer is concerned (tablets? They do fit with "lack" of features of ChromeOS). Not saying this is what will happen...but inconceivable?
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
I think you nailed it on the head. I'm familiar with the several WI local news stations & anchors shown in the clips. I can't say I'm surprised. What passes for "journalism school" these days? There rarely seems to be any checking of sources, fact-checking, etc. In fact, they seem to enjoy repeating urban legend. They're as gullible as anybody you could think of in your office. I've snagged local journalists citing as fact things like Rand Corp 1954 Computer and repeating the urban legend of razors in apples (not sure why that one is marked "true" given the discussion that follows).
Looks like someone from MAKE possibly caught wind of this thread. I emailed them to ask about the functionality and got this very swift reply:
The OpenID implementation for Google is currently broken on our site. This is a top priority for us, and we hope to have it fixed in the next day or so.
Sincerely,
Stefan Antonowicz Director of Technology, MAKE/CRAFT
Great. And if you go to the MAKE magazine url in the GPP and paste your suggested URL, it says "Could not verify the OpenID provided: The address entered does not appear to be an OpenID".
An AC also responded to my original post with a different URL. Produces the same error. Even on Slashdot, site of techies and geeks, it's difficult to solve this problem... (this is not meant to reflect on you personally, just the situation)
Who controls the data you enter into an OpenID account?
I do. I'm not sure OpenID works they way you think it does.
I'm not even sure how OpenID works. I regularly read the blog entries for MAKE Magazine. One day they switched their commenting system credentials, and it says you can log in with OpenID. Oh, and another page somewhere says that if you've got an account with Google, you've got an OpenID. "Great!", I thought. Except I couldn't figure out how the hell to log in with my google/OpenID to the MAKE blog commenting system.
I'm a software professional. I research and dig through code all the time. I use my Google-fu to find answers. After an hour of surfing, I gave up trying to find the answer to HOW to use my Google acct as an OpenID and log in. I just abandoned the idea of contributing useful comments to the blog. I don't know whether to blame MAKE, OpenID, or myself for not researching for more than an hour.
(In fact, at the moment of this writing, http://www.openid.net/ is answering HTTP requests with some kind of incompete TGZ response content type. wtf?)
As a developer, it's disheartening every time I see some kind of feature that looks exciting, only to discover that less than 50% of the site's visitors would be able to use it. Sadly, when IE doesn't support it, I have to shelve the idea and say, "Well, guess I'll check back in a few years."
Broke my hip on the ice this winter. When I was in rehab they got me up and forced me to play a stupid bowling game on the wii. I hate video games! They seem to think anything that motivates you to get up and be more active is a good thing. ( Oklahoma, USA)
You could probably get equivalent exercise by chasing the neighborhood kids from your lawn.
Reader Dhandforth adds: "10 cent favorites will now cost 9.9x more. What's worse, a community of music fans (followers and followees) will disappear on May 31. Evil. Sigh."
Evil? Evil?
You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.
Jobs: I have altered the deal. Pray that I do not alter it further.
Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide.'"
No, actually, he said that if you have $SOMETHING to hide then doing stuff concerned with $SOMETHING on t'internet is not a smart idea.
I'm all about skewering the brazen enemies of privacy and unreasonable searches. But when the Register article provided a paraphrasing and NOT a direct quote, you can color me skeptical. I would really like to read a direct quote, not a journalist's attempt to paraphrase or twist words (not that I've ever known journalists to do this *cough*). MancunianMaskMan, where did you get your alternate wording? Do you also have a direct quote source?
And this is what happens when you let terrorists censor you.
It's more (worse) than that. I know you didn't literally mean what you said (as the terrorists don't run Comedy Central... I don't think). It is that CC is censoring its own broadcast out of fear, not because of a decree from another governing entity.
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I was thinking he could have done just as well with a USB Drive up his bum.
It'd be nice if they could also enable SSL for those of us who use the Google Personalized page (aka iGoogle) at http://www.google.com/ig
No, because then every time your computer reboots, you need to fill the cache again. Using a solid state cache, you need to fill the cache only once and then keep it updated according to your usage, but a reboot wont harm performance at all.
Unless of course you spend most of your time on a work laptop that does not belong to you. Then after the initial boot, you click the shortcuts for Outlook, Firefox and Eclipse, and then get a coffee and work in your Sudoku book for 5 minutes while waiting for the gorram networking and policy-related scripts to finish... whatever the hell they're doing so your apps can actually start and you can begin working. Not that I'm irritated or anything.
Better yet google for the a range of 10000 numbers by adding two dots between the lower and upper number:
Google: 123450000..123459999
This way you can search for SSN, CC numbers etc.
When I try that, all I get is a message from Google that accuses me of being a bot, and they won't process my request in order to protect their users.
No kidding. I have headphones plugged in always, even when I'm not using them. That way when I click on a troll link, I'm the only one that will hear, "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!"
Fuck Attorney General Tom Corbett and his public corruption investigation. Fuck him in his stupid ass. He is fucking clown shoes.
The beauty of what you said right there is that it is protected free speech and not libelous. Unless your final use of "fucking" is intended as a transitive verb rather than an adjective. Which is actually funnier.
You said:
It's voluntary, so there is no invasion of privacy going on, when you give up your DNA willingly you can't be expected it to be held very strongly in confidentiality.
There's an interesting related story here. From the article itself:
Members of the tiny, isolated tribe had given DNA samples to university researchers starting in 1990, in the hope that they might provide genetic clues to the tribe’s devastating rate of diabetes. But they learned that their blood samples had been used to study many other things, including mental illness and theories of the tribe’s geographical origins that contradict their traditional stories.
We all know what the majority of slashdotters probably think about the tribe's beliefs, origin myths, etc. But the fact is that the researches thought that once they had the material (the DNA/blood), they could crunch the numbers in attempts to answer many questions. But the donors of said material didn't approve all that was done. I'm not trying to say who is right or wrong, but it's a cautionary tale for any organization that wants to conduct research of this kind.
From an Ev Psych perspective, ugliness is a possible marker of some kind of degeneracy,..
There's pictures spread all over the web of a guy who I believe had conviction(s?) for sexual assault. If you know the photos I'm talking about, they don't look like a real person. He appears to be very, very short, with an oversized head, crooked teeth and a completely bashed-in-looking face. Doesn't actually look real. Someone surely knows what I'm talking about and can post links.
Best DVD Easter Egg ever, and this really works on nearly all discs and all players. When you pop in the disc and the auto-preview garbage starts up, hit STOP, STOP, and then PLAY. In most players, this automatically starts the main feature on the disc. I found this info in a youtube vid some weeks ago. I'd credit it, but don't have the URL.
Good for you! I think sending a little "ping" of satisfaction would be kinda nice, better than simply another entry in your Apache log, right? (btw, if you want to promote your project, best to use the hyperlinks).
I've had projects I've enjoyed, navigated to the hell that is sourceforge site structure (really, it does suck) to get to the right forum to ask whether the project was alive, and how I could help. I got nothing but crickets.
He installed the only remaining non-depleted Zero Point Module. (There's just not enough Naquadriah to go around.)
Why inconceivable? Since Acer already is big with netbooks, they don't have to prove much there.
And considering that ChromeOS device could be just as well based on ARM chip (with many advantages of that route), it could as well be a new kind of devices, at least as far Acer is concerned (tablets? They do fit with "lack" of features of ChromeOS). Not saying this is what will happen...but inconceivable?
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Surely you're not interested in telling your entire story... but you did open the door, so I'll ask: was your conviction related to technology/IT?
I think you nailed it on the head. I'm familiar with the several WI local news stations & anchors shown in the clips. I can't say I'm surprised. What passes for "journalism school" these days? There rarely seems to be any checking of sources, fact-checking, etc. In fact, they seem to enjoy repeating urban legend. They're as gullible as anybody you could think of in your office. I've snagged local journalists citing as fact things like Rand Corp 1954 Computer and repeating the urban legend of razors in apples (not sure why that one is marked "true" given the discussion that follows).
Saw this article this morning. Don't overlook the "dirty Unix joke" on the blackboard. ;)
Looks like someone from MAKE possibly caught wind of this thread. I emailed them to ask about the functionality and got this very swift reply:
The OpenID implementation for Google is currently broken on our site. This is a top priority for us, and we hope to have it fixed in the next day or so.
Sincerely,
Stefan Antonowicz
Director of Technology, MAKE/CRAFT
Great. And if you go to the MAKE magazine url in the GPP and paste your suggested URL, it says "Could not verify the OpenID provided: The address entered does not appear to be an OpenID".
An AC also responded to my original post with a different URL. Produces the same error. Even on Slashdot, site of techies and geeks, it's difficult to solve this problem... (this is not meant to reflect on you personally, just the situation)
Who controls the data you enter into an OpenID account?
I do. I'm not sure OpenID works they way you think it does.
I'm not even sure how OpenID works. I regularly read the blog entries for MAKE Magazine. One day they switched their commenting system credentials, and it says you can log in with OpenID. Oh, and another page somewhere says that if you've got an account with Google, you've got an OpenID. "Great!", I thought. Except I couldn't figure out how the hell to log in with my google/OpenID to the MAKE blog commenting system.
I'm a software professional. I research and dig through code all the time. I use my Google-fu to find answers. After an hour of surfing, I gave up trying to find the answer to HOW to use my Google acct as an OpenID and log in. I just abandoned the idea of contributing useful comments to the blog. I don't know whether to blame MAKE, OpenID, or myself for not researching for more than an hour.
(In fact, at the moment of this writing, http://www.openid.net/ is answering HTTP requests with some kind of incompete TGZ response content type. wtf?)
You joke, but reality hews closer to satire all the time.
TRUE: The state of Michigan threatened local beavers with a $10,000 per day fine for failing to remove their dam.
As a developer, it's disheartening every time I see some kind of feature that looks exciting, only to discover that less than 50% of the site's visitors would be able to use it. Sadly, when IE doesn't support it, I have to shelve the idea and say, "Well, guess I'll check back in a few years."
Broke my hip on the ice this winter. When I was in rehab they got me up and forced me to play a stupid bowling game on the wii. I hate video games! They seem to think anything that motivates you to get up and be more active is a good thing. ( Oklahoma, USA)
You could probably get equivalent exercise by chasing the neighborhood kids from your lawn.
Reader Dhandforth adds: "10 cent favorites will now cost 9.9x more. What's worse, a community of music fans (followers and followees) will disappear on May 31. Evil. Sigh."
Evil? Evil?
You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.
Jobs: I have altered the deal. Pray that I do not alter it further.
.. many people are losing faith in science.
IMHO Faith and Science are exact opposites.
Come on. It's an expression. I think you knew that. It's perfectly clear what the GPP meant.
1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
No, actually, he said that if you have $SOMETHING to hide then doing stuff concerned with $SOMETHING on t'internet is not a smart idea.
I'm all about skewering the brazen enemies of privacy and unreasonable searches. But when the Register article provided a paraphrasing and NOT a direct quote, you can color me skeptical. I would really like to read a direct quote, not a journalist's attempt to paraphrase or twist words (not that I've ever known journalists to do this *cough*). MancunianMaskMan, where did you get your alternate wording? Do you also have a direct quote source?
And this is what happens when you let terrorists censor you.
It's more (worse) than that. I know you didn't literally mean what you said (as the terrorists don't run Comedy Central... I don't think). It is that CC is censoring its own broadcast out of fear, not because of a decree from another governing entity.