No, but they might say "Gee, I would normally write a patch to fix Xorg's gonkulator, but dammit, I have to go search for a job instead."
I'll have you know that the behavior of Xorg's gonkulator is functioning exactly as intended. Marking this entry as RESOLVED: WONTFIX.
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From Freakonomics (Levitt): "...in 1958, a New York City man named Robert Lane decided to
call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already
had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boyâ"well, Robert Lane
apparently had a special feeling about this one. Winner Lane: how could he fail with a
name like that?
Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For
reasons that no one can quite pin down today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. It
doesnâ(TM)t appear that Robert was unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick
out of the nameâ(TM)s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could
hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed?
Loser Lane did in fact succeed. He went to prep school on a scholarship, graduated from
Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and joined the New York Police Department (this was
his motherâ(TM)s longtime wish), where he made detective and, eventually, sergeant.
Although he never hid his name, many people were uncomfortable using it. âoeSo I have a
bunch of names,â he says today, âoefrom Jimmy to James to whatever they want to call
you. Timmy. But they rarely call you Loser.â Once in a while, he said, âoethey throw a
French twist on it: âLosier.â(TM)â To his police colleagues, he is known as Lou.
And what of his brother with the canâ(TM)t-miss name? The most noteworthy achievement of
Winner Lane, now in his midforties, is the sheer length of his criminal record: nearly
three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other
mayhem."
If I'm in Vegas and I see a guy playing blackjack... one hand constantly in his pocket (possibly vibrating), I'm gonna be creeped out and will find another table.
Strange. At the end of the article, the BBC actually presented information that made it seem as if they actually understood what The Pirate Bay does. Either the author of the article asked his IT guys to explain it to him or he knows what it does because he uses it to download copyrighted material. Either scenario is amusing I suppose.
Quite the dichotomy you've presented. But is it outside the realm of possibility that the reporter actually already knew how bit torrent worked or otherwise decided to look it up in order to compose an informed article?
I've got no concrete info to back this up, only my gut -- but I wonder if providing small, relatively private transportation pods could backfire (as much as I would like it to succeed).
People may feel like the pod they're currently in is "theirs". And we've seen what people do in their own cars and how they can treat them: eating, smoking, littering, f#%&ing, you name it. Then consider also what people do in/on city buses and subway systems. After a pod has been in service for the first 48 hours, will it be clean/sanitary enough that others will want to use it?
I certainly wouldn't want to find people's stale McDonald's french fries, mysterious sticky substances on the seats, etc. At least on mass transit, you're sharing the space so there's a certain social pressure to respect others to some degree, but would this evaporate in the privacy of "your own pod"?
Thanks for spelling it out for the rest of the readers.
It's the same sort of question I ask myself when you hear that "a new report shows a dramatic 35% increase in [disorder/disease] in the last 20 years". You wonder if it's increased incidence, more accurate diagnosis, expanded diagnostic criteria, or how many other things might affect this number. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" they say.;)
Pretty much every virus infected PC I've seen in the past few months was originally infected via the magnificence that is Acrobat Reader... by way of a hidden PDF in an infected web page.
That's spot-on. I'm like much of the Slashdot crowd (or so I suppose): using the Internet since well before the turn of the millenium, tried all kinds of OSs, a bit of a hardware geek, etc. Yet I was casually surfing along with my work laptop (yay, with McAfee Enterprise)on some humor/satire related website when everything in my browser froze up. The moment the browser recovered, I was told there was an error in acrobat.exe; the next three minutes were a blur of virus/trojans/backdoor alerts from McAfee. I unplugged the ether and shut it down. In the end it was easier to nuke the HDD than to attempt any kind of recovery whatsoever.
Gee, I've had many classes in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anthropology, Philosophy, Statistics, Calculus amongst others... sorry that nuclear stuff never got around to memorizing the critical mass for U235 (52kg) or U238 (~9kg). You insensitive clod!
1) ANY high-school/college student should be able to tell you what the critical mass of U235/238 is.
I hardly knew WTF "critical mass" meant, precisely. Much less knowing what was critical mass until looking at wikipedia. You've got to be fucking kidding me. Any high-school/college student? Really? I know how to google it, but that's different from knowing it.
For what it's worth, I'm not certain there are any US laws prohibiting spoofing of caller ID data (which isn't to say there aren't any), but I've seen plenty of spoofed caller ID data in the last few years, too. So I don't think you've got anything to go on there.
If these companies are really bugging you, you can always play along as a highly interested customer (i.e. a sucker) in order to get more information. Pretend you're ready to make a transaction with them, getting the name of the person you're speaking to, name of the company, say you want to call him/her back at a more convenient time, etc.
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My websites will block IE8, and a message will pop up telling people to go download Firefox, Opera, or Chrome.
For those whose whom their website is not tied to their livelihood, I suppose one can afford to be smug.
I realize it was sort of stated in the parent post, but it's worth repeating.
...or salvation army or whoever in your city will take them...
(emphasis mine)
Some charities specifically refuse computers or computer components of any kind. Check first!
"We don't care. We're the phone company. We don't have to."
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml
... I say:
GM manufactures about three-quaters(sic) of its products outside the USA. How about that?
[citation needed]
I tried some googling to corroborate, but couldn't find anything. Care to back that up? I'm curious.
It's not broken. It's been given to a two-year-old. Parents of two-year-olds can back me up on this one.
("would you please stop pushing that same f@%*#&$ button!?")
Oh, sure. Leave out TJ Hooker.
No, but they might say "Gee, I would normally write a patch to fix Xorg's gonkulator, but dammit, I have to go search for a job instead."
I'll have you know that the behavior of Xorg's gonkulator is functioning exactly as intended. Marking this entry as RESOLVED: WONTFIX.
From Freakonomics (Levitt): "...in 1958, a New York City man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boyâ"well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this one. Winner Lane: how could he fail with a name like that?
Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For reasons that no one can quite pin down today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. It doesnâ(TM)t appear that Robert was unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the nameâ(TM)s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed?
Loser Lane did in fact succeed. He went to prep school on a scholarship, graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and joined the New York Police Department (this was his motherâ(TM)s longtime wish), where he made detective and, eventually, sergeant. Although he never hid his name, many people were uncomfortable using it. âoeSo I have a bunch of names,â he says today, âoefrom Jimmy to James to whatever they want to call you. Timmy. But they rarely call you Loser.â Once in a while, he said, âoethey throw a French twist on it: âLosier.â(TM)â To his police colleagues, he is known as Lou.
And what of his brother with the canâ(TM)t-miss name? The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his midforties, is the sheer length of his criminal record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem."
Berman, are you still pissed about JJ Abrams not letting you in on the new film? Sheesh.
Fully 75% of all comments in this thread make a very, very loud "whooshing" sound. People take themselves WAY too seriously.
If I'm in Vegas and I see a guy playing blackjack... one hand constantly in his pocket (possibly vibrating), I'm gonna be creeped out and will find another table.
Strange. At the end of the article, the BBC actually presented information that made it seem as if they actually understood what The Pirate Bay does. Either the author of the article asked his IT guys to explain it to him or he knows what it does because he uses it to download copyrighted material. Either scenario is amusing I suppose.
Quite the dichotomy you've presented. But is it outside the realm of possibility that the reporter actually already knew how bit torrent worked or otherwise decided to look it up in order to compose an informed article?
Go buy yourself a cheap, bulk container of cayenne pepper. Sprinkle liberally on plants. That may deter the deer as well as rabbits, etc).
I've got no concrete info to back this up, only my gut -- but I wonder if providing small, relatively private transportation pods could backfire (as much as I would like it to succeed).
People may feel like the pod they're currently in is "theirs". And we've seen what people do in their own cars and how they can treat them: eating, smoking, littering, f#%&ing, you name it. Then consider also what people do in/on city buses and subway systems. After a pod has been in service for the first 48 hours, will it be clean/sanitary enough that others will want to use it?
I certainly wouldn't want to find people's stale McDonald's french fries, mysterious sticky substances on the seats, etc. At least on mass transit, you're sharing the space so there's a certain social pressure to respect others to some degree, but would this evaporate in the privacy of "your own pod"?
I also have a P233MMX on which Slackware ran in year 2000. Maybe the two of them could get together for a play date?
Thanks for spelling it out for the rest of the readers.
It's the same sort of question I ask myself when you hear that "a new report shows a dramatic 35% increase in [disorder/disease] in the last 20 years". You wonder if it's increased incidence, more accurate diagnosis, expanded diagnostic criteria, or how many other things might affect this number. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" they say. ;)
Hmm. I was curious too. From the most recent data I could find :
Murder rate, 2007, Utah, per 100,000 : 2.2
Murder rate, 2004, Germany, per 100,000 : 0.98
Murder rate, 2002, Saudi Arabia, per 100,000 : 0.92
So, clearly Utah is either too religious, or not religious enough. Or something.
And clearly they're all using the same reporting methods, so those numbers speak volumes... right?
Pretty much every virus infected PC I've seen in the past few months was originally infected via the magnificence that is Acrobat Reader ... by way of a hidden PDF in an infected web page.
That's spot-on. I'm like much of the Slashdot crowd (or so I suppose): using the Internet since well before the turn of the millenium, tried all kinds of OSs, a bit of a hardware geek, etc. Yet I was casually surfing along with my work laptop (yay, with McAfee Enterprise)on some humor/satire related website when everything in my browser froze up. The moment the browser recovered, I was told there was an error in acrobat.exe; the next three minutes were a blur of virus/trojans/backdoor alerts from McAfee. I unplugged the ether and shut it down. In the end it was easier to nuke the HDD than to attempt any kind of recovery whatsoever.
I hear that the developers for Windows 7SP1 will include a natively-built grep-like utility.
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Gee, I've had many classes in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anthropology, Philosophy, Statistics, Calculus amongst others... sorry that nuclear stuff never got around to memorizing the critical mass for U235 (52kg) or U238 (~9kg). You insensitive clod!
1) ANY high-school/college student should be able to tell you what the critical mass of U235/238 is.
I hardly knew WTF "critical mass" meant, precisely. Much less knowing what was critical mass until looking at wikipedia. You've got to be fucking kidding me. Any high-school/college student? Really? I know how to google it, but that's different from knowing it.
Turn in your geek badge. It's Voight-Kampff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voight-Kampff
"Hello? Oh, it's you again? Thank God you finally called me. The FBI was concerned we wouldn't hear from you again..."
For what it's worth, I'm not certain there are any US laws prohibiting spoofing of caller ID data (which isn't to say there aren't any), but I've seen plenty of spoofed caller ID data in the last few years, too. So I don't think you've got anything to go on there. If these companies are really bugging you, you can always play along as a highly interested customer (i.e. a sucker) in order to get more information. Pretend you're ready to make a transaction with them, getting the name of the person you're speaking to, name of the company, say you want to call him/her back at a more convenient time, etc.
...not that there's anything wrong with that.