You'd have to be mentally defective to steal at an airport. They're the most tightly secured and monitored civilian areas.
Secure? Maybe. Maybe not. But if you're referring to secure from theft, then definitely not.
Example. I'm attempting to clear security in Houston. I'm selected for extra-secure security searching. So my stuff is extra security-secure, right?
If you said, "yes," you'd be wrong.
Actually, all my stuff is at the end of a conveyor 30 feet away. I'd like to keep an eye on it, but I've either got to look away for half a minute while being irradiated, or be distracted for even longer by some guy touching my junk. Do they give a shit that my stuff is just sitting there? Is it "tightly secured"? Why, no, it is not. When I'm done with my extra secure-security, I go to find my stuff and it's gone. All of it.
Good thing I was travelling with my wife. She'd grabbed all my things and was waiting at a bench. But of course someone made sure that she had a right to take my stuff, no? Glad you asked. No. No, she was not hassled as she schlepped away two travelers' worth of carry-ons, outerwear and shoes.
Seriously, if someone can walk away with two pairs of shoes, one pair of which is not for their size or gender, then boosting an iPad is a piece of pie. Easy as cake.
P.S. Wife's colleague only managed to hang on to her passport through outbound checkpoint in Chicago due to helpful stranger seeing unaccompanied passport and looking for matching traveler.
P.P.S. Enhanced pat-down did not detect full tube of Carmex in my jeans pocket. I can't see how a full tube of Carmex poses any threat to air travel, but if you're gonna put your hands in my pants and still don't notice the stuff in my pockets, you may just be there for show. Just sayin',
Now, perhaps you'd say that you need to keep better track of your belongings. Fine. But I'm responding to the parent, so why no go ahead and read that first, um-kay? Especially the "tightly secured" part. I'd also suggest you give that a try and let us know how it works out.
Are those US gallons? If so, 30 MPG is pretty poor. My father has a not-very-new Nissan Note which gets nearly twice that (55ish miles per US gallon, depending on how you drive).
That 300SD weighs 1800kg "dry". The Note is in the 1100kg range (with fuel, oil, etc.) Not really a fair comparison.
(1) Something Debian based (mainly due to my familiarity with apt and Debian systems)
(2) Something with modern enhancements for a desktop system (e.g. pre-patched font libraries so they have proper hinting and don't look like ass)
. . .
I WANT to use Linux, but I hate this shit of not finding something I like.
The snarky response is "Just adjust what you like to what exists!"
But the more serious and realistic response is that it makes more sense to ship an OS -- or almost anything -- configured "out of the box" to work for noobs. Let the power users and those with more specialized needs customize their installations.
It's a good strategy from the perspective of increasing user base and being accessible to new users in general. A new user will be, by definition, less experienced. Making the default install work for that guy makes more sense than requiring the novice to tweak his install to "dumb it down" to his initial level of expertise. How's he supposed to do that -- except by calling someone like us to come help him for free.
Well synaptic will show me a brief description of each package, will search based on text I supply - so if I don't remember the exact name of something, or if I'm just curious about what is out there, it will supply a list of possibilities, it will detail what files are installed etc. etc. And it does all this in a nice presentation format.
Does apt-get do that?
'When the bible talks about "loving thy neighbor" it's talking about the person actually doing it.'
"The Lord above made man to help is neighbor,
No matter where, on land, or sea, or foam.
The Lord above made man to help his neighbor-but /
With a little bit of luck, With a little bit of luck,
When he comes around you won't be home! "
Are you saying that the decision to not force other people to cough up money to support social programs means "not loving thy neighbor"? That's absurd. Conservatives (and the Religious Right) are far more likely than liberals to give of their **own** money to support "love thy neighbor" programs.
Intent - what bullshit. It doesn't matter what the intent was, it's the end result that should be punished. Evil, crazy, stupid, or just clumsy, they should be sent to a cold islands and not bother civilization any more. Evil or crazy on one island; stupid or clumsy on the other.
Over 10 years that really isn't a whole lot, especially when you're talking about the government. I think many corporations end up spending more on the BB phones/plans ALONE than the gov spent on all of that, and considering that many of those PS3s/xboxes/zunes/iOS devices probably went to the military to entertain deployed troops (or in iOS case, to be used functionally in the field) I don't really consider those bad investments.
Let's just do that math. Looks like federal spending over that time period was a little under $30 Trillion (give or take 3 or 4 trillion). So Blackberry expenditures would be about 4 millionths of total federal spending. Let's see, what do I spend about 4 millionths of my money on? If I somehow spend $100,000 annually, that's 40 cents a year. That doesn't even get me a payphone call -- provided I could find one.
I guess I should put that in the same frame as the summary: $4 over ten years. That's a few orders of magnitude lower than my "gadget" spending.
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You must have missed the part where the Nazi regime decided to stuff people they didn't like into camps while starving them, beating them, working them to the bone, then executing them.
Personally, I believe if you're going to hold IBM (or Ford or Bayer or any other trendy 'you helped the holocaust' company) responsible, then you should also hold trees responsible. Trees provided the wood that built the guard towers, that held the barbed wire fences in place, and built the barracks. Bricks, fire, lead, and rope should also be investigated.
"Your honor, I don't deny I killed him. But if I hadn't, he'd of died of something or other eventually anyway."
Flash works -- well as well as flash works -- on other pages. And I wasn't no-scripting. The answer it seems was to use Firefox instead of Chrome. OK, Google.
I don't know if it's this laggy for everyone, but I will not inflict my extra slow and even crappier interpolation of "Stairway" on you.
I can see the strings vibrate when I pick them, and when playing back, but no sound with Chrome on Ubuntu. I kind of thought there should be, but figured I just didn't get it. Now I see I did get it, but didn't get it.
Suppose I could debug, but that would take time from Slashdot posting . ..
The actual hailstone sequence definition says that if a 1 is reached, the sequence ends. The article submitter omitted that, probably to troll slashdot.
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications. These are called "hailstone" sequences - is the math any use in weather or geology? Or any other?
I'm sure someone will call you a math philistine or something like that for your question, but I took it seriously. And as I read it, I thought "sure there must be. I bet a quick Google search would turn up some." But the only practical use I turned up was in the creation of graphs, charts and illustrations of the sequences themselves.
A hailstone sequence starts from any positive integer n the next number in the sequence is n/2 if n is even and 3n+1 if n is odd.
It wouldn't have taken any more time to properly punctuate this "sentence" once -- for everyone -- than it takes everyone to punctuate it in their heads in order to make sense of it. I realize they just cut and pasted the bulleted points -- minus the bullets -- but c'mon, they didn't put those there just for decoration.
And the harsh reality is that, since we started the "get tough on crime" attitude in the U.S. back in the early 80's, violent crime has seen a steady decline.
1. Citation needed.
discussed at great length in the easy-to-read pop-sci book "freakonomics"
Indeed. I've read it. It seems to have a somewhat different conclusion than what the GP suggested, as already pointed out by several posters in this thread.
ah, how sweet, the k5 troll rearing its head above the water once more.
As to your claim that people turn into criminals without the 'society' (read, the rich and Chinese) paying for their education, well that's nonsense based on history. Without public education people don't become criminals, they become apprentices (as long, as government doesn't fuck that up as well, as it did, with all the minimum wage and other so called 'pro-labor', but really anti-job laws).
Sure, some turn into criminals - well that's what private security forces and guns are for.
If this is sarcasm, it's on par with the Superintendent's open letter. Not quite "A Modest Proposal", but good enough for a slashdot discussion.
of course, those graduates of the wealthy private schools will cite hard work and meritocracy, rather than connections and nepotism, in their continued good life
Done.
they will look down their noses at the "lazy" undeserving poor who want to get their grubby hands on their "hard-earned" money. all the while proclaiming great love for america, as they willfully abandon their fellow americans
And done.:( They started this stuff 2 decades ago, and it has worked just as you said.
Now, there is one other option for the well-to-do:
1. Move out to a newly built suburb in what had been a bean field last year.
2. Start a new school district.
3. Issue bonds to build schools. (The revenue can also be used for general expenses.) This isn't subject to the funding cap.
4. Well funded public schools!
. . . years pass . ..
5. District built. Bonds paid off. Steady decline begins.
Apparently it is ok by you that rich towns have good schools and poor towns have bad ones. Do you believe in meritocracy? Do you believe in equality? It seems you believe in nepotism and classism.
In Kansas, Republicans addressed this problem of class affecting education. There were rich school districts and poor school districts. The rich ones turned out better educated students as a result of this disparity in wealth (and thus funding). Poor school districts asked the state to help level the playing field. So to make sure everyone got an equal chance, the Republican legislature put a cap on how much the local school districts could spend, so the rich kids got the same public education as the poor ones.
Well, they almost addressed it. Private schools have boomed in the wealthy areas.
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You'd have to be mentally defective to steal at an airport. They're the most tightly secured and monitored civilian areas.
Secure? Maybe. Maybe not. But if you're referring to secure from theft, then definitely not.
Example. I'm attempting to clear security in Houston. I'm selected for extra-secure security searching. So my stuff is extra security-secure, right?
If you said, "yes," you'd be wrong.
Actually, all my stuff is at the end of a conveyor 30 feet away. I'd like to keep an eye on it, but I've either got to look away for half a minute while being irradiated, or be distracted for even longer by some guy touching my junk. Do they give a shit that my stuff is just sitting there? Is it "tightly secured"? Why, no, it is not. When I'm done with my extra secure-security, I go to find my stuff and it's gone. All of it.
Good thing I was travelling with my wife. She'd grabbed all my things and was waiting at a bench. But of course someone made sure that she had a right to take my stuff, no? Glad you asked. No. No, she was not hassled as she schlepped away two travelers' worth of carry-ons, outerwear and shoes.
Seriously, if someone can walk away with two pairs of shoes, one pair of which is not for their size or gender, then boosting an iPad is a piece of pie. Easy as cake.
P.S. Wife's colleague only managed to hang on to her passport through outbound checkpoint in Chicago due to helpful stranger seeing unaccompanied passport and looking for matching traveler.
P.P.S. Enhanced pat-down did not detect full tube of Carmex in my jeans pocket. I can't see how a full tube of Carmex poses any threat to air travel, but if you're gonna put your hands in my pants and still don't notice the stuff in my pockets, you may just be there for show. Just sayin',
Now, perhaps you'd say that you need to keep better track of your belongings. Fine. But I'm responding to the parent, so why no go ahead and read that first, um-kay? Especially the "tightly secured" part. I'd also suggest you give that a try and let us know how it works out.
Are those US gallons? If so, 30 MPG is pretty poor. My father has a not-very-new Nissan Note which gets nearly twice that (55ish miles per US gallon, depending on how you drive).
That 300SD weighs 1800kg "dry". The Note is in the 1100kg range (with fuel, oil, etc.) Not really a fair comparison.
What I want out of a Linux distro:
(1) Something Debian based (mainly due to my familiarity with apt and Debian systems) (2) Something with modern enhancements for a desktop system (e.g. pre-patched font libraries so they have proper hinting and don't look like ass)
. . .
I WANT to use Linux, but I hate this shit of not finding something I like.
The snarky response is "Just adjust what you like to what exists!"
But the more serious and realistic response is that it makes more sense to ship an OS -- or almost anything -- configured "out of the box" to work for noobs. Let the power users and those with more specialized needs customize their installations.
It's a good strategy from the perspective of increasing user base and being accessible to new users in general. A new user will be, by definition, less experienced. Making the default install work for that guy makes more sense than requiring the novice to tweak his install to "dumb it down" to his initial level of expertise. How's he supposed to do that -- except by calling someone like us to come help him for free.
As long as I get to play with my 8 DVDs of science/engineering/sw dev packages, I'll be happy :)
As a serious request, please elaborate a little on some of these packages and their use and availability under Debian vs. Ubuntu.
Well synaptic will show me a brief description of each package, will search based on text I supply - so if I don't remember the exact name of something, or if I'm just curious about what is out there, it will supply a list of possibilities, it will detail what files are installed etc. etc. And it does all this in a nice presentation format. Does apt-get do that?
Yes. Just type "apt-get install synaptic".
"The Lord above made man to help is neighbor, No matter where, on land, or sea, or foam. The Lord above made man to help his neighbor-but / With a little bit of luck, With a little bit of luck, When he comes around you won't be home! "
Are you saying that the decision to not force other people to cough up money to support social programs means "not loving thy neighbor"? That's absurd. Conservatives (and the Religious Right) are far more likely than liberals to give of their **own** money to support "love thy neighbor" programs.
[Citation needed]
Ah yes, the Alberto Gonzales Defense.
Just about when I was gonna say that tactic doesn't work, you preempt me with how it does . . .
Intent - what bullshit. It doesn't matter what the intent was, it's the end result that should be punished. Evil, crazy, stupid, or just clumsy, they should be sent to a cold islands and not bother civilization any more. Evil or crazy on one island; stupid or clumsy on the other.
Where do the unlucky go?
Over 10 years that really isn't a whole lot, especially when you're talking about the government. I think many corporations end up spending more on the BB phones/plans ALONE than the gov spent on all of that, and considering that many of those PS3s/xboxes/zunes/iOS devices probably went to the military to entertain deployed troops (or in iOS case, to be used functionally in the field) I don't really consider those bad investments.
Let's just do that math. Looks like federal spending over that time period was a little under $30 Trillion (give or take 3 or 4 trillion). So Blackberry expenditures would be about 4 millionths of total federal spending. Let's see, what do I spend about 4 millionths of my money on? If I somehow spend $100,000 annually, that's 40 cents a year. That doesn't even get me a payphone call -- provided I could find one.
I guess I should put that in the same frame as the summary: $4 over ten years. That's a few orders of magnitude lower than my "gadget" spending.
You must have missed the part where the Nazi regime decided to stuff people they didn't like into camps while starving them, beating them, working them to the bone, then executing them.
Personally, I believe if you're going to hold IBM (or Ford or Bayer or any other trendy 'you helped the holocaust' company) responsible, then you should also hold trees responsible. Trees provided the wood that built the guard towers, that held the barbed wire fences in place, and built the barracks. Bricks, fire, lead, and rope should also be investigated.
"Your honor, I don't deny I killed him. But if I hadn't, he'd of died of something or other eventually anyway."
Let's not forget helping the Nazi's round up undesirables!
The slideshow kinda skips from 1924 to 1956, doesn't it?
Flash works -- well as well as flash works -- on other pages. And I wasn't no-scripting. The answer it seems was to use Firefox instead of Chrome. OK, Google.
I don't know if it's this laggy for everyone, but I will not inflict my extra slow and even crappier interpolation of "Stairway" on you.
I can see the strings vibrate when I pick them, and when playing back, but no sound with Chrome on Ubuntu. I kind of thought there should be, but figured I just didn't get it. Now I see I did get it, but didn't get it.
Suppose I could debug, but that would take time from Slashdot posting . . .
Well one that looks like this, I can think of a couple uses for it...
No! No! No! TMI!
The actual hailstone sequence definition says that if a 1 is reached, the sequence ends. The article submitter omitted that, probably to troll slashdot.
And it worked.
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications. These are called "hailstone" sequences - is the math any use in weather or geology? Or any other?
I'm sure someone will call you a math philistine or something like that for your question, but I took it seriously. And as I read it, I thought "sure there must be. I bet a quick Google search would turn up some." But the only practical use I turned up was in the creation of graphs, charts and illustrations of the sequences themselves.
Some are pretty.
One is an odd number, so you multiply it by three and add one for four, which is even, so you divide by two ... and it's turtles all the way down ...
The conjecture as stated in the summary, in addition to being poorly punctuated, is not "official". Or complete.
A hailstone sequence starts from any positive integer n the next number in the sequence is n/2 if n is even and 3n+1 if n is odd.
It wouldn't have taken any more time to properly punctuate this "sentence" once -- for everyone -- than it takes everyone to punctuate it in their heads in order to make sense of it. I realize they just cut and pasted the bulleted points -- minus the bullets -- but c'mon, they didn't put those there just for decoration.
What does death have to do with "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"?
I have some potentially alarming news for you . . .
And the harsh reality is that, since we started the "get tough on crime" attitude in the U.S. back in the early 80's, violent crime has seen a steady decline.
1. Citation needed.
discussed at great length in the easy-to-read pop-sci book "freakonomics"
Indeed. I've read it. It seems to have a somewhat different conclusion than what the GP suggested, as already pointed out by several posters in this thread.
ah, how sweet, the k5 troll rearing its head above the water once more.
As to your claim that people turn into criminals without the 'society' (read, the rich and Chinese) paying for their education, well that's nonsense based on history. Without public education people don't become criminals, they become apprentices (as long, as government doesn't fuck that up as well, as it did, with all the minimum wage and other so called 'pro-labor', but really anti-job laws).
Sure, some turn into criminals - well that's what private security forces and guns are for.
If this is sarcasm, it's on par with the Superintendent's open letter. Not quite "A Modest Proposal", but good enough for a slashdot discussion.
I don't pay anywhere close to $7,000 tax per year. That figure seems stupid.
You're referring to the $7000 per student cost of education from the GP, right? The ratio of taxpayers to schoolchildren is probably not 1:1.
interesting
of course, those graduates of the wealthy private schools will cite hard work and meritocracy, rather than connections and nepotism, in their continued good life
Done.
they will look down their noses at the "lazy" undeserving poor who want to get their grubby hands on their "hard-earned" money. all the while proclaiming great love for america, as they willfully abandon their fellow americans
And done. :( They started this stuff 2 decades ago, and it has worked just as you said.
Now, there is one other option for the well-to-do:
1. Move out to a newly built suburb in what had been a bean field last year.
2. Start a new school district.
3. Issue bonds to build schools. (The revenue can also be used for general expenses.) This isn't subject to the funding cap.
4. Well funded public schools!
. . . years pass . . .
5. District built. Bonds paid off. Steady decline begins.
6. Grown children of wealthy suburbanites GOTO 1.
Apparently it is ok by you that rich towns have good schools and poor towns have bad ones. Do you believe in meritocracy? Do you believe in equality? It seems you believe in nepotism and classism.
In Kansas, Republicans addressed this problem of class affecting education. There were rich school districts and poor school districts. The rich ones turned out better educated students as a result of this disparity in wealth (and thus funding). Poor school districts asked the state to help level the playing field. So to make sure everyone got an equal chance, the Republican legislature put a cap on how much the local school districts could spend, so the rich kids got the same public education as the poor ones.
Well, they almost addressed it. Private schools have boomed in the wealthy areas.