but security is only one of the many reasons there
I'm not a Super Linux Master(tm) and doubt I ever will be, but I can say that Linux is more fun. Recently I got a copy of DSL, and it's cool. It's quite nostalgic to boot up a computer with only one disk. Reminds me of my old 8086 I used in high school. Two floppy drives, no hard drive, and it even had a dot matrix printer. Computers like that are just more fun...ok, so I'm weird.
I brew 1/2 gallon at a time, using two tablespoons of lose leaf tea (1 TBLSP black, 1TBLSP Jasmin) and a handful of mint if I have it.
half fill the pitcher with water and refrigerate
bring water to boil
once full boil is reached add tea
let steep for 5 minuets (ok, I just let it sit until it's cooled and it doesn't tend to get biter. I think it's because the water reaches saturation point before it can dissolve any of the nasty tasting bits in the tea leaves.
Strain tea considerate into cool water, serve and enjoy.
And a funny story about why I use lose leaf tea. My wife and I have brewed our own iced tea for a long time, going through a good deal of teabags (16 bags for 1 gallon of tea). It was an expensive habit, especially in summer when it's hot. Anyway, one day I had a bit of extra cash and decided it was time to buy us a treat, so I bought a pound of Ceylon tea at the local tea shop. Once I got it home I realized that bags tend to run $2.50 per oz for ones that taste ok good, and bulk Ceylon tea runs $1.00 per oz and tastes much beater. Also Jasmin tea is about $0.50 per oz at my local Asian market. So I converted to better tasting and less expensive and have never looked back.
1/2 strong iced tea 1/2 lemonade (preferably with made with honey, not white sugar). I drink it because it tastes good, but I discovered it makes a great energy drink.
I didn't even think about this until one time at work I bought one for a coworker that moonlighted as a teacher at the fire academy. The next day he said he was running circles around his cadets, and he said the only thing he did different was to drink 32oz of what he called my "monkey brew." He started drinking one every afternoon before he went to teach and swore it was the best energy drink he ever had.
Good point. And beter phrased than my poast was. What would need to be reviewed is this; Dose the Betamax case mean that video recorders for home use are a Constitutional Right or simply something not yet addressed by law. If it is determened that VCRs are protected, then logicly, so is MithTV and DVD burners. If not it opens up a whole new can-o-worms. If I can no longer recorde video at home to time shift, what dose that do to camcorders, digital camreas, the PSP, the video Ipod and a whole list of devices that can record or be used with recorded video
The principle of 'fair use' is simple, if people don't distribute copys. Sadly it takes an army of laws to replace one principle.
Um...I've been monkey from about age 1...I am now 27. First, if in the year we have had more monkeys in the world, I clame prior art;-) Second, the term "Sir" was used to show respect long before 'Peanuts' but I am flatared to be asociated with it.
Second, INAL but, you bring up a good point, and it's bigger than just the MPAA. New laws often have gaps, situations they don't expect, and therefore aren't covered. (At work I'm dealing with a situation not covered in ERISA) The DMAC was meant to be omnibus, but it isn't, partly due to the fact that it's new, partly due to the fact that the technology is so new. Also we have conflicting laws and judicial president, DMAC vs. Betamax for example. Then add in another few levels of conflicting interests like, say the MPAA, Blockbuster, Internet users, time shifters, Independent film producers, and suddenly the water gets very murky from a legal standpoint.
Right now media experiencing so much flux that it would be imposable to draft any sort of license that will last, unless it takes into account how the market and technology will adapt. I imagine a media policy that dose allow for such adaptations would end up looking like the GPL.
Me too. I have a film (yes I'm a film fan boy) I have a film ZX-50 and the thing is a tank. I'm hard on my camera and it just ticks along and works great. The other cameras I have played with arn't as long lived.
That brings up another interesting point. For this thing to be really useful, it will need to translate English to ASL. The grammar is different and many signs don't have an exact English translation.
For example sign for the English word 'worst' is better described as 'dramatic increase or change.' So, if I say 'Wow, my score on Asteroids has improved' I would use the signs 'wow, game, asteroids score worse' finger-spelling the word asteroids and having my eyebrows up and smiling as I sign worse. Also, the English word 'my' would be inferred by context.
The point being, this will never REALY work until some one develops a universal translator.
It is all an issue of priorities. If you try to drive while talking on the cell phone you will drive badly. But it's easy to talk on the cell phone and play a video game, and it's easy to play a video game and drink coffee, and of course, if you live in So Cal you can drink coffee and drive, after all the "Starbucks Exam" is the most important part of the driving test. Therefore if you have your attention first on your cell phone, then focus on your video game, as long as you are drinking enough coffee you should be able to drive just fine.
Firefly still had room to grow, and I admit it did die before it's time. But I would rather have something like Firefly die before it's time than become an undead zomby of a show that plods through prime time.
I hate to say this, but I'm glad firefly is gone. Why? Two words "Star Trek". That's right, we all remember how great it was but it was draged on until it died a gasping panting and undignified death. I enjoyed Firefly, and I would rather remember how it was great, then see draged on forever, until it's just a shell of what it once was.
My accounting 101 professor referred to his class as 'embezzlement 101' because, in his words, "the point of accounting classes is not to teach you accounting, but to teach you how to know when some one else is doing it fraudulently,"
Five years later, my job is to envision ways to steal money from my company and then devise a method of detection. Audit accounting is mostly fraud detection after all.
Let's see...Case Mods, saying "HAN SHOT FIRST!", the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, "me to!", extremely high big prime numbers, short films animated with ASCI, making DOS games run under winXP and Linux, any computer that was once something not a computer (read toaster, fly, stuffed bear) and so on and so on and so on.
Yes, I think this is a waste of time, buy you know what, IM A GEEK, and I happen to think it's cool that some one would try this kind of thing. It's a brain work out, kinda Iron Chef, or MST3K, we all know it's hokey but it is still fun.
When my big brother was a kid he emptied an entire can of my uncle's shaving cream into the toilet looking for scrubbing bubbles. When he told me there weren't any I emptied an entire can of my dads shaving cream into my bathtub to prove him wrong. I suppose that means the people who believe advertising are mentally between the ages of 3 and 7.
This puts an interesting spin on the issue. Who is more evil? On the one hand we have Sony and it's DRM CD's, and a Java environment that just might be a tool of DRM and spyware. On the other hand we have Microsoft (aka The Borg), traditionally against anything OSS, a company that might use the new DVD standard to shove around the OSS community...Again, just two maybes, and just speculation, but it could be very bad for us(slashdoters) either way.
My wife is currently teaching prime numbers at school, so we talk a lot about them over the dinner table.(geek maries geek and talks about math over candle light, weird.) Anyway, the Eratosthenes method you discuss would take a lot of useless calculations out of the mix. The following links will explain it better than I can.
Wow, this is a great topic. We get Calvin and Ender at the same time! But seriously...When in high school a group of friends stared playing Calvin Ball. At first it was a joke but it became a game where quick wits and the ability to debate while lobing volleyballs at your opponents head was helpful. The game became a standard for my friends who wrote short stores, the frenzied, gooey and strenuous environment spawned creativity. A 0g version of that game would be a great way to inspire creativity in the right group of people.
That is a good point. Perhaps an ISP based virus scan, weekly or monthly would be a better option. If it could be with user approval only, without hogging bandwidth, and not look at private data or recording the kind of files on a computer it could be a good thing. Also, the ISP might be more willing to accommodate non MS Windows.
It sounds to me like the perfect place for a two fronted attack. 1) An online virus scan at your bank/credit card/stock trading website and 2) A virus scan that runs in a 'safe, standalone environment'. It would be best if the two scanners worked on different algorithms so that if one was tricked odds are the other would not be.
Thats why I use AVG at home and still scan with varous online AV programs.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, what was that, I was listen to my Bach and didn't catch that last bit.
I think the click wheal would be cool on a phone. Just think, a "rotary" cell phone!
I'm not a Super Linux Master(tm) and doubt I ever will be, but I can say that Linux is more fun. Recently I got a copy of DSL, and it's cool. It's quite nostalgic to boot up a computer with only one disk. Reminds me of my old 8086 I used in high school. Two floppy drives, no hard drive, and it even had a dot matrix printer. Computers like that are just more fun...ok, so I'm weird.
I brew 1/2 gallon at a time, using two tablespoons of lose leaf tea (1 TBLSP black, 1TBLSP Jasmin) and a handful of mint if I have it.
half fill the pitcher with water and refrigerate
bring water to boil
once full boil is reached add tea
let steep for 5 minuets (ok, I just let it sit until it's cooled and it doesn't tend to get biter. I think it's because the water reaches saturation point before it can dissolve any of the nasty tasting bits in the tea leaves.
Strain tea considerate into cool water, serve and enjoy.
And a funny story about why I use lose leaf tea. My wife and I have brewed our own iced tea for a long time, going through a good deal of teabags (16 bags for 1 gallon of tea). It was an expensive habit, especially in summer when it's hot. Anyway, one day I had a bit of extra cash and decided it was time to buy us a treat, so I bought a pound of Ceylon tea at the local tea shop. Once I got it home I realized that bags tend to run $2.50 per oz for ones that taste ok good, and bulk Ceylon tea runs $1.00 per oz and tastes much beater. Also Jasmin tea is about $0.50 per oz at my local Asian market. So I converted to better tasting and less expensive and have never looked back.
I didn't even think about this until one time at work I bought one for a coworker that moonlighted as a teacher at the fire academy. The next day he said he was running circles around his cadets, and he said the only thing he did different was to drink 32oz of what he called my "monkey brew." He started drinking one every afternoon before he went to teach and swore it was the best energy drink he ever had.
I thought 20/20 was that news show....I think I'll go back to sleep
The principle of 'fair use' is simple, if people don't distribute copys. Sadly it takes an army of laws to replace one principle.
Um...I've been monkey from about age 1...I am now 27. First, if in the year we have had more monkeys in the world, I clame prior art ;-) Second, the term "Sir" was used to show respect long before 'Peanuts' but I am flatared to be asociated with it.
Second, INAL but, you bring up a good point, and it's bigger than just the MPAA. New laws often have gaps, situations they don't expect, and therefore aren't covered. (At work I'm dealing with a situation not covered in ERISA) The DMAC was meant to be omnibus, but it isn't, partly due to the fact that it's new, partly due to the fact that the technology is so new. Also we have conflicting laws and judicial president, DMAC vs. Betamax for example. Then add in another few levels of conflicting interests like, say the MPAA, Blockbuster, Internet users, time shifters, Independent film producers, and suddenly the water gets very murky from a legal standpoint.
Right now media experiencing so much flux that it would be imposable to draft any sort of license that will last, unless it takes into account how the market and technology will adapt. I imagine a media policy that dose allow for such adaptations would end up looking like the GPL.
I'll 2nd that! I it saves me time checking things that arn't on the main page. Cool.
Me too. I have a film (yes I'm a film fan boy) I have a film ZX-50 and the thing is a tank. I'm hard on my camera and it just ticks along and works great. The other cameras I have played with arn't as long lived.
For example sign for the English word 'worst' is better described as 'dramatic increase or change.' So, if I say 'Wow, my score on Asteroids has improved' I would use the signs 'wow, game, asteroids score worse' finger-spelling the word asteroids and having my eyebrows up and smiling as I sign worse. Also, the English word 'my' would be inferred by context.
The point being, this will never REALY work until some one develops a universal translator.
I think it's iPodcalypse...never mind.
It is all an issue of priorities. If you try to drive while talking on the cell phone you will drive badly. But it's easy to talk on the cell phone and play a video game, and it's easy to play a video game and drink coffee, and of course, if you live in So Cal you can drink coffee and drive, after all the "Starbucks Exam" is the most important part of the driving test. Therefore if you have your attention first on your cell phone, then focus on your video game, as long as you are drinking enough coffee you should be able to drive just fine.
Firefly still had room to grow, and I admit it did die before it's time. But I would rather have something like Firefly die before it's time than become an undead zomby of a show that plods through prime time.
I hate to say this, but I'm glad firefly is gone. Why? Two words "Star Trek". That's right, we all remember how great it was but it was draged on until it died a gasping panting and undignified death. I enjoyed Firefly, and I would rather remember how it was great, then see draged on forever, until it's just a shell of what it once was.
Five years later, my job is to envision ways to steal money from my company and then devise a method of detection. Audit accounting is mostly fraud detection after all.
Yes, I think this is a waste of time, buy you know what, IM A GEEK, and I happen to think it's cool that some one would try this kind of thing. It's a brain work out, kinda Iron Chef, or MST3K, we all know it's hokey but it is still fun.
When my big brother was a kid he emptied an entire can of my uncle's shaving cream into the toilet looking for scrubbing bubbles. When he told me there weren't any I emptied an entire can of my dads shaving cream into my bathtub to prove him wrong. I suppose that means the people who believe advertising are mentally between the ages of 3 and 7.
This puts an interesting spin on the issue. Who is more evil? On the one hand we have Sony and it's DRM CD's, and a Java environment that just might be a tool of DRM and spyware. On the other hand we have Microsoft (aka The Borg), traditionally against anything OSS, a company that might use the new DVD standard to shove around the OSS community...Again, just two maybes, and just speculation, but it could be very bad for us(slashdoters) either way.
http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Eratosthenes.html
and http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divisibleto50 .html
You mean it's just a conspiracy of cartographers?
Wow, this is a great topic. We get Calvin and Ender at the same time! But seriously...When in high school a group of friends stared playing Calvin Ball. At first it was a joke but it became a game where quick wits and the ability to debate while lobing volleyballs at your opponents head was helpful. The game became a standard for my friends who wrote short stores, the frenzied, gooey and strenuous environment spawned creativity. A 0g version of that game would be a great way to inspire creativity in the right group of people.
That is a good point. Perhaps an ISP based virus scan, weekly or monthly would be a better option. If it could be with user approval only, without hogging bandwidth, and not look at private data or recording the kind of files on a computer it could be a good thing. Also, the ISP might be more willing to accommodate non MS Windows.
Thats why I use AVG at home and still scan with varous online AV programs.