Google reader has an issue that the screen is so small, I can't scroll through the sidebar where my feeds list is, only the many window on the right, so I'd love to know how you got Google Reader viewable.
Can you support this with a citation? My college has a number of Cuban American students. I've talked with them about the embargo, and they all felt that all it did was hurt the Cuban people. Keep in mind: Most Cuban immigrants still have relatives living in Cuba.
"The $45 card will be optional and cannot be used for air travel."
Ok... the only times I've ever used a passport via land was going to Niagara Falls, and it was not a long wait at all. Maybe 6 cars ahead of me at the crossing, and it took maybe two minutes maximum.
Even a tourbus took maybe twenty minutes to process. We were told to place our birth certificates on our laps (this was before the passport requirement). The border officer walked up to each of us, asked our place of birth, looking to see if we hesitated or otherwise seemed nervous, then picking them up and taking a look to make sure it's not a forgery.
In short, a massive privacy risk increase, for what? The only time I can see this helping is seaports, and that's such a small percentage of border crossings it seems to me to be an unwise idea.
What does the fact I never remember my dreams mean?
That I'm fully prepared for the Worst Case Scenario?
The Freudian implications, if properly realized, would turn my mind to jelly?
Some combination of the two?
College sophmore here. I rarely use books - when I need to reference something, I use the library's online databases. I can access these from my dorm room.
I do use the library regularly still to study, but just because it's the one place on campus I can find some peace and quiet.
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Here's a quote from 2005, from Chuck's own website on the "Chuck Norris Facts" phenomenon:
"I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts."
Maddox had an entire chapter in his book "The Alphabet of Manliness" dedicated to Chuck Norris related humor. Yet no lawsuit then.
The site that created the phenomenon, http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/ has been selling shirts with his face on them for years, no lawsuit.
I'm sorry, but this is a dick move, plain and simple. Chuck Norris has repeatedly and publicly stated he found the jokes funny. Now, when he's finding out that the fanbase who resurrected his career is mostly college age liberals and are none too thrilled with his endorsement of Huckabee, what does he do to line his pockets? Sue one of the people who brought his name back into the spotlight. If it wasn't for Chuck Norris facts, his pockets wouldn't be lined with Huckabee's money anyways.
Here's a quote from 2005, from Chuck's own website on the "Chuck Norris Facts" phenomenon:
"I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts."
Here is Chuck reading a top ten list of the quotes, cracking up as he does so on "The Best Damn Sports Show Ever":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8QAeoFdM5g
Maddox had an entire chapter in his book "The Alphabet of Manliness" dedicated to Chuck Norris related humor. Yet no lawsuit then.
The site that created the phenomenon, http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/ has been selling shirts with his face on them for years, no lawsuit.
I'm sorry, but this is a dick move, plain and simple. Chuck Norris has repeatedly and publicly stated he found the jokes funny. Now, when he's finding out that the fanbase who resurrected his career is mostly college age liberals and are none too thrilled with his endorsement of Huckabee, what does he do to line his pockets? Sue one of the people who brought his name back into the spotlight. If it wasn't for Chuck Norris facts, his pockets wouldn't be lined with Huckabee's money anyways.
I still maintain the best security feature of Firefox is the bookmarks toolbar.
Oh look, my bank wants me to log into my account!
*click on known good link in toolbar*
Go figure, no message from the bank in my secure messaging center on their site. Aw shucks.
(Second place goes to noscript however. Love that little guy)
That sounds like the set up to a heist movie...
"Hello? Oh yes officer this is Jack Smith from Security up here at Initech. We're having some penetration testers here this week to test our physical security, so you can disregard any reports of breaking and entering and the like... Yes you're welcome for the heads up, we at Initech value our close relationship with the community... you have a good day too sir."
Then you move in and rob the place blind.
We are operating under the basic assumption people who are assholes online are not assholes offline.
I see rudeness everywhere, not just the internet. From the tailgater on the highway, to the woman cutting me in line at the grocery store, to the teenager on her cell phone while I try and enjoy a movie, rudeness is everywhere. People make a big deal that credit card information on the internet will be used by hundreds of crooks within minutes, but do you really think if you laid your wallet down in a crowded shopping mall anything different would happen?
In short, this underlying belief that humanity's "asshole" bit is set to off by default just doesn't sit well with me.
I'm at a small liberal arts school. Everything email would do, is done on Facebook now. Impromptu gatherings such as heading out to the cafeteria for dinner as a group are done via text message or IM. The only time I use email is for emailing professors about a class, or members of the administration as part of student government. Email is used to send out official reminders by the adminstration, such as snow closures, or reminders for when the add/drop period will end.
My father worked for a large federal agency with just such a system.
All I had to do was say his name and I was his son, and I got in.
This was not when I was young either - I was 18 and a senior at the time, and had never visited him at work before.
Security guards can get just as lax as employees.
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My toaster could run Vista if you slapped 3 gigs of ram in it.
Google reader has an issue that the screen is so small, I can't scroll through the sidebar where my feeds list is, only the many window on the right, so I'd love to know how you got Google Reader viewable.
Can you support this with a citation? My college has a number of Cuban American students. I've talked with them about the embargo, and they all felt that all it did was hurt the Cuban people. Keep in mind: Most Cuban immigrants still have relatives living in Cuba.
Isn't this age discrimination? Do they have such a concept in UK law?
I though we had debunked the "GPL IS VIRAL!!!11!!1!!" argument long ago.
Check out Macports. It lets you install all sorts of GNU software through a command line interface similar to debian's "apt get".
I disagree!
"The $45 card will be optional and cannot be used for air travel." Ok... the only times I've ever used a passport via land was going to Niagara Falls, and it was not a long wait at all. Maybe 6 cars ahead of me at the crossing, and it took maybe two minutes maximum. Even a tourbus took maybe twenty minutes to process. We were told to place our birth certificates on our laps (this was before the passport requirement). The border officer walked up to each of us, asked our place of birth, looking to see if we hesitated or otherwise seemed nervous, then picking them up and taking a look to make sure it's not a forgery. In short, a massive privacy risk increase, for what? The only time I can see this helping is seaports, and that's such a small percentage of border crossings it seems to me to be an unwise idea.
What does the fact I never remember my dreams mean? That I'm fully prepared for the Worst Case Scenario? The Freudian implications, if properly realized, would turn my mind to jelly? Some combination of the two?
College sophmore here. I rarely use books - when I need to reference something, I use the library's online databases. I can access these from my dorm room. I do use the library regularly still to study, but just because it's the one place on campus I can find some peace and quiet.
You want a driving simulator for google earth? Will this suffice? http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
Can't seem to find their 2007 predictions online... how convenient.
Link to the OSX version on their site is broken. Anyone know of a mirror? (email is gregnorc@gmail.com)
Forgot to select "plain text". Here's the above post, properly formatted.
Here's a quote from 2005, from Chuck's own website on the "Chuck Norris Facts" phenomenon:
"I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts."
Here is Chuck reading a top ten list of the quotes, cracking up as he does so on "The Best Damn Sports Show Ever":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8QAeoFdM5g
Maddox had an entire chapter in his book "The Alphabet of Manliness" dedicated to Chuck Norris related humor. Yet no lawsuit then.
The site that created the phenomenon, http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/ has been selling shirts with his face on them for years, no lawsuit.
I'm sorry, but this is a dick move, plain and simple. Chuck Norris has repeatedly and publicly stated he found the jokes funny. Now, when he's finding out that the fanbase who resurrected his career is mostly college age liberals and are none too thrilled with his endorsement of Huckabee, what does he do to line his pockets? Sue one of the people who brought his name back into the spotlight. If it wasn't for Chuck Norris facts, his pockets wouldn't be lined with Huckabee's money anyways.
Here's a quote from 2005, from Chuck's own website on the "Chuck Norris Facts" phenomenon: "I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts." Here is Chuck reading a top ten list of the quotes, cracking up as he does so on "The Best Damn Sports Show Ever": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8QAeoFdM5g Maddox had an entire chapter in his book "The Alphabet of Manliness" dedicated to Chuck Norris related humor. Yet no lawsuit then. The site that created the phenomenon, http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/ has been selling shirts with his face on them for years, no lawsuit. I'm sorry, but this is a dick move, plain and simple. Chuck Norris has repeatedly and publicly stated he found the jokes funny. Now, when he's finding out that the fanbase who resurrected his career is mostly college age liberals and are none too thrilled with his endorsement of Huckabee, what does he do to line his pockets? Sue one of the people who brought his name back into the spotlight. If it wasn't for Chuck Norris facts, his pockets wouldn't be lined with Huckabee's money anyways.
I still maintain the best security feature of Firefox is the bookmarks toolbar. Oh look, my bank wants me to log into my account! *click on known good link in toolbar* Go figure, no message from the bank in my secure messaging center on their site. Aw shucks. (Second place goes to noscript however. Love that little guy)
That sounds like the set up to a heist movie... "Hello? Oh yes officer this is Jack Smith from Security up here at Initech. We're having some penetration testers here this week to test our physical security, so you can disregard any reports of breaking and entering and the like... Yes you're welcome for the heads up, we at Initech value our close relationship with the community... you have a good day too sir." Then you move in and rob the place blind.
Let's wait and see what the secret mailing list cabal has to say before we worry our pretty little heads about such things.
Maybe not that bad, but it will probably be a dictionary word, thus making said encryption useless when some script kiddie cracks it in 5 minutes.
Two words my friend: Plausible Deniability.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature dammit!"
A couple of mythbusters interns covered this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3pKagV26c8
We are operating under the basic assumption people who are assholes online are not assholes offline.
I see rudeness everywhere, not just the internet. From the tailgater on the highway, to the woman cutting me in line at the grocery store, to the teenager on her cell phone while I try and enjoy a movie, rudeness is everywhere. People make a big deal that credit card information on the internet will be used by hundreds of crooks within minutes, but do you really think if you laid your wallet down in a crowded shopping mall anything different would happen?
In short, this underlying belief that humanity's "asshole" bit is set to off by default just doesn't sit well with me.
I don't know where you go to college.
I'm at a small liberal arts school. Everything email would do, is done on Facebook now. Impromptu gatherings such as heading out to the cafeteria for dinner as a group are done via text message or IM. The only time I use email is for emailing professors about a class, or members of the administration as part of student government. Email is used to send out official reminders by the adminstration, such as snow closures, or reminders for when the add/drop period will end.
My father worked for a large federal agency with just such a system. All I had to do was say his name and I was his son, and I got in. This was not when I was young either - I was 18 and a senior at the time, and had never visited him at work before. Security guards can get just as lax as employees.