How can this possibly be entrapment? You get in the car (that isn't yours) and you drive off with it, and you get caught. It doesn't matter if the engine is running or what, the only exception might be if they wrote a big sign saying "Please steal me" and stuck it on the car (in which case they would only catch the really really stupid criminals).
As for leaving something out on the sidewalk, I suspect there are laws about abandoned property that would apply (since someone could pick it up with the intent to turn it in/return it). I don't see how someone could get into someone else's car and drive off with the same intentions.....
Never again will I need to hunt for tools to work on my computer, now I can store them with the computer itself (and yet not have them lying around in a big pile).
And who gets to name the multi-tentacled 4 eyed gray puddings that live on them??? Just wait until filthy rich folks are allowed to launch ships and homestead planets (why it's the planet of BillGatus!) Will the future founders of these planets get to pick their own forms of government? Will they quickly evolve so differently (both physically and culterally) that they won't even be recognizeable?
Biohackathon??
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Biohackathon
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· Score: 3, Funny
The title makes it sound like either some place where you splice various animal body parts onto other animals (sign me up for a few extra arms and a pair of wings) or perhaps a real life version of a certain FP Shooter (VRROOOMMM chainsaw, is it still a shooter if you only use a chainsaw???).
And while you are at it, please add patches to automatically send email when the user views child porn, saves his/her favorite drug recipes in a word processor, or deletes email related to the ongoing Enron or Microsoft trials.
Some old linux disks are getting sent over with all that computer hardware. Then all they would need is a reliable source of electricity and a net connection and they could be sending the US *THEIR* trash in 20 years.
...what the hell do the volunteer colonists (and their descendants) do for the hundreds of years it would take to get anywhere?
My bet is that after generation two or three they would have plenty of screaming and crying to do as warp drive ships caught up to them, laughing as they screamed by to get to the same destination a few hundred years sooner.
Then again, if you never build a ship to go because you are waiting for the next big breakthrough....
People, in general, (and I'm stereotyping here,) enjoy the experience of renting a movie.
Yeah I must admit I really miss wrestling over the last copy of videos down at the local video store, and then waiting in line for 20 minutes to rent it for over $3. Seriously tho, so far I have had a good experience with Netflix (I have been using their service for the past few months). Certain videos do seem to be gone out of circulation for a long time (especially kids videos) but if I just couldn't wait to see it, heck I could go rent it/buy it locally. Come to think of it, half the time I go to Blockbuster what I want to rent (in the DVD section anyway) has already been rented too. I have to assume as their business picks up, they will start to buy more videos or else lose hordes of customers. And I agree with an earlier poster, they should sell their old and just sitting on the shelf videos...
I have been alot more paranoid about returning them to a REAL post office box (i.e. one located in an actual post office, as opposed to leaving them in the outgoing mail basket at work) and so far no problems either direction. I figure I have been easily getting at least 6 videos/month, so the price is reasonable, and not having to pay late fees has certainly saved me money there (why is it I can never get the stinkin videos back to Blockbuster on time??)
Doctors are calling for vibrating computer game controllers to carry health warnings after a teenager developed a painful condition known as hand-arm vibration syndrome.
They are basing this freaking out on one single case??? Perhaps a study is in order, anyone want to get paid to play games all day?:-)
But if Larry's next payment to Russia for his newest MiG comes due and he doesn't have the cash, he just changes the pricing structure on the Oracle RDBMS
So THIS is how he plans to get rid of the competition. (Pictures of MIG flown by Larry flying over competitors corporate HQ, surface to air missiles a-flying). Can we all chip in and buy one of these for Linus?
The hot gases belching out of your car's exhaust are not just useless waste. They are a laser waiting to happen, says physicist Marlan Scully
I sure hope this doesn't change the global warming going on or all that beachfront-after-the polar-icecaps-melt property I bought will remain high and dry (scuba diving in downtown LA whoohooooo)
An alternate version of 2 is that interstellar travel is far more difficult than we think it is. Right now, it doesn't seem much beyond the boundaries of current technology to launch "generation ships," which power systems.
The problem isn't CAN we do it, but WILL we do it. Who knows, maybe by the time a species hits a certain technological threshold, apathy takes over. Based on our current spending in the "explore and colonize space" arena, we have been there for 20 years now, and its getting worse.
Its hard to imagine....
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Review: Kung Pow
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· Score: 5, Interesting
...any movie I would want to see less, given the trailer. On the upside, I am guessing that if I did go see the movie, I wouldn't be disappointed; at least I KNOW it sucks, where these days often the trailer deceives me so......
Now if only there was a way to remotely electrocute the current machine's user when they touched the keyboard (this feature might be useful in a day to day network environment as well).
Price delivered ~$202 each. Cost of balls of toilet paper stuffed into each ear so I don't have to hear my noisy case: free if I steal it from a public restroom. Plus I would really miss the feeling of hot air blowing on me as I sit next to my computer. Yeah my components would last longer, but what excuse would I have to upgrade if they didn't burn up now and then?????
When AOL bought Netscape (and weren't they making deals with Gateway for awhile there?) I thought FOR SURE they were going to offer an "AOL machine" through Gateway running Linux. Imagine the possibilities: user calls in, saying machine is broken. No problem says the tech, just slip in your recovery CD/floppy which causes your machine to dial in to some number somewhere (maybe setting the root password to a default) and I will LOG INTO your machine and fix it. Not to mention that if the user wasn't root, it would be hard for him to trash the whole machine, just his account. This situation seems IDEAL for joe user who reads email, does wordprocessing, and surfs the web (help out loki and you get games too:-) ). All without hefty fees to M$.
(Speaking on the big ventilation system and the wind system it creates)"It was essential," said Tony Kendle, science director at the Eden Foundation. "Because visitors' hair would catch fire if the upper reaches of the dome weren't properly ventilated! The engineers designed a chimney effect and computer-modeled vents to create a wind stream, but there are places where it really whistles."
I envision a TV program somewhere between "Survivor" and "Candid Camera" where they turn off the ventilation system and film the results.
Now instead of one big honkin noisy fan, we can have the same noisy motor drive zillions of lil itty bitty fans (imagine if every little vent hole in your computer had a fan in it wheeeeee). Or maybe a huge wall full of these, would be safer to stick your finger into that then a big cut-your-finger-off fan.
Yes, but when you can get a decent machine for less than $200 and a redhat CD for $8 from cheapbytes, why spend $80 for windows XP, which you technically have to purchase with new hardware, and wouldn't run on your used machine anyway? As for net access, thats where we luck out here in the U.S. since many libraries offer free access (nothing there to do with linux there, unless your library uses it).
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How can this possibly be entrapment? You get in the car (that isn't yours) and you drive off with it, and you get caught. It doesn't matter if the engine is running or what, the only exception might be if they wrote a big sign saying "Please steal me" and stuck it on the car (in which case they would only catch the really really stupid criminals).
As for leaving something out on the sidewalk, I suspect there are laws about abandoned property that would apply (since someone could pick it up with the intent to turn it in/return it). I don't see how someone could get into someone else's car and drive off with the same intentions.....
Never again will I need to hunt for tools to work on my computer, now I can store them with the computer itself (and yet not have them lying around in a big pile).
Wayne County, only slightly more hospitable than the surface of Mars
And who gets to name the multi-tentacled 4 eyed gray puddings that live on them??? Just wait until filthy rich folks are allowed to launch ships and homestead planets (why it's the planet of BillGatus!) Will the future founders of these planets get to pick their own forms of government? Will they quickly evolve so differently (both physically and culterally) that they won't even be recognizeable?
The title makes it sound like either some place where you splice various animal body parts onto other animals (sign me up for a few extra arms and a pair of wings) or perhaps a real life version of a certain FP Shooter (VRROOOMMM chainsaw, is it still a shooter if you only use a chainsaw???).
And while you are at it, please add patches to automatically send email when the user views child porn, saves his/her favorite drug recipes in a word processor, or deletes email related to the ongoing Enron or Microsoft trials.
Some old linux disks are getting sent over with all that computer hardware. Then all they would need is a reliable source of electricity and a net connection and they could be sending the US *THEIR* trash in 20 years.
...what the hell do the volunteer colonists (and their descendants) do for the hundreds of years it would take to get anywhere?
My bet is that after generation two or three they would have plenty of screaming and crying to do as warp drive ships caught up to them, laughing as they screamed by to get to the same destination a few hundred years sooner.
Then again, if you never build a ship to go because you are waiting for the next big breakthrough....
You see if you can strike a landmine with a hammer faster :-)
Yeah I must admit I really miss wrestling over the last copy of videos down at the local video store, and then waiting in line for 20 minutes to rent it for over $3. Seriously tho, so far I have had a good experience with Netflix (I have been using their service for the past few months). Certain videos do seem to be gone out of circulation for a long time (especially kids videos) but if I just couldn't wait to see it, heck I could go rent it/buy it locally. Come to think of it, half the time I go to Blockbuster what I want to rent (in the DVD section anyway) has already been rented too. I have to assume as their business picks up, they will start to buy more videos or else lose hordes of customers. And I agree with an earlier poster, they should sell their old and just sitting on the shelf videos...
I have been alot more paranoid about returning them to a REAL post office box (i.e. one located in an actual post office, as opposed to leaving them in the outgoing mail basket at work) and so far no problems either direction. I figure I have been easily getting at least 6 videos/month, so the price is reasonable, and not having to pay late fees has certainly saved me money there (why is it I can never get the stinkin videos back to Blockbuster on time??)
Just how many movies/cds can you watch/listen to while waiting for your 5 minute pizza to cook in the microwave??
Doctors are calling for vibrating computer game controllers to carry health warnings after a teenager developed a painful condition known as hand-arm vibration syndrome.
They are basing this freaking out on one single case??? Perhaps a study is in order, anyone want to get paid to play games all day?
Not only that but it mows and fertilizes your lawn!
Is March the month where they fix all the new bugs introduced by this month's fixes?
So THIS is how he plans to get rid of the competition. (Pictures of MIG flown by Larry flying over competitors corporate HQ, surface to air missiles a-flying). Can we all chip in and buy one of these for Linus?
The hot gases belching out of your car's exhaust are not just useless waste. They are a laser waiting to happen, says physicist Marlan Scully
I sure hope this doesn't change the global warming going on or all that beachfront-after-the polar-icecaps-melt property I bought will remain high and dry (scuba diving in downtown LA whoohooooo)
An alternate version of 2 is that interstellar travel is far more difficult than we think it is. Right now, it doesn't seem much beyond the boundaries of current technology to launch "generation ships," which power systems.
The problem isn't CAN we do it, but WILL we do it. Who knows, maybe by the time a species hits a certain technological threshold, apathy takes over. Based on our current spending in the "explore and colonize space" arena, we have been there for 20 years now, and its getting worse.
...any movie I would want to see less, given the trailer. On the upside, I am guessing that if I did go see the movie, I wouldn't be disappointed; at least I KNOW it sucks, where these days often the trailer deceives me so......
Now if only there was a way to remotely electrocute the current machine's user when they touched the keyboard (this feature might be useful in a day to day network environment as well).
Price delivered ~$202 each. Cost of balls of toilet paper stuffed into each ear so I don't have to hear my noisy case: free if I steal it from a public restroom. Plus I would really miss the feeling of hot air blowing on me as I sit next to my computer. Yeah my components would last longer, but what excuse would I have to upgrade if they didn't burn up now and then?????
When AOL bought Netscape (and weren't they making deals with Gateway for awhile there?) I thought FOR SURE they were going to offer an "AOL machine" through Gateway running Linux. Imagine the possibilities: user calls in, saying machine is broken. No problem says the tech, just slip in your recovery CD/floppy which causes your machine to dial in to some number somewhere (maybe setting the root password to a default) and I will LOG INTO your machine and fix it. Not to mention that if the user wasn't root, it would be hard for him to trash the whole machine, just his account. This situation seems IDEAL for joe user who reads email, does wordprocessing, and surfs the web (help out loki and you get games too :-) ). All without hefty fees to M$.
I envision a TV program somewhere between "Survivor" and "Candid Camera" where they turn off the ventilation system and film the results.
Now instead of one big honkin noisy fan, we can have the same noisy motor drive zillions of lil itty bitty fans (imagine if every little vent hole in your computer had a fan in it wheeeeee). Or maybe a huge wall full of these, would be safer to stick your finger into that then a big cut-your-finger-off fan.
Yes, but when you can get a decent machine for less than $200 and a redhat CD for $8 from cheapbytes, why spend $80 for windows XP, which you technically have to purchase with new hardware, and wouldn't run on your used machine anyway? As for net access, thats where we luck out here in the U.S. since many libraries offer free access (nothing there to do with linux there, unless your library uses it).
Our relations will depend entirely upon a) how well armed they are and b) how good they taste with ketchup.