Yeah, why is it that three dots and a wannabe circle have the same name? Wikipedia says they both come from the name "élleipsis", which apparently means "omission" when you're talking about the dots, and suddenly means "falling short" when it's about circles.
So when my shorts are falling, does that mean parts of me wants to be a circle?
Well, explaining a joke is hardly ever funny, it wasn't very insightful, it didn't provide anything new so it wasn't interesting. Leaves troll, but they were trying to be helpful, or redundant or informative. Since I didn't know about any Lord Lucan, it (arguably) was informative, and so thus not a troll.
And this is Schneier's point: Whatever inherent problems there may be in software security, the vast majority of Windows users - let's call a spade a spade - work in an environment that is so utterly flawed that there is a quantum difference between the security issues they face and the vastly more limited security issues they could be facing, if only the manufacturers would cease to treat security as a cost centre external to their core business. You keep using that word. You should look it up, I don't think it means what you think it means.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/Seamonke y is currently using 351 MB of memory, according to Windows Taskmanager. That's after 5 days of uptime, and no exception. I know, it's not Firefox, but I suppose there is a large code base shared.
No race is really evil in WoW; at the end of the day, every race was used by some greater evil or very sorry about what they've done. No one HAS to follow the honor system, but the rewards and rules are equal to every race.
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Yeah, why is it that three dots and a wannabe circle have the same name? Wikipedia says they both come from the name "élleipsis", which apparently means "omission" when you're talking about the dots, and suddenly means "falling short" when it's about circles.
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So when my shorts are falling, does that mean parts of me wants to be a circle?
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</rant> That always bugged me
We're on slashdot, so maybe your examples are ill-chosen...
Well, I, for one, didn't know the GP was Chines :+
"What do all men with power want? More power."
The US has a Constitution? How's that working out for you?
Well, explaining a joke is hardly ever funny, it wasn't very insightful, it didn't provide anything new so it wasn't interesting. Leaves troll, but they were trying to be helpful, or redundant or informative. Since I didn't know about any Lord Lucan, it (arguably) was informative, and so thus not a troll.
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Isn't that the whole point? To be discarded from their data?
Of course we're at war with Google. We've always been at war with Google.
The story of the movie of course. Most movies don't revolve around computers.
I'm a clod, you insensitive troll!
I believe you mean "Hell, it's about time."
Are you saying that pants are a sufficient defense against rape?
Hydrogen?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/Seamonke y is currently using 351 MB of memory, according to Windows Taskmanager. That's after 5 days of uptime, and no exception. I know, it's not Firefox, but I suppose there is a large code base shared.
No race is really evil in WoW; at the end of the day, every race was used by some greater evil or very sorry about what they've done. No one HAS to follow the honor system, but the rewards and rules are equal to every race.