Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia? Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime. The other's a computer company.
i dont know an obvious answer. i'm kind of out of touch with 8 year olds, but they havent heard of carmack or musk and think that tesla's a band. wil wheaton isn't famous enough, oh i dunno maybe he is do kids these days watch next generation reruns on spike? he pops up on eureka and csi and that one with the nerds... now and then. i guess 8 year olds dont watch the guild. or know who randall munroe is. hey how about richard branson? a lot of 8 year olds are virgins these days.
we got a jitterbug for my mom. she's 80 and almost blind, so it really helps. i'd get one myself if it were a bit cheaper. i've had email since 1980, but i can't get used to these newfangled cell phone thingies. currently i have a landline, where the cord goes out the window and plugs into the box; there's something wring with the house wiring.
We need names for both the star and the planet. Bonus points for naming the other planets as well. Uh, how bout Gimli for the star and Goldilocks for the planet?
California voters are likely to legalize and tax small amounts of pod at this november's election, polls say. How about iRack, iRan,iCecream? Are those within the scope of apple's trademark?
As the singularity approaches, home appliances like toasters and tvs get smarter and more networked. The last time I had a computer that ran on my tv was 1990, a very used c-64.
another example is the potato. like bananas, potatoes are usually cloned from each other rather than grown from seed. sometime around 1850, a potato blight hit ireland. since the potatoes were mostly clones of each other, they were all susceptible to the blight. the result was a famine, and the result of that is that 1/2 of americans today are of irish descent. has coffee been dna sequenced yet?
jail is a primary social network. you think you are close with your frat brothers or coworkers? try doing time in joilet. so i guess illinois is saying registered sex offenders won't be allowed in jails anymore.
The Pew Research Center has little to do with reality. How they choose to define "scientist" is relevant. That is, the population being sampled is one of the factors in what the results are. I'm guessing they oversampled university employees and people who receive government grants, who tend to be democrats, and undersampled people who use scientific method in their work, such as farmers.
It's called "extreme video" for a reason. they were intentionally not making the bland boring sorts of porn, ala vivid entertainmen, but were pushing limits. combine the typical horror genre and the typical porno and you get their kind of stuff. under clinton, porn wasn't prosecuted. bush and ashcroft came in and started going after this stuff, but it bit them on the ass when extreme won the first round in court. after 9-11, bush moveed prosecutors from the war on porn to the war of terror. Extreme was able to ride out thee Bush administration. Maybe they had "hope" for "change", instead they got "same", so cutting a plea bargaain makes sense now. They will do a year, emerge as heroes.
a free book from tim o'reilly, about dune
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The twitter book costs.12-14$ + shipping. Here's a free copy of tim's first book, the one that turned him into a writer. "My first book, Frank Herbert, is online at http://tim.oreilly.com/sci-fi/herbert/." It's about the author of Dune, and it's one of the best pieces of literary criticism I've ever read.
Become a rock star. Or a piano player in a whorehouse. Or, remember the community theatre suggestion? tell em you can do wiring (if you can) and that you play keyboards. That gets you the setting. Now for the skills: go buy tynan's "make her chase you". Tynan.net
Once electricity prices start seriously ramping up (which they inevitably will), companies will be giving their utility bills a lot more scrutiny.
I suggest you look at photovoltaics and a little thing called Moore's law. Electricity will be cheaper in the future than in the now. Of course, conservation, including automagically turning off unused computers, is still the best buy. But my computer stays on. 8 months out of the year, it's an efficient electric heater. 2 months out of the year, it's an undesirable heat source and i might turn off the monitor at night if i think about it. The article, not that i read it, didn't seem to account for the heating value of the "wasted" electricity. In most of the country most of the time, electric heat is a pretty good buy compared to natural gas, coal, oil, firewood, personal nuke, whale oil, or other options.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?pagewanted=all
does anyone have a link to tfa? article link is broken (not just slashdotted)
Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia?
Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime.
The other's a computer company.
i dont know an obvious answer. i'm kind of out of touch with 8 year olds, but they havent heard of carmack or musk and think that tesla's a band.
wil wheaton isn't famous enough, oh i dunno maybe he is do kids these days watch next generation reruns on spike?
he pops up on eureka and csi and that one with the nerds... now and then. i guess 8 year olds dont watch the guild. or know who randall munroe is.
hey how about richard branson? a lot of 8 year olds are virgins these days.
i was thinking more http://xkcd.com/695/ (might not be safe for work; some people cry when reading this)
we got a jitterbug for my mom. she's 80 and almost blind, so it really helps.
i'd get one myself if it were a bit cheaper. i've had email since 1980, but i can't get used to these newfangled cell phone thingies.
currently i have a landline, where the cord goes out the window and plugs into the box; there's something wring with the house wiring.
bad idea, you'd get sued a lot.
INO, right?
in a universe without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates? - Muso Soseki, 1340.
How's the old joke go? In space, the hotelkeepers are Russian, the taxi drivers are British, the.. I forget the rest, anybody?
We need names for both the star and the planet. Bonus points for naming the other planets as well.
Uh, how bout Gimli for the star and Goldilocks for the planet?
California voters are likely to legalize and tax small amounts of pod at this november's election, polls say.
How about iRack, iRan,iCecream? Are those within the scope of apple's trademark?
As the singularity approaches, home appliances like toasters and tvs get smarter and more networked. The last time I had a computer that ran on my tv was 1990, a very used c-64.
A subpoena is different from a warrant. A warrant requires probable cause and the (rubber stamp) of a magistrate or judge.
My comments on alice and bob are in the comment thread at volokh, if the site ever comes back up.
I submitted this same story to slashdot last night.
http://slashdot.org/journal/247318/Federal-Court-Eliminates-Fourth-Amendment-Protection-in-E-Mail?art_pos=1
there's a few billion people who a) dont have cars and b) can't afford what i spend on gas.
my car, btw, an 88 volvo, gets up to 2800 mpg. Up to.
cannonical: http://xkcd.com/322/
another example is the potato. like bananas, potatoes are usually cloned from each other rather than grown from seed.
sometime around 1850, a potato blight hit ireland. since the potatoes were mostly clones of each other, they were all susceptible to the blight.
the result was a famine, and the result of that is that 1/2 of americans today are of irish descent.
has coffee been dna sequenced yet?
jail is a primary social network. you think you are close with your frat brothers or coworkers? try doing time in joilet.
so i guess illinois is saying registered sex offenders won't be allowed in jails anymore.
The Pew Research Center has little to do with reality.
How they choose to define "scientist" is relevant. That is, the population being sampled is one of the factors in what the results are. I'm guessing they oversampled university employees and people who receive government grants, who tend to be democrats, and undersampled people who use scientific method in their work, such as farmers.
It's called "extreme video" for a reason. they were intentionally not making the bland boring sorts of porn, ala vivid entertainmen, but were pushing limits. combine the typical horror genre and the typical porno and you get their kind of stuff. under clinton, porn wasn't prosecuted. bush and ashcroft came in and started going after this stuff, but it bit them on the ass when extreme won the first round in court. after 9-11, bush moveed prosecutors from the war on porn to the war of terror. Extreme was able to ride out thee Bush administration. Maybe they had "hope" for "change", instead they got "same", so cutting a plea bargaain makes sense now. They will do a year, emerge as heroes.
The twitter book costs.12-14$ + shipping.
Here's a free copy of tim's first book, the one that turned him into a writer.
"My first book, Frank Herbert, is online at http://tim.oreilly.com/sci-fi/herbert/."
It's about the author of Dune,
and it's one of the best pieces of literary criticism I've ever read.
Become a rock star.
Or a piano player in a whorehouse.
Or, remember the community theatre suggestion? tell em you can do wiring (if you can) and that you play keyboards.
That gets you the setting. Now for the skills: go buy tynan's "make her chase you". Tynan.net
That's why I use hibernation. It takes one minute to shutdown and another to startup.
My species has been using hibernation since before you guys invented the wheel.
- g t bear at gmail
Once electricity prices start seriously ramping up (which they inevitably will), companies will be giving their utility bills a lot more scrutiny.
I suggest you look at photovoltaics and a little thing called Moore's law. Electricity will be cheaper in the future than in the now. Of course, conservation, including automagically turning off unused computers, is still the best buy. But my computer stays on. 8 months out of the year, it's an efficient electric heater. 2 months out of the year, it's an undesirable heat source and i might turn off the monitor at night if i think about it. The article, not that i read it, didn't seem to account for the heating value of the "wasted" electricity. In most of the country most of the time, electric heat is a pretty good buy compared to natural gas, coal, oil, firewood, personal nuke, whale oil, or other options.
But is it haiku-compliant?
http://xkcd.com/554/