Not the first one? I saw this webpage about 4 years ago. And then I couldn't find it again. And now I've found it, since it was posted on slashdot, but now it's not cool anymore, because it was posted on slashdot. Sigh.
That just means he has a security clearance. Lots of people have security clearances. I worked for a fortune 500 company that does a lot of government work - about 1/3 of the company has a secret clearance. They were trying to get a couple of us sysadmins to get security clearances so that we could go into classified areas without being escorted.
A security clearance is not a big deal. And it doesn't mean you worked directly for the government.
The most bizarre thing I've ever found in a keyboard is ashes. It was completely full, there couldn't have been any more ashes without them overflowing.
The person who's keyboard it was typed with a cigarette in his hands, all the time. He'd let ashes drop onto the keyboard constantly.
Expiration date is not part of credit card verification. Trust me. The next time you order something with your credit card, give a different expiration date. As long as it's in the future, it will work.
Also drug dealers usually offer great deals for first-time buyers, then once they have a steady customer
who's come to depend on them they start the gouging.
Sorry, but this is not true. This is part of the drug war propoganda. It's based on the premise that after trying drugs, one will become instantly addicted. It also tries to tell people that drug dealers are completely evil.
The reality of it is that drug dealers either charge a consistant price, the local market price, or some markup based on what they paid. There's no "new customer discount". It simply doesn't happen. There's no "first one's free". A regular customer doesn't see a price increase. If any change, a regular customer sees a price decrease, either to ensure loyalty, or as a gesture of honesty (e.g. "I got this cheaper, so I'm giving it to you for cheaper."), or out of simple kindness for someone that has either made them lots of money or perhaps that they've become friends with.
Everyone should learn Lojban.
It is a language designed to be logical, clear, and easy to learn. There is no reason that the world should not pick a good language to standardize on.
Obviously caffeine is water soluble. The production of coffee from ground coffee beans demonstrates this. The caffeine dissolved in soft drinks demonstrates this. Don't believe common sense? Then look at this, from its merck entry:
One gram dissolves in 46 ml water, 5.5 ml water at 80 C, 1.5 ml boiling water, 66 ml alcohol, 22 ml alcohol at 60 C, 50 ml acetone, 5.5 ml chloroform, 530 ml ether, 100 ml benzene, 22 ml boiling benzene. Freely sol in pyrrole; in tetrahydrofuran contg about 4% water; also sol in ethyl acetate; slightly in petr ether. Soly in water is increased by alkali benzoates, cinnamates, citrates, or salicylates.
That seems unlikely to me, simply because coffee has a subjectively identical stimulating effect as soda (where pure caffeine was added), caffeine pills, or pure caffeine from a chemical supplier. If other stimulants are present in coffee, they have either an effect that can not be distinguished from caffeine, or they play a minor role.
Caffeine is dangerous, try crystal meth
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While caffeine is useful because of its easy availability in the US, for an equal amount of stimulation it raises the pulse and blood pressure significantly more than methamphetamine. Caffeine has a narrower LD50/ED50 ratio, and more serious side effects. People have been talking about massive caffeine doses, on the order of grams. A small dose of amphetamine or methamphetamine would be much safer.
The main danger of amphetamine and methamphetamine is that they are effective enough stimulants that people can stay awake for days/weeks. Obviously, you should not do this.
Radiation damage to the reproductive organs would at worst result in sterility. Many people pay good money for sterility. This could be advertised as a free benefit of cellphones that transmit from your pocket.
Switches do not exist to prevent sniffing all traffic. The fact that switches make it difficult (requiring an active attack) to sniff traffic that isn't yours is a minor security gain, but not usually the purpose for buying a switch.
A switch is not a security device. A switch does not make it impossible to sniff your network. With access to the switch, it is still possible to easily sniff a network (configuring a port to receive all traffic).
If the brakes of the car in front of you are suddenly and unexpectedly applied, you will not hit that vehicle, because you were following at a safe distance.
Is FAA approval really necessary? What are the penalties for flying an unauthorized vehicle? In his place, I would consider that risk negligible compared to the risk of death from failure of the craft.
Why is driving while talking on a cellphone dangerous? Is it because it involves the concentration of listening and talking? In that case, why do you not also complain about people talking to their passengers? Or is it because it occupies a hand? Why then do you not complain about people who only have one hand who drive?
I kept thinking back to a short story I read once as a child about a man in the future who was arrested for "walking" at night. No other reason. I could feel the same insanity in F 451.
Currently in the US, people are arrested frequently for walking at night. Many cities have curfew laws - if you're below a certain age, you can't be outside past a certain time.
Sheesh, this guy just doesn't get it. If those particular browsers do something stupid, is that really a reason to cripple your web page?
From the fact that he purposely does not use ALT tags and went so far as to put an explanation for it in the source, I think it somehow became a personal issue with him. I think that there was a discussion (or perhaps more than one) about whether or not it should display the ALT tag. He probably won in the past, but eventually, someone went over/around/behind him to do it. If that's the case, some bitterness is quite understandable.
Sure, you can see the great wall of China from Space. Not an urban legend.
I think the idea behind the urban legend is that the unaided eye can see it from orbit, which is not true. And if it were true, there would be many other things you could see, like highways in the US. The image you linked to, while interesting, is a radar image.
With the right equipment, you can see people from space.
Slashdot Mirror
Not the first one? I saw this webpage about 4 years ago. And then I couldn't find it again. And now I've found it, since it was posted on slashdot, but now it's not cool anymore, because it was posted on slashdot. Sigh.
Sorry, but lactic acid is not responsible for muscle soreness after exercise. It is responsible for the burning feeling during exercise.
That just means he has a security clearance. Lots of people have security clearances. I worked for a fortune 500 company that does a lot of government work - about 1/3 of the company has a secret clearance. They were trying to get a couple of us sysadmins to get security clearances so that we could go into classified areas without being escorted.
A security clearance is not a big deal. And it doesn't mean you worked directly for the government.
Wow - cuecatatemyballs.com! Boggles the mind.
The most bizarre thing I've ever found in a keyboard is ashes. It was completely full, there couldn't have been any more ashes without them overflowing.
The person who's keyboard it was typed with a cigarette in his hands, all the time. He'd let ashes drop onto the keyboard constantly.
Expiration date is not part of credit card verification. Trust me. The next time you order something with your credit card, give a different expiration date. As long as it's in the future, it will work.
The expiration date serves no real purpose.
Sorry, but this is not true. This is part of the drug war propoganda. It's based on the premise that after trying drugs, one will become instantly addicted. It also tries to tell people that drug dealers are completely evil.
The reality of it is that drug dealers either charge a consistant price, the local market price, or some markup based on what they paid. There's no "new customer discount". It simply doesn't happen. There's no "first one's free". A regular customer doesn't see a price increase. If any change, a regular customer sees a price decrease, either to ensure loyalty, or as a gesture of honesty (e.g. "I got this cheaper, so I'm giving it to you for cheaper."), or out of simple kindness for someone that has either made them lots of money or perhaps that they've become friends with.
"First one's free" is a load of crap.
Everyone should learn Lojban. It is a language designed to be logical, clear, and easy to learn. There is no reason that the world should not pick a good language to standardize on.
BSD/OS is neither free software, Free Software, nor open source.
One gram dissolves in 46 ml water, 5.5 ml water at 80 C, 1.5 ml boiling water, 66 ml alcohol, 22 ml alcohol at 60 C, 50 ml acetone, 5.5 ml chloroform, 530 ml ether, 100 ml benzene, 22 ml boiling benzene. Freely sol in pyrrole; in tetrahydrofuran contg about 4% water; also sol in ethyl acetate; slightly in petr ether. Soly in water is increased by alkali benzoates, cinnamates, citrates, or salicylates.
That seems unlikely to me, simply because coffee has a subjectively identical stimulating effect as soda (where pure caffeine was added), caffeine pills, or pure caffeine from a chemical supplier. If other stimulants are present in coffee, they have either an effect that can not be distinguished from caffeine, or they play a minor role.
While caffeine is useful because of its easy availability in the US, for an equal amount of stimulation it raises the pulse and blood pressure significantly more than methamphetamine. Caffeine has a narrower LD50/ED50 ratio, and more serious side effects. People have been talking about massive caffeine doses, on the order of grams. A small dose of amphetamine or methamphetamine would be much safer.
The main danger of amphetamine and methamphetamine is that they are effective enough stimulants that people can stay awake for days/weeks. Obviously, you should not do this.
Radiation damage to the reproductive organs would at worst result in sterility. Many people pay good money for sterility. This could be advertised as a free benefit of cellphones that transmit from your pocket.
Switches do not exist to prevent sniffing all traffic. The fact that switches make it difficult (requiring an active attack) to sniff traffic that isn't yours is a minor security gain, but not usually the purpose for buying a switch.
A switch is not a security device. A switch does not make it impossible to sniff your network. With access to the switch, it is still possible to easily sniff a network (configuring a port to receive all traffic).
How could the switch possibly tell that the interface is in promiscuous mode?
If the brakes of the car in front of you are suddenly and unexpectedly applied, you will not hit that vehicle, because you were following at a safe distance.
When you buy coffee, do you expect it to be near-boiling? Do you expect it to cause third degree burns if spilled on you?
Is FAA approval really necessary? What are the penalties for flying an unauthorized vehicle? In his place, I would consider that risk negligible compared to the risk of death from failure of the craft.
Exodus has been mentioned several times.
Their cages, at least in New Jersey, have only about 5 different keys. That is, every key opens about one in five cages. Try it.
Why is driving while talking on a cellphone dangerous? Is it because it involves the concentration of listening and talking? In that case, why do you not also complain about people talking to their passengers? Or is it because it occupies a hand? Why then do you not complain about people who only have one hand who drive?
Currently in the US, people are arrested frequently for walking at night. Many cities have curfew laws - if you're below a certain age, you can't be outside past a certain time.
The BBC tells us that a Cray T3E is only 8 times faster than a desktop. That's slower than a Sun Enterprise 3500. Is the BBC lying to us?
From the fact that he purposely does not use ALT tags and went so far as to put an explanation for it in the source, I think it somehow became a personal issue with him. I think that there was a discussion (or perhaps more than one) about whether or not it should display the ALT tag. He probably won in the past, but eventually, someone went over/around/behind him to do it. If that's the case, some bitterness is quite understandable.
It does the same for me, consistantly. (Netscape hangs, and needs to be kill -9'd)
If I turn Javascript off, it works - but that's the reason I use Netscape, so many pages require Javascript to be usable.
I think the idea behind the urban legend is that the unaided eye can see it from orbit, which is not true. And if it were true, there would be many other things you could see, like highways in the US. The image you linked to, while interesting, is a radar image.
With the right equipment, you can see people from space.