Sorry, viruses do not contain "a tiny amount of water". Bacteria, of course, do contain water within their cell walls, but they are small enough that most of the microwaves will miss them. That's why you can't kill ants or flies in your microwave. Also see http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=26 5489
This has the nice bonus that usually no-one cares about information that's boring, so as time goes on the good stuff lingers while the blogs die; it's very similar to natural selection, right down to the immortal digital information being stored in temporary bodies.
The real risks of DRM come into play when consumers lose control of the devices they legitimately assume will have traditional functionality. Why on earth should my cellphone, a digital communication device be unable to share MY data freely with other networks? So I have to PAY for a ringtone or PAY to upload a picture I just took? Why should my wifi-enabled Zune not be able to "squirt" MY data to any nearby Zune?
That's bad enough, but the most dangerous outcome here is when I can no longer wipe and then reinstall a free operating system onto a general purpose computing device. The people might be forced to pay the microsoft tax, but we will not give up our free software.
People around you will wonder why you suddenly LOL while reading.
Harry extracted his cloak from his trunk with some difficulty, trying not to show Dumbledore the mess within. When he had stuffed it into an inside pocket of his jacket, Dumbiedore waved his wang and the trunk, cage, and Hedwig vanished. Dumbledore then waved his wang again, and the front door opened onto cool, misty darkness.
This was the problem with the.txt version I excitedly torrented right after the last book came out. All 214 occurrences.
I think many of the people submitting their images to dating or adult sites should start worrying right now...
They should have been worried a long time ago. Ever since the 80's, I and many others were too young and naive to realize the USENET archives would be indexed and available at everyone's fingertips in the future. Much of everything I ever said online in the 90's is now conveniently searchable.
So I changed my name. I can't change my face so easily though.
Anybody interested, meet me over on/b/. Maybe I'll post some of my college friends doing silly things in front of the camera:)
I often wonder if there are genuine photos of, say, Dubya with graffiti on his face floating around just waiting to come to light.
Humanity will inevitably learn new technologies to cheaply and exactly replicate patterns of matter, much as we currently are able to flawlessly and freely share patterns of information. The profound economic effects modern computing has wrought on society are about to be repeated in another echo of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions.
First we somehow learned how to share information, person-to-person, with language. Ten thousand years ago we used that to develop agriculture; we learned how to replicate plants. Then we automated that with the help of domesticated farm animals and handmade tools. We systematized all of this, and then figured out how to globally replicate and distribute the instructions for making the tools themselves. Another cycle gets us where we are today, where we can use all of the available knowledge and tools to design the *next* generation of whatever it is we're trying to do with ourselves.
So where are we going with all this, besides "burning" a batch of Viagra, Ciprofloxacin, LSD, or flu vaccine on your desktop? Maybe we need to keep an open source perspective, so you can at least cook up some aspirin as *FREELY* as you can play an.ogg. You might have to listen to Beethoven while you wait, because Britney, Beck, and Björk are still locked down (although your grandfather might have left you an illicit DVD with the Beatles discography as ancient MP3s).
No it isn't! When the clerk hands me too much change, the clerk gets screwed
It is still ethically wrong to knowingly keep the extra change. If you didn't count a few coins before dropping them in your pocket, that's one thing. But if you get back extra bills and count them and see that it's wrong, you're ethically obligated to inform the clerk and square up before leaving the store.
Since when do two wrongs make a right?
Besides, don't you check to make sure that your change is real currency and at least approximately the correct amount, before you walk away from the register? If the clerk gives you a large counterfeit bill, and you don't notice, you are SOL.
The only case I can see is if your kid is on the local news and you want a permanent record. Even then, you can usually contact the news station for that.
Yep, nothing like having your kids' videos all lined up on the shelf:
Don't worry, he's not in charge of running America. He's just another paid, idiotic talking-head shill who appears regularly in the mainstream media who doesn't really know what he's talking about. The nice thing about the Internet is, the proles like you and me can debate ideas like his head-to-head here, in discussion forums, blogs, etc. He's preaching to the choir; his audience is a couple of hundred thousand Fox News fanatics who are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Their influence and numbers are declining daily, these days, and many of the ones who do have Internet access are borderline illiterate. There's a far higher proportion of intelligent people hanging out at places like Slashdot and DailyKos.
'We're at the beginning of something important again'
His job is to say things like this. He's been saying this for over a decade. It's a lot of hot air.
The microsoft windows monopoly is becoming less relevant with each new free web-based software application/service that comes out, be it Google, YouTube, Flickr, Writely, etc. And all of those run fine on Linux.
Linus, RMS, Tim Berners-Lee, and Jimmy Wales are my biggest heroes. We need more people like them to stand up and say "I know the way, follow me, let's do this". We need more people like them who value long-term progress over short-term profit. You guys rock. Keep it going. Lots of smart people look up to you.
The little asterisk next to his nickname means he's an anarcho-capitalist. They are able to think and type much more rapidly than garden-variety Pinko-Commie/Libertarian Slashdotters.
CNN is driving me nuts lately with the Head On commercials. They even tried to make a joke of how obnoxious they are. Hate to break it to them but I switch the channel everytime they come on.
But you are now familiar with "Head On" as a brand. The average consumer is now far more likely to select Head On instead of some equally useless, but less familiar generic homeopathic headache remedy. I would guess that very few American consumers are even smart enough to research their headache remedy purchases in the first place (a quick Wikipedia search reveals the snake-oil nature of Head On)
Wasn't that the goal in the first place? Advertising works far better than anyone is willing to admit.
A while ago my mother was complaining about how her vacuum cleaner didn't suck anymore. (har). Well, she said she had heard good things about the Oreck line of vacuum cleaners. She just might have bought one of those overpriced pieces of junk, had I not been there to google for "Oreck reviews" and see what some actual real people thought about them. It turns out her preference was entirely due to constant exposure to Oreck's often lengthy advertisements and infomercials, despite the fact that she had not been paying conscious attention to them all these years.
Advertising works, and it ain't just about click-through. It's all about brand awareness and plain old brainwashing.
Nobody has mentioned the fact that within a few months of release, Vista will be the ONLY Microsoft operating system you can get on an OEM PC. You won't be able to buy an XP machine anymore because Microsoft doesn't want you to. In a free market, Windows XP would become cheaper and due to the fact that it's battle-tested, will probably be more desirable for some time, than Vista.
But there is not a free market, is there? You can't buy an OEM PC without paying some sort of windows tax, with few exceptions. And the latest windows tax is Vista.
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Sorry, viruses do not contain "a tiny amount of water". Bacteria, of course, do contain water within their cell walls, but they are small enough that most of the microwaves will miss them. That's why you can't kill ants or flies in your microwave. Also see http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=26 5489
This is, of course, quokkapox
Wait, what? Who am I?
Stack overflow, too many avatars.This has the nice bonus that usually no-one cares about information that's boring, so as time goes on the good stuff lingers while the blogs die; it's very similar to natural selection, right down to the immortal digital information being stored in temporary bodies.
Richard Dawkins, is that you?
The real risks of DRM come into play when consumers lose control of the devices they legitimately assume will have traditional functionality. Why on earth should my cellphone, a digital communication device be unable to share MY data freely with other networks? So I have to PAY for a ringtone or PAY to upload a picture I just took? Why should my wifi-enabled Zune not be able to "squirt" MY data to any nearby Zune?
That's bad enough, but the most dangerous outcome here is when I can no longer wipe and then reinstall a free operating system onto a general purpose computing device. The people might be forced to pay the microsoft tax, but we will not give up our free software.
In Soviet Russia, this would be modded "Informative".
"What causes these mysterious traffic jams that continually appear throughout the day for no reason whatsoever?
Too many cars?
Because you can s/wand/wang/ as you read.
People around you will wonder why you suddenly LOL while reading.
This was the problem with the .txt version I excitedly torrented right after the last book came out. All 214 occurrences.
Ah shit, the salesman said the trilobite fossil was 7,000. I want my money back.
That's because Creationists and Evolutionary Biologists measure trilobytes differently. It's a marketing thing, don't worry about it.
I think many of the people submitting their images to dating or adult sites should start worrying right now...
They should have been worried a long time ago. Ever since the 80's, I and many others were too young and naive to realize the USENET archives would be indexed and available at everyone's fingertips in the future. Much of everything I ever said online in the 90's is now conveniently searchable.
So I changed my name. I can't change my face so easily though.
Anybody interested, meet me over on /b/. Maybe I'll post some of my college friends doing silly things in front of the camera :)
I often wonder if there are genuine photos of, say, Dubya with graffiti on his face floating around just waiting to come to light.
Humanity will inevitably learn new technologies to cheaply and exactly replicate patterns of matter, much as we currently are able to flawlessly and freely share patterns of information. The profound economic effects modern computing has wrought on society are about to be repeated in another echo of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions.
First we somehow learned how to share information, person-to-person, with language. Ten thousand years ago we used that to develop agriculture; we learned how to replicate plants. Then we automated that with the help of domesticated farm animals and handmade tools. We systematized all of this, and then figured out how to globally replicate and distribute the instructions for making the tools themselves. Another cycle gets us where we are today, where we can use all of the available knowledge and tools to design the *next* generation of whatever it is we're trying to do with ourselves.
So where are we going with all this, besides "burning" a batch of Viagra, Ciprofloxacin, LSD, or flu vaccine on your desktop? Maybe we need to keep an open source perspective, so you can at least cook up some aspirin as *FREELY* as you can play an .ogg. You might have to listen to Beethoven while you wait, because Britney, Beck, and Björk are still locked down (although your grandfather might have left you an illicit DVD with the Beatles discography as ancient MP3s).
It took 18 years to get that freakin song out of my head.
Now, I unleash my revenge:
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, "Peter Pan", Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bwahahahahaha...
No it isn't! When the clerk hands me too much change, the clerk gets screwed
It is still ethically wrong to knowingly keep the extra change. If you didn't count a few coins before dropping them in your pocket, that's one thing. But if you get back extra bills and count them and see that it's wrong, you're ethically obligated to inform the clerk and square up before leaving the store.
Since when do two wrongs make a right?
Besides, don't you check to make sure that your change is real currency and at least approximately the correct amount, before you walk away from the register? If the clerk gives you a large counterfeit bill, and you don't notice, you are SOL.
The other day I had to help someone in payroll understand that 0.5 ("point five") hours really is equal to 0.50 ("point fifty") hours.
Don't they teach this stuff in 5th grade anymore?
You can pop your microwave popcorn by just holding it up between the router and the TV during the FBI warning.
Yep, nothing like having your kids' videos all lined up on the shelf:
So how much does your brother get for a hand job?
Don't worry, he's not in charge of running America. He's just another paid, idiotic talking-head shill who appears regularly in the mainstream media who doesn't really know what he's talking about. The nice thing about the Internet is, the proles like you and me can debate ideas like his head-to-head here, in discussion forums, blogs, etc. He's preaching to the choir; his audience is a couple of hundred thousand Fox News fanatics who are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Their influence and numbers are declining daily, these days, and many of the ones who do have Internet access are borderline illiterate. There's a far higher proportion of intelligent people hanging out at places like Slashdot and DailyKos.
I'm pleasantly surprised that this site is still around.
CDs make crappy presents. Don't buy them.
Alternate source:
His job is to say things like this. He's been saying this for over a decade. It's a lot of hot air.
The microsoft windows monopoly is becoming less relevant with each new free web-based software application/service that comes out, be it Google, YouTube, Flickr, Writely, etc. And all of those run fine on Linux.
Linus, RMS, Tim Berners-Lee, and Jimmy Wales are my biggest heroes. We need more people like them to stand up and say "I know the way, follow me, let's do this". We need more people like them who value long-term progress over short-term profit. You guys rock. Keep it going. Lots of smart people look up to you.
The little asterisk next to his nickname means he's an anarcho-capitalist. They are able to think and type much more rapidly than garden-variety Pinko-Commie/Libertarian Slashdotters.
CNN is driving me nuts lately with the Head On commercials. They even tried to make a joke of how obnoxious they are. Hate to break it to them but I switch the channel everytime they come on.
But you are now familiar with "Head On" as a brand. The average consumer is now far more likely to select Head On instead of some equally useless, but less familiar generic homeopathic headache remedy. I would guess that very few American consumers are even smart enough to research their headache remedy purchases in the first place (a quick Wikipedia search reveals the snake-oil nature of Head On)
Wasn't that the goal in the first place? Advertising works far better than anyone is willing to admit.
A while ago my mother was complaining about how her vacuum cleaner didn't suck anymore. (har). Well, she said she had heard good things about the Oreck line of vacuum cleaners. She just might have bought one of those overpriced pieces of junk, had I not been there to google for "Oreck reviews" and see what some actual real people thought about them. It turns out her preference was entirely due to constant exposure to Oreck's often lengthy advertisements and infomercials, despite the fact that she had not been paying conscious attention to them all these years.
Advertising works, and it ain't just about click-through. It's all about brand awareness and plain old brainwashing.
Excellent...
Nobody has mentioned the fact that within a few months of release, Vista will be the ONLY Microsoft operating system you can get on an OEM PC. You won't be able to buy an XP machine anymore because Microsoft doesn't want you to. In a free market, Windows XP would become cheaper and due to the fact that it's battle-tested, will probably be more desirable for some time, than Vista.
But there is not a free market, is there? You can't buy an OEM PC without paying some sort of windows tax, with few exceptions. And the latest windows tax is Vista.