I don't know how I'd survive without GNU Keyring... I've got something close to 100 passwords in there. There's no way I could come up with & remember that many secure passwords.
How do I have that many? Well, let me list some:
email, work machines & servers, client servers, online banking & brokerage accounts, paypal, stupid online stores (who I don't want poking around other stores guessing at my user/password to see what kind of info they can find out about me), etc.
different services isn's the issue, but trademark dillution is.
What if I were to start posting messages on slashdot under the name "HTS" which looks a lot like HT5, people might thinking that we're the same person, and start to really hate you for the things I said (for you).
I'm not defending this ridiculous claim by Visa, but this is the issue that's being debated here.
Hold on for just a second. A can of coke costs about a nickle to make, can, ship and refrigerate and I just payed 0.75$ for it out of a vending machine.
High profit margins don't make you a monopoly.
Hang on, now to make this analogy more correct, you'd have to make sure that you almost never saw a vending machine for anything but Coke. Certain companies would make cups that could only contain Coke, and would be threatened if their cups were able to hold anything else. Everytime you wanted to take a sip, it would go flat, and you'd have to open a new can. Everytime that you wanted to buy a new can, you'd have to also buy a new cup.
get real, when people go to a computer store, and the salesperson asks them "What kind of computer would you like to buy?" they're looking for an answer like: {Dell|Compaq|Gateway|IBM}, -- Not linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, OS/2, etc.
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In a civilized world, the only people who should be killed are those who have been tried and found guilty in a court of law - and even that question is a hot topic of political debate.
If war didn't involve killing, but instead the rapid transfer of power (which is war's ultimate goal) through non-violent means, it would be far less traumatic to human lives, and the earth in general. Perhaps nanotech could operate like insecticide, and get on the enemies' clothes, and send signals when the soldier returns back to base. At that time, a larger cloud could be enabled that would paralyze the forces, and they could be held as POW until the conflict ended.
Roger base, this is unit five-delta-niner, approaching target now. over
Roger niner, engage targeting computer. over
Base, targeting computer engaged. We are marked and locked in, I can fire when ready. over
Niner, commence fire at the MCP.
....Base! something's gone wrong, the black and green of the targetting computer has been replaced by blue with a mess of letters and digits, and the bird is misbehaving. I'm losing altitude... eject, eject!
Well, if it cost less than a Hollywood picture, why not push it a little further? Seriously, NASA could pull my dollars directly if they were to include an IMAX camera setup on their future space missions, then put together a work of art to display in the theater... that's how they can privatize and overcome congressional budget limitations.
you're ruling out all those Russian suitcase nuclear bombs. sure, they may not fly in on a missle, nor have the biggest blast, but they could easily wipe out a population.
World War III (for those not in the know, it hasn't started yet...)
A bit off topic, but not entirely... What defines a "world war"? A war to end all wars? Armageddon? Or just a large number of countries banded together to fight another large group of countries banded together?
One year ago today may very well be seen in distant history texts as the beginning of WW3, just not the one that we were told would happen when we were growing up. This war will be fought over the cultural divide of the haves vs. the have-nots. If/when Bush snipes Saddam, and marches into Baghdad, the Arab nations will be PISSED, and not only withhold oil, but unleash their wrath upon us. This could very well mean chemical, biological, or nuclear attacks.
Isreal will be one of the major fronts, and fighting (as we've seen already) will not be limited to the fronts, but will happen everywhere, even with legislation in our government.
That's how I view WW3... and it started a long time ago.
I tried installing the latest Debian release this last weekend.... took me the whole weekend, and 6 re-installs. The best I could get was running, but had some serious problems, such as: no networking installed, didn't recognize my mouse, couldn't run X because it didn't know how to work with my monitor, and top it off, it couldn't read the damn floppy drive.
So I downloaded the latest Mandrake... first shot, I got everything loaded that I wanted, and it took me less than an hour.
How does that compare to Windows? Who knows? I wouldn't touch that shit, but I would believe that Windows users experiences range anywhere between the two. Hell, my OS X installation was about as smooth as the Mandrake install.
Fruit thats intended to be eaten and deposited wont fare well either trying to grow in the town dump (or someone's compost heap).
au contraire, mon frere. Try leaving a few seeds in a well-maintained compost heap... they'll grow like Audrey from little shop of horrors. Seeds love compost.
Therefore eating fruit constitutes murder (abortion!)
Not quite, this would be more akin to having sex, or using a contraceptive, as the seed hasn't sprouted yet.
Although the freshly-sprouting barley grains that are killed in 155 degree water during the malting process that is used to make your hoppy ale... that could be considered abortion.
Maybe we can train (evolve) some bacteria to generate... Oh, and a nice hoppy pale ale to finish it all off.
That's not far off from the yeast culture used to ferment that beer. The little yeasties eat the malt sugar and oxygen and poop out alchohol and CO2. While continuing to thrive until they go dormant at a certain alcoholic percentage. They can be re-used over and over again.
If something is actively biting me, I smack it with my hand - this is the natural order of things. You'd do the same thing if I were to take a bite out of you.
Otherwise, if the bug is in my house, I try to capture it and release it outdoors.
Pesticides are just as dangerous to humans as they are to insects, they just don't kill as quickly. Think about why so many more people are getting cancers these days, and you'll find that increase has grown with the increased use of pesticides. When I have an infestation, I try to use natural remedies -> for example, a little cotton swab of peppermint oil will stop ants from invading your place.
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I don't know how I'd survive without GNU Keyring... I've got something close to 100 passwords in there. There's no way I could come up with & remember that many secure passwords.
How do I have that many? Well, let me list some: email, work machines & servers, client servers, online banking & brokerage accounts, paypal, stupid online stores (who I don't want poking around other stores guessing at my user/password to see what kind of info they can find out about me), etc.
different services isn's the issue, but trademark dillution is.
What if I were to start posting messages on slashdot under the name "HTS" which looks a lot like HT5, people might thinking that we're the same person, and start to really hate you for the things I said (for you).
I'm not defending this ridiculous claim by Visa, but this is the issue that's being debated here.
Where are the flying cars?!
seriously though, if falling out of the sky is the main concern, just give everyone's car a parachute!
C'mon, I want my holographic video telephone to be mounted on the dashboard too.
omg! he's lone-gunmen'd the feiss article!
Hold on for just a second. A can of coke costs about a nickle to make, can, ship and refrigerate and I just payed 0.75$ for it out of a vending machine.
High profit margins don't make you a monopoly.
Hang on, now to make this analogy more correct, you'd have to make sure that you almost never saw a vending machine for anything but Coke. Certain companies would make cups that could only contain Coke, and would be threatened if their cups were able to hold anything else. Everytime you wanted to take a sip, it would go flat, and you'd have to open a new can. Everytime that you wanted to buy a new can, you'd have to also buy a new cup.
get real, when people go to a computer store, and the salesperson asks them "What kind of computer would you like to buy?" they're looking for an answer like: {Dell|Compaq|Gateway|IBM}, -- Not linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, OS/2, etc.
case for moderation
Ahh, this is just another /. "case mod" posting.
Why?
In a civilized world, the only people who should be killed are those who have been tried and found guilty in a court of law - and even that question is a hot topic of political debate.
If war didn't involve killing, but instead the rapid transfer of power (which is war's ultimate goal) through non-violent means, it would be far less traumatic to human lives, and the earth in general. Perhaps nanotech could operate like insecticide, and get on the enemies' clothes, and send signals when the soldier returns back to base. At that time, a larger cloud could be enabled that would paralyze the forces, and they could be held as POW until the conflict ended.
I'm not sure if the human mind could cope with the trauma of first finding itself in a new body, then seeing its old body die...
Either route, uploading or transporters, is a great way to build a clone army of yourself though :)
Then all I would have to do is kill one member of your army within sight of the other soldiers, and their brains will all turn into a psychotic mush?
Roger base, this is unit five-delta-niner, approaching target now. over
Roger niner, engage targeting computer. over
Base, targeting computer engaged. We are marked and locked in, I can fire when ready. over
Niner, commence fire at the MCP.
....Base! something's gone wrong, the black and green of the targetting computer has been replaced by blue with a mess of letters and digits, and the bird is misbehaving. I'm losing altitude... eject, eject!
money... shot.
OK, then I'll register my ship with the principality of sealand, or maybe I'll launch a satellite, and form a moon base to make my copies.
No, I saw the ISS flick. I'm talking MARS here.
Well, if it cost less than a Hollywood picture, why not push it a little further? Seriously, NASA could pull my dollars directly if they were to include an IMAX camera setup on their future space missions, then put together a work of art to display in the theater... that's how they can privatize and overcome congressional budget limitations.
(where do I sign up? Oh, I guess I got my ID years ago at this website called slashdot, and my ID is #84900)
"...Bondage, James Bondage double-OHH!-sixty-nine"
Google has!... well, almost
you're ruling out all those Russian suitcase nuclear bombs. sure, they may not fly in on a missle, nor have the biggest blast, but they could easily wipe out a population.
World War III (for those not in the know, it hasn't started yet...)
A bit off topic, but not entirely... What defines a "world war"? A war to end all wars? Armageddon? Or just a large number of countries banded together to fight another large group of countries banded together?
One year ago today may very well be seen in distant history texts as the beginning of WW3, just not the one that we were told would happen when we were growing up. This war will be fought over the cultural divide of the haves vs. the have-nots. If/when Bush snipes Saddam, and marches into Baghdad, the Arab nations will be PISSED, and not only withhold oil, but unleash their wrath upon us. This could very well mean chemical, biological, or nuclear attacks.
Isreal will be one of the major fronts, and fighting (as we've seen already) will not be limited to the fronts, but will happen everywhere, even with legislation in our government.
That's how I view WW3... and it started a long time ago.
So deep, you can almost see her eggs...
...and we'll be forced to watch the mind-meltingly-bad in-flight-movie drab.
We are the airline, we control your eyes, ears, mouth and even your ass.
Hell, yeah - why not? Any intellectual property lawyers out there who could comment on the possibility of this?
a proper haiku
typically alludes to
unique time of year
annual season
is a subtle reference
though mine lacks virtue
affected author
muggy dog days have turned brain
to mushy oatmeal
Why should the most expensive software require it?
Because they like to take extra special care of your machine... :>
I tried installing the latest Debian release this last weekend.... took me the whole weekend, and 6 re-installs. The best I could get was running, but had some serious problems, such as: no networking installed, didn't recognize my mouse, couldn't run X because it didn't know how to work with my monitor, and top it off, it couldn't read the damn floppy drive.
So I downloaded the latest Mandrake... first shot, I got everything loaded that I wanted, and it took me less than an hour.
How does that compare to Windows? Who knows? I wouldn't touch that shit, but I would believe that Windows users experiences range anywhere between the two. Hell, my OS X installation was about as smooth as the Mandrake install.
Fruit thats intended to be eaten and deposited wont fare well either trying to grow in the town dump (or someone's compost heap).
au contraire, mon frere. Try leaving a few seeds in a well-maintained compost heap... they'll grow like Audrey from little shop of horrors. Seeds love compost.
Therefore eating fruit constitutes murder (abortion!)
Not quite, this would be more akin to having sex, or using a contraceptive, as the seed hasn't sprouted yet.
Although the freshly-sprouting barley grains that are killed in 155 degree water during the malting process that is used to make your hoppy ale... that could be considered abortion.
Maybe we can train (evolve) some bacteria to generate... Oh, and a nice hoppy pale ale to finish it all off.
That's not far off from the yeast culture used to ferment that beer. The little yeasties eat the malt sugar and oxygen and poop out alchohol and CO2. While continuing to thrive until they go dormant at a certain alcoholic percentage. They can be re-used over and over again.
If something is actively biting me, I smack it with my hand - this is the natural order of things. You'd do the same thing if I were to take a bite out of you.
Otherwise, if the bug is in my house, I try to capture it and release it outdoors.
Pesticides are just as dangerous to humans as they are to insects, they just don't kill as quickly. Think about why so many more people are getting cancers these days, and you'll find that increase has grown with the increased use of pesticides. When I have an infestation, I try to use natural remedies -> for example, a little cotton swab of peppermint oil will stop ants from invading your place.