My favorite was a typesetter's joke that got missed by the editors of the San Diego Union-Tribune recently:
SLUG
Three lines of
jumphed right in
here, yuppers
It was intended to be a filler, something to be replaced with a real jump head by an editor, but that never happened. Speaking as someone who has spent some time as a typesetter--a way under-valued job--it was funny to see it.
Is it just me, or does the usual replacement of "and" in headlines with a comma get really boring?
It's just you.;-)
Seriously, it's done to save space so the editor can make the headline longer and, in theory, more informative. I for one don't find it particularly bothersome.
I agree. There's a Ranch 99 here in San Diego and they carry black duck eggs too. It's very difficult to believe that the guy couldn't find them somewhere in San Francisco's Chinatown. You can get pretty much anything there, including stuff you probably don't even want to know about.
The ones on Convoy are suspiciously near Miramar MCAS, could be fronts for a spy operation.
Mandarin House is okay, we get take-out there from time to time, but Mandarin Dynasty at University and Normal in Hillcrest is da kine.Try their vegetable Egg Foo Yung sometime.
I find his statement that he can't get black duck eggs in San Francisco, which has one of the largest Chinese populations outside of Asia, hard to believe. I can get black duck eggs here in San Diego, which is a bit of a cultural backwater compared to the Bay Area.
Okay, thank you, and I retract my previous statement.
That said, if you were implying that I'm a professional astroturfer for Apple (or anyone else), you are very much mistaken. When Apple fucks up, I'll jump on them just as hard as anyone else. At the same time, I do feel the need for balance in these forums and when I see an AC making an unsubstantiated claim they way you did, I'm going to say something about it. If that bothers you, then stop making those types of posts. Unless your Slashdot nick is your real name, there's not much chance that anything you say here is going to be traceable back to you anyway.
Nothing ever happened to it, it never meant anything to begin with. It was just yet more crap spewed out by a corporate officer to make himself and his company look like white-hats when they're really no different than any other corporation.
Interesting. Shoplifters use them to prevent the RF alarms by the doors going off, but they probably operate in the kHz range.
That might be the difference. I found out that 5 watts of RF at ~144MHz will go through one, though, after I fried a CMOS device by operating a hand-held 2 meter amateur radio transceiver while sitting at my workbench.
If you don't have time to make a tinfoil hat then an anti-static bag is just as effective.
I'm not so sure about that. The tinfoil hat might work okay but if you're talking about the typical plastic anti-static bag then I think you're mistaken. RF will go right through one of those things, especially at the frequencies (~800MHz-2.5GHz) on which cell phone networks operate.
Yeah I often wonder why NASA (or anyone else would for that matter) would want to improve something and make it faster. That just doesn't make any sense.
Heh, yeah, good point. However, I was thinking that seeing how the price of fuel isn't likely to be going down anytime soon and the fact that supersonic transport is so inefficient compared to subsonic flight, there doesn't really seem to be any obvious niche for a commercial SST.
I'm actually on the same side as Microsoft about something. I mean, given the choice between MS and a bunch of IP patent trolls, I'll side with the company that actually produces product every time.
Interestingly, TFA mentions that NASA was also soliciting new designs for a supersonic transport aircraft; given the reluctance of nations to allow those in their airspace and the resulting eventual demise of the Concorde (which, IIRC, never made a profit anyway), one has to wonder why.
the White Sox are playing a day game in May when the games don't mean anything and you make it through the second inning and the next thing you know, you're dreaming [...]
Or you could just do what I did: move to San Diego, become a Padres fan and have the games mean nothing the entire season.
I would be more worried about the fact that my car was build by Chevrolet.
Yeah--a Chevy with beta software installed. Sounds like trouble to me, too.
Of course, I used to be a Ford guy until they partnered with Microsoft and started installing Sync in their vehicles. Now, if you want a decent sound system, you're stuck with MS software. Looks like my next car will either have to be Japanese or used.
And I'd say that those weren't experiments at all, but a concerted effort to sink the entire safety net, not to mention turn around the increasing wealth of the working and middle class that had been going on since WWII.
From which us working/middle class people have yet to recover, one should add. Reagan's policies were a boon to the wealthy and a burden on all the rest of us. His assault and tacit approval of the destruction of unionism alone should be enough make him go down in history as an enemy of the common man.
Not to mention arming Iran.
And the people in Afghanistan who eventually became the Taliban.
"End the Cold War" you say? No, he just transformed it into the Forever War on Terror.
Yep--the Soviet Union collapsed under it's own weight and the concerted effort of every US presidential administration since the end of WW II. Reagan just happened to benefit from being in office at the right time and I'm sick of his fanboys claiming otherwise. And you're absolutely right--if he hadn't armed the people who became the Taliban, they wouldn't have been able to empower Islamic extremists all over the Middle East. Reagan essentially created the need for the so-called War on Terror.
That's the biggest understatement since Noah said "It looks like rain."
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Supporting/controlling botnets I can understand, but where does serving up porn figure in the shutdown? I can't see how it did.
RTFA--they were hosting child pornography sites. That's a whole different animal from the usual porn.
Just checked the spam folder in my e-mail client--it's empty. I can't even remember the last time that happened.
My favorite was a typesetter's joke that got missed by the editors of the San Diego Union-Tribune recently:
SLUG
Three lines of
jumphed right in
here, yuppers
It was intended to be a filler, something to be replaced with a real jump head by an editor, but that never happened. Speaking as someone who has spent some time as a typesetter--a way under-valued job--it was funny to see it.
Is it just me, or does the usual replacement of "and" in headlines with a comma get really boring?
It's just you. ;-)
Seriously, it's done to save space so the editor can make the headline longer and, in theory, more informative. I for one don't find it particularly bothersome.
I agree. There's a Ranch 99 here in San Diego and they carry black duck eggs too. It's very difficult to believe that the guy couldn't find them somewhere in San Francisco's Chinatown. You can get pretty much anything there, including stuff you probably don't even want to know about.
The ones on Convoy are suspiciously near Miramar MCAS, could be fronts for a spy operation.
Mandarin House is okay, we get take-out there from time to time, but Mandarin Dynasty at University and Normal in Hillcrest is da kine.Try their vegetable Egg Foo Yung sometime.
When I clicked on your link, the menu at the restaurant did not feature black duck anything.
Try looking for thousand-year-old eggs.
I find his statement that he can't get black duck eggs in San Francisco, which has one of the largest Chinese populations outside of Asia, hard to believe. I can get black duck eggs here in San Diego, which is a bit of a cultural backwater compared to the Bay Area.
Okay, thank you, and I retract my previous statement.
That said, if you were implying that I'm a professional astroturfer for Apple (or anyone else), you are very much mistaken. When Apple fucks up, I'll jump on them just as hard as anyone else. At the same time, I do feel the need for balance in these forums and when I see an AC making an unsubstantiated claim they way you did, I'm going to say something about it. If that bothers you, then stop making those types of posts. Unless your Slashdot nick is your real name, there's not much chance that anything you say here is going to be traceable back to you anyway.
What happened to "Do No Evil"?
Nothing ever happened to it, it never meant anything to begin with. It was just yet more crap spewed out by a corporate officer to make himself and his company look like white-hats when they're really no different than any other corporation.
Interesting. Shoplifters use them to prevent the RF alarms by the doors going off, but they probably operate in the kHz range.
That might be the difference. I found out that 5 watts of RF at ~144MHz will go through one, though, after I fried a CMOS device by operating a hand-held 2 meter amateur radio transceiver while sitting at my workbench.
I reheat all of my food in inexpensive faraday cages. It's the only way to be sure insidious mind-control radiation isn't leaking into my food.
Hey, thanks, great to know! Do they make tinfoil hats as well?
Put a tinfoil hat on it, no network signal.
If you don't have time to make a tinfoil hat then an anti-static bag is just as effective.
I'm not so sure about that. The tinfoil hat might work okay but if you're talking about the typical plastic anti-static bag then I think you're mistaken. RF will go right through one of those things, especially at the frequencies (~800MHz-2.5GHz) on which cell phone networks operate.
Or they can have Faraday cage boxes made up and pop the phone into a box as part of the standard procedure of picking it up.
They don't even have to have them made up. RF-proof enclosures are readily available off the shelf for a (relatively) low price.
It is none of the above. It is a sneaky coordinated attack on an innocent cat-lover's web site, probably instigated by a vicious cabal of dog people.
So right! What's next--LOL Cats?. It's a conspiracy, I'm telling you. Where's my roll of tin foil, I'm feeling the need for a new hat...
"I'm don't want to go on the cart!"
what was the app? name it, please.
He can't because it doesn't exist. That's why he posted AC.
Yeah I often wonder why NASA (or anyone else would for that matter) would want to improve something and make it faster. That just doesn't make any sense.
Heh, yeah, good point. However, I was thinking that seeing how the price of fuel isn't likely to be going down anytime soon and the fact that supersonic transport is so inefficient compared to subsonic flight, there doesn't really seem to be any obvious niche for a commercial SST.
I'm actually on the same side as Microsoft about something. I mean, given the choice between MS and a bunch of IP patent trolls, I'll side with the company that actually produces product every time.
Looks like it's fuselage is also a lifting body.
On the larger one, yeah, it does.
Interestingly, TFA mentions that NASA was also soliciting new designs for a supersonic transport aircraft; given the reluctance of nations to allow those in their airspace and the resulting eventual demise of the Concorde (which, IIRC, never made a profit anyway), one has to wonder why.
the White Sox are playing a day game in May when the games don't mean anything and you make it through the second inning and the next thing you know, you're dreaming [...]
Or you could just do what I did: move to San Diego, become a Padres fan and have the games mean nothing the entire season.
Just think of all the extra sleep you could get.
Guinness is brewed in Ireland. The country next door to England. (Kinda like saying that all Americans drink is Corona.)
Which is absurd because everyone knows that all we Yanks drink is Watney's Red Barrel.
I would be more worried about the fact that my car was build by Chevrolet.
Yeah--a Chevy with beta software installed. Sounds like trouble to me, too.
Of course, I used to be a Ford guy until they partnered with Microsoft and started installing Sync in their vehicles. Now, if you want a decent sound system, you're stuck with MS software. Looks like my next car will either have to be Japanese or used.
And I'd say that those weren't experiments at all, but a concerted effort to sink the entire safety net, not to mention turn around the increasing wealth of the working and middle class that had been going on since WWII.
From which us working/middle class people have yet to recover, one should add. Reagan's policies were a boon to the wealthy and a burden on all the rest of us. His assault and tacit approval of the destruction of unionism alone should be enough make him go down in history as an enemy of the common man.
Not to mention arming Iran.
And the people in Afghanistan who eventually became the Taliban.
"End the Cold War" you say? No, he just transformed it into the Forever War on Terror.
Yep--the Soviet Union collapsed under it's own weight and the concerted effort of every US presidential administration since the end of WW II. Reagan just happened to benefit from being in office at the right time and I'm sick of his fanboys claiming otherwise. And you're absolutely right--if he hadn't armed the people who became the Taliban, they wouldn't have been able to empower Islamic extremists all over the Middle East. Reagan essentially created the need for the so-called War on Terror.
That's the biggest understatement since Noah said "It looks like rain."
Heh--I'm gonna steal that one from you...