A lot of people are refusing knighthoods, because association with our tired, old absurd Imperial rituals is more of a detriment than a benefit to someone who is already famous in their own right.
Not to mention it's not as much fun as it was in the old days. Now, they don't even give you your own servant with coconut shells.
Interesting point. I suppose 2/3 of sysadmins being honest is impressive because so often there is a serious lack of oversight by simple virtue of the fact that ordinary mortals don't have a clue what we're doing. The odds of getting caught are low, and even if caught in flagrante delicto one can always come up with a techie excuse. I've worked on email problems where I had to make careful use of grep in order to only get the info I needed and not be exposed to content that was none of my business. It is often the case that the only thing that keeps us from 'snooping' is our own sense of ethics. And given that snooping can be easily rationalized as harmless (unlike the example you cite of child molesters), it is encouraging that a significant majority of sysadmins don't do it.
So in other words, a significant majority of sysadmins are honest. Given that they have "the keys to the kingdom" in the words of the article, that's pretty impressive.
Once the coffee maker is compromised and turned into a rogue email server, breakfast choices will be coffee and spam, coffee egg and spam; coffee egg bacon and spam; coffee egg bacon sausage and spam; coffee spam bacon sausage and spam; coffee spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; coffee spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam....
That could start a war! Canada does have an army, though I think he's in Iraq at the moment. We have a bunch of guys in Afghanistan. I've seen it on the news. The rest of the armed forces have been lost. I don't mean lost as a euphemism for killed, but literally misplaced. Not even wikipedia knows where they are.
You can still have sex, but if you don't use contraception and wind up producing a derivative work, woe betide you. The GIAA will have a booth set up at all maternity wards where couples will be offered the opportunity to settle early for the bargain amount of $3,000.00 ($8,000.00 if you don't pony up right away).
Clearly, these planets do not satisfy the Earth-like gravity requirement of a class M planet [wikipedia.org]. More likely to be home to fire giants than green skinned women. I'll pass for now.
'We're trying to engage with younger people and people who may not be interested in politics. Uh huh. And why would people not interested in politics tune into something about politics? Are they going to be rapping or something?
We are the members of the House of Lords And what we're laying down won't make you bored. We debate the shit the House of Commons proposes, But we ain't no rubber stamp like some people might supposes.
Either Harper gets a majority or Stephane will form a government that will smear the Liberal name as badly or worse than Brian Mulroney did for the Conservatives. That seems a bit extreme. I think he'd do fine until there could be another leadership convention to find a replacement. The problem is, could he lead the Liberals to a majority in the first place? I doubt it. And so does he. So the Liberals sit on their hands or excuse themselves from anything that looks like a confidence vote. The problem, of course, is that it allows Harper to govern as though he has a majority and force all kinds of crap through.
If they would force an election it would at least slow him down. The beauty of a minority gov't is that it is supposed to keep stupid laws from getting passed, but that's only true if the gov't is afraid of being defeated. Thanks to Dion, this one isn't.
Wasn't that already proven with the rise of homo sapiens? Could be a case of not so intelligent design. An animal that breaths and swallows through the same tube? God is a C student and we are his science project.
It seems to me that using search terms as a basis for anything is inherently biased towards technically savvy citizens. It's about as reliable as a telephone poll in 1948 when a lot of folk still didn't have their own phone, or in 2008 when a lot of folk have traded in their land lines for mobile phones.
Was it running a Microsoft by-product or not? The article doesn't say. I suppose it could have been Ubuntu, they've had a couple of kernel updates recently, but somehow I doubt it.
if the people begin to see the law as illegitimate, as serving a special class of people rather than the public at large, this undermines society in subtle ways, large and small Already many people feel as though the government is an alien entity which doesn't exist to serve their interests. That's not how it's supposed to be in a representative democracy. We should feel that our representatives are representing our interests even over those of major corporations. The way things are going, if a modern democracy governs by the consent of the governed, perhaps it is time we considered withdrawing our consent.
It might not be green, but the best reader I've found is the book. Perhaps I'm in the minority. I saw somewhere that there are people in Japan who not only read books on their cell phones, they also write books on their cell phones. Perhaps they're more evolved than me. If I found a book online that looked interesting and was available in dead tree format, I'd buy it in dead tree format, or look for it at bookmooch.com.
That applies to reference books as well, like Mr. Pogue's. I've got shelves of them. But in the case of reference books, I wouldn't mind a searchable version as well. Hm, perhaps I should pay a visit to thepiratebay.org...
well, the argument I use against 'I have nothing to hide' is 'so when do I come to your house and install a webcam in your bedroom?' It's shut quite a few mouthes. Just wait, Socrates, they'll be around soon with the hemlock.
Well, that depends... iirc, a billion in the UK is not the same thing as a billion here. A billion here is 10^9, whereas if memory serves me correctly a billion in the UK is a million million, or 10^12. Long and short scales
Had to look that up because it sounded nuts. However, looks like you're sort of right, other than for the fact that UK has abandoned the long scale in favour of the short. So a quadrillion there is now a thousand trillion as well, rather than a 'billiard'.
The best thing about Avebury is that its not a stage managed tourist trap - you simply park your car and go wandering, you can even touch the stones if you wish and theres no entrance fee. Also check out the Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis if you get the opportunity. Perhaps not quite as impressive as Stonehenge, no lintels, but if you go in the off tourist season, you may be able to have them all to yourself. To be alone with something like that affords a deep feeling of connection with the ancient past.
Obviously it would be nice to know why they have those customs, but I'm not sure how to find out without disturbing them. Cut an observation post into a mountain, then disguise it with holoprojection. It's important to have a couple of backup holoprojectors, because if the natives become aware of the post it can lead to trouble.
Also, Why would they simply not see it as some man-made contraption? That would explain the hostility of their response. If they know of what has happened to other tribes driven off their lands by logging, then they may want to send a very clear message of unwelcome to outsiders using outsider technology.
Yeah. Good. Put your IP in the web server logs, with a referrer showing you came from here, knowing that they have been known to perform network attacks. I think it would be interesting if they attacked the telco my dynamic ip belongs to. But somehow I don't think they're going to be looking to dig themselves deeper in shit than they already are.
They've yet to post any spin on this to their news page, but looking at how stale it all is, perhaps they've forgotten they have one.
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A lot of people are refusing knighthoods, because association with our tired, old absurd Imperial rituals is more of a detriment than a benefit to someone who is already famous in their own right.
Not to mention it's not as much fun as it was in the old days. Now, they don't even give you your own servant with coconut shells.Interesting point. I suppose 2/3 of sysadmins being honest is impressive because so often there is a serious lack of oversight by simple virtue of the fact that ordinary mortals don't have a clue what we're doing. The odds of getting caught are low, and even if caught in flagrante delicto one can always come up with a techie excuse. I've worked on email problems where I had to make careful use of grep in order to only get the info I needed and not be exposed to content that was none of my business. It is often the case that the only thing that keeps us from 'snooping' is our own sense of ethics. And given that snooping can be easily rationalized as harmless (unlike the example you cite of child molesters), it is encouraging that a significant majority of sysadmins don't do it.
So in other words, a significant majority of sysadmins are honest. Given that they have "the keys to the kingdom" in the words of the article, that's pretty impressive.
Once the coffee maker is compromised and turned into a rogue email server, breakfast choices will be coffee and spam, coffee egg and spam; coffee egg bacon and spam; coffee egg bacon sausage and spam; coffee spam bacon sausage and spam; coffee spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; coffee spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam....
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Where are the Canadian Armed Forces?
I believe a bunch of them were spotted in Eastern Europe some time ago. If you see them, tell them we miss them and to please come home.
You can still have sex, but if you don't use contraception and wind up producing a derivative work, woe betide you. The GIAA will have a booth set up at all maternity wards where couples will be offered the opportunity to settle early for the bargain amount of $3,000.00 ($8,000.00 if you don't pony up right away).
We are the members of the House of Lords
And what we're laying down won't make you bored.
We debate the shit the House of Commons proposes,
But we ain't no rubber stamp like some people might supposes.
If they would force an election it would at least slow him down. The beauty of a minority gov't is that it is supposed to keep stupid laws from getting passed, but that's only true if the gov't is afraid of being defeated. Thanks to Dion, this one isn't.
I'd mod you 'insightful' if I had points.
Linus would never murder anyone. He'd get his ninja wife to do it.
It might not be green, but the best reader I've found is the book. Perhaps I'm in the minority. I saw somewhere that there are people in Japan who not only read books on their cell phones, they also write books on their cell phones. Perhaps they're more evolved than me. If I found a book online that looked interesting and was available in dead tree format, I'd buy it in dead tree format, or look for it at bookmooch.com.
That applies to reference books as well, like Mr. Pogue's. I've got shelves of them. But in the case of reference books, I wouldn't mind a searchable version as well. Hm, perhaps I should pay a visit to thepiratebay.org...
Had to look that up because it sounded nuts. However, looks like you're sort of right, other than for the fact that UK has abandoned the long scale in favour of the short. So a quadrillion there is now a thousand trillion as well, rather than a 'billiard'.
I AM THE GREAT AND MIGHTY CLOUD! IT is dead! I shall service all your needs!
Ignore the people behind the curtain, and be sure to hire a 'cloud priest' to help interface your devices with me.
THAT IS ALL! Good day!
They've yet to post any spin on this to their news page, but looking at how stale it all is, perhaps they've forgotten they have one.