I don't see why not. You have to take on faith that your perceptions of the world around you that science measures and describes are real. If you're going to make that big of a leap of faith already, one more step shouldn't be any skin off of your nose.
I seriously doubt it. Even if McCain wins the Dems are likely to keep control of at least one house of Congress. Given the state of public education in the US today though, they'd probably be better off if they did.
This whole creationism/evolution argument is simply retarded. In the end, it doesn't even matter either way. I happen to like the idea that we're all a bunch of perl scripts (badly in need of debugging, I might add) in the Great Celestial VAX. Well, that I am anyway. The rest of you are a bunch of lousy csh scripts written for the express purpose of annoying me.
Until either side of the debate can prove you're not some overblown tamagotchi-esque person-simulation living on a 12 year old Japanese girl's cell phone, you're better off having a beer and watching some porn than arguing who owns the absolute truth of existence.
The House of Representatives would have to vote to impeach then the Senate would hold the actual trial. There's no actual chance of this happening right now though, it's just grandstanding.
I think you're looking for rm -rI/hugedir then. Adding the -f option is you specificly stating that you know exactly what you're doing and do not want to be asked if you're sure you want to remove/home and all it's subdirectories.
There isn't a law to the contrary. The law you're speaking of requires data be saved. If they didn't save it before the drives were sent off for destruction, shame on them, but they still had to be destroyed.
"When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired... the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,"
That's standard practice, and required by law, for ANY government computers.
Wait, you're actually advocating putting developers on bling rather than actually making the product better? Thinking like that is the main thing that's gotten Microsoft to lose as many customers to OO as it already has.
Me, I'd much rather they put their heads to making OO run faster with less memory. It's truly pathetic that MS Office 2k3 runs faster under vmware+xp than OO does natively in linux.
Seriously though, every news outlet in the world has been doing this since before Gutenberg was born. Even Microsoft's idea to tailor it to each user dynamically isn't new. That's been done towards anyone who could have you executed since pre-historic days. Didn't they just rule that making an old idea available over the Internet was not sufficient to receive a patent?
That's all fine and good but then you have examples like politicians and major league baseball players. We keep trusting them and they keep only doing the right thing when they're sure they're being watched.
It seems like this story comes out about once or twice a year when tech writers run out of things to write about that actually make sense. In voice vs. keyboard, keyboard will always win. Keyboards are not ambiguous about input at all; they handle homonyms and other instances where voice recognition requires you to hold it's hand with only as much failure rate as the user's brain (they're, their, and there are NOT the same and retarded kids shouldn't blog).
Keyboards are nearly as fast as voice and require far less effort. Hunt and peck typists can be excluded categorically from consideration for laziness; I had to learn to speak even if I hardly ever use it anymore, so they can learn to type and stop whining.
Mostly though, keyboards were modified from typewriter keys specifically with controlling a computer in mind. Human languages were decidedly not. Hell, they're not even very good at controlling other humans or my cat. About the only thing they can control is a dog and even then it has to be a user friendly dog.
On the up side though, it would finally end the vi vs. emacs debate. RSI of the tongue would suck so vi wins.
Could be but seniority as a metric for pay is meaningless if you're unable to fire a teacher who's complete shit. The solution isn't to keep the worthless teachers along with the good, it's to make the tests broad enough in scope that "teaching the test" at least means the students have a baseline understanding of the material in question.
The better solution would be to go with my grandparent poster's idea and abolish teachers unions. With that, the teachers can teach however they desire and be shitcaned if they suck at teaching. My junior high English teacher for example honestly believed that bilingual meant you couldn't speak English. He continued teaching, terribly, right up until he retired because they couldn't fire him for being as dumb as a rock. How's that for fucked up?
Sure there are some exceptions but most virus infection comes from a lack of common sense. If most people don't have it it's not exactly common, is it?
In any case it's not an issue of lack of common sense as much as it is a lack of education. If we took the time to explain to people why using the most insecure browser on the most insecure OS is a bad idea, that would go a long way to fixing the problem. If we further told them to never, under any circumstances, run an executable without being certain it's safe, we'd fix even more of the problem. Mostly though we just fix their computer, slap some anti-malware software on their system that they'll never update, and go back to organizing our porn collections.
Good point. They say they've got the information to spout an accurate number on how much file sharing costs them every year, so they're only a short perl script away from having accurate numbers of what to pay each artist, right?
Does it bother anyone else that if this were done across the Internet it would be considered a ddos attack? Any chance we could arrest law school professors for infecting the brains of patent lawyers with this malicious bit of code?
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Our perceptions are not testable since any input being returned has to go through said perceptions.
True but when has the world ever been short of clueless morons? Hell, isn't that Washington's primary import?
I don't see why not. You have to take on faith that your perceptions of the world around you that science measures and describes are real. If you're going to make that big of a leap of faith already, one more step shouldn't be any skin off of your nose.
I seriously doubt it. Even if McCain wins the Dems are likely to keep control of at least one house of Congress. Given the state of public education in the US today though, they'd probably be better off if they did.
This whole creationism/evolution argument is simply retarded. In the end, it doesn't even matter either way. I happen to like the idea that we're all a bunch of perl scripts (badly in need of debugging, I might add) in the Great Celestial VAX. Well, that I am anyway. The rest of you are a bunch of lousy csh scripts written for the express purpose of annoying me.
Until either side of the debate can prove you're not some overblown tamagotchi-esque person-simulation living on a 12 year old Japanese girl's cell phone, you're better off having a beer and watching some porn than arguing who owns the absolute truth of existence.
The House of Representatives would have to vote to impeach then the Senate would hold the actual trial. There's no actual chance of this happening right now though, it's just grandstanding.
I think you're looking for rm -rI /hugedir then. Adding the -f option is you specificly stating that you know exactly what you're doing and do not want to be asked if you're sure you want to remove /home and all it's subdirectories.
Well, I suppose Vista certainly is enough of a strain on hardware to be a fair benchmark.
There isn't a law to the contrary. The law you're speaking of requires data be saved. If they didn't save it before the drives were sent off for destruction, shame on them, but they still had to be destroyed.
"When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired ... the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,"
That's standard practice, and required by law, for ANY government computers.
You tried to RTFA? You must be new here.
Wait, you're actually advocating putting developers on bling rather than actually making the product better? Thinking like that is the main thing that's gotten Microsoft to lose as many customers to OO as it already has.
Me, I'd much rather they put their heads to making OO run faster with less memory. It's truly pathetic that MS Office 2k3 runs faster under vmware+xp than OO does natively in linux.
Doesn't NBC already have a patent on this?
Seriously though, every news outlet in the world has been doing this since before Gutenberg was born. Even Microsoft's idea to tailor it to each user dynamically isn't new. That's been done towards anyone who could have you executed since pre-historic days. Didn't they just rule that making an old idea available over the Internet was not sufficient to receive a patent?
Not necessarily. The kinds of things you need to learn to get your job done in Washington can be worse than VB.
Maybe, but waiting for my av to finish scanning the porn I download is annoying.
That's all fine and good but then you have examples like politicians and major league baseball players. We keep trusting them and they keep only doing the right thing when they're sure they're being watched.
It seems like this story comes out about once or twice a year when tech writers run out of things to write about that actually make sense. In voice vs. keyboard, keyboard will always win. Keyboards are not ambiguous about input at all; they handle homonyms and other instances where voice recognition requires you to hold it's hand with only as much failure rate as the user's brain (they're, their, and there are NOT the same and retarded kids shouldn't blog).
Keyboards are nearly as fast as voice and require far less effort. Hunt and peck typists can be excluded categorically from consideration for laziness; I had to learn to speak even if I hardly ever use it anymore, so they can learn to type and stop whining.
Mostly though, keyboards were modified from typewriter keys specifically with controlling a computer in mind. Human languages were decidedly not. Hell, they're not even very good at controlling other humans or my cat. About the only thing they can control is a dog and even then it has to be a user friendly dog.
On the up side though, it would finally end the vi vs. emacs debate. RSI of the tongue would suck so vi wins.
Could be but seniority as a metric for pay is meaningless if you're unable to fire a teacher who's complete shit. The solution isn't to keep the worthless teachers along with the good, it's to make the tests broad enough in scope that "teaching the test" at least means the students have a baseline understanding of the material in question.
The better solution would be to go with my grandparent poster's idea and abolish teachers unions. With that, the teachers can teach however they desire and be shitcaned if they suck at teaching. My junior high English teacher for example honestly believed that bilingual meant you couldn't speak English. He continued teaching, terribly, right up until he retired because they couldn't fire him for being as dumb as a rock. How's that for fucked up?
In any case it's not an issue of lack of common sense as much as it is a lack of education. If we took the time to explain to people why using the most insecure browser on the most insecure OS is a bad idea, that would go a long way to fixing the problem. If we further told them to never, under any circumstances, run an executable without being certain it's safe, we'd fix even more of the problem. Mostly though we just fix their computer, slap some anti-malware software on their system that they'll never update, and go back to organizing our porn collections.
We already have that, it's called Gentoo.
Darl would just sue claiming the BFG9000 infringed on SCO IP.
Good point. They say they've got the information to spout an accurate number on how much file sharing costs them every year, so they're only a short perl script away from having accurate numbers of what to pay each artist, right?
Does it bother anyone else that if this were done across the Internet it would be considered a ddos attack? Any chance we could arrest law school professors for infecting the brains of patent lawyers with this malicious bit of code?
He'd better, it's usually a bad idea to stiff a lawyer.