I honestly don't mean this as a troll, but seriously, how much non-Mormon tourism is there in Utah?
There's Antelope Island, and actually as a non-Mormon I thoroughly enjoyed the architecture, the cleanness and the visitor centre tour of Salt Lake City. Oh, and they have a world-class Ski resort! And coming from the UK seeing a city centre at night that is not full of drunken yobs puking in the gutter was a novelty.
I do agree though, nine out of ten visitors seemed to be Mormons.
9/10 people polled also couldn't tell the difference between rabbit shit and deer shit.
And nine out of ten couldn't tell the difference between your statistics and bullshit.
That said it is a useful comparison.
Someone who is just walking in the woods probably cannot tell rabbit shit from deer shit. A tracker or someone dependent on hunting for food certainly will.
Someone who just needs to run a browser and word processor probably can't tell Windows 7 from KDE. Someone who needs to configure and administrate systems for an organisation certainly will.
RTFA: "The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them.". They are already issuing them to asylum seekers, people freed from Gitmo, etc.
Maybe thats the plan - just say "sorry, just wait over there until we can read your card. You should be allowed into the UK sometime soon".
Just think of the overheads they can save. Just collect the tax money and don't bother with any records. Meanwhile artists will release on line with an "if you like this please make a paypal donation" and find they are getting more money than they did after the record companies took a cut.
A court order is required, but that's meaningless here in the UK, the courts just order it handed over without the defendant getting chance to point out how useless their evidence is.
Rumour has it that to save money they are using old court orders as toilet paper in the Judges chambers.
Its like the old joke. A priest talks about the evils of those who read pornography, thinking that because nobody knows its not a sin. A voice comes up from the back of the church "why are you always picking on me"!
'If Microsoft doesn't state that they will lay off the H-1Bs first â" and they won't state this â" then it would be awfully tough for Bill Gates to come back to the Hill and urge an H-1B increase, wouldn't it?'"
During the recession yes, and rightly so. I don't see any problem if there is a shortage situation when the session ends and they urge for more visas. I am no M$ fan, but they seem to be doing the same as everyone else has to; lay people off when there is less work then take them on when there is more.
If the law was passed to make it free the first thing the child protection agency would do is request information on everyone.
That might happen initially. But since no investigator could handle information on everyone. Instead they'd type targeting specific groups of people, in a mixture of both individual's dislikes and whatever was "corporate policy".
True, but I wouldn't be surprised if they retrieved all the data, so that it is on hand if they have "any suspicions".
As is the extfs tradition, mounting a current ext3 filesystem as ext4 will work seamlessly;
Shouldn't that be the other way around? If you mount an ext4 filesystem as ext3 the system will work, using only the ext3 subset of ext4. However, if you mount an ext3 as ext4 the system will try to use ext4 data structures which are simply not on the disk.... or am I missing something?
Your missing something. Geeks are only worried about upgrading to the latest, so mount an ext3 and it will create the extra data for you. The other way round might work, but testing fallback is so unexciting
If the law was passed to make it free the first thing the child protection agency would do is request information on everyone. This would bankrupt some ISPs and force others to increase prices. They would probably put a request like this in every month and arrest hundreds of people who followed those nasty links that slashdot (and other) trolls like to put in their posts - then shut down the browser as soon as they realise it is not a computer related site.
Only a paranoid totalitarian state would waste time penetrating Congress. There's not much there that isn't accessible via the news. Anyone who had half a brain would target the Executive branch, where there is data that is not publically accessible.
Silly commies.
Or maybe they are hoping finding this will divert attention from the real stealth virus in the Pentagon.
I work for a company where the culture is one of co-operation, and a backstabber wouldn't last long. I've seen one or two come or go - when everyone else turns round and tells the truth of the situation they usually get the idea that this is not the place for them.
I know a company where backstabbers prospered. I was working for an external contractor at the time, and the successful people were ones who covered their backs, not those who worked well.
I remember there was one young programmer who produced more than the rest of a team of 20 put together and this is NOT an exaggeration. Occasionally his programs wouldn't work and he was constantly held to account. Other people would sometimes not write a lone of code without a comment "this done on advice of XXX".
This was very good for the company I worked for because we were frequently called in when things were bound to fail - it was a profitable game. We would see that a deadline couldn't be made, they would say "Thats fine, just tell us you'll make the best effort". Then when teh deadline was missed it was not the months that they had worked on it, but "they had been let down by company YYYY".
This was ten years ago and the company's IT department has almost gone - they outsource everything. The few remaining people who arrange outsourcing and give first line user support are the worst of the backstabbers though.
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I've found that this is usually a result of using too much vaseline.
Seems to me a third-world nation could better put that $10million into machine guns or whatever else they buy.
Or launching satellites
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I hope this is a lab or computer model, and does not involve spraying particulates into the upper atmosphere.
I honestly don't mean this as a troll, but seriously, how much non-Mormon tourism is there in Utah?
There's Antelope Island, and actually as a non-Mormon I thoroughly enjoyed the architecture, the cleanness and the visitor centre tour of Salt Lake City. Oh, and they have a world-class Ski resort! And coming from the UK seeing a city centre at night that is not full of drunken yobs puking in the gutter was a novelty.
I do agree though, nine out of ten visitors seemed to be Mormons.
They could tie it in to your home address and then automatically book some "missionaries" to call and tell you about the evils of drink.
9/10 people polled also couldn't tell the difference between rabbit shit and deer shit.
And nine out of ten couldn't tell the difference between your statistics and bullshit.
That said it is a useful comparison.
Someone who is just walking in the woods probably cannot tell rabbit shit from deer shit. A tracker or someone dependent on hunting for food certainly will.
Someone who just needs to run a browser and word processor probably can't tell Windows 7 from KDE. Someone who needs to configure and administrate systems for an organisation certainly will.
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Britain has no readers that are able to the cards' microchip,
No problem, can't we just take them round to the Russian embassy? I'm sure that they are quite capable of reading all our microchips.
RTFA: "The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them.". They are already issuing them to asylum seekers, people freed from Gitmo, etc.
Maybe thats the plan - just say "sorry, just wait over there until we can read your card. You should be allowed into the UK sometime soon".
Just think of the overheads they can save. Just collect the tax money and don't bother with any records. Meanwhile artists will release on line with an "if you like this please make a paypal donation" and find they are getting more money than they did after the record companies took a cut.
A court order is required, but that's meaningless here in the UK, the courts just order it handed over without the defendant getting chance to point out how useless their evidence is.
Rumour has it that to save money they are using old court orders as toilet paper in the Judges chambers.
And yes, I know anonymised information to identify people makes no fucking sense, but that's how the report phrased it.
When has that stopped any British governmental IT initiative? Its par for the course I'm afraid.
So let me get this straight.
1. You tax the people. 2. You give the tax to the record companies. 3. The record companies use this tax to sue the very people who were taxed.
Isn't that just a roundabout way of forcing the defendant to pay all the legal bills regardless of the outcome?
No its worse than that - it gets paid twice. Once by all the innocent people and then by the guy that they use the money to catch.
Its like the old joke. A priest talks about the evils of those who read pornography, thinking that because nobody knows its not a sin. A voice comes up from the back of the church "why are you always picking on me"!
There are some Scientologists who actually believe that the E-meter is detecting body thetans.
They will also send out the SWAT team if you take a bar of soap from a hotel.
I'm not trolling, but what real work gets doen at Microsoft these days?
Think of all those poor patent lawyers, PR-Fud men, and so on out of a job.
'If Microsoft doesn't state that they will lay off the H-1Bs first â" and they won't state this â" then it would be awfully tough for Bill Gates to come back to the Hill and urge an H-1B increase, wouldn't it?'"
During the recession yes, and rightly so. I don't see any problem if there is a shortage situation when the session ends and they urge for more visas. I am no M$ fan, but they seem to be doing the same as everyone else has to; lay people off when there is less work then take them on when there is more.
If everyone expects phone cameras to click then they will feel safe when someone is "texting" with a silent phone.
If the law was passed to make it free the first thing the child protection agency would do is request information on everyone. That might happen initially. But since no investigator could handle information on everyone. Instead they'd type targeting specific groups of people, in a mixture of both individual's dislikes and whatever was "corporate policy".
True, but I wouldn't be surprised if they retrieved all the data, so that it is on hand if they have "any suspicions".
As is the extfs tradition, mounting a current ext3 filesystem as ext4 will work seamlessly; Shouldn't that be the other way around? If you mount an ext4 filesystem as ext3 the system will work, using only the ext3 subset of ext4. However, if you mount an ext3 as ext4 the system will try to use ext4 data structures which are simply not on the disk. ... or am I missing something?
Your missing something. Geeks are only worried about upgrading to the latest, so mount an ext3 and it will create the extra data for you. The other way round might work, but testing fallback is so unexciting
If the law was passed to make it free the first thing the child protection agency would do is request information on everyone. This would bankrupt some ISPs and force others to increase prices. They would probably put a request like this in every month and arrest hundreds of people who followed those nasty links that slashdot (and other) trolls like to put in their posts - then shut down the browser as soon as they realise it is not a computer related site.
Only a paranoid totalitarian state would waste time penetrating Congress. There's not much there that isn't accessible via the news. Anyone who had half a brain would target the Executive branch, where there is data that is not publically accessible.
Silly commies.
Or maybe they are hoping finding this will divert attention from the real stealth virus in the Pentagon.
I work for a company where the culture is one of co-operation, and a backstabber wouldn't last long. I've seen one or two come or go - when everyone else turns round and tells the truth of the situation they usually get the idea that this is not the place for them.
I know a company where backstabbers prospered. I was working for an external contractor at the time, and the successful people were ones who covered their backs, not those who worked well.
I remember there was one young programmer who produced more than the rest of a team of 20 put together and this is NOT an exaggeration. Occasionally his programs wouldn't work and he was constantly held to account. Other people would sometimes not write a lone of code without a comment "this done on advice of XXX".
This was very good for the company I worked for because we were frequently called in when things were bound to fail - it was a profitable game. We would see that a deadline couldn't be made, they would say "Thats fine, just tell us you'll make the best effort". Then when teh deadline was missed it was not the months that they had worked on it, but "they had been let down by company YYYY".
This was ten years ago and the company's IT department has almost gone - they outsource everything. The few remaining people who arrange outsourcing and give first line user support are the worst of the backstabbers though.
Can we sign up CowboyNeil?