heck, from the description of the kid, it could help obesity, metabolism like a hummingbird. all they gotta do is find a way to turn it on and off, and bam, 1 shot and you lose weight and get ripped, a second shot and you're normal again. (don't rain on my crazy parade! a man can dream!)
i remember another guy who had sliced off his fingertips, cut them up like a puzzle, and put em back in a different order. they got him also. took the prints into photoshop and rearranged them back into there original order.
that way you can get random ad's for say, columbian dancing dust, and home pregnancy test kits, vs ads for stuff that are at least remotely related to topics you are interested in?
I love how people seem to think ad's on the web are a bad thing. obviously, they are effective because enough people follow them in search of a product that interests them to make companies continue to use them.
sure, there are annoying ads out there, (my personal least favorite are flash ones that take scroll a window across a page, expand, or animate in some way making it hard to click the close button on it). but personally, i'd rather deal with a few ads, than pay out of my pocket for a lot of the services online that are ad supported.
if ad's went away in favor of charging (even this micro-transaction bull crap) for reading the news, or searching for a new graphics card. my web use would drop to pre-internet levels rather rapidly.
and you'd win. the last article about wifi allergy that was posted on/. (the rockstar that faked it for publicity) referred to research that has been done that showed in double blind tests, they proved that no, people that claim wifi allergy cant tell any better than if they where bald ass guessing.
well, i am not a doctor of anything, but the thing to remember is, radio frequencies don't just go away if we're not using them. there is 'noise' on every frequency, caused by any number of natural sources (the sun, stars, what have you). we are constently being exposed to them. the real question is, does increased exposure to higher intensity sources frequencies cause any harm to people. for the most part, it seems the answer is no.
(this lends a lot of weight to the idea that the people that claim to be allergic to wifi are just a bunch of luddite scaremongers)
i just want you to know, that if you divide the population of the planet into families of 4, and gave each family a house with a yard (suburbanite america style) that we would all fit into a city the size of Texas. Yes, thats a big area, but when you look at a map of the planet, Texas don't amount to much of it. http://www.overpopulationisamyth.com/
you make a good point here. wire phones often work when everything else has collapsed into burning rubble. power can be out, cell towers down, and you can still pick up a corded handset and make a call. that level of reliability is just not matched in VoIP systems. In the area where i live, they transitioned a lot of rural customers over to a satellite relay for phone service (it had been microwave relays before that) what sucks is the satellite systems go down far more often than the old microwave system.
I'm all for new tech, but wide scale implementation of it needs to be only after it is not going to be a downgrade in reliability.
I'm not disagreeing that searching for alien life is a legitimate scientific endeavor, I just find the school's position understandable. the overall public response to SETI has been mixed with a lean towards the negative for years, and the school is just following that lean.
personally, i'd rather waste my processor cycles and electricity on folding@home, maybe find a cure for cancer. which i think would be far more useful than finding *evidence* of aliens.
why is this modded -1 troll? he points out some honest facts! climate change = anything the climate does, and a carbon tax is a tax on the basic building blocks of all life on the planet.
its more along the lines of knowing what time it is (when i'm near a clock) and noting shadows at that time, and then after that everything just clicks.
and its not like I'm using sundial power to schedule everything, i get time refreshers when i get in my truck and go to the hardware store, or when someone else checks a phone or something and says 'damn, its only 9:15? i thought for sure we'd been working for 4 hours by now'
so admittedly, its not as neat as you made it out to be, but its better than bald ass guessing.
i cant stand wearing watches, they make my arm feel all weird. (and they interfere with work gloves, but thats another matter) and since i don't cary my phone at work, (crushed 2 phones in my pockets in 2 months, construction industry is not a phone friendly environment) so i've actually become quite adept at telling the time via shadows, sundial style. (accurate within 10-15 minutes, which is close enough for my needs).
notwithstanding the actual cause and what not, i find this to be truly hilarious. seems that coding some sort of timer into it, that did not use the system time stamp, would have been easier to begin with. But hey, I'm not a camera phone software developer.
while your statement is true, its also mildly retarded. yes, 2 objects on the opposite sides of a circle, traveling in opposite directions around the circle, for a short moment are traveling the same direction relative to one another, *but thats not what we're talking about here* we're talking about 2 objects traveling the same direction around the orbit.
your argument, while a marvelous display of spatial relationships, is pointless in relation to the actual proposal at hand.
you know, i think you actually could reproduce the 'sound' 'blue' makes, with the right equipment. if you consider blue to be the frequency of light that is reflected off of 'blue' objects, and you take that frequency, and reproduce it mechanically, that is to say, vibrate a speaker at that frequency, (somehow) you'd get, abet terribly far outside the range of human hearing, the 'sound' of 'blue'.
when someone wants your passwords bad enough to steal your wallet and get your cryptic list, they want it bad enough to tie you up and hit you with a large wrench until you tell them your passwords.
http://xkcd.com/538/
seems like a good scheme. My main problem with setting things like this up, is the fact that there are STILL websites that restrict password types, to things like 'letters only' 'letters and numbers only, not case sensitive' which REALLY makes me mad. Especially when its a financial institution.
When you are letting someone make a password to use the internet to access their personal banking or credit cards, you damn well better let them have a multi-case, letters numbers and special characters password. anything less is an invitation for trouble.
My personal favorite for passwords are the codes off of the McDonalds 's Monopoly game pieces. Randomly generated, and long enough to be a legit password, and not tied to me in any way (no pets names, birth citys, or spouses middle names)
sure, technically SOMEONE out there knows it, but i doubt that corporate McyD's guys need into my WoW acct for anything....
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heck, from the description of the kid, it could help obesity, metabolism like a hummingbird. all they gotta do is find a way to turn it on and off, and bam, 1 shot and you lose weight and get ripped, a second shot and you're normal again. (don't rain on my crazy parade! a man can dream!)
i remember another guy who had sliced off his fingertips, cut them up like a puzzle, and put em back in a different order. they got him also. took the prints into photoshop and rearranged them back into there original order.
that way you can get random ad's for say, columbian dancing dust, and home pregnancy test kits, vs ads for stuff that are at least remotely related to topics you are interested in?
I love how people seem to think ad's on the web are a bad thing. obviously, they are effective because enough people follow them in search of a product that interests them to make companies continue to use them.
sure, there are annoying ads out there, (my personal least favorite are flash ones that take scroll a window across a page, expand, or animate in some way making it hard to click the close button on it). but personally, i'd rather deal with a few ads, than pay out of my pocket for a lot of the services online that are ad supported.
if ad's went away in favor of charging (even this micro-transaction bull crap) for reading the news, or searching for a new graphics card. my web use would drop to pre-internet levels rather rapidly.
and you'd win. the last article about wifi allergy that was posted on /. (the rockstar that faked it for publicity) referred to research that has been done that showed in double blind tests, they proved that no, people that claim wifi allergy cant tell any better than if they where bald ass guessing.
well, i am not a doctor of anything, but the thing to remember is, radio frequencies don't just go away if we're not using them. there is 'noise' on every frequency, caused by any number of natural sources (the sun, stars, what have you). we are constently being exposed to them. the real question is, does increased exposure to higher intensity sources frequencies cause any harm to people. for the most part, it seems the answer is no.
(this lends a lot of weight to the idea that the people that claim to be allergic to wifi are just a bunch of luddite scaremongers)
i just want you to know, that if you divide the population of the planet into families of 4, and gave each family a house with a yard (suburbanite america style) that we would all fit into a city the size of Texas. Yes, thats a big area, but when you look at a map of the planet, Texas don't amount to much of it. http://www.overpopulationisamyth.com/
you make a good point here. wire phones often work when everything else has collapsed into burning rubble. power can be out, cell towers down, and you can still pick up a corded handset and make a call. that level of reliability is just not matched in VoIP systems. In the area where i live, they transitioned a lot of rural customers over to a satellite relay for phone service (it had been microwave relays before that) what sucks is the satellite systems go down far more often than the old microwave system.
I'm all for new tech, but wide scale implementation of it needs to be only after it is not going to be a downgrade in reliability.
I'm not disagreeing that searching for alien life is a legitimate scientific endeavor, I just find the school's position understandable. the overall public response to SETI has been mixed with a lean towards the negative for years, and the school is just following that lean.
personally, i'd rather waste my processor cycles and electricity on folding@home, maybe find a cure for cancer. which i think would be far more useful than finding *evidence* of aliens.
does your wife know you are speeding?
why is this modded -1 troll? he points out some honest facts! climate change = anything the climate does, and a carbon tax is a tax on the basic building blocks of all life on the planet.
dear god, why did you mention blender. that is not a 3D modeling program, its a psychological torture device.
its more along the lines of knowing what time it is (when i'm near a clock) and noting shadows at that time, and then after that everything just clicks.
and its not like I'm using sundial power to schedule everything, i get time refreshers when i get in my truck and go to the hardware store, or when someone else checks a phone or something and says 'damn, its only 9:15? i thought for sure we'd been working for 4 hours by now'
so admittedly, its not as neat as you made it out to be, but its better than bald ass guessing.
i cant stand wearing watches, they make my arm feel all weird. (and they interfere with work gloves, but thats another matter) and since i don't cary my phone at work, (crushed 2 phones in my pockets in 2 months, construction industry is not a phone friendly environment) so i've actually become quite adept at telling the time via shadows, sundial style. (accurate within 10-15 minutes, which is close enough for my needs).
Yes, but on the other hand, piss off you pedantic bastard.
notwithstanding the actual cause and what not, i find this to be truly hilarious. seems that coding some sort of timer into it, that did not use the system time stamp, would have been easier to begin with. But hey, I'm not a camera phone software developer.
i laughed. mod this one funny.
he'd probably end up flying around the planet backwards to many times, and set us back to the stone age. there's a lot of debris up there.
while your statement is true, its also mildly retarded. yes, 2 objects on the opposite sides of a circle, traveling in opposite directions around the circle, for a short moment are traveling the same direction relative to one another, *but thats not what we're talking about here* we're talking about 2 objects traveling the same direction around the orbit.
your argument, while a marvelous display of spatial relationships, is pointless in relation to the actual proposal at hand.
you know, i think you actually could reproduce the 'sound' 'blue' makes, with the right equipment. if you consider blue to be the frequency of light that is reflected off of 'blue' objects, and you take that frequency, and reproduce it mechanically, that is to say, vibrate a speaker at that frequency, (somehow) you'd get, abet terribly far outside the range of human hearing, the 'sound' of 'blue'.
it'd probably annoy the hell out of dogs.
Penny Arcade put it well:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/30/
XKCD put it best.
when someone wants your passwords bad enough to steal your wallet and get your cryptic list, they want it bad enough to tie you up and hit you with a large wrench until you tell them your passwords. http://xkcd.com/538/
seems like a good scheme. My main problem with setting things like this up, is the fact that there are STILL websites that restrict password types, to things like 'letters only' 'letters and numbers only, not case sensitive' which REALLY makes me mad. Especially when its a financial institution.
When you are letting someone make a password to use the internet to access their personal banking or credit cards, you damn well better let them have a multi-case, letters numbers and special characters password. anything less is an invitation for trouble.
My personal favorite for passwords are the codes off of the McDonalds 's Monopoly game pieces. Randomly generated, and long enough to be a legit password, and not tied to me in any way (no pets names, birth citys, or spouses middle names)
sure, technically SOMEONE out there knows it, but i doubt that corporate McyD's guys need into my WoW acct for anything....
That, and popular science did this about half a year ago with there issue that had the wind turbines on the front.
not so first there esquire.