The Photonic Fence project was proposed with much fanfare about six years ago, to rid Africa is disease-carrying mosquitoes. Rumor has it that the Gates Foundation has cut funding. The project appears to have developed nothing of practical use, although the project leaders responsible appear to still be in control. Is there going to be a serious forensic analysis of how the project went south?
I do the same thing as the author in the article. To confirm this you need to change the email address you received the spam from at the same time you notify the company.
Dealing successfully with the ironically-named 'justice system' (where 'successfully' is defined as 'minimal loss of wealth/immediate freedom/future earning potential/continence' is based on two key factors:
1) Do not appear to have anything confiscatable
2) Flatter their ego
Stupid people care about the law. They think that if they obey the law, they will be ok. The fact is, the law really doesn't matter. Cops don't know the law, they just enforce it. The most important thing is to not get involved with the police, and if you do, to not get arrested. If you get arrested, you have already lost.
The law only matters after you are arrested. But even then, you will end up plea-bargaining to an unrelated charge anyway. The idea that you will stand up before a judge and he will see that you were in compliance with the law and you will achieve some kind of 'justice' is pure naivete. Even if the case is dismissed, you lost.
Isn't the basic BSD license essentially the same as completely permissive? Anyone can borrow the code, do whatever they want, and not flow back changes. Yet the code is still licensed.
...and it's all about perception and how people feel, not how the world actually works. Therefore, it may give people fuzzy/happy feelings, but it doesn't necessarily mean squat if it's not actually correct.
Well, the Ponemon Institute brought us Pikachu, which makes me feel pretty fuzzy/happy about Mozilla.
In Phantom Menace, the evil guys are clearly parodies of Japanese samurai, while the comic relief is given by stupid Jar Jar and friends, clearly parodies of Rastafarians. The Star Wars movies have all sorts of fodder for the ultra-sensitive.
"The same kind of trick wouldn't normally work on the stock market -- if you're wealthy enough that you can increase the share price of a stock by buying enough of it to shift the market, then when you try to reap your profits by unloading the stock, the price will drift back down as you're selling it off."
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This is incorrect. An investor could buy up the stock and take a profit by investing in options that expire at the value peak.
Arrogance is never justified. This is why it's never seen as a positive trait in people. Arrogance puts yourself and all of what you are in front of EVERYONE else. Arrogance is NEVER confidence.
My beliefs:
- Arrogance is not a virtue. Arrogance alienates you from people.
- Humility is a virtue. Humility brings us closer to people.
Be confident yet humble, and people will follow you to the ends of the Earth...
Try hubris over arrogance. Why be the lesser evil?
I don't understand how code versioning has to be coupled with deployment? You have no test environment, as you said... so just make releases and deploy them manually. Since you are going straight to production, you had better be there in person to roll it back if you screwed up. Right? So, SVN should be all you need...
I used to, as a single programmer, use SVN, but I found it nothing but a burden. It left files all over the place, and was really not convenient when no interlocking with another programmer is needed. Now I just make a tarball of everything at obvious breakpoints and store it away.
I've connected two monitors, two keyboards and two mice to my computer. One set is raised, for working standing up, and the other is on my desk. I stand at times and sit the rest of the time. This works great for me.
Clever. I have two mice, two monitors, and two keyboards as well, but I use one mouse+keyboard for each hand and one monitor for each eye. Then I can work and read Slashdot at the same time.
I did RPGs for a short time in graduate school, many years ago. I was interviewed for a friend's security clearance, and at some point RPGs came up. I tried my best to explain RPGs to the nice government lady. Afterward I heard that my friend got no end to grief because Ms. gov't lady came to the conclusion that playing Champions entailed dressing up as superheroes and running around Washington DC acting out comic book stories. This is not something a person with a clearance should be doing, apparently. He did get his clearance in the end, though.
Remember two things, you should not be climbing under things anymore. Directors direct others to do this work.
Your job is to get the work done. Sometimes you have to do it yourself. Once everyone forgets that your know your job and thinks of you as a management drone, you are replaceable. Occasional public demonstrations are beneficial.
A compare-and-contrast with Xonotic would be nice, if anyone has played both. I've played Xonotic, but not Alien Arena. Xonotic gave me nausea, so I had to stop. It also has a description similar to the OP.
Our water meter was just replaced with a digital one that transmits to the Powers That Be. I thought it was pretty cool. The display has a photo sensor so it only comes on when you shine a flashlight on it (it's in the basement). Our reported monthly water usage is also lower since we got the new meter... I can only assume it's more accurate.
I don't need a searchable desktop or any other of the amazing abilities of KDE. I just want something that works fast. The people building KDE are divorced from reality, and I don't blame the article's author for throwing in the towel, even if for the wrong reasons.
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The Photonic Fence project was proposed with much fanfare about six years ago, to rid Africa is disease-carrying mosquitoes. Rumor has it that the Gates Foundation has cut funding. The project appears to have developed nothing of practical use, although the project leaders responsible appear to still be in control. Is there going to be a serious forensic analysis of how the project went south?
I was left still wanting to know what ever happened to poor Cynognathus, who was superior in form but didn't survive.
I do the same thing as the author in the article. To confirm this you need to change the email address you received the spam from at the same time you notify the company.
e.g.
becomes
If 'thecompany2' address gets spam they're still compromised. Repeat until fixed or you lose trust in 'thecompany'.
Personal admission: I am already at amazon5@yadayada.
Dealing successfully with the ironically-named 'justice system' (where 'successfully' is defined as 'minimal loss of wealth/immediate freedom/future earning potential/continence' is based on two key factors: 1) Do not appear to have anything confiscatable 2) Flatter their ego Stupid people care about the law. They think that if they obey the law, they will be ok. The fact is, the law really doesn't matter. Cops don't know the law, they just enforce it. The most important thing is to not get involved with the police, and if you do, to not get arrested. If you get arrested, you have already lost. The law only matters after you are arrested. But even then, you will end up plea-bargaining to an unrelated charge anyway. The idea that you will stand up before a judge and he will see that you were in compliance with the law and you will achieve some kind of 'justice' is pure naivete. Even if the case is dismissed, you lost.
This is brilliant.
Isn't the basic BSD license essentially the same as completely permissive? Anyone can borrow the code, do whatever they want, and not flow back changes. Yet the code is still licensed.
...and it's all about perception and how people feel, not how the world actually works. Therefore, it may give people fuzzy/happy feelings, but it doesn't necessarily mean squat if it's not actually correct.
Well, the Ponemon Institute brought us Pikachu, which makes me feel pretty fuzzy/happy about Mozilla.
In Phantom Menace, the evil guys are clearly parodies of Japanese samurai, while the comic relief is given by stupid Jar Jar and friends, clearly parodies of Rastafarians. The Star Wars movies have all sorts of fodder for the ultra-sensitive.
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This is incorrect. An investor could buy up the stock and take a profit by investing in options that expire at the value peak.
Arrogance is never justified. This is why it's never seen as a positive trait in people. Arrogance puts yourself and all of what you are in front of EVERYONE else. Arrogance is NEVER confidence.
My beliefs: - Arrogance is not a virtue. Arrogance alienates you from people. - Humility is a virtue. Humility brings us closer to people.
Be confident yet humble, and people will follow you to the ends of the Earth...
Try hubris over arrogance. Why be the lesser evil?
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
So the conclusion is that the phrase in question causes an increase in available correlations? Interesting.
I don't understand how code versioning has to be coupled with deployment? You have no test environment, as you said... so just make releases and deploy them manually. Since you are going straight to production, you had better be there in person to roll it back if you screwed up. Right? So, SVN should be all you need...
I used to, as a single programmer, use SVN, but I found it nothing but a burden. It left files all over the place, and was really not convenient when no interlocking with another programmer is needed. Now I just make a tarball of everything at obvious breakpoints and store it away.
I've connected two monitors, two keyboards and two mice to my computer. One set is raised, for working standing up, and the other is on my desk. I stand at times and sit the rest of the time. This works great for me.
Clever. I have two mice, two monitors, and two keyboards as well, but I use one mouse+keyboard for each hand and one monitor for each eye. Then I can work and read Slashdot at the same time.
Debian gives Gnome the boot, and it has to go somewhere...
I did RPGs for a short time in graduate school, many years ago. I was interviewed for a friend's security clearance, and at some point RPGs came up. I tried my best to explain RPGs to the nice government lady. Afterward I heard that my friend got no end to grief because Ms. gov't lady came to the conclusion that playing Champions entailed dressing up as superheroes and running around Washington DC acting out comic book stories. This is not something a person with a clearance should be doing, apparently. He did get his clearance in the end, though.
[...snip...] Also, I highly suspect you've never been there. If you had, you'd be pretty much crazy to prefer living in, say, the Congo.
Many African countries allow one to have as many wives as one wants. Now that's a draw!
The way I'd like to do it is alternate between the summer in Norway and the summer in Chile. I love mountains and seaside.
Naw, Equador. If it's good enough for Julius Assange, it should be good enough for anyone.
Remember two things, you should not be climbing under things anymore. Directors direct others to do this work.
Your job is to get the work done. Sometimes you have to do it yourself. Once everyone forgets that your know your job and thinks of you as a management drone, you are replaceable. Occasional public demonstrations are beneficial.
You need to understand the laws around sexual harassment, which you clearly do not.
Is there some reason to believe that the OP lives in a country with draconian sexual harassment laws? Not everyone lives in a litigationocracy.
A compare-and-contrast with Xonotic would be nice, if anyone has played both. I've played Xonotic, but not Alien Arena. Xonotic gave me nausea, so I had to stop. It also has a description similar to the OP.
3M has had a thermal sheet which has outperformed paste for more than 10 years already.
How is this news?
Browsing the 3M pages, I see sheets at about 3 W/mK and grease at about 4 W/mK.
Now when you refuse their Terms of Service your CPU overheats.
Given that this is Sony, it probably rootkits your PC. Are you sure you want something from Sony in your thermal path?
Our water meter was just replaced with a digital one that transmits to the Powers That Be. I thought it was pretty cool. The display has a photo sensor so it only comes on when you shine a flashlight on it (it's in the basement). Our reported monthly water usage is also lower since we got the new meter... I can only assume it's more accurate.
The new meter is probably more flow constrictive.
I don't need a searchable desktop or any other of the amazing abilities of KDE. I just want something that works fast. The people building KDE are divorced from reality, and I don't blame the article's author for throwing in the towel, even if for the wrong reasons.
Your tangent is fascinating. Do you have a reference to discussion elsewhere?