And yet, in fact US courts have taken control of Gambling websites, so you are completely wrong. Lower US *state* courts in fact. An american ignorant of the facts. Go figure.
You mean the one situation where that ruling was successfully overturned due in part to the work of the EFF? Someone else jumping to conclusion without having the full facts. Go figure.
Social Security officials do not know what fraction of the suspense file corresponds to the earnings of illegal immigrants. But they suspect that the portion is significant.
''Our assumption is that about three-quarters of other-than-legal immigrants pay payroll taxes,'' said Stephen C. Goss, Social Security's chief actuary, using the agency's term for illegal immigration.
If you actualyl read the article, you will see that the only FACT stated is that nine million W-2s with incorrect info landed in the suspense file.
Personally, I'll take such statements made in 2005 under an administration that was criticized for being soft soft on illegal immigration with a grain of salt -- especially when they come out to support a stance of being soft on illegal immigration.
Because the entire article is basically a press release for Windows 7. They compare it to something they know sucks, because they know it wouldn't look nearly as good compared to the thing (XP) people are actually running now.
I've tried doing some searches for troubleshooting Windows 7 issues I've encountered. In response, what do I get? Fluff: "20 great new things about windows 7", "How Windows 7 will make you more efficient", "Windows 7 outperforms Vista [but we won't talk about XP]", "10 great new things about windows 7", "23 Windows 7 Improvements", "Exciting changes in Windows 7". If I'm lucky, I/might/ get something related to my issue in the top 10.
These aren't all blog posts, some are in mainstream media (local and national newspapers), being reported as/news/. Whatever else you can say about Windows 7, Microsoft has done an utterly amazing job on PR.
I have seen little mention of the many problems it has: frequent application crashes due to poor memory handling. The way windows update will now/automatically/ restart your computer by default if you don't pay attention to the snooze prompt (or if you're executing a long-running process and walk away for a couple of hours). The way Explorer will occasionally start sucking up all of a CPU and not release it; or start churning the hard drive until you kill it. The fact that memory usage is higher than Vista, which was no XP to begin with. THe fact that indexing runs even when you're not idle - and still gives shitty search results.
(Does anybody know of a good "slocate" service for windows? All I ever want to do is list files by name or wildcard, I don't need my flippin' content indexed.)
Win7/does/ have some great changes in terms of usability and features. But many of the same issues that plague Vista are still present (or are even worse). And because of all the PR-generated hype (I swear some of these blog posts are copy-paste jobs), these issues are receiving practically no attention.
Illegal immigrants comprise less than 5% of the US population. Taxes are withheld from the wages of the vast majority of them for services they'll never receive but are available to citizens (social security, etc.).
Welll.... technically any discussion of moderation is offtopic, since it's not relevant. That means your post is too. Mine may not be, since I'm only answering your post complaining about someone else's moderation... On the other hand, I'll probably get market OT anyway.
Ok, seriously? Troll? Yous guys are teh funiest - especially after y'all colluded to mod "moderators went berserk" to +4 insightful. This is why I love slashdot.
This is the same thing I was thinking of. Is it really any use as the receiver needs to have at least a camera and laptop, or some specialised decoder device to even make this usable.
While the technology seems neat, it also seems a bit more like a weekend project of someone with an inkjet printer and some chemicals. Did it really require funding from DARPA? I'd hazard a guess and say "no".
I'd say that since it wasn't done before DARPA funded it, the answer would be "yes".
I've experienced Netbeans taking up to five minutes to load, and that's on Sun's own current workstation hardware. If that's not bloated, then what is?
When did you last experience this? The versions released in the last several years have drastically improved load times - and even more so in the past year.
I know the system interfaces for a couple of different OS's inside and out. This doesn't mean that there's a compelling reason for me to type them over and over again or not to allow the arguments to be autopopulated.
It's important to know the systems you work with, I agree. Once you know them, there's no benefit to continuing to prove it in every line of code.
Hopefully it's less of a problem today then when I bought my router 3-4 years back
It's not. I recently gave up on hardware routers because of this - whenever I torrent something, my new routers (tried a linksys and a netgear with up-to-date firmware) would start refusing all traffic within an hour. I installed a second NIC on my home server, configured an ubuntu virtual server using Shorewall via a bridged connection to the new NIC, and have had absolutely no problems since.
Even better, it's now a matter of editing a simple config file to change routing and forwarding rules, followed by a config reload - no clunky web interface that requires me to reboot the router for every small change. Also no more artificial limits on things like # of ports forwarded, lack of good port range support , etc.
And in the rare event of a hang or lockup (once in the last six months), I don't have to trot down to my basement to physically reset hardware... I just restart the VM over ssh to the host.
I'm going to talk to my primary care physician and see if I can test out some of the ADHD drugs. If they improve my concentration at work. I just don't want something that takes a while to 'build up'. I more or less want to be able to say "this is a concentration day" pop a pill in the morning and concentrate at work, and on the weekends be able to do my own thing.
It's worth doing as most of the amphetamine based treatments work this way. However - one thing to keep in mind is that it only addresses half of the problem. It gives you the/ability/ to focus - but you'll also have years of bad habits that you must consciously make an effort to overcome. (I still have not been successful in the latter aspect... but slowly improving )
from also diagnosed back in the day (early 80's) -- only one other kid in my school was ADHD.
It was NOT cool.
I went to grad school and just graduated.
You can too so long as you remember to FOCUS.
If you think that you can just 'remember to focus' and do OK, then chances are high the you were mis-diagnosed. Try having a conversation with somebody and making an active effort to pay attention - then realize that you're actually paying attention to the mechanics of paying attention and the conversation is still going in one ear and out the other. Even if you repeat each word in your head as they speak them, they are without semantics.
You think that it's as simple as saying "focus" to stop that? Try again.
The ability to kind of "play back" the last few seconds of a conversation is invaluable (auditory nerve memory lasts for several seconds - a great tool for ADDers)
I'm not able to find any info on what you're suggesting (at least not in context of ADHD), can you provide references? I'm interested in learning more.
The fact that this appears to be an obvious prank aside, I don't believe it is. Depends if it's in a sexually suggestive pose, done for sexual purposes, etc - otherwise baby photo albums would be cause for arrest.
Might have been a gag, but its actually a federal offense since he was falsely claiming to be an agent of the federal government, complete with forged documents ( the sticker ).
Someone needs to arrest that sensor for impersonating an officer?
May I remind you this is slashdot, some of us have credentials from real schools, not 3rd rate schools like Penn State.
Sorry, as soon as I see someone trying to justify themselves in terms of which awesome school they got their piece(s) of paper from, my eyes glaze over. This is probably because on slashdot, some of us worry more about real-world activities and accomplishments than the amount of tuition we had to spend on our degrees;)
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And yet, in fact US courts have taken control of Gambling websites, so you are completely wrong. Lower US *state* courts in fact. An american ignorant of the facts. Go figure.
You mean the one situation where that ruling was successfully overturned due in part to the work of the EFF? Someone else jumping to conclusion without having the full facts. Go figure.
Social Security officials do not know what fraction of the suspense file corresponds to the earnings of illegal immigrants. But they suspect that the portion is significant. ''Our assumption is that about three-quarters of other-than-legal immigrants pay payroll taxes,'' said Stephen C. Goss, Social Security's chief actuary, using the agency's term for illegal immigration.
If you actualyl read the article, you will see that the only FACT stated is that nine million W-2s with incorrect info landed in the suspense file.
Personally, I'll take such statements made in 2005 under an administration that was criticized for being soft soft on illegal immigration with a grain of salt -- especially when they come out to support a stance of being soft on illegal immigration.
Because the entire article is basically a press release for Windows 7. They compare it to something they know sucks, because they know it wouldn't look nearly as good compared to the thing (XP) people are actually running now.
I've tried doing some searches for troubleshooting Windows 7 issues I've encountered. In response, what do I get? Fluff: "20 great new things about windows 7", "How Windows 7 will make you more efficient", "Windows 7 outperforms Vista [but we won't talk about XP]", "10 great new things about windows 7", "23 Windows 7 Improvements", "Exciting changes in Windows 7". If I'm lucky, I /might/ get something related to my issue in the top 10.
These aren't all blog posts, some are in mainstream media (local and national newspapers), being reported as /news/. Whatever else you can say about Windows 7, Microsoft has done an utterly amazing job on PR.
I have seen little mention of the many problems it has: frequent application crashes due to poor memory handling. The way windows update will now /automatically/ restart your computer by default if you don't pay attention to the snooze prompt (or if you're executing a long-running process and walk away for a couple of hours). The way Explorer will occasionally start sucking up all of a CPU and not release it; or start churning the hard drive until you kill it. The fact that memory usage is higher than Vista, which was no XP to begin with. THe fact that indexing runs even when you're not idle - and still gives shitty search results.
(Does anybody know of a good "slocate" service for windows? All I ever want to do is list files by name or wildcard, I don't need my flippin' content indexed.)
Win7 /does/ have some great changes in terms of usability and features. But many of the same issues that plague Vista are still present (or are even worse). And because of all the PR-generated hype (I swear some of these blog posts are copy-paste jobs), these issues are receiving practically no attention.
Illegal immigrants comprise less than 5% of the US population. Taxes are withheld from the wages of the vast majority of them for services they'll never receive but are available to citizens (social security, etc.).
Citation needed.
Welll.... technically any discussion of moderation is offtopic, since it's not relevant. That means your post is too. Mine may not be, since I'm only answering your post complaining about someone else's moderation... On the other hand, I'll probably get market OT anyway.
Yet in spite of the issues with the US and online gambling, the US-controlled DNS does not exclude online gambling web sites. Go figure.
I would put my guess at 95% that this is a Microsoft run and funded site with little to do with Asus other than get their permission.
I'm not so sure - check out the link in the product page for the Asus Seashell.
Oddly, my work proxy blocks the betterwithwindows site as "suspicious"
Ok, seriously? Troll? Yous guys are teh funiest - especially after y'all colluded to mod "moderators went berserk" to +4 insightful. This is why I love slashdot.
...which begs the question...
No, I'm afraid it really does no such thing...
This is the same thing I was thinking of. Is it really any use as the receiver needs to have at least a camera and laptop, or some specialised decoder device to even make this usable.
While the technology seems neat, it also seems a bit more like a weekend project of someone with an inkjet printer and some chemicals. Did it really require funding from DARPA? I'd hazard a guess and say "no".
I'd say that since it wasn't done before DARPA funded it, the answer would be "yes".
I've experienced Netbeans taking up to five minutes to load, and that's on Sun's own current workstation hardware. If that's not bloated, then what is?
When did you last experience this? The versions released in the last several years have drastically improved load times - and even more so in the past year.
I know the system interfaces for a couple of different OS's inside and out. This doesn't mean that there's a compelling reason for me to type them over and over again or not to allow the arguments to be autopopulated.
It's important to know the systems you work with, I agree. Once you know them, there's no benefit to continuing to prove it in every line of code.
Hopefully it's less of a problem today then when I bought my router 3-4 years back
It's not. I recently gave up on hardware routers because of this - whenever I torrent something, my new routers (tried a linksys and a netgear with up-to-date firmware) would start refusing all traffic within an hour. I installed a second NIC on my home server, configured an ubuntu virtual server using Shorewall via a bridged connection to the new NIC, and have had absolutely no problems since.
Even better, it's now a matter of editing a simple config file to change routing and forwarding rules, followed by a config reload - no clunky web interface that requires me to reboot the router for every small change. Also no more artificial limits on things like # of ports forwarded, lack of good port range support , etc.
And in the rare event of a hang or lockup (once in the last six months), I don't have to trot down to my basement to physically reset hardware... I just restart the VM over ssh to the host.
Oooh! Ooh! Pick me! Mod me insightful too!
Yes you are right about gambling.
But poker is not gambling. It is a game of skills.
That's true. And yet for every group of six people who sits down at a table, five of them lose.
True, & fair enough.
I'm going to talk to my primary care physician and see if I can test out some of the ADHD drugs. If they improve my concentration at work. I just don't want something that takes a while to 'build up'. I more or less want to be able to say "this is a concentration day" pop a pill in the morning and concentrate at work, and on the weekends be able to do my own thing.
It's worth doing as most of the amphetamine based treatments work this way. However - one thing to keep in mind is that it only addresses half of the problem. It gives you the /ability/ to focus - but you'll also have years of bad habits that you must consciously make an effort to overcome. (I still have not been successful in the latter aspect... but slowly improving )
from also diagnosed back in the day (early 80's) -- only one other kid in my school was ADHD. It was NOT cool.
I went to grad school and just graduated. You can too so long as you remember to FOCUS.
If you think that you can just 'remember to focus' and do OK, then chances are high the you were mis-diagnosed. Try having a conversation with somebody and making an active effort to pay attention - then realize that you're actually paying attention to the mechanics of paying attention and the conversation is still going in one ear and out the other. Even if you repeat each word in your head as they speak them, they are without semantics.
You think that it's as simple as saying "focus" to stop that? Try again.
The ability to kind of "play back" the last few seconds of a conversation is invaluable (auditory nerve memory lasts for several seconds - a great tool for ADDers)
I'm not able to find any info on what you're suggesting (at least not in context of ADHD), can you provide references? I'm interested in learning more.
like how my 5 yr old doesn't need any help learning to read maps... WoW and Guild Wars have helped him...
Five years old and on WoW and GW? He is clearly in very capable hands when it comes to his future education.
The fact that this appears to be an obvious prank aside, I don't believe it is. Depends if it's in a sexually suggestive pose, done for sexual purposes, etc - otherwise baby photo albums would be cause for arrest.
I'd say to take it with a grain of salt - a photoshopped image on somebody's blog page does not a conspiracy make.
Strangely, it turns out that law enforcement has tools other than video evidence.
I see what you did there...
Might have been a gag, but its actually a federal offense since he was falsely claiming to be an agent of the federal government, complete with forged documents ( the sticker ).
Someone needs to arrest that sensor for impersonating an officer?
May I remind you this is slashdot, some of us have credentials from real schools, not 3rd rate schools like Penn State.
Sorry, as soon as I see someone trying to justify themselves in terms of which awesome school they got their piece(s) of paper from, my eyes glaze over. This is probably because on slashdot, some of us worry more about real-world activities and accomplishments than the amount of tuition we had to spend on our degrees ;)