when will you people realise that Al Gore has fuck-all to do with any of this stuff.
the science was well known (publicly!) long before Gore undermined it by turning it into his own cynical gravy train.
i've said it before here: Al Gore being a dickhead does not make the science invalid, any more than a paedophile priest disproves the existence of God.
well, a problem is computer mystification in a large proportion of the population.
as soon as an otherwise rational person's computer does something a little slowly for whatever reason, they yell "virus!" and start panicing.
a well made botnet will not slow the machine down all that much. only scareware+bogus anti-malware combos will slow your computer down, unless you're in the business of collecting so much malware that your machine is squeezed for memory and cycles. which is not out of the question.
it's not enough that people understand the risks - they must understand enough about their machines that they don't jump at shadows and potentially make more mistakes.
if they spin things right, or if the problem is big enough, they could include a nominal surcharge for sending round one of their guys to scrape the malware off their clients machines. then they save a ton of bandwidth, stop the botnets, and actually end up with happy customers (with computers that work somewhat better).
i think there's money to be made for the first ISP that tries this.
well, actually, there's many many documented cases of firefighters starting fires.
and just as many if not more cases of cigarette butts starting fires - it's no coincidence that so many grass fires start right next to roads. some people are just so callous they should be locked away and the key carelessly forgotten about.
if you ae to lazy to keep track with daily news it is your problem...
but I did not follow the news that strict.
brilliant.
FYI, i swear because i can. i like to think of it as adding spice to an otherwise dull sentence. spice isn't for everyone of course, but this is there internet and the consequences of being a rude prick are quite low. my ego can absorb a mod-down without serious problems.
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yes it is.
i just threw up in my mouth. that's worse than goatse
when will you people realise that Al Gore has fuck-all to do with any of this stuff.
the science was well known (publicly!) long before Gore undermined it by turning it into his own cynical gravy train.
i've said it before here: Al Gore being a dickhead does not make the science invalid, any more than a paedophile priest disproves the existence of God.
sadly the world has always been like this.
so long as there's more than 10000 people in the world, the 0.01% chance is guaranteed to happen at least once.
that sounds like a cool idea!
*off to find some cheap wallets and mace*
THIS.
i remember in my uni days, the computers were all fuct and the IT department underresourced and a bit smarmy.
if we had a problem with the machine, we'd do our best to render it inoperable so the IT guys HAD to fix it.
we stopped doing it when we realised they only fixed it enough to get it booting, and so the original problem remained.
well, a problem is computer mystification in a large proportion of the population.
as soon as an otherwise rational person's computer does something a little slowly for whatever reason, they yell "virus!" and start panicing.
a well made botnet will not slow the machine down all that much. only scareware+bogus anti-malware combos will slow your computer down, unless you're in the business of collecting so much malware that your machine is squeezed for memory and cycles. which is not out of the question.
it's not enough that people understand the risks - they must understand enough about their machines that they don't jump at shadows and potentially make more mistakes.
so here we have the old problem of perfect security requiring an unusable OS.
if i could afford a bar, i wouldn't be typing this post.
not sure if this is a slippery slope here.
we're talking ISPs, not governments.
if they spin things right, or if the problem is big enough, they could include a nominal surcharge for sending round one of their guys to scrape the malware off their clients machines. then they save a ton of bandwidth, stop the botnets, and actually end up with happy customers (with computers that work somewhat better).
i think there's money to be made for the first ISP that tries this.
this is a problem of human nature that everyone likes to feel superior. the reason scarcely matters.
the ones on the BMWs are there to make you feel guilty for hitting that sweet second gear so hard.
my transition from 1988 corolla to 2002 325i was a rough one.
the problem with voluntary population control is it selects for selfish bastards.
all the earth-minded people will willingly reduce their numbers, everyone else will continue to breed like rabbits.
could be counter-productive. most energy saving bulbs are not dimmable, and we all know dimmed lights are sexier.
if the light switch were shaped like a clitoris, men would be stumbling round in the dark trying to find it.
jesus christ! i'll get off your lawn, just stop yelling! your breath smells like mothballs!
don't complain about your modding. none of the people you're arguing with modded you.
of course it can't. i forgot.
*switches off hackintoshed eeepc*
um, they used alpha males as well. they did two sets of ads.
at least read the summary.
linky? i'm too lazy to google.
so would you consider Yucca Mountain a good or bad idea?
well, actually, there's many many documented cases of firefighters starting fires.
and just as many if not more cases of cigarette butts starting fires - it's no coincidence that so many grass fires start right next to roads. some people are just so callous they should be locked away and the key carelessly forgotten about.
more scary atoms news?
would this seriously have made the front page on /. prior to the Japanese Tsunami?
if you ae to lazy to keep track with daily news it is your problem ...
but I did not follow the news that strict.
brilliant.
FYI, i swear because i can. i like to think of it as adding spice to an otherwise dull sentence. spice isn't for everyone of course, but this is there internet and the consequences of being a rude prick are quite low. my ego can absorb a mod-down without serious problems.
i think that would rule out most anything beyond bronze-age technology. even then, molten metal is pretty damn hot.
humans fuck up. engineers must understand that.