Hey! Where did the rest of my subject line go?? It was there! I typed an'o', an 's', and a 't'! These dang computers are so insecure. I want a paper trail of my postings.
But now we are less likely to because at least one part of call center expenses in India are going to cost MORE now. The more I think of this silly law, the more I like it.
"Wouldn't it take one really powerful earthquake for you to need to take cover 40 miles from the epicenter?"
Yes.
Our house is about 20 miles from epicenter of the 1994 Northridge quake, the most costly quake ever recorded ( California housing is expensive ), and it was not damaged at all. I don't recall Oakland or Berkeley suffering much from the SF earthquake in the 90s, and they are less than 40 miles away.
"Those are not obvious truisms, they are subjective opinions.
That was exactly my point. They are mere opinions TO YOU, in this culture and age. They were obvious truths to people in other cultures at other times.
"To publicly suggest that Taiwanese have any historical basis for asserting their independence from China would be a career-ending offense for anyone in academia or in the news media."
A career-ending offense exicts in this country too, but just on different subjects. Try publicly saying that whites are smarter than blacks, or that teenage girls should have have hands-on sex ed in junior high, or that ice floes are a good way of relieving the social security crunch, and see what happens to your career. ( The previous three ideas or - similar forms of them - have been considered obvious truisms in other places and times. I'm not expressing these opinions myself, just mentioning them as examples )
Try putting any of these on english Wikipedia, and see how long they last.
I'm assuming two things that are implied but not clearly stated in your question: 1) The money that you are investing - or at least some of it - is not yours, and 2) You like open source, but the owners of the money have not specifically requested an open source preference. If either of these are false, please ignore my post.
Assuming those two to be true, you should not even be considering the issue. If you are playing with someone else's money - even as a learning exercise - you have an obligation to act in their best interests. Otherwise, you're just doing a Halliburton on a smaller scale. Save your good intentions for your own money.
BTW, Sorry to criticize. I like the idea of supporting open source. It's just not the legally or morally proper thing to do here.
Good question. It's not offtopic. And I think that any moderator can see that it is not. This is probably an example of the bug in the moderation menu.
On the first of 5 mods, some variable is not initialized. So your first attempt at modding is sometimes a random choice. The four subsequent mods come out ok.
Note to moderators: Review your mods. Was the first one really what you selected?
When political pressures require that an unmanned craft have a teacher subroutine, then we know that bureaucrats have replaced engineers in making engineering decisions, and it soon will crash and burn.
I'm pissed. I'm disgusted. Santa is in dire need of some improvements. When he brings all the presents, he does it in the middle of the night, so I have to wait until the morning to get them. When I do get up in the morning to see what I got, all that trashy wrapping paper is in the way, delaying my enjoyment.
Also he drinks all the milk and eats all the cookies!
...click...whirrr...whirrr..."I'm sure glad I don't have to solve all those hard problems like alphas and betas do..."
The problem - if any really exists - is not the number of choices, it is the manner in which the choices are presented to the user. ( For an example of good presentation, look at the average browser's bookmark function. You can have a well organized database of thousands of URLs, all of which are easy to find. Yet if they were one long list, it would be incomprehensible. )
The solution is not to obsess about the number of choices, but to think about the best way of presenting choices.
No joke. My IBM thinkpad has died from too much abuse. I'm either going to have it repaired, or get something new. So, how hard is a Linux install on a toughbook CF51?
The police turning off their cameras is a problem ( I recall seeing picture from 60s Selma voting marches where cops covered their badge numbers with black take before beating up marchers )
But what if I am wearing a similar camera array?
...the Birmingham city council is using gas lighting because of the cost of teaching their employees how to flip a switch to turn on electrical lights.
Ellen Heber-Katz, a professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, was working with mice that had been genetically engineered to develop lupus when she noticed that some of their ears looked weird. She had punched holes in them so she could separate her control from her treatment groups in an experiment. But the holes quickly grew shut without a trace -- not even a hint of a scar.
The missing ear holes confused her research at the time, but the phenomenon launched a whole new career for Katz.
She and her colleagues wanted to find out if other parts of these mice, known as the MRL strain, would also regenerate. So they performed some tests: They snipped off the tip of a tail, severed a spinal cord, injured the optic nerve and damaged various internal organs.
All of the injuries healed, even the severed spinal cord. The results caused Heber-Katz to shift her research from autoimmune disease to regenerative medicine.
Now, thanks to Darpa's call for grant applications in regeneration, scientists all over the country from various disciplines are working together on the MRL mouse...
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Posting on slashdot probably has more effect than voting.
Hey! Where did the rest of my subject line go?? It was there! I typed an'o', an 's', and a 't'! These dang computers are so insecure. I want a paper trail of my postings.
But now we are less likely to because at least one part of call center expenses in India are going to cost MORE now. The more I think of this silly law, the more I like it.
...or you could and up being a crippled stud.
"1985, Mexico City, buildings collapsed when the center of the earthquake was 400 km away. That one was unusual but it shows what's possible."
No, it shows what Mexican building codes are like.
"Wouldn't it take one really powerful earthquake for you to need to take cover 40 miles from the epicenter?"
Yes.
Our house is about 20 miles from epicenter of the 1994 Northridge quake, the most costly quake ever recorded ( California housing is expensive ), and it was not damaged at all. I don't recall Oakland or Berkeley suffering much from the SF earthquake in the 90s, and they are less than 40 miles away.
"Those are not obvious truisms, they are subjective opinions.
That was exactly my point. They are mere opinions TO YOU, in this culture and age. They were obvious truths to people in other cultures at other times.
"To publicly suggest that Taiwanese have any historical basis for asserting their independence from China would be a career-ending offense for anyone in academia or in the news media."
A career-ending offense exicts in this country too, but just on different subjects. Try publicly saying that whites are smarter than blacks, or that teenage girls should have have hands-on sex ed in junior high, or that ice floes are a good way of relieving the social security crunch, and see what happens to your career. ( The previous three ideas or - similar forms of them - have been considered obvious truisms in other places and times. I'm not expressing these opinions myself, just mentioning them as examples )
Try putting any of these on english Wikipedia, and see how long they last.
Yeah...raccoons are smart enough to rinse off the pubic hair.
...And while you are at Home Depot buy some glue, so after you open the clamshell you can repair the thing you ordered.
I'm assuming two things that are implied but not clearly stated in your question: 1) The money that you are investing - or at least some of it - is not yours, and 2) You like open source, but the owners of the money have not specifically requested an open source preference. If either of these are false, please ignore my post.
Assuming those two to be true, you should not even be considering the issue. If you are playing with someone else's money - even as a learning exercise - you have an obligation to act in their best interests. Otherwise, you're just doing a Halliburton on a smaller scale. Save your good intentions for your own money.
BTW, Sorry to criticize. I like the idea of supporting open source. It's just not the legally or morally proper thing to do here.
"Thing is, depending on whether or not the machine prints a human readable output only then it could be made to lie on the paper record as well.
But if a paper copy is given to the voter, then lies are caught.
...it begs the question "how come you didn't think of it then?"
Because I wasn't being paid to design one.
"Gotta love the analogy with the raccoons. Sounds like a judge finally gets it"
We finally got a judge that was smarter than a racoon.
"So how is parent Offtopic?"
Good question. It's not offtopic. And I think that any moderator can see that it is not. This is probably an example of the bug in the moderation menu.
On the first of 5 mods, some variable is not initialized. So your first attempt at modding is sometimes a random choice. The four subsequent mods come out ok.
Note to moderators: Review your mods. Was the first one really what you selected?
One person's genetic code can be 10% different from another's, and chimps are 98% the same as humans.
No wonder so many of you can't spell.
When political pressures require that an unmanned craft have a teacher subroutine, then we know that bureaucrats have replaced engineers in making engineering decisions, and it soon will crash and burn.
I'm pissed. I'm disgusted. Santa is in dire need of some improvements. When he brings all the presents, he does it in the middle of the night, so I have to wait until the morning to get them. When I do get up in the morning to see what I got, all that trashy wrapping paper is in the way, delaying my enjoyment.
Also he drinks all the milk and eats all the cookies!
...click...whirrr...whirrr..."I'm sure glad I don't have to solve all those hard problems like alphas and betas do..."
The problem - if any really exists - is not the number of choices, it is the manner in which the choices are presented to the user. ( For an example of good presentation, look at the average browser's bookmark function. You can have a well organized database of thousands of URLs, all of which are easy to find. Yet if they were one long list, it would be incomprehensible. )
The solution is not to obsess about the number of choices, but to think about the best way of presenting choices.
No joke. My IBM thinkpad has died from too much abuse. I'm either going to have it repaired, or get something new. So, how hard is a Linux install on a toughbook CF51?
The police turning off their cameras is a problem ( I recall seeing picture from 60s Selma voting marches where cops covered their badge numbers with black take before beating up marchers )
But what if I am wearing a similar camera array?
At current exchange rates, that is $4,736.75 per desktop
...the Birmingham city council is using gas lighting because of the cost of teaching their employees how to flip a switch to turn on electrical lights.
"What do you, fellow /.ers, would do to by pass this problem?
Get rid of the spyware, perhaps?
Ellen Heber-Katz, a professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, was working with mice that had been genetically engineered to develop lupus when she noticed that some of their ears looked weird. She had punched holes in them so she could separate her control from her treatment groups in an experiment. But the holes quickly grew shut without a trace -- not even a hint of a scar.
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The missing ear holes confused her research at the time, but the phenomenon launched a whole new career for Katz.
She and her colleagues wanted to find out if other parts of these mice, known as the MRL strain, would also regenerate. So they performed some tests: They snipped off the tip of a tail, severed a spinal cord, injured the optic nerve and damaged various internal organs.
All of the injuries healed, even the severed spinal cord. The results caused Heber-Katz to shift her research from autoimmune disease to regenerative medicine.
Now, thanks to Darpa's call for grant applications in regeneration, scientists all over the country from various disciplines are working together on the MRL mouse...
More at http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71