I beg to differ. *Some* non-computer (non-geek that is) people are not dim. (Oh wait you said "NOT JUST DIM", I'll assume you meant "NOT DIM" otherwise my point would be redundant.) Quite a number of non-geeks are actually quite stupid. They don't want to learn anything about computers (no matter how easy it is to learn), they also don't want to learn how to check oil in a car or lawn mower. That is laziness sure, but sometimes you have to teach them how to do something every time.
I used to think that people weren't all stupid, computers were just hard. Now I think it is more likely that some people are stupid, some lazy and some both. When I have to show someone every single time how to do something, well...
I didn't vote for them, do I still deserve them? In fact 'cause the voting system is so utterly flawed, I didn't vote for any one, do I still deserve them?
I am sure some idiot is going to come along and say something along the lines of "if you don't vote you can't complain", sure I can. If you voted for the fuckwits in power, then you can't complain, otherwise complain all you want.
While I didn't vote, I regularly protest government and corporate policy, I do my bit in this "democracy", but just not the voting bit. 'Cause voting doesn't do anything. If voting changed anything, it would be illegal. Don't vote, a politician will get it.
Note: I am actually in Australia, but what I say applies in other countries that claim to be democratic (particularly the so called "liberal democracies" which are generally neither),
One problem, if you meet a smart official they will look at your list of programs and go, "Umm...", when they see TrueCrypt. Then they might well ask you to produce the password and a file that it can be used on. But of course you can get some plausible deniablity ("I swear that was the only encrypted file!").
While I agree with you on some parts (the state being a problem), I have to say that I also think that capitalism as a whole is also a big problem.
And so called "anarcho-capitalism" is not going to fix anything.
Besides the fact that it is not anarchistic at all (anarchism is against all hierarchy, including that created by accumulated wealth), as soon as you remove the state from a capitalist system, you start getting groups of armed people wandering around beating up others.
Yes I am an anarchist, and like all true anarchists I'm a socialist. See www.revleft.com for more information on anarchism and other socialisms.
I completely agree. But then again, I'm an anarchist.
On topic... when I get a laptop (which I am doing for an international trip), I am just going to do what others above have suggested and encrypt all my stuff, have multiple accounts and only login to one that doesn't have any thing 'dangerous' if asked, and have a duel boot setup (X/GNU/Linux and X/GNU/Linux) so that I can default to a 'safe' OS that doesn't have 'easy' (unless you know GNU/Linux and my partition table) access to the other OS.
And has anyone else noticed that travel insurance does not cover acts by governments, thus if a government steals my stuff it isn't covered. And that sucks.
I too do a similar thing for my work. I have to agree to the following
I do declare that all material in this assignment is my own work except where there is clear acknowledgement or reference to the work of others and I have complied with and agreed to the University statement on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity on the University website at www.utas.edu.au/plagiarism.
to submit work (and if I do not my work might not be marked). I always add
Except I do not give permission for this work to stay in any electronic database or similar, if the reason or purpose is for plagiarism detection or similar.
Especially on the electronic copies (on papers copies it is usually shorter).
See also my reply further down the thread.
This is from a draft pamphlet I wrote as Education Officer for my Student Union. The end result is better, but I just don't have a copy on hand.
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is plagiarism detection software (PDS). PDS is software that is intended to help lecturers and others detect possible plagiarism in assignments.
How does Turnitin work?
Your assignments are sent electronically to a database in the USA. The software then matches text in your assignment to documents in its database that are collected from the Internet and also from various journals. Any matches are then flagged for review by the submitter and/or marker. Because Turnitin might not fully detect all matches the marker also has to use their own knowledge and skills to detect plagiarism.
How does UTas use PDS?
UTas uses Turnitn for about 10% or one unit (mainly first year) in each school.1 Assignments are submitted electronically via a WebCT Vista plugin by the student.
Should I be worried?
Turnitin is a tool used by the University to help detect plagiarism. If you have not plagiarised in an assignment you should not worry about this loosing you marks.
What about my copyright?
The University explicitly disclaims a right to students work that is produced while as a student. However, by signing a coversheet (unless you explicitly disclaim it) your work will remain on the Turnitin database in the USA with your permission. However, as this is not in Australia, it would be hard for any case to proceed based on this.
This work produced by the TUU 2006 Education Officer and is released free to use for any purpose, including modification.
This is not legal advice, for legal advice please contact a lawyer.
You do of course know that any good player does not play this game because it all ways ends in a draw against another good player. A bigger board (e.g. 4*4) would be more interesting and harder to program for.
But there are only a limited number of positions in the 3*3 game, easy to program anything (including small children) to either draw or win.
"The question is simple: what can a girl in IT do when she finds herself on the outside of those cliques of boy coworkers? Or inversely, what should groups of boys at work be doing to be more welcoming for that lone girl in the IT office?"
Simply, cross dressing!
Cross dressing is fun, cheap (go down to your local charity/thrift shop), provokes conversation. And best of all, it should be compleatly legal, and thus discriminatory if you get fired for doing it!
(Spelling, grammer? Fuck me dead with a large chook.)
That's why I supported the original poster wanting to cut back the number of children as well.
But it is only one part of the problem, people in the USA and Australia are the highest energy users per capita, and that is a lot of energy compared to the rest of the world.
So even if 100 Indians use less energy, you would only have to convince 5 or 10 Yanks or Aussies to get the same result.
This is a very good point. I commend the bill to the house.
Another possible problem with bio fuel is that it uses a lot of energy to produce some times. Suger cane or corn (maize) for example don't work too well.
The best solution to needing more energy, is to descrease demand. The parent suggested one way, the furtune file another ("earth is full, please delete anyone you can"), a third is simply to have more energy efficient devices and to travel less.
Use less energy, need less energy. Simple really. And you save money and the enviroment at the same time.
Good luck winning. Even if you do win, they court will make you pay costs.
But you won't win, and then you will have to pay costs.
The reason you won't win is because the cops are just doing their jobs. They don't mean to cause such hardship to people.
Bah. Cops are scum.
I was at a protest once where I was arrested for "being annoying".
We were on the footpath in a protest. I was arrested and later charged with the smallest crime, "fail/refuse to comply with police direction, to wit move on". A charge which does not apply in the event of a protest.
I subsequently had three more charges laid (including "hinder police" and I was offered the chance to have three of them dropped if I pleaded guilty to a minor traffic offence.
I had to fly back to the city twice for court dates.
The second time I was rung up by the lawyer after I had arrived (the day before the court date) and was told the charges had been dropped.
Apart from time and stress that incident cost me over $500 dollars in plane tickets. None of which I can get back.
The cops can and will charge you with anything they want, impose strict bail conditions, and you cannot do anything at all.
This is nothing new. I am in Australia and a few months ago I was in Sydney. I was walking down New Town Rd with a friend and saw a two cops force a guy to take off his trousers while another went through the blokes trousers.
A few months previous I had seen cops make another bloke in Melbourne move on, because he was sitting on the sidewalk rather then on a chair.
So back to Sydney I thought that the cops were just harassing the bloke 'cause they were scum. I pull out my trusty camera snap a few shots, and get a film going. I was at least three metres away.
One of them tells me to move on and so I pass them and four or five metres away I keep taking the film.
Before I know it one of them is chasing me and pushes me against a wall. He asks me why I was taking photos (which I deny) and tells me to go away or he'll arrest me.
So I leave and a little latter goto the local cop shop and complain. Apparently I was interfering in what they were doing (even though I was no where near them), simply by taking photos.
Scum. That is what cops are.
I find it funny that the Russians pick a date and launch on that date, but the Yanks pick a date and launch 5 weeks later.
The USA worries too much about wind and rain, sure a hurricane might upset the launch, but a bit of rain? It is a massive thing the shuttle.
Does anyone know how many deaths the Russian (and USSR) space program has had? Is that more or less then the USA one?
"Why doesn't CSS allow web designers to specify styles per user agent? I would kill to stop using the stupid "IE doesn't see direct-descendant selectors so let's use that hack to fix IE's box model problems" in my style sheets. Furthermore, this approach inspires programming techniques that can be considered only as abominable. Instead, I'd like to be able to specify one style for IE 5.5 and another for Firefox 1.0.7, etc. It's pure fantasy hoping that the problem will be solved by insisting there is only one standard, and let's everyone get together and stick to it."
Why not just use PHP? It does all that you want, with all the reliability that useragents offer.
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I beg to differ. *Some* non-computer (non-geek that is) people are not dim. (Oh wait you said "NOT JUST DIM", I'll assume you meant "NOT DIM" otherwise my point would be redundant.) Quite a number of non-geeks are actually quite stupid. They don't want to learn anything about computers (no matter how easy it is to learn), they also don't want to learn how to check oil in a car or lawn mower. That is laziness sure, but sometimes you have to teach them how to do something every time.
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I used to think that people weren't all stupid, computers were just hard. Now I think it is more likely that some people are stupid, some lazy and some both. When I have to show someone every single time how to do something, well
I didn't vote for them, do I still deserve them? In fact 'cause the voting system is so utterly flawed, I didn't vote for any one, do I still deserve them?
I am sure some idiot is going to come along and say something along the lines of "if you don't vote you can't complain", sure I can. If you voted for the fuckwits in power, then you can't complain, otherwise complain all you want.
While I didn't vote, I regularly protest government and corporate policy, I do my bit in this "democracy", but just not the voting bit. 'Cause voting doesn't do anything. If voting changed anything, it would be illegal. Don't vote, a politician will get it.
Note: I am actually in Australia, but what I say applies in other countries that claim to be democratic (particularly the so called "liberal democracies" which are generally neither),
Thanks! Saved me looking them up myself. Join the resistance, and spread the word. It is not a crime to possesses information.
See you all at the G20, www.stopg20.org
Read this post, should study instead.
Tired, sleepy. Slashdot.org. Sleeping. Exam. Panic.
Study, learn, exam, pass, loose knowledge.
Government "evil". Capitalism "evil". Anarchism good.
Fuck the state and capitalism too.
Can you guess that I'm anarchistic?
Anarchy mean no hierarchy thanks mate.
Anarchy, not really no rules OK.
One problem, if you meet a smart official they will look at your list of programs and go, "Umm...", when they see TrueCrypt. Then they might well ask you to produce the password and a file that it can be used on. But of course you can get some plausible deniablity ("I swear that was the only encrypted file!").
While I agree with you on some parts (the state being a problem), I have to say that I also think that capitalism as a whole is also a big problem. And so called "anarcho-capitalism" is not going to fix anything. Besides the fact that it is not anarchistic at all (anarchism is against all hierarchy, including that created by accumulated wealth), as soon as you remove the state from a capitalist system, you start getting groups of armed people wandering around beating up others. Yes I am an anarchist, and like all true anarchists I'm a socialist. See www.revleft.com for more information on anarchism and other socialisms.
OK that's funny.
I completely agree. But then again, I'm an anarchist.
... when I get a laptop (which I am doing for an international trip), I am just going to do what others above have suggested and encrypt all my stuff, have multiple accounts and only login to one that doesn't have any thing 'dangerous' if asked, and have a duel boot setup (X/GNU/Linux and X/GNU/Linux) so that I can default to a 'safe' OS that doesn't have 'easy' (unless you know GNU/Linux and my partition table) access to the other OS.
On topic
And has anyone else noticed that travel insurance does not cover acts by governments, thus if a government steals my stuff it isn't covered. And that sucks.
HA HA.
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Decimating was killing every 10th man (or person). So I think that 17.4 is more then a decimation.
I think you got your stats around the wrong way.
See also http://www.answers.com/decimation&r=67 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_Ar
This is from a draft pamphlet I wrote as Education Officer for my Student Union. The end result is better, but I just don't have a copy on hand. What is Turnitin? Turnitin is plagiarism detection software (PDS). PDS is software that is intended to help lecturers and others detect possible plagiarism in assignments. How does Turnitin work? Your assignments are sent electronically to a database in the USA. The software then matches text in your assignment to documents in its database that are collected from the Internet and also from various journals. Any matches are then flagged for review by the submitter and/or marker. Because Turnitin might not fully detect all matches the marker also has to use their own knowledge and skills to detect plagiarism. How does UTas use PDS? UTas uses Turnitn for about 10% or one unit (mainly first year) in each school.1 Assignments are submitted electronically via a WebCT Vista plugin by the student. Should I be worried? Turnitin is a tool used by the University to help detect plagiarism. If you have not plagiarised in an assignment you should not worry about this loosing you marks. What about my copyright? The University explicitly disclaims a right to students work that is produced while as a student. However, by signing a coversheet (unless you explicitly disclaim it) your work will remain on the Turnitin database in the USA with your permission. However, as this is not in Australia, it would be hard for any case to proceed based on this. This work produced by the TUU 2006 Education Officer and is released free to use for any purpose, including modification. This is not legal advice, for legal advice please contact a lawyer.
You do of course know that any good player does not play this game because it all ways ends in a draw against another good player. A bigger board (e.g. 4*4) would be more interesting and harder to program for.
But there are only a limited number of positions in the 3*3 game, easy to program anything (including small children) to either draw or win.
"The question is simple: what can a girl in IT do when she finds herself on the outside of those cliques of boy coworkers? Or inversely, what should groups of boys at work be doing to be more welcoming for that lone girl in the IT office?"
Simply, cross dressing!
Cross dressing is fun, cheap (go down to your local charity/thrift shop), provokes conversation. And best of all, it should be compleatly legal, and thus discriminatory if you get fired for doing it!
(Spelling, grammer? Fuck me dead with a large chook.)
That must be OOo offers so many different downloads ...
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html?fo cus=download
That's why I supported the original poster wanting to cut back the number of children as well.
But it is only one part of the problem, people in the USA and Australia are the highest energy users per capita, and that is a lot of energy compared to the rest of the world.
So even if 100 Indians use less energy, you would only have to convince 5 or 10 Yanks or Aussies to get the same result.
This is a very good point. I commend the bill to the house.
Another possible problem with bio fuel is that it uses a lot of energy to produce some times. Suger cane or corn (maize) for example don't work too well.
The best solution to needing more energy, is to descrease demand. The parent suggested one way, the furtune file another ("earth is full, please delete anyone you can"), a third is simply to have more energy efficient devices and to travel less.
Use less energy, need less energy. Simple really. And you save money and the enviroment at the same time.
Is your program Free Software? I notice that other stuff you have available is, but I can't find a licence or what have you for KBdocs.com
"'The sustainability and restoring of our environment are providing opportunities in many fields of small business,'"
I'm going to do my part and recycle all YOUR comments from now on.
This is a good idea (even if it is old). In fact flash memory is so small that you could scrap hard drives altogether if you had enough money.
... less space then the equivelent hard drive.
Imagine twenty 1 gig flash memory cards in a row
Good luck winning. Even if you do win, they court will make you pay costs. But you won't win, and then you will have to pay costs. The reason you won't win is because the cops are just doing their jobs. They don't mean to cause such hardship to people. Bah. Cops are scum.
I was at a protest once where I was arrested for "being annoying". We were on the footpath in a protest. I was arrested and later charged with the smallest crime, "fail/refuse to comply with police direction, to wit move on". A charge which does not apply in the event of a protest. I subsequently had three more charges laid (including "hinder police" and I was offered the chance to have three of them dropped if I pleaded guilty to a minor traffic offence. I had to fly back to the city twice for court dates. The second time I was rung up by the lawyer after I had arrived (the day before the court date) and was told the charges had been dropped. Apart from time and stress that incident cost me over $500 dollars in plane tickets. None of which I can get back. The cops can and will charge you with anything they want, impose strict bail conditions, and you cannot do anything at all.
This is nothing new. I am in Australia and a few months ago I was in Sydney. I was walking down New Town Rd with a friend and saw a two cops force a guy to take off his trousers while another went through the blokes trousers. A few months previous I had seen cops make another bloke in Melbourne move on, because he was sitting on the sidewalk rather then on a chair. So back to Sydney I thought that the cops were just harassing the bloke 'cause they were scum. I pull out my trusty camera snap a few shots, and get a film going. I was at least three metres away. One of them tells me to move on and so I pass them and four or five metres away I keep taking the film. Before I know it one of them is chasing me and pushes me against a wall. He asks me why I was taking photos (which I deny) and tells me to go away or he'll arrest me. So I leave and a little latter goto the local cop shop and complain. Apparently I was interfering in what they were doing (even though I was no where near them), simply by taking photos. Scum. That is what cops are.
Viva la revolution! (It's not just landlords that are evil. The whole capitalist/state system is evil.)
I find it funny that the Russians pick a date and launch on that date, but the Yanks pick a date and launch 5 weeks later. The USA worries too much about wind and rain, sure a hurricane might upset the launch, but a bit of rain? It is a massive thing the shuttle. Does anyone know how many deaths the Russian (and USSR) space program has had? Is that more or less then the USA one?
"Why doesn't CSS allow web designers to specify styles per user agent? I would kill to stop using the stupid "IE doesn't see direct-descendant selectors so let's use that hack to fix IE's box model problems" in my style sheets. Furthermore, this approach inspires programming techniques that can be considered only as abominable. Instead, I'd like to be able to specify one style for IE 5.5 and another for Firefox 1.0.7, etc. It's pure fantasy hoping that the problem will be solved by insisting there is only one standard, and let's everyone get together and stick to it."
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Why not just use PHP? It does all that you want, with all the reliability that useragents offer.
<head><!-- Other Stuff -->
<?php
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') != FALSE)
{
echo ("<link rel=\"stylesheet" href="msielayout.css\"
}
else { echo ("<link rel=\"stylesheet" href="layout.css\"
?></head>