My first comp teacher almost got fired for turning all the monitor dials (contrast, colour, etc...)in her office up on April fools day. The problem was that then she headed out and came back at the end of the day to find "Desktop Support" were still stumped as to why the computers wouldn't work.
Imagine if ever post you ever did on slashdot was picked up by thousands of people and analyzed, caused division, flamewars, etc....errrr. Ok, bad point, but I'm sure you know what I am getting at.
I started on SUSE 9.3 about six months ago and then shifted to OpenSUSE 10.0 and I've tried both KDE and GNOME and ended up on KDE. This happened for a couple of reasons;
* I clicked with KDE quicker.
* 60% of the programs I use are KDE.
* I can still have the programs from GNOME. I just have GNOME as an alternative desktop. Not used, but there.
Another possible alternative is that it was easier to pick up after Windows or some freaky cultural sex thing. IANApsychologist.
From my point of view though I still need GNOME because if it happens in a years time that KDE has gone to the dogs, I want some choice, someway to vote. An "alternative".
I would prefer if distributions used both, I have the disk space, I get bored, I like parts of both of them.
Of course, I'm not Torvalds (thank the intelligent designer). I haven't chosen to speak normally over a medium where people can't see my body language or hear my tone.
They did a study over here that suggested hamburgers (and other fast food) were linked to asthma. I have it in pdf form if you want it. The study was done by the Wellington Asthma Research Group which is part of the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Background: Lifestyle changes over the last 30 years are the most likely
explanation for the increase in allergic disease over this period.
Aim: This study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of fast food is related
to the prevalence of asthma and allergy.
Methods: As part of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in
Childhood (ISAAC) a cross-sectional prevalence study of 1321 children (mean
age ¼ 11.4 years, range: 10.1-12.5) was conducted in Hastings, New Zealand.
Using standard questions we collected data on the prevalence of asthma and
asthma symptoms, as well as food frequency data.
Skin prick tests were performed to common environmental allergens and exercise-induced bronchial
hyperresponsiveness (BHR) was assessed according to a standard protocol.
Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight/height2 (kg/m2) and classified
into overweight and obese according to a standard international definition.
Results: After adjusting for lifestyle factors, including other diet and BMI
variables, compared with children who never ate hamburgers, we found an
independent risk of hamburger consumption on having a history of wheeze
[consumption less than once a week (OR ¼ 1.44, 95% CI: 1.06-1.96) and
1+ times a week (OR ¼ 1.65, 95% CI: 1.07-2.52)] and on current wheeze
[consumption less than once a week (OR ¼ 1.17, 95% CI: 0.80-1.70) and
1+ times a week (OR ¼ 1.81, 95% CI: 1.10-2.98)]. Takeaway consumption
1+ times a week was marginally significantly related to BHR (OR ¼ 2.41, 95%
CI: 0.99-5.91). There was no effect on atopy.
Conclusions: Frequent consumption of hamburgers showed a dose-dependent
association with asthma symptoms, and frequent takeaway consumption showed
a similar association with BHR.
And think of the make up bills. Instead of just covering some unfortunate news anchors face you would have to paint brush the whole porn star so every zit, shaving mark or ingrown hair didn't leap onto the screen. And botox isn't gonna work either (although with some of them you wonder if they have already made that leap).
It does seem like they are losing imagination doesn't it. My problem with movies like this is that I lose the original set of characters in my head. Now, when I think of Aragorn I get the one from the movie in my head and can't remember the original version I had created. Its almost like some sort of weird social engineering.
Of course you don't really need imagination when you can come home from school, watch the cartoons until dinner and then play playstation until bed.
So, let me get this right, if you are being threatened via txt ( eg: school bullies, ex girlfriend/boyfriend, or some other wanker ) then you can't prove it without being able to access your providers records which are only open to law enforcement and you can't convince the law enforcement because you don't have the txt?
I'm more worried that our governments spent millions of dollars on fingerprint technology and then thought to spend millions to test it.
As for the story quality I can't really say as I haven't been on here more than a couple of months but it does seem to have degenerated in the past couple of weeks with more people making jokes and less people being indepth, concise, informative and well...nerdy.
Of course, then I look at some of my posts and see why. Perhaps I should leave. Maybe I have sent/. over some invisible point of no return.:)
"No Mr Bush, it was not a Star Wars project....yes..yes sir. No, no we had no idea the volcano was going to erupt....yes, yes we are very sorry about your satellite....."
I've been wondering whats happened to the artists. I would imagine that they have lost money from this but I have yet to see any statements or actions from them. Has anyone else heard?
By that logic p2p can never work as you will always have to download the file to get the file. I would feel much better if anything I downloaded (theoretically) was hidden as other traffic. By the look of the comments I'm just gonna flag the idea right about here, its obvious I have missed something.
First rule of a barefoot genius; The first sign of intelligence is laziness, the second is...
Might be time to read that book again you say? I thought that the ports assigned were just defaults not fixed, but I get what you are saying none the less. They are still going to have to send it to the right port on your computer though, otherwise the packet will be dropped by the firewall.
Oh well, if you think of me, think of me sitting in my rocking chair beside the fire leafing through a four hundred page book trying to figure out where it all went wrong....
The problem with random ports is that a lot of us have to configure our firewalls everytime to the new port. Although a static port the user configured themselves would work fine.
Rather than that, couldn't we just use an unblockable port...like 80 so that if the isp wanted to block it they would drown in complaints. Port 80 with ssl would work nicely I think, and add in firefox to the p2p so you don't have a program clash problem.
Recap; Can't block port 80 without all your users screaming and if they want to decrypt ssl then every financial institution will scream as well.
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My first comp teacher almost got fired for turning all the monitor dials (contrast, colour, etc...)in her office up on April fools day. The problem was that then she headed out and came back at the end of the day to find "Desktop Support" were still stumped as to why the computers wouldn't work.
I started on SUSE 9.3 about six months ago and then shifted to OpenSUSE 10.0 and I've tried both KDE and GNOME and ended up on KDE. This happened for a couple of reasons;
* I clicked with KDE quicker.
* 60% of the programs I use are KDE.
* I can still have the programs from GNOME. I just have GNOME as an alternative desktop. Not used, but there.
Another possible alternative is that it was easier to pick up after Windows or some freaky cultural sex thing. IANApsychologist.
From my point of view though I still need GNOME because if it happens in a years time that KDE has gone to the dogs, I want some choice, someway to vote. An "alternative".
I would prefer if distributions used both, I have the disk space, I get bored, I like parts of both of them.
Of course, I'm not Torvalds (thank the intelligent designer). I haven't chosen to speak normally over a medium where people can't see my body language or hear my tone.
Clarification, everything after "Background:" is copied from the paper. I have spaced out the paragraphs a bit more to make it readable.
They did a study over here that suggested hamburgers (and other fast food) were linked to asthma. I have it in pdf form if you want it. The study was done by the Wellington Asthma Research Group which is part of the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Background: Lifestyle changes over the last 30 years are the most likely explanation for the increase in allergic disease over this period. Aim: This study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of fast food is related to the prevalence of asthma and allergy.
Methods: As part of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) a cross-sectional prevalence study of 1321 children (mean age ¼ 11.4 years, range: 10.1-12.5) was conducted in Hastings, New Zealand.
Using standard questions we collected data on the prevalence of asthma and asthma symptoms, as well as food frequency data.
Skin prick tests were performed to common environmental allergens and exercise-induced bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) was assessed according to a standard protocol.
Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight/height2 (kg/m2) and classified into overweight and obese according to a standard international definition.
Results: After adjusting for lifestyle factors, including other diet and BMI variables, compared with children who never ate hamburgers, we found an independent risk of hamburger consumption on having a history of wheeze [consumption less than once a week (OR ¼ 1.44, 95% CI: 1.06-1.96) and 1+ times a week (OR ¼ 1.65, 95% CI: 1.07-2.52)] and on current wheeze [consumption less than once a week (OR ¼ 1.17, 95% CI: 0.80-1.70) and 1+ times a week (OR ¼ 1.81, 95% CI: 1.10-2.98)]. Takeaway consumption 1+ times a week was marginally significantly related to BHR (OR ¼ 2.41, 95% CI: 0.99-5.91). There was no effect on atopy.
Conclusions: Frequent consumption of hamburgers showed a dose-dependent association with asthma symptoms, and frequent takeaway consumption showed a similar association with BHR.
It has forked though. Here's their DokuWiki link
http://www.openvas.org/doku.php?id=
And think of the make up bills. Instead of just covering some unfortunate news anchors face you would have to paint brush the whole porn star so every zit, shaving mark or ingrown hair didn't leap onto the screen. And botox isn't gonna work either (although with some of them you wonder if they have already made that leap).
It does seem like they are losing imagination doesn't it. My problem with movies like this is that I lose the original set of characters in my head. Now, when I think of Aragorn I get the one from the movie in my head and can't remember the original version I had created. Its almost like some sort of weird social engineering.
Of course you don't really need imagination when you can come home from school, watch the cartoons until dinner and then play playstation until bed.
So, let me get this right, if you are being threatened via txt ( eg: school bullies, ex girlfriend/boyfriend, or some other wanker ) then you can't prove it without being able to access your providers records which are only open to law enforcement and you can't convince the law enforcement because you don't have the txt?
I'm more worried that our governments spent millions of dollars on fingerprint technology and then thought to spend millions to test it.
/. over some invisible point of no return. :)
As for the story quality I can't really say as I haven't been on here more than a couple of months but it does seem to have degenerated in the past couple of weeks with more people making jokes and less people being indepth, concise, informative and well...nerdy.
Of course, then I look at some of my posts and see why. Perhaps I should leave. Maybe I have sent
Or even better.
"No Mr Bush, it was not a Star Wars project....yes..yes sir. No, no we had no idea the volcano was going to erupt....yes, yes we are very sorry about your satellite....."
Sorry, I must have got there first.....omg! It was me!
I thought you were dead....Ok, who was in the kitchen?
He didn't die, his brain was transplanted into a black man and he lived in the same resthome as Elvis.
http://www.bubbahotep.com/aboutbht.html
"a maximum of two years" and a minimum of what?
The money of course.
"Yes, with your internship in Microsoft India, you will receive a yearly salary of, wait for it, $20,000!"
"Arghhh! Stop hitting me with that chair. Your a manager! Your a manager!"
I've been wondering whats happened to the artists. I would imagine that they have lost money from this but I have yet to see any statements or actions from them. Has anyone else heard?
And, have a happy holiday!
"Oh my god! Slashdot hates us. Quick, pull out something techy so they will love us again"
Why is that, "Bah, you kiwis"?
But, if we can do that, can't we move all advertising to a .adv first because advertising annoys me a hell of a lot more than porn....
Maybe the psychological impact isn't from how you look but from how other people look at you? (or how you think other people look at you)
By that logic p2p can never work as you will always have to download the file to get the file. I would feel much better if anything I downloaded (theoretically) was hidden as other traffic. By the look of the comments I'm just gonna flag the idea right about here, its obvious I have missed something. First rule of a barefoot genius; The first sign of intelligence is laziness, the second is...
Might be time to read that book again you say? I thought that the ports assigned were just defaults not fixed, but I get what you are saying none the less. They are still going to have to send it to the right port on your computer though, otherwise the packet will be dropped by the firewall.
Oh well, if you think of me, think of me sitting in my rocking chair beside the fire leafing through a four hundred page book trying to figure out where it all went wrong....
Please be aware that this story line is currently under the process of being patented.
The problem with random ports is that a lot of us have to configure our firewalls everytime to the new port. Although a static port the user configured themselves would work fine.
Rather than that, couldn't we just use an unblockable port...like 80 so that if the isp wanted to block it they would drown in complaints. Port 80 with ssl would work nicely I think, and add in firefox to the p2p so you don't have a program clash problem.
Recap; Can't block port 80 without all your users screaming and if they want to decrypt ssl then every financial institution will scream as well.