Well, yeah, if you have MS's stupid default "hide the file extension" bullshit. If you shut off that retarded "feature" then sharing MP3s, SHNs, AVIs, JPGs, and other non-Microsoft non-executables you're safe. I say non-Microsoft because they have the utterly stupid idea that it's OK to mix code and data. You can't get a virus from an MP3, but you can from a WMA file.
How about linking to a respectable dictionary? You might as well link the Urban Dictionary if you're getting your definitions from those rags.
1: extending indefinitely : endless 2: immeasurably or inconceivably great or extensive : inexhaustible 3: subject to no limitation or external determination 4a : extending beyond, lying beyond, or being greater than any preassigned finite value however large b : extending to infinity c : characterized by an infinite number of elements or terms <an infinite set> <an infinite series>
I know it's unusual for a slashdotter to RTFA, but it will answer all your questions... actually, it was the judge who answered the questions and the FA reported the answers.
Interesting, could you elaborate? In what jurisdiction is copyright infringement called "theft"? And is there a jurisdiction where theft is called "murder"?
Oh, and if you MUST feed the trolls, please don't quote them. He's at -1 for a reason, you know.
He had no health problems that could be attributed to radiation. Those of his friends and shipmates who were there also were the same. In every case when they suffered serious ill health it was due to smoking or drinking.
They blame everything on smoking and drinking. You got cancer? Smoking! Oh, you didn't smoke? Second hand smoke! My uncle died of lung cancer in his seventies, and he attributed it to the cigarettes he'd stopped smoking 20 years earlier. No mention of the chemicals he was exposed to in his landscaping business, or any of the toxic stuff he was exposed to as a career miltary man.
As to drinking, what health problems are caused by drinking, aside from chirrosis, which you pretty much have to drink hard liquor from as soon as when you get out of bed to when you pass out at night to catch (yes, I know several people with that disease).
One child in 4 or five having birth defects when there was none previously in the family, after being exposed to something that's been proven to change DNA and you're still skeptical it was the radiation?
How old was your dad when he died, and what did he die of? If he's still alive, you have a damned good point, all the WWII vets I've known are dead, my drinking buddy Ralph having died at age 86 a few years ago when his appendix exploded and teh ornery old bastard refused to go to the doctor. Yet, 86 is a pretty good run; I've had quite a few friends a lot younger than me die from cancers and heart disease.
As to radiation, yes, we are exposed to low levels of it daily.
the rich are paying more taxes now than they have ever paid in America, regardless of the nominal marginal tax rates
WTF, a slashdot journal as a "citation"? The fact is, the rich are paying fewer taxes than any time since Truman. Bush cut the CGT from 25% to 15% and lowered income tax rates, and if there have been any cuts in allowed deductions I haven't heard of them, you're going to have to give a citation -- and it can't be a fucking slashdot journal or a Grover Norquist trickle down fairy dust article.
putting Linux (any distro) on a computer entails more work for the manufacturer than just installing Windows and letting Microsoft sort out the hardware compatibility issues
I don't think MS sorts out hardware compatibility issues. I had a notebook (stolen last year) with a "tap to click" design flaw thay called a "feature". Finding where to shut it off was a real pain in the ass; it took me two months and a lot of googling. Rather than being in the control panel mouse controls where one would expect it, it was in a "hidden" icon at the bottom right of the screen, fifteen clicks away. When I installed kubuntu on that machine, it took three clicks and five minutes; it was in kubuntu's "control panel" right where one would expect it. And even though I keep seeing the "driver issues" and "incompatibility issues" in slashdot comments, I've never run across it personally in the last ten years of using Linux.
Finally, it dispels the myth that Linux users are cheapskates
There are a lot of myths about Linux and Linux users. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when I upgraded a w98 box to XP (which I shelled out a hundred bucks for) and the next day MS auto-updated it and replaced a perfectly good network driver with one that was completely non-functional. I almost bought a new LAN card, as the Insight tech said he could see the modem but not the computer. Fortunately, another Windows "gocha" saved me ten bucks when XP disabled the software that came with my CD burner saying it made the system unstable (even though I'd had no stability problems with w98) and wouldn't let me uninstall the app, yet informed me with every boot that it had disabled that "unstable" app. I reinstalled Windows and viola, I was on the internet again.
Services like Steam and Spotify are the correct way to do DRM.
There is no correct way to do DRM. Needing an internet connection to play a single player game is brain-dead stupid. When they shut off their servers, no game for you! You didn't buy that game, you rented it. Meanwhile, you can still play Quake online even though it's almost twenty years old.
Well, they probably have to make up for the $50 they usually get from companies that supply toolbars, AV limited time offers, and other crapware that a Windows user has to spend hours uninstalling from a brand new computer.
man we were REALLY stupid when it came to radiation back then
Not stupid, ignorant. I find it hilarious that people attribute any cancer that develops in a non-smoker to second hand smoke, when you get ionizing radiation from air travel and there were tons of radioactive fallout from all the aboveground tests. Note that cancer rates were low, even among smokers, before WWII?
Stupid would be still testing nukes above ground now that we know better.
However, it's the lowest it's been in 90 years. The US birthrate was very high before the 20th century. The population was relatively small, most people were farmers, and needed all those kids. My mother is 83 and the baby of the family, and she has three brothers and six sisters. Back then, that was normal. before 1900 the average family was even bigger.
This is only a record low for most of our lifetimes.
Key of your story: use as many AV tools as you can find
Do NOT install more than one at a time. If you have two AV programs running at the same time, they'll fight, each thinking the other is a virus. One guy I know thought putting both McAfee and Norton on his computer would keep him safe, he came to me thinking he had a virus because it was so slow. All I had to do to fix it was uninstall both AVs and install FreeAVG and it was good as new. He was especially happy that he no longer had to pay for virus defs.
Do NOT install more than one AV at the same time. If you think your AV has let some nasties through, unplug from the internet, uninstall the AV before you install the alternate.
It would be expensive, because of the high delta-V required to match Mercury's orbit
Thank you, I was wondering why we don't already have a lander there. However, it seems like a Mercury orbiter would be more expensive than say, a Mars orbiter. If we can put an orbiter there, why not a robot? I'd always assumed it was the heat, but this pretty much says that the north pole of Mercury isn't all that hot.
First, because that money has - depending on the investment vehicle - already been taxed at the ordinary income rate.
Interesting, but not entirely correct. Wikipedia says "In 2008â"2012, the tax rate on qualified dividends and long term capital gains is 0% for those in the 10% and 15% income tax brackets."
It's only short term gains that are taxed as income.
So, you're in Gibraltar? There are a lot of charities there?
Donut truss your spill checker, it while make ewe lock like a maroon and make your post annoying to those of us who read regularly. "Strait" has a definite meaning, and it's completely different than "straight". Wise up, kid.
First, there's the firehose. Stupid non-nerd slashdotters voted the story to the front page. Second, there is now an edit that says "update: Yes, it's a hoax."
Don't blame the editors, blame the non-nerds that pollute the content here.
No wonder I've been getting daily updates for it in my Windows machine for the last week. At least MS is paying attention for once.
I cringe whenever I see that update balloon, because except for virus checks, updates usually require reboots, and I hate rebooting in Windows since I have to reopen all the apps and docs. Oddly, when my Linux box offers updates it's no problem, no reboot required unless it's a kernel patch, and even then, after rebooting all the apps and docs that were open reopen.
So I wind up shutting off the Linux box nightly, and putting the Windows box in hibernate, don't mind the Linux updates but shudder when notified of a "critical" update in Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
Stay out of shady places and avoid file sharing
Well, yeah, if you have MS's stupid default "hide the file extension" bullshit. If you shut off that retarded "feature" then sharing MP3s, SHNs, AVIs, JPGs, and other non-Microsoft non-executables you're safe. I say non-Microsoft because they have the utterly stupid idea that it's OK to mix code and data. You can't get a virus from an MP3, but you can from a WMA file.
It's a nice OS, just the force fed metro/touch interface is the problem.
He's a nice doggie, just the biting/barking is the problem.
When Del Rey wrote that book, it was thought that Mercury had one face that faced the sun, but they've since found that it rotates slowly.
How about linking to a respectable dictionary? You might as well link the Urban Dictionary if you're getting your definitions from those rags.
1: extending indefinitely : endless
2: immeasurably or inconceivably great or extensive : inexhaustible
3: subject to no limitation or external determination
4a : extending beyond, lying beyond, or being greater than any preassigned finite value however large b : extending to infinity c : characterized by an infinite number of elements or terms <an infinite set> <an infinite series>
I know it's unusual for a slashdotter to RTFA, but it will answer all your questions... actually, it was the judge who answered the questions and the FA reported the answers.
Interesting, could you elaborate? In what jurisdiction is copyright infringement called "theft"? And is there a jurisdiction where theft is called "murder"?
Oh, and if you MUST feed the trolls, please don't quote them. He's at -1 for a reason, you know.
It's the largest black hole they've yet found, if the article I saw yesterday is correct.
He had no health problems that could be attributed to radiation. Those of his friends and shipmates who were there also were the same. In every case when they suffered serious ill health it was due to smoking or drinking.
They blame everything on smoking and drinking. You got cancer? Smoking! Oh, you didn't smoke? Second hand smoke! My uncle died of lung cancer in his seventies, and he attributed it to the cigarettes he'd stopped smoking 20 years earlier. No mention of the chemicals he was exposed to in his landscaping business, or any of the toxic stuff he was exposed to as a career miltary man.
As to drinking, what health problems are caused by drinking, aside from chirrosis, which you pretty much have to drink hard liquor from as soon as when you get out of bed to when you pass out at night to catch (yes, I know several people with that disease).
One child in 4 or five having birth defects when there was none previously in the family, after being exposed to something that's been proven to change DNA and you're still skeptical it was the radiation?
How old was your dad when he died, and what did he die of? If he's still alive, you have a damned good point, all the WWII vets I've known are dead, my drinking buddy Ralph having died at age 86 a few years ago when his appendix exploded and teh ornery old bastard refused to go to the doctor. Yet, 86 is a pretty good run; I've had quite a few friends a lot younger than me die from cancers and heart disease.
As to radiation, yes, we are exposed to low levels of it daily.
the rich are paying more taxes now than they have ever paid in America, regardless of the nominal marginal tax rates
WTF, a slashdot journal as a "citation"? The fact is, the rich are paying fewer taxes than any time since Truman. Bush cut the CGT from 25% to 15% and lowered income tax rates, and if there have been any cuts in allowed deductions I haven't heard of them, you're going to have to give a citation -- and it can't be a fucking slashdot journal or a Grover Norquist trickle down fairy dust article.
putting Linux (any distro) on a computer entails more work for the manufacturer than just installing Windows and letting Microsoft sort out the hardware compatibility issues
I don't think MS sorts out hardware compatibility issues. I had a notebook (stolen last year) with a "tap to click" design flaw thay called a "feature". Finding where to shut it off was a real pain in the ass; it took me two months and a lot of googling. Rather than being in the control panel mouse controls where one would expect it, it was in a "hidden" icon at the bottom right of the screen, fifteen clicks away. When I installed kubuntu on that machine, it took three clicks and five minutes; it was in kubuntu's "control panel" right where one would expect it. And even though I keep seeing the "driver issues" and "incompatibility issues" in slashdot comments, I've never run across it personally in the last ten years of using Linux.
Finally, it dispels the myth that Linux users are cheapskates
There are a lot of myths about Linux and Linux users. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when I upgraded a w98 box to XP (which I shelled out a hundred bucks for) and the next day MS auto-updated it and replaced a perfectly good network driver with one that was completely non-functional. I almost bought a new LAN card, as the Insight tech said he could see the modem but not the computer. Fortunately, another Windows "gocha" saved me ten bucks when XP disabled the software that came with my CD burner saying it made the system unstable (even though I'd had no stability problems with w98) and wouldn't let me uninstall the app, yet informed me with every boot that it had disabled that "unstable" app. I reinstalled Windows and viola, I was on the internet again.
Linux is indeed a higher quality OS.
Services like Steam and Spotify are the correct way to do DRM.
There is no correct way to do DRM. Needing an internet connection to play a single player game is brain-dead stupid. When they shut off their servers, no game for you! You didn't buy that game, you rented it. Meanwhile, you can still play Quake online even though it's almost twenty years old.
Which word are we disagreeing on here, "low", or "record"
"Reliably." That's the word I missed.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Phones are way too big. They must not realize that most men don't carry purses.
The cancer rate is increasing, not decreasing
Wrong. Cancer rates peaked in 1990 and have been decreasing steadily since then.
Well, they probably have to make up for the $50 they usually get from companies that supply toolbars, AV limited time offers, and other crapware that a Windows user has to spend hours uninstalling from a brand new computer.
man we were REALLY stupid when it came to radiation back then
Not stupid, ignorant. I find it hilarious that people attribute any cancer that develops in a non-smoker to second hand smoke, when you get ionizing radiation from air travel and there were tons of radioactive fallout from all the aboveground tests. Note that cancer rates were low, even among smokers, before WWII?
Stupid would be still testing nukes above ground now that we know better.
However, it's the lowest it's been in 90 years. The US birthrate was very high before the 20th century. The population was relatively small, most people were farmers, and needed all those kids. My mother is 83 and the baby of the family, and she has three brothers and six sisters. Back then, that was normal. before 1900 the average family was even bigger.
This is only a record low for most of our lifetimes.
Key of your story: use as many AV tools as you can find
Do NOT install more than one at a time. If you have two AV programs running at the same time, they'll fight, each thinking the other is a virus. One guy I know thought putting both McAfee and Norton on his computer would keep him safe, he came to me thinking he had a virus because it was so slow. All I had to do to fix it was uninstall both AVs and install FreeAVG and it was good as new. He was especially happy that he no longer had to pay for virus defs.
Do NOT install more than one AV at the same time. If you think your AV has let some nasties through, unplug from the internet, uninstall the AV before you install the alternate.
It would be expensive, because of the high delta-V required to match Mercury's orbit
Thank you, I was wondering why we don't already have a lander there. However, it seems like a Mercury orbiter would be more expensive than say, a Mars orbiter. If we can put an orbiter there, why not a robot? I'd always assumed it was the heat, but this pretty much says that the north pole of Mercury isn't all that hot.
First, because that money has - depending on the investment vehicle - already been taxed at the ordinary income rate.
Interesting, but not entirely correct. Wikipedia says "In 2008â"2012, the tax rate on qualified dividends and long term capital gains is 0% for those in the 10% and 15% income tax brackets."
It's only short term gains that are taxed as income.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/27/bigfoot-is-part-human-dna-study-claims/
Yeah, I was really surprised when I saw this on an ABC news channel this morning. Still skeptical. This link says it's just Rority. ;)
If it doesn't I'll just go strait to a charity.
So, you're in Gibraltar? There are a lot of charities there?
Donut truss your spill checker, it while make ewe lock like a maroon and make your post annoying to those of us who read regularly. "Strait" has a definite meaning, and it's completely different than "straight". Wise up, kid.
First, there's the firehose. Stupid non-nerd slashdotters voted the story to the front page. Second, there is now an edit that says "update: Yes, it's a hoax."
Don't blame the editors, blame the non-nerds that pollute the content here.
No wonder I've been getting daily updates for it in my Windows machine for the last week. At least MS is paying attention for once.
I cringe whenever I see that update balloon, because except for virus checks, updates usually require reboots, and I hate rebooting in Windows since I have to reopen all the apps and docs. Oddly, when my Linux box offers updates it's no problem, no reboot required unless it's a kernel patch, and even then, after rebooting all the apps and docs that were open reopen.
So I wind up shutting off the Linux box nightly, and putting the Windows box in hibernate, don't mind the Linux updates but shudder when notified of a "critical" update in Windows.
It is if she's only five feet tall.