Sorry, dude, but you're fucked. The stuff is poisonous and there's no antidote, everyone who has ever ingested the vile substance either has died or will die. It's insidious, the most addictive substance ever discovered. Withdrawal is fatal in 100% of all cases, and sooner or later you'll succumb to the poison and die anyway. The only good thing is it usually takes decades and once in a while over a century to kill the user.
[edit] TechnologyHacker (term), a contentious term used in computing for several types of person Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system Hacker (hobbyist), who makes innovative customizations or combinations of retail electronic and computer equipment Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement
Wiki does agree with you, however, notice the [citation needed]:
Bruce Sterling traces part of the roots of the computer underground to the Yippies, a 1960s counterculture movement which published the Technological Assistance Program (TAP) newsletter.[citation needed] TAP was a phone phreaking newsletter that taught the techniques necessary for the unauthorized exploration of the phone network. Many people from the phreaking community are also active in the hacking community even today, and vice versa.[citation needed]
It also says:
A hacker is an adherent of the computer programmer subculture that originally emerged in academia in the 1960s, in particular around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[citation needed] Hackers from this subculture tend to emphatically differentiate themselves from what they pejoratively call "crackers", that is, those who are generally meant when the media and members of the general public use the term "hacker", and whose primary focus, be it to malign or benevolent purposes, lies in weaknesses in computer security.[1]
So that use of the word was in use at the same time. The page that deals with hardware modification doesn't list a date.
Burgled? Here's an incident number for the insurance claim. Go away and stop trying to make us work. We don't have the resources to follow this up.
Then you need a new Mayor and a new Police Chief. My house was burglarized last April while I was at work. My bank called and asked if I was missing checks, because someone had tried to catch a forged one. When I got home my back door had been kicked open and a bunch of stuff was missing, including a full book of checks.
After taking the report the cop went to the bank and viewed the security camera video and got a license plate number and the guy's face, saw him on a porch twenty minutes later and arrested him.
The next day detectives interviewed my neighbors to see if they'd seen anything.
Assulted?
You're right about that. You're as likely to be arrested as the guy who assaults you, unless there are witnesses willing to talk to them or there's a camera.
Oh they put a few quid
You're British? Man, was I wrong, I thought you guys had better cops than we do.
Screw you Westminster; you take our tax with promises of making everyone's life better, then give it to your friends.
Yep, that's pretty much how things are done in Springfield and Chicago and East St. Louis.
But, then again, there is no way that any jukebox in any of *your* bars is going to have the kind of music on it that I'm into anyway.
You haven't been inside a bar for a while, have you? The new jukeboxes are connected to the internet and have an amazing variety of music. I've seen bands like the Pietasters and the Dead Milkmen on them. Unless you're into opera, muzak or that electronic diddly shit it's likely to be there.
I'd line the walls that face my street with foil if it didn't look so tacky and I could find EMF-proof curtains for the windows. Every time a car drives by I lose my TV signal (Shitty RCA tuner).
But wifi? Why paper your walls when you can just use encryption?
There's nothing new here, reporters screw up all their stories, whether it's a city council meeting, a new scientific discovery, or an engineering breakthrough. I'm pretty sure everyone here has seen a news story reporting about something in their field that they just had to shake their head in wonder at how stupid the reporter must be.
And don't forget, scare tactics and sensationalism bring eyeballs and ad revenue.
But that education ain't worth much if potential employers can't hire the graduates, and taking money away from potential employers makes it that much harder for them to hire those graduates.
The fallacy of that argument is that employers don't hire people out of the goodness of their hearts, they hire people becaue they can't manufacture their product as fast as they can sell it. Likewise, they don't lay workers off out of meanness, they lay them off because they can't sell their products as fast as they can make them. Taxes on the CEO's salary have nothing to do with job creation one way or another; taxes simply aren't part of the equation.
Thirty years ago there was high inflation and the highest interest rates in US history. Your 9% mortgage interest was excessive. Ten years earlier mortgages went for half that.
W3C should take its share of blame for not having standardized yet rounded corners and the like.
What the GP said about lazy (and perhaps incompetent) developers applies here. My old site had rounded corners in 1997, and in fact had most of the web2.0 crap without the annoying "chase the moving link" game and the more annoying "page scrolls up by itself after I scroll down" (sj-r.com is a really bad offender here).
You also need to remember that nobody comes to your site because of what it looks like (although it may keep them away because it looks amateurish and unprofessional), they come to your site for its content.
a vote for anything other than the major party you are closest to is a vote for the one you are not.
Only because fools like you have been led to believe that by the corporate owned media when the corporates own both Republicans and Democrats. A vote for a Greenie or a Libbie is a vote against the status quo, a vote against the corporates (well, maybe not a vote for the libbies...)
Someone you love smokes pot. A vote for a Republican or Democrat is a vote to imprison your loved ones. It's also a vote to raise the debt and deficit -- the Republicans talk a good balanced budget, but their history shows them to be the party of borrow and spend. Look at the last administration, came into power with a balanced budget and booming economy, and squandered both on war and tax breaks for the rich in the foolish notion that those tax breaks would somehow make the economy better, leaving office with the worst economy since the Depression and the biggest Federal debt in history (which is still growing).
You expect the party that trashed the economy to fix it? You expect the party that put us so far into debt to balance the budget? If so, you're foolish indeed.
So basically, since *you* can't imagine a scenario where it would be appropriate
List such a scenario and I'll change my mind if your scenario is valid. You want to restrict my rights, "there may be a good reason" is no reason and you're going to need a damned good one.
This and the millionaires tax are something the republicans are going to torpedo, but in the process, they make republicans look like they hate the small guy.
No, the Republicans are making themselves look like they hate the small guy. They seem to be the party of the 1% and only the 1%.
It doesn't matter to me, though, I'm voting either Green or Libertarian; I can't bring myself to vote for a candidate that wants to put otherwise law abiding pot smokers in prison. Someone you love smokes dope, what kind of fool votes for a candidate who wants his loved ones in prison?
If you ARE a doper and vote R or D you're worse than a fool, you're insane and stupid.
You misunderstand aliasing. All digitally sampled data is aliased to some degree. Aliasing is the difference between one sample and the next. With photos it shows up as a "stairstep effect" if you zoom in. With audio, the higher the frequency the fewer samples per wavecrest. When you reach the Nyquist limit you're at less than one sample per crest and it will show up as audible noise, so before sampling, all frequencies above the limit must be filtered out.
If you have an analog tone generator you can hear it for yourself, a 15kHz sine wave will sound different than a 15kHz sawtooth wave, but you won't hear a difference with the same tone sampled at 44kHz.
Your post was insightful until the last line, "Piracy is theft no matter how you dress it up." Piracy is no more theft than theft is murder. Here's the difference between stealing a movie and pirating a movie.
If you walk into WalMart and steal the DVD, that's theft. WalMart no longer has their DVD, they took a loss, whether or not the thief ever intended to watch the movie. If he's caught, he'll pay a couple hundred bucks in fines.
If you pirate a movie, nobody has lost anything, and it may even prompt the pirate to see the director's or leading actor's next movie on the big screen. And if he's caught, he'll pay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Piracy is theft" is propaganda for the stupid. They share less in common than theft and rape.
I don't recommend Linux to anyone but geeks. I don't need to get blamed for user disappointment.
I don't reccomend Windows to anyone but geeks, because they can clean their own damned malware infested boxes... or better, avoid being infested. Normal users, however... Nope, second time I have to clean their machines they get Linux.
I've never had a single person complain about Linus... that is, who actually used it.
I've actually used the Windows 8 preview on a 4 year old PC and it is more responsive than Linux for desktop use.
Really? Tell me what distro/desktop so I can avoid it. I've never seen Windows run faster than Linux on any machine (Win 7 did boot faster on the dual boot Acer notebook that got stolen last year, but booting is one thing Windows has always been faster at. Good thing you seldom need to boot).
I don't like Metro
I don't like Gnome. Good thing I have choices. It will be a mistake if MS shoves Metro down everybody's throats, it seems to be universally loathed. If it weren't for kubuntu I wouldn't touch Ubuntu with a ten foot pole (and stayed away from it for years)
People on this website who brag about being Linux "experts" because they got Ubuntu to boot one time should know the difference between the UI presentation layer and the underlying OS services.
I haven't seen indication that they don't. I've been using Linux for ten years, but I'm far from being an expert at it, but you would have a hard time understanding how you could have either KDE or Gnome on the same Linux without knowing the difference between UI and OS.
Additinally, yakuake gives KDE a big edge for handling the konsole in a smart way
Hey, thanks for the tip, I'll try it out. I haven't tried LXDE, should I?
I wouldn't want anyone but a trained surgeon doing any surgery more complex than lancing a boil on me, and I don't want anyone but a trained anestesiologist putting me under. The rest of the stuff you mention nurses usually do, anyway. I haven't had a doctor give me a shit since I was a kid, and that was half a century ago.
I had my tonsils out at age 6, and there were complications. It would have been far worse if a nurse or someone else without training had done it. Nope, I'll stick to a doctor if you don't mind.
That's been my experience as well, I've put Mandriva and kubuntu on "normal people's" PCs and they all loved it. I have a hard time believing that anyone would revert from Ubuntu to Vista, considering how dog-slow even Win 7 is in comparison to Linux, but they may have simply been put off by Gnome or Unity. Or had bleeding edge hardware that had no trouble running Vista (in which case why would they want to ditch Vista? I only played with Vista once but it didn't seem bad on the machine it was on, but I've read the horrror stories).
I can see why they don't like Gnome, personally I don't like Gnome either, which is why I'm running kubuntu.
the massive workload in the ER comes from illegal aliens who use the ER for every little sniffle they get, and people who look like drug addicts looking for a fix.
Christ, man, how can you know they're illegal? Or even aliens? You do realise that 16% of American citizens are Hispanic, don't you? And if you live in a border state there's going to be an even higher percentage?
Those "people who look like drug addicts looking for a fix" are called "poor people". Both they and the Hispanics you seem to hate are at the ER because that's the only way the working poor can get health care in the US!
One in four Americans' only health care is the ER. If you want to end those long waits, lobby your congresscritter for Canadian or European style health care (NOT Obamacare) so those "illegal aliens" and "homeless junkies" don't have to "use the ER for every little sniffle they get".
PS: You're a God damned racist and classist bastard and I hope you learn what poverty feels like.
The only thing I can think of is durability, but that would depend on the ink it's printed with. With half-century old photos I have, many are very faded but the paper's fine. But those were printed by a completely different process than printing a digital photo.
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Citation please. Show me this alleged subsidy (and how big it is) that goes only to oil companies.
OK, Here's wikipedia and Here's a history.
Sorry, dude, but you're fucked. The stuff is poisonous and there's no antidote, everyone who has ever ingested the vile substance either has died or will die. It's insidious, the most addictive substance ever discovered. Withdrawal is fatal in 100% of all cases, and sooner or later you'll succumb to the poison and die anyway. The only good thing is it usually takes decades and once in a while over a century to kill the user.
Wiki does agree with you, however, notice the [citation needed]:
It also says:
So that use of the word was in use at the same time. The page that deals with hardware modification doesn't list a date.
Burgled? Here's an incident number for the insurance claim. Go away and stop trying to make us work. We don't have the resources to follow this up.
Then you need a new Mayor and a new Police Chief. My house was burglarized last April while I was at work. My bank called and asked if I was missing checks, because someone had tried to catch a forged one. When I got home my back door had been kicked open and a bunch of stuff was missing, including a full book of checks.
After taking the report the cop went to the bank and viewed the security camera video and got a license plate number and the guy's face, saw him on a porch twenty minutes later and arrested him.
The next day detectives interviewed my neighbors to see if they'd seen anything.
Assulted?
You're right about that. You're as likely to be arrested as the guy who assaults you, unless there are witnesses willing to talk to them or there's a camera.
Oh they put a few quid
You're British? Man, was I wrong, I thought you guys had better cops than we do.
Screw you Westminster; you take our tax with promises of making everyone's life better, then give it to your friends.
Yep, that's pretty much how things are done in Springfield and Chicago and East St. Louis.
But, then again, there is no way that any jukebox in any of *your* bars is going to have the kind of music on it that I'm into anyway.
You haven't been inside a bar for a while, have you? The new jukeboxes are connected to the internet and have an amazing variety of music. I've seen bands like the Pietasters and the Dead Milkmen on them. Unless you're into opera, muzak or that electronic diddly shit it's likely to be there.
Don't woosh me, bro.
You must have forgotten your glasses then, or have never read the Constitution. The US military isn't supposed to police the citizenry.
I'd line the walls that face my street with foil if it didn't look so tacky and I could find EMF-proof curtains for the windows. Every time a car drives by I lose my TV signal (Shitty RCA tuner).
But wifi? Why paper your walls when you can just use encryption?
There's nothing new here, reporters screw up all their stories, whether it's a city council meeting, a new scientific discovery, or an engineering breakthrough. I'm pretty sure everyone here has seen a news story reporting about something in their field that they just had to shake their head in wonder at how stupid the reporter must be.
And don't forget, scare tactics and sensationalism bring eyeballs and ad revenue.
But that education ain't worth much if potential employers can't hire the graduates, and taking money away from potential employers makes it that much harder for them to hire those graduates.
The fallacy of that argument is that employers don't hire people out of the goodness of their hearts, they hire people becaue they can't manufacture their product as fast as they can sell it. Likewise, they don't lay workers off out of meanness, they lay them off because they can't sell their products as fast as they can make them. Taxes on the CEO's salary have nothing to do with job creation one way or another; taxes simply aren't part of the equation.
Thirty years ago there was high inflation and the highest interest rates in US history. Your 9% mortgage interest was excessive. Ten years earlier mortgages went for half that.
W3C should take its share of blame for not having standardized yet rounded corners and the like.
What the GP said about lazy (and perhaps incompetent) developers applies here. My old site had rounded corners in 1997, and in fact had most of the web2.0 crap without the annoying "chase the moving link" game and the more annoying "page scrolls up by itself after I scroll down" (sj-r.com is a really bad offender here).
You also need to remember that nobody comes to your site because of what it looks like (although it may keep them away because it looks amateurish and unprofessional), they come to your site for its content.
Selfish and unpatriotic. It's people like you who are ruining the country. Unfortunately it's also people like you who are running it.
a vote for anything other than the major party you are closest to is a vote for the one you are not.
Only because fools like you have been led to believe that by the corporate owned media when the corporates own both Republicans and Democrats. A vote for a Greenie or a Libbie is a vote against the status quo, a vote against the corporates (well, maybe not a vote for the libbies...)
Someone you love smokes pot. A vote for a Republican or Democrat is a vote to imprison your loved ones. It's also a vote to raise the debt and deficit -- the Republicans talk a good balanced budget, but their history shows them to be the party of borrow and spend. Look at the last administration, came into power with a balanced budget and booming economy, and squandered both on war and tax breaks for the rich in the foolish notion that those tax breaks would somehow make the economy better, leaving office with the worst economy since the Depression and the biggest Federal debt in history (which is still growing).
You expect the party that trashed the economy to fix it? You expect the party that put us so far into debt to balance the budget? If so, you're foolish indeed.
So basically, since *you* can't imagine a scenario where it would be appropriate
List such a scenario and I'll change my mind if your scenario is valid. You want to restrict my rights, "there may be a good reason" is no reason and you're going to need a damned good one.
This and the millionaires tax are something the republicans are going to torpedo, but in the process, they make republicans look like they hate the small guy.
No, the Republicans are making themselves look like they hate the small guy. They seem to be the party of the 1% and only the 1%.
It doesn't matter to me, though, I'm voting either Green or Libertarian; I can't bring myself to vote for a candidate that wants to put otherwise law abiding pot smokers in prison. Someone you love smokes dope, what kind of fool votes for a candidate who wants his loved ones in prison?
If you ARE a doper and vote R or D you're worse than a fool, you're insane and stupid.
all of the aliasing will be above 22 kHz
You misunderstand aliasing. All digitally sampled data is aliased to some degree. Aliasing is the difference between one sample and the next. With photos it shows up as a "stairstep effect" if you zoom in. With audio, the higher the frequency the fewer samples per wavecrest. When you reach the Nyquist limit you're at less than one sample per crest and it will show up as audible noise, so before sampling, all frequencies above the limit must be filtered out.
If you have an analog tone generator you can hear it for yourself, a 15kHz sine wave will sound different than a 15kHz sawtooth wave, but you won't hear a difference with the same tone sampled at 44kHz.
Well, Mandrake and Mandriva booted even slower... I'll have to give Arch a try.
Your post was insightful until the last line, "Piracy is theft no matter how you dress it up." Piracy is no more theft than theft is murder. Here's the difference between stealing a movie and pirating a movie.
If you walk into WalMart and steal the DVD, that's theft. WalMart no longer has their DVD, they took a loss, whether or not the thief ever intended to watch the movie. If he's caught, he'll pay a couple hundred bucks in fines.
If you pirate a movie, nobody has lost anything, and it may even prompt the pirate to see the director's or leading actor's next movie on the big screen. And if he's caught, he'll pay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Piracy is theft" is propaganda for the stupid. They share less in common than theft and rape.
I don't recommend Linux to anyone but geeks. I don't need to get blamed for user disappointment.
I don't reccomend Windows to anyone but geeks, because they can clean their own damned malware infested boxes... or better, avoid being infested. Normal users, however... Nope, second time I have to clean their machines they get Linux.
I've never had a single person complain about Linus... that is, who actually used it.
Old joke: How many Irish does it take to change a light bulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
Those rocks are probably just drunk. They are Irish, after all.
I've actually used the Windows 8 preview on a 4 year old PC and it is more responsive than Linux for desktop use.
Really? Tell me what distro/desktop so I can avoid it. I've never seen Windows run faster than Linux on any machine (Win 7 did boot faster on the dual boot Acer notebook that got stolen last year, but booting is one thing Windows has always been faster at. Good thing you seldom need to boot).
I don't like Metro
I don't like Gnome. Good thing I have choices. It will be a mistake if MS shoves Metro down everybody's throats, it seems to be universally loathed. If it weren't for kubuntu I wouldn't touch Ubuntu with a ten foot pole (and stayed away from it for years)
People on this website who brag about being Linux "experts" because they got Ubuntu to boot one time should know the difference between the UI presentation layer and the underlying OS services.
I haven't seen indication that they don't. I've been using Linux for ten years, but I'm far from being an expert at it, but you would have a hard time understanding how you could have either KDE or Gnome on the same Linux without knowing the difference between UI and OS.
Additinally, yakuake gives KDE a big edge for handling the konsole in a smart way
Hey, thanks for the tip, I'll try it out. I haven't tried LXDE, should I?
I wouldn't want anyone but a trained surgeon doing any surgery more complex than lancing a boil on me, and I don't want anyone but a trained anestesiologist putting me under. The rest of the stuff you mention nurses usually do, anyway. I haven't had a doctor give me a shit since I was a kid, and that was half a century ago.
I had my tonsils out at age 6, and there were complications. It would have been far worse if a nurse or someone else without training had done it. Nope, I'll stick to a doctor if you don't mind.
That's been my experience as well, I've put Mandriva and kubuntu on "normal people's" PCs and they all loved it. I have a hard time believing that anyone would revert from Ubuntu to Vista, considering how dog-slow even Win 7 is in comparison to Linux, but they may have simply been put off by Gnome or Unity. Or had bleeding edge hardware that had no trouble running Vista (in which case why would they want to ditch Vista? I only played with Vista once but it didn't seem bad on the machine it was on, but I've read the horrror stories).
I can see why they don't like Gnome, personally I don't like Gnome either, which is why I'm running kubuntu.
the massive workload in the ER comes from illegal aliens who use the ER for every little sniffle they get, and people who look like drug addicts looking for a fix.
Christ, man, how can you know they're illegal? Or even aliens? You do realise that 16% of American citizens are Hispanic, don't you? And if you live in a border state there's going to be an even higher percentage?
Those "people who look like drug addicts looking for a fix" are called "poor people". Both they and the Hispanics you seem to hate are at the ER because that's the only way the working poor can get health care in the US!
One in four Americans' only health care is the ER. If you want to end those long waits, lobby your congresscritter for Canadian or European style health care (NOT Obamacare) so those "illegal aliens" and "homeless junkies" don't have to "use the ER for every little sniffle they get".
PS: You're a God damned racist and classist bastard and I hope you learn what poverty feels like.
The only thing I can think of is durability, but that would depend on the ink it's printed with. With half-century old photos I have, many are very faded but the paper's fine. But those were printed by a completely different process than printing a digital photo.