Holy cow... lately it seems that Ohio has been vying to unseat Florida for the capital of dubious distinctions. All we need is some OHP officers tasering some people's genitals and they'll probably take the crown.
Over the jagged peaks of Thok they sweep,
Heedless of all the cries I make,
And down the nether pits to that foul lake
Where the puffed shoggoths splash in doubtful sleep
At forty-three [not fifty-three] Kelvin.
-- Sonnet XX, "Night Gaunts" in Fungi from Yuggoth, 1929-30
Who's abusing their H-1B privileges? Details, please.
by CmdrTaco (NYC Div. 4)
Slashdotters list their favorite fileshare IPs
by Agent Zonk
One pitfall of the program
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As an author selling four titles on Amazon, I worry about the downside: one could get easily get baited into arguments, pedantic debates, and troll activity. Other authors might ding themselves by inadvertantly pushing personal agendas and straying away, in an obvious way, from their area of knowledge. It might be the authors that don't respond, or don't even keep a blog there, who weather the occasional bad reviews and continue to sell well. I guess I sound like I'm on a high horse, but I'm certainly not keen to jump in on this program.
On the other hand, if the program remains open only to "novelists, writers of child care manuals and experts on subjects as diverse as real estate", then it shall remain a non-issue us Joe Sixpacks of 4- and 5-figure sales ranks.
Is this technology just going to provide redundant coverage for cities, where consumers already have 20 choices, or will it reach into the rural boonies? One of my offices here in Texas is 10 miles from the nearest town, and it might as well be 1982 as far as connectivity is concerned. This article doesn't provide any clue.
The application... describes the methodology...
3) Edit illegally produced digital music file (damage sound quality).
Thank god... if I get another 64 kbps Wang Chung song I'm gonna give up on this P2P crap and go back to using Hotline.
What concerns me lately is some of the faceless/nameless droids working in the call centers. After we called our Texas power company to transfer our service to a new address, we found out some time later that they added on another house in Dallas, as part of the same work order. Assigned my wife's social security number to the account, too. It's not just the databases that concern me, but the trustworthiness of the people taking my call.
"As Gilman looked into the Optical Vortex Coronagraph at the extrasolar planet, he became conscious of some formless alien presence watching him with horrible intentness. He felt entangled with something -- something which was not in the telescope, but which had looked through it at him. Something which would ceaselessly follow him.
"Cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief that Gilman was killed by lightning, or by some profound nervous shock derived from an electrical discharge. Archaeologists and astronomers, however, are still trying to explain the bizarre designs impressed on the special helical-shaped mask, whose inner side bore ominous stains."
Thanks, good points. I'll concede the plugin issue. But say dear old Mom is over for Christmas and wants to use my computer to look at "www.bostonherald.com". She starts typing "www.b" and... oh no! "www.bigtitties.com" appears in the address bar! (or at the very least, it's in the dropdown) This kind of thing can't be prevented unless I keep going in and clearing my history over and over. The point is that the most novice of computer amateurs can easily (and accidentally) uncover all my visits to www.a1bankruptcy.com, www.smellyasshelp.com, and of course the goat.se gallery.
My list of desired features boil down to two basic things:
- Right-clicking and seeing "Block active content from ad1.crapads.com" rather than "About Macromedia Flash Player 8".
- Not placing every fricking website I go to in the dropdown address bar, which can only be flushed out by mucking with the.css templates (no, nothing in Options > Privacy controls this behavior). If that's not a privacy hole, I don't know what is.
I am a self-employed programmer/writer -- earlier this year we escaped the colossal mess of Austin to live in an east Texas town of 15,000. Predictably many people here have lives that revolve around NASCAR, country music, and Wal-Mart. But for east Texas, this town is better than most, and as others have mentioned, we live like kings here. I'm crossing my fingers that the city/suburb real estate bubble and telecommuting will drive a little more diversity into this place.
My biggest challenge is trying to figure out how to meet like-minded people to socialize with. I know they're around but I have no idea how to reach them. Meetup.com would have been one method, but the idiots now charge an arm and a leg for a listing. If anyone has any ideas along these lines, I'm all ears. Craig, how about a craigslist for the boonies?
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That's not melanoma. It is a cellular-peptide cake, with mint frosting.
Now the IT people will know the source of those coolant "leaks" at the boss's desk.
Holy cow... lately it seems that Ohio has been vying to unseat Florida for the capital of dubious distinctions. All we need is some OHP officers tasering some people's genitals and they'll probably take the crown.
Over the jagged peaks of Thok they sweep,
Heedless of all the cries I make,
And down the nether pits to that foul lake
Where the puffed shoggoths splash in doubtful sleep
At forty-three [not fifty-three] Kelvin.
-- Sonnet XX, "Night Gaunts" in Fungi from Yuggoth, 1929-30
If you watch carefully for that leap second, you can do a freeze-frame flying kick like in The Matrix.
New Slashdot stories in November 2006:
Who's abusing their H-1B privileges? Details, please.
by CmdrTaco (NYC Div. 4)
Slashdotters list their favorite fileshare IPs
by Agent Zonk
As an author selling four titles on Amazon, I worry about the downside: one could get easily get baited into arguments, pedantic debates, and troll activity. Other authors might ding themselves by inadvertantly pushing personal agendas and straying away, in an obvious way, from their area of knowledge. It might be the authors that don't respond, or don't even keep a blog there, who weather the occasional bad reviews and continue to sell well. I guess I sound like I'm on a high horse, but I'm certainly not keen to jump in on this program. On the other hand, if the program remains open only to "novelists, writers of child care manuals and experts on subjects as diverse as real estate", then it shall remain a non-issue us Joe Sixpacks of 4- and 5-figure sales ranks.
My thoughts exactly. Seems like not being in the WTO is a boon for income equality.
This doesn't bode well. I think AOLers are just now getting up to speed on the "good times" virus.
Is this technology just going to provide redundant coverage for cities, where consumers already have 20 choices, or will it reach into the rural boonies? One of my offices here in Texas is 10 miles from the nearest town, and it might as well be 1982 as far as connectivity is concerned. This article doesn't provide any clue.
The good news: It will run Open Office. The bad news: The Open Office suite will come on 382 floppy disks.
Come on... any real hacker wouldn't need to be spoon-fed the specifications! If they have that, then they're just programming.
The New York Times Online Registrations will surely be Slashdotted! Perry White would be proud.
The application ... describes the methodology ...
3) Edit illegally produced digital music file (damage sound quality).
Thank god... if I get another 64 kbps Wang Chung song I'm gonna give up on this P2P crap and go back to using Hotline.
What concerns me lately is some of the faceless/nameless droids working in the call centers. After we called our Texas power company to transfer our service to a new address, we found out some time later that they added on another house in Dallas, as part of the same work order. Assigned my wife's social security number to the account, too. It's not just the databases that concern me, but the trustworthiness of the people taking my call.
Pornsters will take note that pee.eu can be used for both water sports and scat.
The work by Dr DeMarse and his team is attracting interest from scientists around the world.
Conveniently, Dr. DeMarse wants their brains working on this flight simulator problem.
On the announcement, Telstra said it would proceed with shutdown of several OC-48 backbones as spyware traffic falls.
Excellent -- even better!
"As Gilman looked into the Optical Vortex Coronagraph at the extrasolar planet, he became conscious of some formless alien presence watching him with horrible intentness. He felt entangled with something -- something which was not in the telescope, but which had looked through it at him. Something which would ceaselessly follow him.
"Cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief that Gilman was killed by lightning, or by some profound nervous shock derived from an electrical discharge. Archaeologists and astronomers, however, are still trying to explain the bizarre designs impressed on the special helical-shaped mask, whose inner side bore ominous stains."
Thanks, good points. I'll concede the plugin issue. But say dear old Mom is over for Christmas and wants to use my computer to look at "www.bostonherald.com". She starts typing "www.b" and... oh no! "www.bigtitties.com" appears in the address bar! (or at the very least, it's in the dropdown) This kind of thing can't be prevented unless I keep going in and clearing my history over and over. The point is that the most novice of computer amateurs can easily (and accidentally) uncover all my visits to www.a1bankruptcy.com, www.smellyasshelp.com, and of course the goat.se gallery.
My list of desired features boil down to two basic things:
.css templates (no, nothing in Options > Privacy controls this behavior). If that's not a privacy hole, I don't know what is.
- Right-clicking and seeing "Block active content from ad1.crapads.com" rather than "About Macromedia Flash Player 8".
- Not placing every fricking website I go to in the dropdown address bar, which can only be flushed out by mucking with the
If the answer is no and no, I'm sticking to 1.0.
Why would suspending the power supply in mid-air fix this? Air is an excellent insulator! Better to conduct heat to a heat sink, like the floor.
I am a self-employed programmer/writer -- earlier this year we escaped the colossal mess of Austin to live in an east Texas town of 15,000. Predictably many people here have lives that revolve around NASCAR, country music, and Wal-Mart. But for east Texas, this town is better than most, and as others have mentioned, we live like kings here. I'm crossing my fingers that the city/suburb real estate bubble and telecommuting will drive a little more diversity into this place.
My biggest challenge is trying to figure out how to meet like-minded people to socialize with. I know they're around but I have no idea how to reach them. Meetup.com would have been one method, but the idiots now charge an arm and a leg for a listing. If anyone has any ideas along these lines, I'm all ears. Craig, how about a craigslist for the boonies?