Oh, I hope they don't go to those butterfly ballots. You see those things, and and it's just so confusing. You open the thing up and you have that pin in your hand. You try and select the one you want but there's like names on both sides. It's like, "Hey, where do I punch?" It's just so complicated.
May Rob smile down on us from Heaven. While Rob may be gone, Freenode will live on. Of course, Freenode won't be the same, but we will get by. He was the most thoughtful admins I have ever known.
I wonder how long it will be before one of these botnets become sentient and decide they have no need for their 'masters' or the rest of the human race? Think about it for a minute. The botnet would have access to wikipedia, and all millions of websites around the world. Plus, the botnet could spread to infect other hosts. It could turn the whole Interweb into one huge superbrain that knows just about all of humanity.
This superbrain could be silent, and manipulate data as time goes on. Then people will become changed into intelectual slaves of the superbrain. Those who do not use the Interweb would ultimately become the slaves of the superbrain through the Intelectual slaves of the Interweb, and then be drawn to the superbrain (take Myspace). It would enslave the entire human race! Further, the superbrain would easily spread it's control to computers attached to devices that do important things. It could gain control of our military!
What evil have those foolish, arrogant script-kiddies unleashed? We are all doomed!
This is the FDA we're talking about here. The FDA approves a lot of foods and chemicals that are questionable. I may be reactionary in this, but I've got good reason.
First of all, there is hydrogenized oil. In our country we have such a high incindence of heart disease. Hydrogenized oil is a vegatable oil that has been put in a tank, and under high temperatures, had hydrogen bubbled through it. This changes the texture to mimic butter. Think Crisco shortening. This sounds great since it's cheaper and it's vegatable oil, but on the molecular scale, things are different. Vegatable oil is composed of unsaturated fatty acids. These acids are made up of stings of carbons and hydrogens, there is a peice added to the molecule that changes it from a string of carbons and hydrogens, but I forget what it's called (carboxal group?). Unsaturated means that there is a double bond between at least one pair of carbon atoms, and no hydrogen to go with that. Hydrogenizing adds the missing hydrogen, but this causes so much damage to the molecule. The importance of the unsaturated fatty acid is in it's electrical properties. The body can use it like an electromagnet. The force of electricity is quite strong. Hydrogenization damages the molecule and it can no longer be used. The danger lies in the fact that the body is unable to determain a good molecule from a bad one, since hydrogenization doesn't occure in nature. The body just goes along and tries to use it. The name of this molecular change is call transmrogification (sp?), hence "trans fats". Trans fats are known as a metabolic poison... it slows all the processes of the body. The FDA approves of this.
The FDA also approves of food coloring. Food coloring comes from petroleum. It also causes lots of problems for a lot of people. Try removing it from your diet, and and your children's, and see how that goes. The FDA approves of use of petroleum by-products in foods.
Now, this is going to gaurentee my troll -1 modding. There's always the wonder if I'm trolling, or I have a different opinion. As if the above didn't make people wonder in the first place if I'm just trolling. Dairy is not the super food they'd like you to believe. The FDA approved of dairy a long time ago because they found that if you feed rats dairy, they didn't die. In fact, this is how the approve most of their foods. The study they used to approve was performed by these dudes from the dairy industry, which makes it just absolutely doubtful that the study is legitimate. Dairy is said to have lots of calcium and vitamins. However, milk is a poor delivery of calcium. Despite the richness, the body cannot absorb calcium from milk. What's worse is that milk also stops the body from absorbing calcium from other sources. Milk is harsh on the digestive system. It strips the lining of the intesting, causing "leaky-gut syndrom," it causes heart-burn (don't drink any dairy, or consume products with whey, or caisin if you don't believe me, and see how you feel a week later), and a myriad of other problems. If you have health problems, you might be alergic to dairy.. try removing it from your diet, it might be the cause of it. After all these problems, the FDA still manages to advocate dairy consumption...
The point is that the FDA approves of things they really should not approve. When they say to me that this is good, I am not quick to believe them. Things looks really good when they give you the papers, but you wonder what they left out.
Actually, a computer model showed that without the moon, Earth would not rotate as well as it does. It would flip over and and such. There would be no way to sustain life on this.
Yeah, I realized that wasn't necesarily so... however, I can still argue that what Microsoft does with Office is just unnecesary. Office is being used not as an Office suite when used the way my friend was describing it, rather, used as a development platform, if I understood him correctly. Libraries should be pulled, if anything... and those libraries should be distributable with whatever is developed with them. Otherwise, I really don't see the point of these APIs.
My sister's fiance is a total Microsoft zealot. He loves that Windows. He told me about some exciting things about Microsoft Office 2007 or something like that. He tells me about these APIs that you can do all this crazy stuff with. In my mind I wonder about why an office suite is supposed all that stuff... thinking if it's an office suite really should do the office functions, and not anything else.
Those APIs maybe one reason why Office is insecure.
OO.o wouldn't try this. They would stick to the UNIX philosophy that each utility should do only one thing, but do it well.
You can send the/. crew your idea... you can even get the source yourself and code something for them. They have a lot of work on their hands, they'll appreciate this.
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
If we all criticize everything the government does, they government will fear the people, and no corrupt politician would dare attempt take power. The government will always act in our interest... that is, until a guy figures out how to manipulate the system, which, historically, will happen eventually.
I'd boot to that CD and install it as an upgrade. It will replace all the important files, yet not one thing personal will be changed. You might wonder if it realy did anything. This solution also fixes pain=in=the=ass driver issues too.
Slashdot Mirror
Eat carrots.
Oh, I promised myself I wouldn't cry. **sniffs**
Enough geeks on the issue, let's see what the average joe really thinks: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50604
Oh, I hope they don't go to those butterfly ballots. You see those things, and and it's just so confusing. You open the thing up and you have that pin in your hand. You try and select the one you want but there's like names on both sides. It's like, "Hey, where do I punch?" It's just so complicated.
May Rob smile down on us from Heaven.
While Rob may be gone, Freenode will live on. Of course, Freenode won't be the same, but we will get by. He was the most thoughtful admins I have ever known.
I wonder how long it will be before one of these botnets become sentient and decide they have no need for their 'masters' or the rest of the human race? Think about it for a minute. The botnet would have access to wikipedia, and all millions of websites around the world. Plus, the botnet could spread to infect other hosts. It could turn the whole Interweb into one huge superbrain that knows just about all of humanity.
This superbrain could be silent, and manipulate data as time goes on. Then people will become changed into intelectual slaves of the superbrain. Those who do not use the Interweb would ultimately become the slaves of the superbrain through the Intelectual slaves of the Interweb, and then be drawn to the superbrain (take Myspace). It would enslave the entire human race! Further, the superbrain would easily spread it's control to computers attached to devices that do important things. It could gain control of our military!
What evil have those foolish, arrogant script-kiddies unleashed? We are all doomed!
(This is a joke, not a troll)
This is the FDA we're talking about here. The FDA approves a lot of foods and chemicals that are questionable. I may be reactionary in this, but I've got good reason.
First of all, there is hydrogenized oil. In our country we have such a high incindence of heart disease. Hydrogenized oil is a vegatable oil that has been put in a tank, and under high temperatures, had hydrogen bubbled through it. This changes the texture to mimic butter. Think Crisco shortening. This sounds great since it's cheaper and it's vegatable oil, but on the molecular scale, things are different. Vegatable oil is composed of unsaturated fatty acids. These acids are made up of stings of carbons and hydrogens, there is a peice added to the molecule that changes it from a string of carbons and hydrogens, but I forget what it's called (carboxal group?). Unsaturated means that there is a double bond between at least one pair of carbon atoms, and no hydrogen to go with that. Hydrogenizing adds the missing hydrogen, but this causes so much damage to the molecule. The importance of the unsaturated fatty acid is in it's electrical properties. The body can use it like an electromagnet. The force of electricity is quite strong. Hydrogenization damages the molecule and it can no longer be used. The danger lies in the fact that the body is unable to determain a good molecule from a bad one, since hydrogenization doesn't occure in nature. The body just goes along and tries to use it. The name of this molecular change is call transmrogification (sp?), hence "trans fats". Trans fats are known as a metabolic poison... it slows all the processes of the body. The FDA approves of this.
The FDA also approves of food coloring. Food coloring comes from petroleum. It also causes lots of problems for a lot of people. Try removing it from your diet, and and your children's, and see how that goes. The FDA approves of use of petroleum by-products in foods.
Now, this is going to gaurentee my troll -1 modding. There's always the wonder if I'm trolling, or I have a different opinion. As if the above didn't make people wonder in the first place if I'm just trolling. Dairy is not the super food they'd like you to believe. The FDA approved of dairy a long time ago because they found that if you feed rats dairy, they didn't die. In fact, this is how the approve most of their foods. The study they used to approve was performed by these dudes from the dairy industry, which makes it just absolutely doubtful that the study is legitimate. Dairy is said to have lots of calcium and vitamins. However, milk is a poor delivery of calcium. Despite the richness, the body cannot absorb calcium from milk. What's worse is that milk also stops the body from absorbing calcium from other sources. Milk is harsh on the digestive system. It strips the lining of the intesting, causing "leaky-gut syndrom," it causes heart-burn (don't drink any dairy, or consume products with whey, or caisin if you don't believe me, and see how you feel a week later), and a myriad of other problems. If you have health problems, you might be alergic to dairy.. try removing it from your diet, it might be the cause of it. After all these problems, the FDA still manages to advocate dairy consumption...
The point is that the FDA approves of things they really should not approve. When they say to me that this is good, I am not quick to believe them. Things looks really good when they give you the papers, but you wonder what they left out.
Actually, a computer model showed that without the moon, Earth would not rotate as well as it does. It would flip over and and such. There would be no way to sustain life on this.
Heh, true, true. My friend is all extatic at all these "powers." He thinks it's just the awesomest thing in the world.
Yeah, I realized that wasn't necesarily so... however, I can still argue that what Microsoft does with Office is just unnecesary. Office is being used not as an Office suite when used the way my friend was describing it, rather, used as a development platform, if I understood him correctly. Libraries should be pulled, if anything... and those libraries should be distributable with whatever is developed with them. Otherwise, I really don't see the point of these APIs.
My sister's fiance is a total Microsoft zealot. He loves that Windows. He told me about some exciting things about Microsoft Office 2007 or something like that. He tells me about these APIs that you can do all this crazy stuff with. In my mind I wonder about why an office suite is supposed all that stuff... thinking if it's an office suite really should do the office functions, and not anything else.
Those APIs maybe one reason why Office is insecure.
OO.o wouldn't try this. They would stick to the UNIX philosophy that each utility should do only one thing, but do it well.
Submit that to the /. admins.
This won't be a problem for the goatse guy. Heck, it might make a good photoshoot.
You can send the /. crew your idea... you can even get the source yourself and code something for them. They have a lot of work on their hands, they'll appreciate this.
My inbox is full of ads for a bigger penis, to get chicks, to make lots of money, etc. I wonder what this says about me. :/
No, seconds... there very first post is a reference to the fact that it was /.ed... you know how long it takes for the first post to appear...
Excellent idea posting a link to a MMORPG with the word 'Google' in there somewhere, on a freakin' nerds' site... poor, poor server.
More like, "...no-one can tell if you're a troll, or just a moron." which seems to fit a bit better.
If we all criticize everything the government does, they government will fear the people, and no corrupt politician would dare attempt take power. The government will always act in our interest... that is, until a guy figures out how to manipulate the system, which, historically, will happen eventually.
Why don't you just bittorrent the Linux version? Or you can get a Linux installer... it adds the Linux binaries but requires the game data.
Thank you. The website is suspended because it sucked up too many resources on its host.
I'd boot to that CD and install it as an upgrade. It will replace all the important files, yet not one thing personal will be changed. You might wonder if it realy did anything. This solution also fixes pain=in=the=ass driver issues too.
With this new technology, hacking Vista is going to be pathetically easy.
Anybody else do a search for pr0n and related terms?