As a Canadian I will never understand why the US is so eager about its boarder security with Canada.
Because they're even more rabid about their only other land border--the one with Mexico. The politicians dress it up to look like they're "protecting [all] their borders" instead of "keeping the Mexicans the fuck out."
It's a secret message. If you take the first initials of the authors of each post between the Slashdot entry and the actual Globe article... No, wait, it's the first letter of each paragraph... No, it's--I'll find it one of these days!
I'd love to hear the insurance provider, in court, try to prove that said picture actually had been taken within the past six months.
The insurance company has all the power. All they have to do is cancel your insurance, citing the photos. It's up to you to haul them to court, which would likely take a lawyer costing a lot more than $250.
Apply heat to a glass of ice and the temperature will continue read 0 degrees C until all the ice has turned to water. That doesn't mean there's more energy (heat) in the system.
On Windows, if I want to rename a file in Explorer, I can hit the context menu button and m to rename the file. On OS X, if there is a keyboard shortcut, it's obscured somewhere; I can't find a way to rename a file without clicking on it, twice, but not fast enough to double-click.
On Windows, in any text editing function (e.g. a textbox on a webpage or in a document/text/code editor), I hit shift+end to select all text from the cursor to the end of the line, shift+ctrl+right to select one word to the right, shift+ctrl+end to select all text until the end of the textbox. I swear there is no consistent set of commands on OS X. Between textboxes in Firefox, message composition in Thunderbird, text/code editing in Dreamweaver, fields in FileMaker Pro, and text in Word:Mac, I can never confidently navigate text fields using the keyboard beyond the arrow keys because I don't know which combination I should be using in that program.
I find on Windows, I can usually go for good stretches using either a keyboard or a mouse, whereas on a mac I need to constantly be using both.
Remember - you heard it here first. This is going to happen. Some holier-than-thou uberhacker is going to figure "fuck 'em if they can't handle basic security - they're fucking up MY INTERNET" and lay waste to them all, nuke-it-from-orbit style.
Actually, I heard it on Slashdot from someone else, yesterday. Someone was sick of people not changing some default passwords on their jailbroken iPhones, so he designed a virus to RickRoll them.
(they forget to mention the *EXTRA* fuel expense for the leading vehicle that is basically towing the others..)
WTF?
Trailing vehicles (in cycling or in trucking) are merely fitting into the pocket made by the lead vehicle, which would otherwise have been wasted into turbulence. The lead vehicle would have to break through the wind either way. If anything, the absence of turbulence behind their vehicle (since another vehicle is carrying the stream) would improve their aerodynamics for the lead vehicle.
Would you similarly suggest that if I create some software and release the code for others to use and modify, that it would require more programming on my part than if I just wrote the exact same code and kept it to myself?
Once the government is paying for your health care, they can pretty much mandate what you eat, what you smoke, what you drink, how long you live, etc. Hey, the repercussions of "bad" behavior are on their nickel, right?
Funny you mention that. We have universal health care up here in Canada, and last time I checked, we can still buy cigarettes and unhealthy food, we can buy alcohol at a younger age than you can, and anything that is controlled as illegal (e.g. marijuana) is only illegal because of pressure the freedom-loving Americans.
What happens to these laptops when they are decommissioned?
Perhaps your definition of "unaddressed" is different from mine. FTA:
A 2007 report from the US Government Accountability Office suggested that failed laptops are 'tossed overboard to be burned up in the atmosphere'. Is this true?
"We don't just throw them out an airlock! We have had failed laptops in the past where we put them on a Progress vehicle [an expendable Russian cargo spacecraft used for disposing rubbish] and that does burn up in the atmosphere. But we don't always do this, it depends on the failure. If it's something we want to investigate or have the engineers have a look at, we'll try to return that laptop on board the Shuttle."
The following section suggests there are no 'decommissioned' laptops:
"For the most part with the laptops, we don't have to change them. They already do everything we need them to do, so you might only see a new laptop going on board every four years."
What about if I have polarized sunglasses on? There are lots of LCD screens that I can't read when I've got sunglasses on. Would this type of treatment do the same thing?
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As a Canadian I will never understand why the US is so eager about its boarder security with Canada.
Because they're even more rabid about their only other land border--the one with Mexico. The politicians dress it up to look like they're "protecting [all] their borders" instead of "keeping the Mexicans the fuck out."
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Yes, what you're missing is what you're not missing. Like the GP, I had only read the link text before clicking it.
And since I also thought of the same wisecrack as GP (who got to it first), the transitive property of humour makes it funny(?)
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We all know linux is a euphism for sex.
And Windows is an euphemism for unprotected sex?
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I must be in the minority.
According to the 'study', 41-46% of people accepted blindly, so you'd be in the majority.
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Without sensation? Seems dangerous. What if you squeeze too hard? Pull too hard?
Unless he also has a cybernetic wang, there would still be sensation where it counts.
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Assuming LEDs last 2.5 times as long as LEDs, we conclude that LEDs last infinitely long and there is nothing superior except for LEDs.
Or they never work at all.
Only if you divide by zero.
- RG>
Interesting idea...
Can this rope cannon can be modified to shoot eels?
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PBS recently did a Frontline documentary on the same types of charges and fees used to trick credit and debit card users: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/creditcards/
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It's a secret message. If you take the first initials of the authors of each post between the Slashdot entry and the actual Globe article... No, wait, it's the first letter of each paragraph... No, it's--I'll find it one of these days!
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I think I can get that up to 10 seconds without breaking any laws of the legal kind.
No! Don't go any further! You'll risk opening a black hole!
In your heart.
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I'd love to hear the insurance provider, in court, try to prove that said picture actually had been taken within the past six months.
The insurance company has all the power. All they have to do is cancel your insurance, citing the photos. It's up to you to haul them to court, which would likely take a lawyer costing a lot more than $250.
- RG>
Apply heat to a glass of ice and the temperature will continue read 0 degrees C until all the ice has turned to water. That doesn't mean there's more energy (heat) in the system.
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This scenario would make a really awesome theme casino in Vegas.
Why go to all the trouble of building a casino when new agers will throw their money at you for rocks and water anyway?
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On Windows, if I want to rename a file in Explorer, I can hit the context menu button and m to rename the file. On OS X, if there is a keyboard shortcut, it's obscured somewhere; I can't find a way to rename a file without clicking on it, twice, but not fast enough to double-click.
On Windows, in any text editing function (e.g. a textbox on a webpage or in a document/text/code editor), I hit shift+end to select all text from the cursor to the end of the line, shift+ctrl+right to select one word to the right, shift+ctrl+end to select all text until the end of the textbox. I swear there is no consistent set of commands on OS X. Between textboxes in Firefox, message composition in Thunderbird, text/code editing in Dreamweaver, fields in FileMaker Pro, and text in Word:Mac, I can never confidently navigate text fields using the keyboard beyond the arrow keys because I don't know which combination I should be using in that program.
I find on Windows, I can usually go for good stretches using either a keyboard or a mouse, whereas on a mac I need to constantly be using both.
- RG>
Remember - you heard it here first. This is going to happen. Some holier-than-thou uberhacker is going to figure "fuck 'em if they can't handle basic security - they're fucking up MY INTERNET" and lay waste to them all, nuke-it-from-orbit style.
Actually, I heard it on Slashdot from someone else, yesterday. Someone was sick of people not changing some default passwords on their jailbroken iPhones, so he designed a virus to RickRoll them.
And nobody had to nuke anybody.
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What? Why waste John Cleese on that?
Use an impersonator. A bad one. That'll punish them.
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But trains and their stations are connected through those long steel connections; airports OTOH are already configured for wireless 'devices'.
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No one else sang.
Yet it still managed to be out of tune.
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(they forget to mention the *EXTRA* fuel expense for the leading vehicle that is basically towing the others..)
WTF?
Trailing vehicles (in cycling or in trucking) are merely fitting into the pocket made by the lead vehicle, which would otherwise have been wasted into turbulence. The lead vehicle would have to break through the wind either way. If anything, the absence of turbulence behind their vehicle (since another vehicle is carrying the stream) would improve their aerodynamics for the lead vehicle.
Would you similarly suggest that if I create some software and release the code for others to use and modify, that it would require more programming on my part than if I just wrote the exact same code and kept it to myself?
- RG>
Once the government is paying for your health care, they can pretty much mandate what you eat, what you smoke, what you drink, how long you live, etc. Hey, the repercussions of "bad" behavior are on their nickel, right?
Funny you mention that. We have universal health care up here in Canada, and last time I checked, we can still buy cigarettes and unhealthy food, we can buy alcohol at a younger age than you can, and anything that is controlled as illegal (e.g. marijuana) is only illegal because of pressure the freedom-loving Americans.
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If only he were from a Commonwealth country, then he could be made a KBE.
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I didn't realise my Youtube account was sharing my name (username), age and gender publicly.
Neither did I, and I'm pretty protective of that information. (I don't even remember giving them that info)
YouTube just went down for "maintenance"; I wonder if they're fixing that...
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What happens to these laptops when they are decommissioned?
Perhaps your definition of "unaddressed" is different from mine. FTA:
A 2007 report from the US Government Accountability Office suggested that failed laptops are 'tossed overboard to be burned up in the atmosphere'. Is this true?
"We don't just throw them out an airlock! We have had failed laptops in the past where we put them on a Progress vehicle [an expendable Russian cargo spacecraft used for disposing rubbish] and that does burn up in the atmosphere. But we don't always do this, it depends on the failure. If it's something we want to investigate or have the engineers have a look at, we'll try to return that laptop on board the Shuttle."
The following section suggests there are no 'decommissioned' laptops:
"For the most part with the laptops, we don't have to change them. They already do everything we need them to do, so you might only see a new laptop going on board every four years."
- RG>
Mythbusters already tested this. The episode will air 7.3 billion years from next week.
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What about if I have polarized sunglasses on? There are lots of LCD screens that I can't read when I've got sunglasses on. Would this type of treatment do the same thing?
- RG>