Yeah, but Skylab was made out of the much less dense aluminum, while the ISS is made out of lead to shield against cosmic radiation. So technically, the guy was right, the ISS is smaller than Skylab,
Oh, FFS.
Skylab's living volume: 10,000 sqft ISS living volume: 15,000 sqft
(From Wikipedia. Admittedly, not as big a difference as I had expected)
I was going to make a joke in reply to GP about "oh, but it weighs virtually the same" but instead I had to reply to this silly comment. I hope you're happy.
Gmail isn't perfect at filtering spam. I've received 35,214 spam messages in the last month. I estimate that Gmail failed to filter around 100 of them.
Gmail's false positive rate for spam is so low that I don't even check anymore.
I'd much rather have to bother with a spam or two a day making its way to the inbox, than a legit mail or two a week making its way into the spam folder.
Aside from my ISP, which is a non-profit that charges my credit card a fixed amount each month, I pay my bills through my bank's website based on the PAPER bill I receive in the mail.
The only other automation is the monthly reminders I've set in my digital calendar.
Aside from your grotesque choice to frame the VP issue in terms of "hoping the president dies"...
Here's a newsflash: the VP also does stuff when the President doesn't die. Stuff like advise the President.
McCain said that it's important for a President to surround him/herself with experienced people, especially in areas where the President is not very strong.
Obama is seen as weak on foreign policy, so he chose Biden, a person with a lot of foreign policy experience.
Despite the fact that McCain has a love-hate relationship with claims to economic experience, he has chosen a candidate who can't be seen to have significant experience in any field.
Yes, I discovered that after posting the comment. Until I posted it, though, I had no way of knowing that the preview's formatting was different than that of the post.
8. Cooliris - Cool, but no real functionality. Of course, Compiz, Widgets, Apples, etc all live off of cool, but I don't think this should be standard, especially since it is windows only.
I wasn't familiar with this one, so I looked it up.
Apparently it pops up a preview of a URL when you hover over a link.
LiveJournal does this (I'm not registered to LJ, but I check out a couple of LJ sites) and I absolutely HATE it.
What if I'm checking out an LJ page at work (okay, mistake #1) and someone has a link to goatse or worse, kiddie porn? If the page pre-loads the link, or if I'm unlucky enough to pause my mouse over it, that shit (presumably) gets downloaded across the network to my computer.
Long story short, I agree with parent that this is suitable as an extension (or optional) for those who want it.
Re: Troll - If I correctly remember an earlier reading on trolls on Wikipedia, the term derives from the verb "to troll", as in the ships that troll the ocean for fish--not to the mythological creature.
Re: Ownership of comments: You own the copyright on that particular set of words attributed to you (or your username), and you implicitly grant Slashdot permission to publish those comments. If you were to grant a newspaper permission to reprint your comments (i.e. by sending a letter to the editor), you cannot ask them to collect all copies of their newspaper and cut out your letter after it's been printed.
Re: Idle's comment box: Holy fuck, this thing's annoying! And the comment formatting doesn't work.
A lot of US car companies are going under because they have very generous pension plans and a lot of retired workers to pay.
That's not a big problem. Those US car companies should take a page from United Airlines and simply renegotiate the contract with the current employees to get out of paying pensions to retired employees.
At least there are still laws against that here in Canada.
The time you spend trying to make up for their incompetence/malice is worth more than the price of whatever screwjob they've got running on you, and it certainly costs less in both time AND money than hiring a lawyer.
And these fuckers know it./recently conned by Bell Mobility
As has been mentioned before, if you ever want to get anywhere with a phone/internet provider, always ask to speak to the account cancellation department. They're the only ones who have the power to give you a good deal.
Is the necessarily stolen property just because some data on it was stolen? (Assuming it was stolen and not just incompetence on the part of the bank or a contractor)
The emphasis in the panel on the bottom-left at the end of that page clinches it:
We do not want to minimize the impact of these crimes on the industry and artists, who are the victims.
Note how "artists" isn't emphasized but "industry" is? (And, for that matter, how it implies this is a criminal, not civil matter, but that's been said)
We did, and we started the Canadian Fund for Nigerian Scam Victims in Australia. We provide $10,000 in financial support to Australians who have fallen victims to these Nigerian scams.
Unfortunately, we have recently changed signing officers and our bank requires us to change over our signing officers in person. Our bank is on the other side of the country, and the Fund has spent its travel allowance for the year.
If there are any sympathetic Australians who would be so kind as to forward $3000, we will be able to travel to our bank and issue you a cheque for $10,000.
Please be kind and sympathetic to these most unfortunate Australian victims of Nigerian scams. For all you know, the next victim might be you!
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Yeah, but Skylab was made out of the much less dense aluminum, while the ISS is made out of lead to shield against cosmic radiation. So technically, the guy was right, the ISS is smaller than Skylab,
Oh, FFS.
Skylab's living volume: 10,000 sqft
ISS living volume: 15,000 sqft
(From Wikipedia. Admittedly, not as big a difference as I had expected)
I was going to make a joke in reply to GP about "oh, but it weighs virtually the same" but instead I had to reply to this silly comment. I hope you're happy.
- RG>
Gmail isn't perfect at filtering spam. I've received 35,214 spam messages in the last month. I estimate that Gmail failed to filter around 100 of them.
Gmail's false positive rate for spam is so low that I don't even check anymore.
I'd much rather have to bother with a spam or two a day making its way to the inbox, than a legit mail or two a week making its way into the spam folder.
- RG>
Aside from my ISP, which is a non-profit that charges my credit card a fixed amount each month, I pay my bills through my bank's website based on the PAPER bill I receive in the mail.
The only other automation is the monthly reminders I've set in my digital calendar.
- RG>
I predict that people will interpret the findings of this article as meaning more than they do.
- RG>
Aside from your grotesque choice to frame the VP issue in terms of "hoping the president dies"...
Here's a newsflash: the VP also does stuff when the President doesn't die. Stuff like advise the President.
McCain said that it's important for a President to surround him/herself with experienced people, especially in areas where the President is not very strong.
Obama is seen as weak on foreign policy, so he chose Biden, a person with a lot of foreign policy experience.
Despite the fact that McCain has a love-hate relationship with claims to economic experience, he has chosen a candidate who can't be seen to have significant experience in any field.
- RG>
Rounding down, that gives Palin 8 years, most of which was at the city level, and Obama 11 years, all of which is at state level or above.
To give further strength to those numbers, let's also not forget which state each represented in their careers:
Alaska: Population ~ 683,000
Illinois: Population ~ 12,800,000
(#s taken from Wikipedia)
- RG>
Yes, I discovered that after posting the comment. Until I posted it, though, I had no way of knowing that the preview's formatting was different than that of the post.
- RG>
8. Cooliris - Cool, but no real functionality. Of course, Compiz, Widgets, Apples, etc all live off of cool, but I don't think this should be standard, especially since it is windows only.
I wasn't familiar with this one, so I looked it up.
Apparently it pops up a preview of a URL when you hover over a link.
LiveJournal does this (I'm not registered to LJ, but I check out a couple of LJ sites) and I absolutely HATE it.
What if I'm checking out an LJ page at work (okay, mistake #1) and someone has a link to goatse or worse, kiddie porn? If the page pre-loads the link, or if I'm unlucky enough to pause my mouse over it, that shit (presumably) gets downloaded across the network to my computer.
Long story short, I agree with parent that this is suitable as an extension (or optional) for those who want it.
- RG>
Aw, what a nice comment.
- RG>
Naw, turns out his dad uses "lawyer" as an euphemism for "dealer", hence the crappy legal advice.
- RG>
Re: Troll - If I correctly remember an earlier reading on trolls on Wikipedia, the term derives from the verb "to troll", as in the ships that troll the ocean for fish--not to the mythological creature.
Re: Ownership of comments: You own the copyright on that particular set of words attributed to you (or your username), and you implicitly grant Slashdot permission to publish those comments. If you were to grant a newspaper permission to reprint your comments (i.e. by sending a letter to the editor), you cannot ask them to collect all copies of their newspaper and cut out your letter after it's been printed.
Re: Idle's comment box: Holy fuck, this thing's annoying! And the comment formatting doesn't work.
- RG>
The charger on his keyboard exploded before he could finish the list.
- RG>
Holy crap...that's like one in three hundred Americans on the watch list.
If it helps, more than one in one hundred US citizens are in jail.
Helps depress you, that is.
- RG>
A lot of US car companies are going under because they have very generous pension plans and a lot of retired workers to pay.
That's not a big problem. Those US car companies should take a page from United Airlines and simply renegotiate the contract with the current employees to get out of paying pensions to retired employees.
At least there are still laws against that here in Canada.
- RG>
If you get to the next step of legal action,
That's the catch.
The time you spend trying to make up for their incompetence/malice is worth more than the price of whatever screwjob they've got running on you, and it certainly costs less in both time AND money than hiring a lawyer.
And these fuckers know it. /recently conned by Bell Mobility
- RG>
As has been mentioned before, if you ever want to get anywhere with a phone/internet provider, always ask to speak to the account cancellation department. They're the only ones who have the power to give you a good deal.
- RG>
Is the necessarily stolen property just because some data on it was stolen? (Assuming it was stolen and not just incompetence on the part of the bank or a contractor)
- RG>
Don't fear; the bank has issued a press release, titled:
"Customer info secure": Royal BS
- RG>
But there was only one Rosetta stone.
- RG>
For me, the best reference argument on the 9/11 conspiracy is the South Park episode "The Mystery of the Urinal Turd", season 10 episode 09.
Those of you in the US can watch it on the official South Park wesbite, those in Canada can watch it here.
- RG>
The average person in Canada doesn't know or care about open-source handsets, and isn't going to care enough to learn.
And the average person in the US does?
- RG>
Boy am I glad that I live outside of California, where I'm safe from those carcinogens!
- RG>
But this one was my favorite.
The emphasis in the panel on the bottom-left at the end of that page clinches it:
We do not want to minimize the impact of these crimes on the industry and artists, who are the victims .
Note how "artists" isn't emphasized but "industry" is? (And, for that matter, how it implies this is a criminal, not civil matter, but that's been said)
- RG>
Have a heart!
We did, and we started the Canadian Fund for Nigerian Scam Victims in Australia. We provide $10,000 in financial support to Australians who have fallen victims to these Nigerian scams.
Unfortunately, we have recently changed signing officers and our bank requires us to change over our signing officers in person. Our bank is on the other side of the country, and the Fund has spent its travel allowance for the year.
If there are any sympathetic Australians who would be so kind as to forward $3000, we will be able to travel to our bank and issue you a cheque for $10,000.
Please be kind and sympathetic to these most unfortunate Australian victims of Nigerian scams. For all you know, the next victim might be you!
- RG>
In this day and age?
I thought last year was the year of Linux on the Desktop. This year it's back to Windows again.
- RG>