I spliced in a trojan to my DNA. If I'm cloned in anything but my specific method, I'll instead turn out as a 70ft tall dinosaur human hybrid with fire breath, laser beam eyes, and the ability to fly. I dare them to clone me.
Can you send me the DRM package you put into your DNA? I want to use it for mine, but include my consciousness as well. And then, time to start cloning myself. Dinosapien army, all to myself.
Hmm...
I think I'll just get my PS3 game demo the same place I get them now - the Playstation Network. They're free, and chances are, it'll be the exact same demo on the movie I probably didn't want to begin with.
Instead of using the extra disc space for a game demo, how about they use it for special features and alternate versions(director's cut and theatrical on the same disc would be nice). I love my Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut, but the fact that a Blu-Ray disc has none of the special features that were on the regular DVD irritates me. I am told that there are no special features because the a.) the movie is 45 minutes longer, b.) the video is higher quality, and c.) the audio is higher quality as well. Well, I may be one of the few, but I would be willing to pay more for the movie if they would include a second Blu-Ray disc that was entirely special features, as well as the original theatrical version.
When a release of a film is done right, and there are plenty of extras that go along with it, I am willing to reward those who are responsible. However, if a studio is adding 'extras' to a release that really have very little to do with the actual movie, I get quite irritated. Adding a game demo to a Blu-Ray disc simply to use up space actually makes me a bit angry. This tells me that I am not getting a.) high quality video, b.) high quality sound, or c.) special features that I will actually enjoy.
When I play a game demo, and I enjoy it enough, I buy the game. Then I delete the demo, because I have no further use for it. When I play a game demo, and I do not like it, I simply delete it, and never think about it again. By coupling a game demo to a movie, I am forced to forever have to keep the game demo, whether I like it or not. If I buy a movie, I want a movie, with extras pertaining to the movie. If I buy a movie, I am not buying a game. When I buy a game, I do not expect a movie trailer to come with it. That is not why I bought the game. Both demos and trailers are generally free on the Playstation Network. Why do I need to have a movie tie-in game be forced onto me. Most movie tie-in games suck. I don't like to think about them. Nor do I want them on my Blu-Ray disc, taking up space that could be used for my special features that I love so much.
Disclaimer to above post:
I know that this post has been very a roundabout one, so please forgive me. It's 3:15 in the morning, and I am just getting done watching a 6 hour Dr. Who marathon(damn you Netflix!), and I am tired. So please forgive me.
Yeap and, for that reason, I rarely watch movies, except ones I buy on the cheap (previously viewed at Block Buster mainly), and I haven't had a TV in my house for 10 years now.
I get all the news, entertainment, etc. that I want via the web and by ready fifty plus books a year.
The MPAA, RIAA and cable companies in general, can all pucker up and kiss my ar$e!
Well, see, if Cenzic is tied to Microsoft, then it fits the Anti-Microsoft argument for the report being flawed. So, of course he must be! Don't you get it? Windows isn't Linux! Therefore, Cenzic publishing a report that isn't completely critical of everything that is Microsoft must mean that he is tied financially to Microsoft!
Maybe I don't understand the nature nor purpose of these mods, but isn't what you do on your hardware your own business if you are not stealing from Microsoft?
Actually, Microsoft is saying pretty much that. However, if you do mod your hardware, you cannot play on Microsoft's server. You can still use your Xbox in offline mode. It is your XBox. However, you cannot get onto Microsoft's servers, of which you do not own nor have an inherent right to. Basically, if you want to mod your own XBox as well as play online, you had better buy two systems, and only mod one.
You don't need to mod your XBox in order to use XNA. Something tells me that the people who mod their Xbox don't do it because they want to make homebrew games. Something tells me that the people who mod their XBox do it because they want to pirate games.
From what I know, the picture was from the Missouri School of Journalism. Apparently, if the students bought a Mac, they got a free Ipod Nano. Personally, the thought of spending between $1500 and $2000 extra(because I am sure that many of the students already had a PC laptop) simply to get a $150 is idiotic, but hey, who am I to judge?
If America actually STOPPED its free trade with China, China's economy would collapse(If Walmart alone left China, it would cause a collapse). China undervalues its currency, has little in the way of worker's rights, and does everything in its power to undermine every other country's economy so that China will be seen as the new great economic power.
Your country IS impoverished. When your 'absolute poverty' is less than $90(US) per year, and almost 10% of the population is below that line, yes, your country is in poverty. Include the fact that China receives over $1 billion per year in foreign aid(the kind of foreign aid which is given to impoverished nations, by the way).
Your country DOES have human rights violations. Whether it is the famous Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, or the censorship that still occurs today, or the fact that during the 2008 Olympics entire regions were practically cut off from power and water so that the numerous fountains could operate around the clock and so that the massive light shows could go off without a hitch. Nevermind that people were without power and water for months leading up to the Olympics. But hey, at least China looked good. Human rights take a backseat to China looking good on television. The fact that people were arrested and sentenced to re-education camps simply for applying for a protest permit(2 elderly women, by the way), a reporter was arrested for covering a pro-Tibet protest, and most people could not access human rights websites, as well as the fact that out of all the protest permits applied for, all but 3 were 'withdrawn', 2 were suspended, and 1 was denied.
Your country NEEDS to be kicked out of free trade agreements until it can learn how to operate more fairly in the world's economy. Note, this is simply my opinion, and since I come from a country that doesn't limit free speech, I can say it without fear of police breaking in my door and dragging me off in the middle of night, sent to a 're-education camp,' and deposited back in my house weeks/months/years later, properly re-educated.
On Facebook, even if you don't use an application, if you don't specifically say don't use my information, your friends using the application will enable your information to be used.
Do you have a source for that? I've NEVER heard that before.
From the Privacy Settings/Application page in Facebook:
When a friend of yours visits an application or authorizes it, the information that the application can access includes your friend's friend list and information about the people on that list.
Thus it can access some information about you. Please note that applications are obligated only to act upon the request of your friend and must respect all of your existing privacy settings.
In order to opt out, you must go into the Application settings in the Privacy section, and tell it:
Do not share any information about me through the Facebook API
This is initially set to use
Share my name, networks, and list of friends, as well as the following information:
Yes, make it like Facebook, put applications in it whose main purpose is to data mine, while using a game-like interface to make the people who use it happy while they freely give out theirs and their friends' information. Yes, it is true. On Facebook, even if you don't use an application, if you don't specifically say don't use my information, your friends using the application will enable your information to be used.
Personally, I think the whole mini-application craze the web is going through is getting old. I do have Facebook, and I am so sick and tired of everyone wanting me to install an 'app' so they can level up or whatever. No, I will not give my information up so that you can get another fucking flower in your garden. I will not give my identity to a faceless corporation so that your mafia gang will get more powerful. I will not let some company use my life to earn more money for themselves just so I can see the results for some compatibility test you took and thought everyone on your friends list should take, just so you can see how compatible your are with all your friends. Guess what, if they are actually your friends, you already should have a basic understanding of your compatibility(true compatibility, not which cartoon character are you compatibility) with them.
I don't want to enhance my sex life, nor am I looking for hot singles on the web in my area. I don't need viagra, and I don't have wrinkles that need hiding. I will not change my status every time I eat a meal, and I will not put pictures of what I wore today. I will not comply with this state of mind that says I have to be open with my life, that I must post everything I do to my Twitter account(which I refuse to make) and that I must make blog posts about Britney Spears and my dog. If I want someone to know what I am doing, and I feel they will care, I will call them or meet them in person and carry on a conversation with them until we each feel that what we have to say is finished. I will not live my life through Facebook.
Stay out of my life, Mark Zuckerberg. May you lose your billions as quickly as you made them.
Well, I stand corrected. The only thing I can think of to say that it isn't quite the same is the fact that servers generally have more in-depth security administrating than a home pc. I do, however, completely see your point about servers being a bigger target.
By the way, I appreciate the fact that you posted a well-thought out, polite rebuttal to my comment. So many on this site instantly go to accusations and threats when they read a point of view they do not like. Especially on this particular article's discussion.
I 'fail'? I made a hypothesis, had several point out ways in which Linux had the marketshare in servers, and I 'fail'?
I was wrong. But, 'fail'? I truly hate how anytime someone is shown to be wrong in some way, even if they weren't establishing something as fact, if they were merely hypothesizing, they 'fail'. When I hear someone say, 'Fail', I picture some 13 or 14 year old boy who just got their first hair on their sac, and are trying to impress someone. The fact that you are using it while posting AC just makes me wonder more and more about whether or not you should be using words like 'fucking'. Your mother may need to wash your mouth out, little boy.
I really don't understand what problem you could have with my above comment. I mean, it is simply statistics. If Ubuntu was the OS that everyone used, then people who wanted to do harm to others' computers would be finding every security hole they could find and utilize in order to accomplish their nefarious goals. Linux has holes. Deal with it. It doesn't have as many as Windows, but they are there. You are obviously a fanboy in the extreme. Have you noticed that many of your comments, just on this page, have been marked as Troll? Does this not tell you that maybe you are getting a bit out of hand with your zealotry? Listen, I've used Linux. I've used Windows. They both have their ups and downs. I seriously don't understand what, in my above comment, you had such a problem with.
Are you suggesting that I have multiple accounts, and use them to troll? Sorry, wrong on both accounts. I have only one account, and I merely state my opinion, or even the opposite of my opinion, in order to avoid the mob mentality. I know that if one wants to be popular on slashdot, one must be a *nix fanboy. It is good that I don't want to be popular. I like to point out multiple sides of issues. I have defended both Open source and closed source, Linux and Microsoft. If I wanted to troll, do you really think I would use my real account name, and risk karma? Wouldn't it be easier to just post AC? Before you go branding someone a troll, consider the possibility that they are merely trying to establish a point of view that may be counter to your own.
Devil's advocate:
I am sure that if Linux had the market share that Windows does, it would have many more security problems. Part of the reason that Linux doesn't have security problems is because most of the bad guys of the technology world don't care about it, therefore they don't concentrate their efforts on it. This is not to say that it isn't secure. It is quite secure. However, just because security holes aren't utilized on a wide scale doesn't mean they are not there.
If someone utilizes Excel to its full potential, they would be pissed off if they switched to Open Office, because, frankly, Calc doesn't have the high-end functions that Excel does.
You don't "own" your cellphone, SIM card, or it's data. You simply rent it, for a "small monthly fee".
Good luck selling any of it, getting a decent warranty, or being able to cancel your contract.
I *do* own my cell phone. There is no SIM card, so I can't make an argument there. The data? Phone numbers, of which my local Radio Shack has a backup of, so whenever I get a new phone, all they have to do is plug in the new phone to their computer, and it immediately uploads everything. As far as paying for it? Well, since I have bought all but one of my phones from them, they provide the service for free. Even if it wasn't, I would be willing to pay for it, simply because it is much handier for me, in the event of my phone dying, to simply go to Radio Shack and have them reload my data(either on my phone or a new phone, depending on the event).
I don't understand how you can say that I don't own my cell phone. I can sell it on eBay(in fact, many friends only purchase their phones via eBay, due to pricing of used vs. new), and I can unlock it and use it on another network. I can pretty much do whatever I want with it. How do I not own it?
I pray that you are wrong. I triy to imagine future anthropologists and historians trying to figure out what life was like during our time, and if your idea comes true, they will have nothing to base their studies on. Paper is valuable because, unlike a computer(which your hypothetical all-in-one e-book reader appears to be), it doesn't require electricity to read, file formats are a nonissue(as long as you can understand the language, you can read it), and as long as it is kept in good environmental conditions, it will last much longer in a usable form. If books ever completely go away, historical studies of our time are doomed before they begin.
And it's exactly this kind of thing that makes honest resumés look like shit.
OTOH, if the software in question is good enough, you don't need to lie. "I have 14 lines of code in the Linux kernel" is more impressive than "coded an OS from scratch".
Unfortunately, all 14 lines of code are simply comments...
You forget that people apparently lived to be over 900 years old back in those days. I'm sure that their calendars were perfect, right? Why would they write 70 when they should have written 900 or 400(I know, I know, post Flood vs. pre Flood and all that).
Basically, what I am saying is that you cannot trust the Bible(a religious, not scientific, book) to tell you the average age of people.
According to Webster's New World Medical Dictionary:
Pandemic: An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world.
Influenza A Virus Subtype H1N1(commonly called the swine flu) erupted suddenly, became widespread, eventually being found on all continents(save Antarctica).
Therefore, yes, H1N1 is, by definition, a pandemic.
Next, some genius will get the bright idea to bring biometrics to the Internet Passport, surely *that* will stop The Bad Guys. At that point, spammers have an incentive to kill you and cut off your hand, which they'll attach to a little machine to keep it at the right temperature and perspiration level, so they can send V1@gra spam.
You know, the first thing I thought of when reading your post was the "Thumb Thieves" from Back to the Future 2. The "Thumb Thieves" were one of the articles in the USA Today from the future.
Slashdot Mirror
I spliced in a trojan to my DNA. If I'm cloned in anything but my specific method, I'll instead turn out as a 70ft tall dinosaur human hybrid with fire breath, laser beam eyes, and the ability to fly. I dare them to clone me.
Can you send me the DRM package you put into your DNA? I want to use it for mine, but include my consciousness as well. And then, time to start cloning myself. Dinosapien army, all to myself.
Hmm...
I think I'll just get my PS3 game demo the same place I get them now - the Playstation Network. They're free, and chances are, it'll be the exact same demo on the movie I probably didn't want to begin with.
Instead of using the extra disc space for a game demo, how about they use it for special features and alternate versions(director's cut and theatrical on the same disc would be nice). I love my Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut, but the fact that a Blu-Ray disc has none of the special features that were on the regular DVD irritates me. I am told that there are no special features because the a.) the movie is 45 minutes longer, b.) the video is higher quality, and c.) the audio is higher quality as well. Well, I may be one of the few, but I would be willing to pay more for the movie if they would include a second Blu-Ray disc that was entirely special features, as well as the original theatrical version.
When a release of a film is done right, and there are plenty of extras that go along with it, I am willing to reward those who are responsible. However, if a studio is adding 'extras' to a release that really have very little to do with the actual movie, I get quite irritated. Adding a game demo to a Blu-Ray disc simply to use up space actually makes me a bit angry. This tells me that I am not getting a.) high quality video, b.) high quality sound, or c.) special features that I will actually enjoy.
When I play a game demo, and I enjoy it enough, I buy the game. Then I delete the demo, because I have no further use for it. When I play a game demo, and I do not like it, I simply delete it, and never think about it again. By coupling a game demo to a movie, I am forced to forever have to keep the game demo, whether I like it or not. If I buy a movie, I want a movie, with extras pertaining to the movie. If I buy a movie, I am not buying a game. When I buy a game, I do not expect a movie trailer to come with it. That is not why I bought the game. Both demos and trailers are generally free on the Playstation Network. Why do I need to have a movie tie-in game be forced onto me. Most movie tie-in games suck. I don't like to think about them. Nor do I want them on my Blu-Ray disc, taking up space that could be used for my special features that I love so much.
Disclaimer to above post:
I know that this post has been very a roundabout one, so please forgive me. It's 3:15 in the morning, and I am just getting done watching a 6 hour Dr. Who marathon(damn you Netflix!), and I am tired. So please forgive me.
Yeap and, for that reason, I rarely watch movies, except ones I buy on the cheap (previously viewed at Block Buster mainly), and I haven't had a TV in my house for 10 years now.
I get all the news, entertainment, etc. that I want via the web and by ready fifty plus books a year.
The MPAA, RIAA and cable companies in general, can all pucker up and kiss my ar$e!
Do you know this guy, by any chance?
Well, see, if Cenzic is tied to Microsoft, then it fits the Anti-Microsoft argument for the report being flawed. So, of course he must be! Don't you get it? Windows isn't Linux! Therefore, Cenzic publishing a report that isn't completely critical of everything that is Microsoft must mean that he is tied financially to Microsoft!
Basically, it is just FOSS FUD.
Maybe I don't understand the nature nor purpose of these mods, but isn't what you do on your hardware your own business if you are not stealing from Microsoft?
Actually, Microsoft is saying pretty much that. However, if you do mod your hardware, you cannot play on Microsoft's server. You can still use your Xbox in offline mode. It is your XBox. However, you cannot get onto Microsoft's servers, of which you do not own nor have an inherent right to. Basically, if you want to mod your own XBox as well as play online, you had better buy two systems, and only mod one.
You don't need to mod your XBox in order to use XNA. Something tells me that the people who mod their Xbox don't do it because they want to make homebrew games. Something tells me that the people who mod their XBox do it because they want to pirate games.
From what I know, the picture was from the Missouri School of Journalism. Apparently, if the students bought a Mac, they got a free Ipod Nano. Personally, the thought of spending between $1500 and $2000 extra(because I am sure that many of the students already had a PC laptop) simply to get a $150 is idiotic, but hey, who am I to judge?
If America actually STOPPED its free trade with China, China's economy would collapse(If Walmart alone left China, it would cause a collapse). China undervalues its currency, has little in the way of worker's rights, and does everything in its power to undermine every other country's economy so that China will be seen as the new great economic power.
Your country IS impoverished. When your 'absolute poverty' is less than $90(US) per year, and almost 10% of the population is below that line, yes, your country is in poverty. Include the fact that China receives over $1 billion per year in foreign aid(the kind of foreign aid which is given to impoverished nations, by the way).
Your country DOES have human rights violations. Whether it is the famous Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, or the censorship that still occurs today, or the fact that during the 2008 Olympics entire regions were practically cut off from power and water so that the numerous fountains could operate around the clock and so that the massive light shows could go off without a hitch. Nevermind that people were without power and water for months leading up to the Olympics. But hey, at least China looked good. Human rights take a backseat to China looking good on television. The fact that people were arrested and sentenced to re-education camps simply for applying for a protest permit(2 elderly women, by the way), a reporter was arrested for covering a pro-Tibet protest, and most people could not access human rights websites, as well as the fact that out of all the protest permits applied for, all but 3 were 'withdrawn', 2 were suspended, and 1 was denied.
Your country NEEDS to be kicked out of free trade agreements until it can learn how to operate more fairly in the world's economy. Note, this is simply my opinion, and since I come from a country that doesn't limit free speech, I can say it without fear of police breaking in my door and dragging me off in the middle of night, sent to a 're-education camp,' and deposited back in my house weeks/months/years later, properly re-educated.
Due to a process I invented I call "Pseudo-Digital Misanthropy" I now claim ownership of slashdot. You all owe me back user fees.
Hmmm.... Well, you make a good point. Where do I send the check?
There's not exactly a Mayan Rosetta Stone
Sure there is, you Luddite!
On Facebook, even if you don't use an application, if you don't specifically say don't use my information, your friends using the application will enable your information to be used.
Do you have a source for that? I've NEVER heard that before.
From the Privacy Settings/Application page in Facebook:
When a friend of yours visits an application or authorizes it, the information that the application can access includes your friend's friend list and information about the people on that list. Thus it can access some information about you. Please note that applications are obligated only to act upon the request of your friend and must respect all of your existing privacy settings.
In order to opt out, you must go into the Application settings in the Privacy section, and tell it:
Do not share any information about me through the Facebook API
This is initially set to use
Share my name, networks, and list of friends, as well as the following information:
with all information checked.
Yes, make it like Facebook, put applications in it whose main purpose is to data mine, while using a game-like interface to make the people who use it happy while they freely give out theirs and their friends' information. Yes, it is true. On Facebook, even if you don't use an application, if you don't specifically say don't use my information, your friends using the application will enable your information to be used.
Personally, I think the whole mini-application craze the web is going through is getting old. I do have Facebook, and I am so sick and tired of everyone wanting me to install an 'app' so they can level up or whatever. No, I will not give my information up so that you can get another fucking flower in your garden. I will not give my identity to a faceless corporation so that your mafia gang will get more powerful. I will not let some company use my life to earn more money for themselves just so I can see the results for some compatibility test you took and thought everyone on your friends list should take, just so you can see how compatible your are with all your friends. Guess what, if they are actually your friends, you already should have a basic understanding of your compatibility(true compatibility, not which cartoon character are you compatibility) with them.
I don't want to enhance my sex life, nor am I looking for hot singles on the web in my area. I don't need viagra, and I don't have wrinkles that need hiding. I will not change my status every time I eat a meal, and I will not put pictures of what I wore today. I will not comply with this state of mind that says I have to be open with my life, that I must post everything I do to my Twitter account(which I refuse to make) and that I must make blog posts about Britney Spears and my dog. If I want someone to know what I am doing, and I feel they will care, I will call them or meet them in person and carry on a conversation with them until we each feel that what we have to say is finished. I will not live my life through Facebook.
Stay out of my life, Mark Zuckerberg. May you lose your billions as quickly as you made them.
Well, I stand corrected. The only thing I can think of to say that it isn't quite the same is the fact that servers generally have more in-depth security administrating than a home pc. I do, however, completely see your point about servers being a bigger target.
By the way, I appreciate the fact that you posted a well-thought out, polite rebuttal to my comment. So many on this site instantly go to accusations and threats when they read a point of view they do not like. Especially on this particular article's discussion.
I 'fail'? I made a hypothesis, had several point out ways in which Linux had the marketshare in servers, and I 'fail'?
I was wrong. But, 'fail'? I truly hate how anytime someone is shown to be wrong in some way, even if they weren't establishing something as fact, if they were merely hypothesizing, they 'fail'. When I hear someone say, 'Fail', I picture some 13 or 14 year old boy who just got their first hair on their sac, and are trying to impress someone. The fact that you are using it while posting AC just makes me wonder more and more about whether or not you should be using words like 'fucking'. Your mother may need to wash your mouth out, little boy.
I really don't understand what problem you could have with my above comment. I mean, it is simply statistics. If Ubuntu was the OS that everyone used, then people who wanted to do harm to others' computers would be finding every security hole they could find and utilize in order to accomplish their nefarious goals. Linux has holes. Deal with it. It doesn't have as many as Windows, but they are there. You are obviously a fanboy in the extreme. Have you noticed that many of your comments, just on this page, have been marked as Troll? Does this not tell you that maybe you are getting a bit out of hand with your zealotry? Listen, I've used Linux. I've used Windows. They both have their ups and downs. I seriously don't understand what, in my above comment, you had such a problem with.
Are you suggesting that I have multiple accounts, and use them to troll? Sorry, wrong on both accounts. I have only one account, and I merely state my opinion, or even the opposite of my opinion, in order to avoid the mob mentality. I know that if one wants to be popular on slashdot, one must be a *nix fanboy. It is good that I don't want to be popular. I like to point out multiple sides of issues. I have defended both Open source and closed source, Linux and Microsoft. If I wanted to troll, do you really think I would use my real account name, and risk karma? Wouldn't it be easier to just post AC? Before you go branding someone a troll, consider the possibility that they are merely trying to establish a point of view that may be counter to your own.
Devil's advocate:
I am sure that if Linux had the market share that Windows does, it would have many more security problems. Part of the reason that Linux doesn't have security problems is because most of the bad guys of the technology world don't care about it, therefore they don't concentrate their efforts on it. This is not to say that it isn't secure. It is quite secure. However, just because security holes aren't utilized on a wide scale doesn't mean they are not there.
If someone utilizes Excel to its full potential, they would be pissed off if they switched to Open Office, because, frankly, Calc doesn't have the high-end functions that Excel does.
I love how when anyone on Slashdot says anything pro-Microsoft or anti-*nix, they are immediately branded a troll.
You don't "own" your cellphone, SIM card, or it's data. You simply rent it, for a "small monthly fee".
Good luck selling any of it, getting a decent warranty, or being able to cancel your contract.
I *do* own my cell phone. There is no SIM card, so I can't make an argument there. The data? Phone numbers, of which my local Radio Shack has a backup of, so whenever I get a new phone, all they have to do is plug in the new phone to their computer, and it immediately uploads everything. As far as paying for it? Well, since I have bought all but one of my phones from them, they provide the service for free. Even if it wasn't, I would be willing to pay for it, simply because it is much handier for me, in the event of my phone dying, to simply go to Radio Shack and have them reload my data(either on my phone or a new phone, depending on the event).
I don't understand how you can say that I don't own my cell phone. I can sell it on eBay(in fact, many friends only purchase their phones via eBay, due to pricing of used vs. new), and I can unlock it and use it on another network. I can pretty much do whatever I want with it. How do I not own it?
I pray that you are wrong. I triy to imagine future anthropologists and historians trying to figure out what life was like during our time, and if your idea comes true, they will have nothing to base their studies on. Paper is valuable because, unlike a computer(which your hypothetical all-in-one e-book reader appears to be), it doesn't require electricity to read, file formats are a nonissue(as long as you can understand the language, you can read it), and as long as it is kept in good environmental conditions, it will last much longer in a usable form. If books ever completely go away, historical studies of our time are doomed before they begin.
And it's exactly this kind of thing that makes honest resumés look like shit.
OTOH, if the software in question is good enough, you don't need to lie. "I have 14 lines of code in the Linux kernel" is more impressive than "coded an OS from scratch".
Unfortunately, all 14 lines of code are simply comments...
You forget that people apparently lived to be over 900 years old back in those days. I'm sure that their calendars were perfect, right? Why would they write 70 when they should have written 900 or 400(I know, I know, post Flood vs. pre Flood and all that).
Basically, what I am saying is that you cannot trust the Bible(a religious, not scientific, book) to tell you the average age of people.
According to Webster's New World Medical Dictionary:
Pandemic: An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world.
Influenza A Virus Subtype H1N1(commonly called the swine flu) erupted suddenly, became widespread, eventually being found on all continents(save Antarctica).
Therefore, yes, H1N1 is, by definition, a pandemic.
Next, some genius will get the bright idea to bring biometrics to the Internet Passport, surely *that* will stop The Bad Guys. At that point, spammers have an incentive to kill you and cut off your hand, which they'll attach to a little machine to keep it at the right temperature and perspiration level, so they can send V1@gra spam.
You know, the first thing I thought of when reading your post was the "Thumb Thieves" from Back to the Future 2. The "Thumb Thieves" were one of the articles in the USA Today from the future.