Yeah, the worst part is/. will be posting April Fools stories from other news sites for the next couple weeks, and we'll have to be extra diligent in checking.
Every era has had their share of unexplained phenomena. Before UFO's there were demons, beasts, witches, etc. The current myth-of-the day is UFO's.
(And I'm not saying they don't exist, just that there might be a simpler reason for all these sightings)
So what you're saying is that fallen angels have adopted modern stories to continue their nightly activities? I wonder why they shifted from being succubuses to doing anal probes.
a friend determined that they'd removed the ability of his Motorolla to directly visit a URL. Instead, you had to go through a customization by the carrier... which, oddly enough, seems to have been designed to use twice as much bandwidth. Pretty handy when you're selling metered usage.
What, you think there's a bin of Samsung laptops that they sell to guys named Mohammed, and a bin for everyone else?
"Boss, there's a Mohammed here, and we're out of the keylogger laptops."
"Just put a GPS tracker in a regular one. DHS will sort it out"
I've felt the need to edit wikis (including wikipedia) when I know stuff or see a grammatical or spelling error, but it's always reverted to the previous wrong text, and I'm not anal enough to fight an editing war with a mouth breather who got butt-hurt by having his errors corrected.
Apple and Google need to figure out how to ignore your hand resting on the screen while writing with a stylus and license this tech form whoever owns it.
And write with your finger? The biggest problem Apple has for making the iPad a tool for business is also it's biggest asset in the home-consumer-realm: the touch screen. Fine-detailed input requires a stylus, because we all have fat fingers compared to a pen-point.
I'm inclined to agree. I have some coworkers with iPads, and they're starting to not carry them to meetings in favor of a PaperPad and a pen. They're either awkward to view (too horizontal), or too awkward to type on (too vertical with a case-stand). They're nice for playing angry birds during meetings though.
And the userland driveby downloads can sit in the background, schedule themselves to run on boot up/log in, regularly download new exploit attempts (just before patch tuesday), or act as bonnet members for ddoses, etc.
Hell I'm removing all CA's from the browser as I don't trust any of them. Yes it creates a bit of an issue with some websites but all I have to do is add an exception for that site instead of blindly trusting the damn certificate.
LOL. How do you verify them? Look up their phone numbers in the physical yellow pages, convince the phone monkeys that you need to talk to their CIO to have him read the cert to you letter by letter?...for every https page every X years?
They make arguably the best hardware of any phone manufacturer
For the low end phones, that's true. I'm a Linux geek, and I'm in a love/hate relationship with my iPhone, but I purposefully didn't buy an n900 after seeing what a clunky, hugemongonormous piece of cheap plastic it was. If they had spent just 50 euro more per phone for a nice solid case and a thin form factor, I would have spent 100 euro more and been happily running UQM or Firefox on my phone.
No, my issue was that NPR was sensationalizing it. They were talking about "radioactive seepage" and I thought "uh oh, that sounds bad", then they said "Plutonium was found!" They hurriedly said that the levels were normal, then continued to sensationalize. Anti-nuclear commies. Patooie!
U7 was released in a buggy state, but could be fixed
I loved the bugs. Carrying a cannon in my hand and a barrel on my back beat spam spam spam humbug any day. In case you're not familiar with the cannon reference, in Ultima7, you could lift an item but if you placed it in an invalid location, you'd get a red X, and the item would be placed in its original location (based on your mouse cursor). You could cheat and move yourself behind a super-heavy object, put your cursor over the object and over yourself, then move it into a wall, get the Red X, then the engine would move the object back (on top of you since your cursor was on you), and then the item would go into your inventory without a weight/space check since moving an item on top of yourself meant "move into inventory".
NPR is sober, careful news from The Smart People. If they say something's a problem, then it is.
The least they could do is explain why finding plutonium within standard acceptable natural levels is horrible. They started off by saying plutonium was seeping from the plant. That brought to mind actual seepage, not an atom here or there. Maybe the isotope from the plant is more radioactive, but it can't be more poisonous (should be chemically the same). And being more radioactive means it probably decays faster (although it might decay into materials less safe than what the normal isotope decays to).
Why don't you go back to your Bud Lite and sports channels, redneck?
Because I don't drink, I hate sports, and I don't get out of the basement enough to be a redneck.
What if an asteroid hit one of these new nuke plants you love?
What if an asteroid hit a mountain filled with un-mined Uranium deposits? I for one would rather have the Uranium mined, enriched, then purposefully decayed down into lighter metals before it gets spread all over the place by your hypothetical asteroid.
What happens to your wind and solar during a "nuclear winter" scenario caused by an asteroid hitting ordinary soil? Less sun. Presumably less wind since there's less solar energy to drive the weather.
Here, we have the worst that can happen, a vast disaster, the feared meltdown, and the result is some elevated radiation in the basement and the usual hysterical news.
Elevated radiation in the basement?!!?!!?!!!!!! BUT THAT'S WHERE MY FALLOUT BUNKER IS!!!!
Slashdotters all understand that this is hysteria for hysteria's sake (with some notable exceptions), but I'm having a hard time calming down my friends on Facebook who are posting the latest anti-nuclear site, and instantly get 20 comments about how horrible nuclear power is, and that all nuclear sites need to be torn down ASAP. Fear of nuclear anything is ingrained in the culture of anyone older than ten and younger than 50. It still takes a lot of reasoning to convince anyone that irradiating food is a good idea.
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Yeah, the worst part is /. will be posting April Fools stories from other news sites for the next couple weeks, and we'll have to be extra diligent in checking.
that lil thing that happened in russia.
Perhaps you are getting this situation confused with Chernobyl.
Which didn't happen in Russia.
the editing feature turning what i once enjoyed as a reputable information source into something of juvenile amusement.
Next you'll say that "OMG Ponies!" wasn't the groundbreaking UI design that we all know it was.
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
What you have there is [[Blackbody Radiation][Acid Reflux][Cowboy Neil]].
It's a classic Double-Con.
Con. Con... Khan. Khan Souphanousinphone. It all makes sense now. "The ocean" is alien code for "home planet". But are they Chinese or Japanese?
Every era has had their share of unexplained phenomena. Before UFO's there were demons, beasts, witches, etc. The current myth-of-the day is UFO's. (And I'm not saying they don't exist, just that there might be a simpler reason for all these sightings)
So what you're saying is that fallen angels have adopted modern stories to continue their nightly activities? I wonder why they shifted from being succubuses to doing anal probes.
a friend determined that they'd removed the ability of his Motorolla to directly visit a URL. Instead, you had to go through a customization by the carrier ... which, oddly enough, seems to have been designed to use twice as much bandwidth. Pretty handy when you're selling metered usage.
That's pretty evil.
Escalate me to tier 3. Thank you for doing the needful.
What, you think there's a bin of Samsung laptops that they sell to guys named Mohammed, and a bin for everyone else?
"Boss, there's a Mohammed here, and we're out of the keylogger laptops."
"Just put a GPS tracker in a regular one. DHS will sort it out"
I've felt the need to edit wikis (including wikipedia) when I know stuff or see a grammatical or spelling error, but it's always reverted to the previous wrong text, and I'm not anal enough to fight an editing war with a mouth breather who got butt-hurt by having his errors corrected.
Sorry, total reading failure on my part. Never /. while thinking about something else, people.
Apple and Google need to figure out how to ignore your hand resting on the screen while writing with a stylus and license this tech form whoever owns it.
And write with your finger? The biggest problem Apple has for making the iPad a tool for business is also it's biggest asset in the home-consumer-realm: the touch screen. Fine-detailed input requires a stylus, because we all have fat fingers compared to a pen-point.
I'm inclined to agree. I have some coworkers with iPads, and they're starting to not carry them to meetings in favor of a PaperPad and a pen. They're either awkward to view (too horizontal), or too awkward to type on (too vertical with a case-stand). They're nice for playing angry birds during meetings though.
And the userland driveby downloads can sit in the background, schedule themselves to run on boot up/log in, regularly download new exploit attempts (just before patch tuesday), or act as bonnet members for ddoses, etc.
Hell I'm removing all CA's from the browser as I don't trust any of them. Yes it creates a bit of an issue with some websites but all I have to do is add an exception for that site instead of blindly trusting the damn certificate.
LOL. How do you verify them? Look up their phone numbers in the physical yellow pages, convince the phone monkeys that you need to talk to their CIO to have him read the cert to you letter by letter? ...for every https page every X years?
We got transistors from the alien craft that crashed at Roswell. Don't they teach you anything in school?
Who do you think made it crash? That's right: Bell Labs.
They make arguably the best hardware of any phone manufacturer
For the low end phones, that's true. I'm a Linux geek, and I'm in a love/hate relationship with my iPhone, but I purposefully didn't buy an n900 after seeing what a clunky, hugemongonormous piece of cheap plastic it was. If they had spent just 50 euro more per phone for a nice solid case and a thin form factor, I would have spent 100 euro more and been happily running UQM or Firefox on my phone.
Nokia will (at least IMHO) be lucky to remain in the smartphone business by 2015.
Nokia will be lucky to remain in the smartphone business by Qt4 2013. They're betting on WP7 with no safety net.
They didn't buy this judge. They handcrafted it, lovingly, from snips and snails and puppy dog tails. And Chemical X.
No, my issue was that NPR was sensationalizing it. They were talking about "radioactive seepage" and I thought "uh oh, that sounds bad", then they said "Plutonium was found!" They hurriedly said that the levels were normal, then continued to sensationalize. Anti-nuclear commies. Patooie!
U7 was released in a buggy state, but could be fixed
I loved the bugs. Carrying a cannon in my hand and a barrel on my back beat spam spam spam humbug any day. In case you're not familiar with the cannon reference, in Ultima7, you could lift an item but if you placed it in an invalid location, you'd get a red X, and the item would be placed in its original location (based on your mouse cursor). You could cheat and move yourself behind a super-heavy object, put your cursor over the object and over yourself, then move it into a wall, get the Red X, then the engine would move the object back (on top of you since your cursor was on you), and then the item would go into your inventory without a weight/space check since moving an item on top of yourself meant "move into inventory".
NPR is sober, careful news from The Smart People. If they say something's a problem, then it is.
The least they could do is explain why finding plutonium within standard acceptable natural levels is horrible. They started off by saying plutonium was seeping from the plant. That brought to mind actual seepage, not an atom here or there. Maybe the isotope from the plant is more radioactive, but it can't be more poisonous (should be chemically the same). And being more radioactive means it probably decays faster (although it might decay into materials less safe than what the normal isotope decays to).
Why don't you go back to your Bud Lite and sports channels, redneck?
Because I don't drink, I hate sports, and I don't get out of the basement enough to be a redneck.
What if an asteroid hit one of these new nuke plants you love?
What if an asteroid hit a mountain filled with un-mined Uranium deposits? I for one would rather have the Uranium mined, enriched, then purposefully decayed down into lighter metals before it gets spread all over the place by your hypothetical asteroid.
What happens to your wind and solar during a "nuclear winter" scenario caused by an asteroid hitting ordinary soil? Less sun. Presumably less wind since there's less solar energy to drive the weather.
GP said this was Japan. Robots are controlled manually like planes, forklifts, or pipe organs.
Here, we have the worst that can happen, a vast disaster, the feared meltdown, and the result is some elevated radiation in the basement and the usual hysterical news.
Elevated radiation in the basement?!!?!!?!!!!!! BUT THAT'S WHERE MY FALLOUT BUNKER IS!!!!
Slashdotters all understand that this is hysteria for hysteria's sake (with some notable exceptions), but I'm having a hard time calming down my friends on Facebook who are posting the latest anti-nuclear site, and instantly get 20 comments about how horrible nuclear power is, and that all nuclear sites need to be torn down ASAP. Fear of nuclear anything is ingrained in the culture of anyone older than ten and younger than 50. It still takes a lot of reasoning to convince anyone that irradiating food is a good idea.