Even if it's not a black hole, experiments that produce surprising results are always welcome.
I would have said "experiments that produce surprising results and are reproducable are always welcome."
I would have said, "Experiments that produce surprising results and are reproducable and don't cause a major catastrophy are always welcome."
The same place other pigs hide... In the pen, waiting for the farmer to decide they're fat enough to slaughter. Or did you not realize where bacon comes from, and that pigs are not wild creatures? Not to mention the fact that these are specifically pigs that live in a lab. Either way, no need for them to hide.
I hope that fluorescence doesn't last long.
Well, there's this thing about genes, see? The pigs will be flourescent green for at least as long as my hair will be brown. It's not something that ever "wears off".
The Atkins diet worked great for me. I lost about 50 pounds in less than a year. The big shocker was that it didn't cause problems with my gout. Everybody (except me) thought that it would make my gout worse, and I only expected it to stay the same, but it actually got better. Now I know why.... Fructose promotes uric acid levels. If only I'd known this back when I was first diagnosed!
Hence the application "StreamRipper", which records streaming audio to mp3 for later playback. This is nothing more than modern-day "taping songs off the radio", except when I was a kid, I could tape more than 25 songs a month. I'm much more interested in Independant and Creative Commons music these days. The RIAA doesn't want to play nice, so I just won't play with them at all.
I mean that literally. The major corporation I work at has installed these stinky urinals at the "busy" restrooms, just outside each of the cafeterias (or at least outside the 2 that I frequent (yes, we have more than 2 cafeterias)). They always smell (surprise, surprise) like piss, and they clog up surprisingly often. Does it save water? Sure. So does pissing on a tree, which (unless it's freezing or raining outside) is vastly preferable.
Not like people really *want* disposable DVDs, anyhow. Subscription rentals like Netflix are more economical as well as more environmentally friendly, and not driving up the price of gasoline at the same time.
Considering the timing of the London bombing, just before the "PATRIOT ACT" would expire, the question needs to be asked... Just how far will those with power go, in order to keep that power?
1B.)Secondly, I used spellcheck nearly 3 times (twice in OpenOffice and once in Google's) but somehow the automatic spellcheck Flexbeta's CMS has somehow changed many of my words into words I never even thought of writing (for example: All mentionings of "automatically" within the article was originally spelled "automagical" in a playful notion).
Spellcheck is a tool, not an artificial intelligence. Spellcheck only works properly when wielded by a skilled user.
2.) Explain why the idea of having game verification and profile data on a USB key is dumb again? If your reasoning is based on security and encryption based questioning then think no further because In all actuallity the data on the USB device would be as secure as the same data if it were on a disk.
CD verification is not the most secure method of preventing piracy, but it is much more secure than files on an easily copyable USB key. Now if you asked for all anti-piracy verification to be done via online registration (like Windows XP does), that would be realistic. But it would not be better for the consumer by a long shot.
3.) you're telling me that no one would buy cases if I sold them with a built in "Skype ready" phone already integrated with the design or if the case had a compartment that held food/misc objects?
First off, nobody wants a built-in Skype-ready phone because it may not work properly with some other VoIP service. Then what happens if Skype folds up? You're stuck with a phone on your PC that isn't usable.
Secondly, I don't think anybody really wants to increase the size of their case just to gain a storage compartment.
4.) People DO want more things to be wireless. Technically speaking the wireless mice, keyboards and cameras that are available today aren't "wireless" by my standards
Technically speaking, we don't care about "your standards". These wireless devices are wireless by most of our standards.
4B.)Why don't people read with an unbiased opinion before posting a long opinion about it?
Why do you assume I was biased simply because I disagree with you?
5.) The demand for smaller form factor PCs is overwhelmingly high right now.
And you want to add a storage compartment for food as well as a smaller form factor???
5B.)and another is there would be even less unrecyclable waste being produced.
Now that is the first good idea I've heard yet. Still, the fact is that consumer want more/faster more than they want smaller.
6.) My article pales in comparison of your terrible blog. If anything I should thank you for having such a tripe representation of your ideas as it only re-inforces your statement and makes my article look somewhat better than what it really is.
Ah, yes... The personal attack. Last vestige of the hopelessly lost. I bet if we take a quick poll of Slashdot readers, we will find most consider my blog superior to your article. And my blog is simply that... my blog. If I were to write an article for publication, online or otherwise, I would take much better care to craft it well.
Why not? If it's legal for them to send unsolicited junk to us, it should be legal for us to send unsolicited junk to them. As already mentioned, this is pretty much the only way we will ever end SPAM. Laws against it are pathetically difficult to enforce.
1) Writers who know how to spell, or at the very least use a spellcheck program.
2) Articles that contain worthwhile ideas. Game "verification data" on a USB key? The reasons this will never exist are incredibly obvious to anybody with more than a handful of brain cells.
None of the other 4 suggestions were worth even a second glance, either.
Let's not forget Slashdot, either... Covering a lame article titled "The Top 5 Things I want to see In the Next 5 Years" and describing it as "5 great technological advancements in computing that just about every PC user wants"... Come on! Nobody wants these things. Quiet fans exist already. A built-in phone on the case is incredibly lame. Game ownership verification on easily copyable media negates the purpose of game verification data. We've got everything wireless that needs to be wireless... mice, keyboards, cameras. People don't want smaller hard drives, they want larger capacity hard drives.
If this is not the worst article ever, it's only because so much other crap gets published on the web.
I may just have to switch browsers now. Unless Firefox comes out with a Torrent extension before the new Opera goes stable for my distro. FireTorrent, anyone?
Next week: Firefox 1.0.5 released, to patch security problem.
Next year: Microsoft releases new version of IE to fix multiple vulnerabilities discovered throughout 2005.
2) Don't sweat it. This is between you and your conscience. You may theoretically be liable for these violations, but nobody will be coming after you personally, especially if you have a paper trail covering your ass and super-especially if you've gone to your lawyers.
s/especially/if and only if/
If you don't cover your butt, you can pretty much expect that your company has documented that you installed the pirated software, and they will do their best to make you the fall guy for it all. Do not trust your company to be altruistic, nice, or even honest. Failure to do as the boss asks can damage your job, but doing what he wants could ruin your life. Document the heck out of your objections. Ask your boss to put the order in writing (or "send me a quick e-mail clarifying what you want").
Google AdSense is blockable... But I don't block it. Why? Because it's unobtrusive, and is actually targeted at my interests (or, at least, tries to be by being context sensitive). DoubleClick is the opposite. They have the most obtrusive and annoying ads around, and are generally placed on sites with little to no regard for the audience reading the page. What's killing their business is not adblocking software, but ads that piss off the people they are trying to market to, that make people seek out adblock software.
If you can access the net, take your notes in Gmail. Gmail is pretty nifty for that. Simply type up an e-mail (HTML formatting) and save it as a draft. One-click note-taking. Or, with a bit more effort, send it to yourself, and set up labels and filters to categorize your notes. Behold, the power of G's.:-)
In addition to being a geek and spending most of my life in front of a monitor, I am also a SCAdian. I brew beer, I know how to shoot a bow and swing a weapon, and if I can't make a living at any of that, there's always hard labor.
So if I trust my buddy, J, to rate business sites as a good deal or not, Outfoxed will also infer that I trust his judgement on whether or not a free software download is free of malware/spyware. Or vice versa. Not that I want a piece of software to do all my reasoning for me, but it severely limits the usefulness of the information. Something like Wikalong is better, where people can actually leave comments rather than just a thumbs up or thumbs down. Of course, Wikalong is thoroughly insecure...
Right. What's "a lot of time"? I had Gentoo installed on my AMD64 from stage 1 in an evening. Debian was one of the distros I was considering, but they did not support amd64 back then. Too little, too late. I am a devoted Gentooist now! Gentoo support for amd64 rocks.
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That's like comparing a tiger to my housecat...
Sun and Apple almost merged. Until they realized that the resultant name, Sunapple, might turn people off of their products.
It's actually http://www.escapepod.org/ now. Much easier to remember.
The Atkins diet worked great for me. I lost about 50 pounds in less than a year. The big shocker was that it didn't cause problems with my gout. Everybody (except me) thought that it would make my gout worse, and I only expected it to stay the same, but it actually got better. Now I know why.... Fructose promotes uric acid levels. If only I'd known this back when I was first diagnosed!
Hence the application "StreamRipper", which records streaming audio to mp3 for later playback. This is nothing more than modern-day "taping songs off the radio", except when I was a kid, I could tape more than 25 songs a month. I'm much more interested in Independant and Creative Commons music these days. The RIAA doesn't want to play nice, so I just won't play with them at all.
I mean that literally. The major corporation I work at has installed these stinky urinals at the "busy" restrooms, just outside each of the cafeterias (or at least outside the 2 that I frequent (yes, we have more than 2 cafeterias)). They always smell (surprise, surprise) like piss, and they clog up surprisingly often. Does it save water? Sure. So does pissing on a tree, which (unless it's freezing or raining outside) is vastly preferable.
Wish like hell I could mod you up!
Not like people really *want* disposable DVDs, anyhow. Subscription rentals like Netflix are more economical as well as more environmentally friendly, and not driving up the price of gasoline at the same time.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Considering the timing of the London bombing, just before the "PATRIOT ACT" would expire, the question needs to be asked... Just how far will those with power go, in order to keep that power?
Why not? If it's legal for them to send unsolicited junk to us, it should be legal for us to send unsolicited junk to them. As already mentioned, this is pretty much the only way we will ever end SPAM. Laws against it are pathetically difficult to enforce.
Now these are 5 good ideas. I'm not so sure I want built-in GPS so that hackers could find my house, but I love ideas 2, 3, and 4.
1) Writers who know how to spell, or at the very least use a spellcheck program. 2) Articles that contain worthwhile ideas. Game "verification data" on a USB key? The reasons this will never exist are incredibly obvious to anybody with more than a handful of brain cells.
None of the other 4 suggestions were worth even a second glance, either.
Let's not forget Slashdot, either... Covering a lame article titled "The Top 5 Things I want to see In the Next 5 Years" and describing it as "5 great technological advancements in computing that just about every PC user wants"... Come on! Nobody wants these things. Quiet fans exist already. A built-in phone on the case is incredibly lame. Game ownership verification on easily copyable media negates the purpose of game verification data. We've got everything wireless that needs to be wireless... mice, keyboards, cameras. People don't want smaller hard drives, they want larger capacity hard drives.
If this is not the worst article ever, it's only because so much other crap gets published on the web.
I may just have to switch browsers now. Unless Firefox comes out with a Torrent extension before the new Opera goes stable for my distro. FireTorrent, anyone?
Thanks to QuickTabPrefToggle, I see the actual URL of http://www.google.com.secunia.com/tests/origin_spo of.php
Also, middle-clicking for a new tab (which is how I almost always surf) bypasses the attack altogether.
Next week: Firefox 1.0.5 released, to patch security problem. Next year: Microsoft releases new version of IE to fix multiple vulnerabilities discovered throughout 2005.
If you don't cover your butt, you can pretty much expect that your company has documented that you installed the pirated software, and they will do their best to make you the fall guy for it all. Do not trust your company to be altruistic, nice, or even honest. Failure to do as the boss asks can damage your job, but doing what he wants could ruin your life. Document the heck out of your objections. Ask your boss to put the order in writing (or "send me a quick e-mail clarifying what you want").
Google AdSense is blockable... But I don't block it. Why? Because it's unobtrusive, and is actually targeted at my interests (or, at least, tries to be by being context sensitive). DoubleClick is the opposite. They have the most obtrusive and annoying ads around, and are generally placed on sites with little to no regard for the audience reading the page. What's killing their business is not adblocking software, but ads that piss off the people they are trying to market to, that make people seek out adblock software.
One invite already gone, 49 to go. :-)
If you can access the net, take your notes in Gmail. Gmail is pretty nifty for that. Simply type up an e-mail (HTML formatting) and save it as a draft. One-click note-taking. Or, with a bit more effort, send it to yourself, and set up labels and filters to categorize your notes. :-)
Behold, the power of G's.
In addition to being a geek and spending most of my life in front of a monitor, I am also a SCAdian. I brew beer, I know how to shoot a bow and swing a weapon, and if I can't make a living at any of that, there's always hard labor.
So if I trust my buddy, J, to rate business sites as a good deal or not, Outfoxed will also infer that I trust his judgement on whether or not a free software download is free of malware/spyware. Or vice versa. Not that I want a piece of software to do all my reasoning for me, but it severely limits the usefulness of the information. Something like Wikalong is better, where people can actually leave comments rather than just a thumbs up or thumbs down. Of course, Wikalong is thoroughly insecure...
Right. What's "a lot of time"? I had Gentoo installed on my AMD64 from stage 1 in an evening. Debian was one of the distros I was considering, but they did not support amd64 back then. Too little, too late. I am a devoted Gentooist now! Gentoo support for amd64 rocks.