They figure non-Linux users will be too stupid to figure out that the tracking is identical to last year's. If you really want to know what happened to Santa, well, the Russians know something.
Exactly correct. The only thing I could add is that there has been intermittent conflict between China & Vietnam for the past 1,000 years, so they've had a lot of practice.
But really, we have a lot of otherwise useful metals being punted around in the form of money at the moment. We should use digital money and put the metal stuff to better use.
Gee, I guess the US & Zimbabwe are way ahead of the curve.
Me, and just about everyone else I know.
While we may or may not have done something wrong, this most likely will not be revealed by our search histories. I like privacy because I enjoy my privacy. That's all there is too it. Why do I need to want to hide something so Google doesn't know about it?
I'm sick of Google. Is there an alternative search engine that might have some concept of privacy rights?
You are a moron. Google Search logging the queries is not the problem. Google Analytics is. If I query Google it really isn't that surprising that they know what I am searching for. But they really shouldn't know every single time I visit Slashdot, without even using Google to get there.
And here again the problem is not that I can't protect me against that. I can. The problem is that the vast majority of web users doesn't even know about it.
Yes, exactly. I use noscript firefox extension and it's astounding how many sites have installed a google-analytics script in return for higher page rankings, even ones who are supposedly concerned about privacy.
Considering that many people use other browsers and that most firefox users probably don't even know about noscript or why they need it, the compromising of privacy by google-analytics is on a huge scale.
BTW, on the other end, try to use a private search engine such as the ixquick meta search engine, which doesn't store your IP.
Ol' Dad was 92 when the cancer got him, and I still feel the humiliation of that last time we went hiking, when he left me behind, dizzy and panting, on the climb back to the car. He was a moderate with his eating, (coffee, bacon, and eggs every morning) and refused medication up to his last days. I don't know how much is genetic, but the Kentucky Mountaineer lifestyle, minus tobacco, seems to have been beneficial.
My guess is the carcinogens in the bacon finally got him.
"Due to the fact that police thought the box could have been a weapon of mass destruction,"
Here's where the story starts sounding suspicious, like its a race thing or whatever the cops are up to lately.
Prospective porkers are tested for i.q., not as you would imagine for high numbers, but for low. The reason being, intelligent people tend to think independently and that is a no-no that can bring about judgment calls which in turn screws up the part about bringin in the bad guys who broke a law. The police force needs those who unquestioningly enforce laws, not choose, not moderate, not decide if it's worth it. I'm totally serious. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) , the long version, not the one the Scientologists use, are further used to weed out the ham from the bacon. Ever wonder why the general public attitude is "hmmmph, dumb cops"? Well there it is. If there were no 9-11, the same cops would've dove on the box like football players, convinced there were donuts in it. My old uncle did the testing locally for years.
It's actually a bit more complicated. What you say is generally true. However, I had a good friend (deceased now), extremely intelligent and completely amoral, who joined the Chicago police so he could carry a gun and be a scofflaw with impunity. I'd guess it was pretty easy for him to get past the screeners.
The question is whether the remote entangled whatever is actually "transmitting" to its local counterpart or whether hidden variables set at the point of entanglement are expressing themselves.
It is important to remember Bell's Theorem,
which, in my understanding, says that any hidden variable theory implies some FTL transfer of info.
Best joke I heard in this vein referenced the "morning after" contraceptive pill RU486.
Have you heard about the new contraceptive, RUPentium? It stops the embryonic cells from dividing properly.
I'm reminded of another incident: I had a recording of a friend and me playing music. Just an mp3 file. My friend wanted a copy. No problem, thought I, I'll just upload it to a server then he can get it through his browser. Nope. There was no way to convince his anti-virus software (Norton, I think) that the mp3 was not malicious.
Third here. It's been 19 years since I've run anything but linux, freebsd or osx. I had a SuSE release 5 installation running continuously for over 2 years and, yes, the box had an internet connection. What finally crashed it was running SAMBA to transfer files from a Windows box on the LAN.
Yeah. Right! Win7 still uses the same crap brokenware kernel as NT 3.5.....
MS have not had a truly viable product since 1991 (and even then it was faulty).
This reminds me of my favorite oxymoron: Microsoft Works.
I went out on a limb and installed the latest gentoo release on a dual-core AMD Toshiba Sattelite (it came w/ Vista preinstalled so I wiped the disk.) Sound works, wi-fi works, dvd burner works and I can play movies in many formats. The only things not working yet are the webcam and the fingerprint scanner but I haven't really tried to set them up yet. It took a bit of tweaking but it beats running evil empire shit.
The Linux community, as a whole, needs to get it's story straight. (Yeah, I'll probably get modded troll, I'm okay with that).
One day I hear Linux has great hardware support. It's not like Linux in the past, we even have *BETTER* hardware support than Windows now.
Then, the next day I hear, 'Well, yeah, Linux doesn't work; but you don't have the right hardware. You need to BUY A NEW FRIGGIN MACHINE if you want to bank on Linux working without spending hours trying to get it to work.
At todays fear of terrorism levels, they are lucky its just job termination - if they had flown over some sensitive and/or military area they could have been shot down... or not?
Don't you think it's passing strange that NORAD fighters were nowhere to be found during the 30 minutes or so that it took them to realize their error and return? This is SOP whenever contact with any jet plane is lost.
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They figure non-Linux users will be too stupid to figure out that the tracking is identical to last year's. If you really want to know what happened to Santa, well, the Russians know something.
Exactly correct. The only thing I could add is that there has been intermittent conflict between China & Vietnam for the past 1,000 years, so they've had a lot of practice.
If it really was the LHC, I'd say the damn thing is worth the money.
It's still a valid point. Gold is irrelevant. A couple thousand tonnes are produced each year, and the estimated total production for all of history is estimated at 158000 tonnes. By contrast, copper production is tens of millions of tonnes per year . Even given its better conduction properties, gold will always be a drop in the bucket for electrical applications, albeit an important one for specialized uses (e.g., electronics, obviously).
Wrong. Silver is the best conductor of electricity. Copper is a close second. Gold is third and Aluminum is fourth.
Just use gold instead!
But really, we have a lot of otherwise useful metals being punted around in the form of money at the moment. We should use digital money and put the metal stuff to better use.
Gee, I guess the US & Zimbabwe are way ahead of the curve.
Me, and just about everyone else I know. While we may or may not have done something wrong, this most likely will not be revealed by our search histories. I like privacy because I enjoy my privacy. That's all there is too it. Why do I need to want to hide something so Google doesn't know about it? I'm sick of Google. Is there an alternative search engine that might have some concept of privacy rights?
At least one: ixquick
The problem is that everyone is a wrongdoer by someone's definition.
Yes, and google bends over for anyone with enough clout.
You are a moron. Google Search logging the queries is not the problem. Google Analytics is. If I query Google it really isn't that surprising that they know what I am searching for. But they really shouldn't know every single time I visit Slashdot, without even using Google to get there.
And here again the problem is not that I can't protect me against that. I can. The problem is that the vast majority of web users doesn't even know about it.
Yes, exactly. I use noscript firefox extension and it's astounding how many sites have installed a google-analytics script in return for higher page rankings, even ones who are supposedly concerned about privacy.
Considering that many people use other browsers and that most firefox users probably don't even know about noscript or why they need it, the compromising of privacy by google-analytics is on a huge scale.
BTW, on the other end, try to use a private search engine such as the ixquick meta search engine, which doesn't store your IP.
All I saw was "blah blah blah, we eat roadkill."
This is probably unfair, but I feel that that aspect of your story diminishes your credibility.
Ever hear of the Roadkill Cafe? Their motto is "From Your Grill to Ours"
Ol' Dad was 92 when the cancer got him, and I still feel the humiliation of that last time we went hiking, when he left me behind, dizzy and panting, on the climb back to the car. He was a moderate with his eating, (coffee, bacon, and eggs every morning) and refused medication up to his last days. I don't know how much is genetic, but the Kentucky Mountaineer lifestyle, minus tobacco, seems to have been beneficial.
My guess is the carcinogens in the bacon finally got him.
Many Worlds is a joke and you know it. Let's discuss Stargate SG-1, while you're on this ridiculous topic.
How is it a joke? Enlightent us, o learned troll.
"Due to the fact that police thought the box could have been a weapon of mass destruction,"
Here's where the story starts sounding suspicious, like its a race thing or whatever the cops are up to lately.
Prospective porkers are tested for i.q., not as you would imagine for high numbers, but for low. The reason being, intelligent people tend to think independently and that is a no-no that can bring about judgment calls which in turn screws up the part about bringin in the bad guys who broke a law. The police force needs those who unquestioningly enforce laws, not choose, not moderate, not decide if it's worth it. I'm totally serious. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) , the long version, not the one the Scientologists use, are further used to weed out the ham from the bacon. Ever wonder why the general public attitude is "hmmmph, dumb cops"? Well there it is. If there were no 9-11, the same cops would've dove on the box like football players, convinced there were donuts in it. My old uncle did the testing locally for years.
It's actually a bit more complicated. What you say is generally true. However, I had a good friend (deceased now), extremely intelligent and completely amoral, who joined the Chicago police so he could carry a gun and be a scofflaw with impunity. I'd guess it was pretty easy for him to get past the screeners.
Causality is not violated in the many worlds interpretation.
Is there any freakin link to the paper?
The question is whether the remote entangled whatever is actually "transmitting" to its local counterpart or whether hidden variables set at the point of entanglement are expressing themselves.
It is important to remember Bell's Theorem, which, in my understanding, says that any hidden variable theory implies some FTL transfer of info.
Best joke I heard in this vein referenced the "morning after" contraceptive pill RU486. Have you heard about the new contraceptive, RUPentium? It stops the embryonic cells from dividing properly.
The most commonly exploited attack vector in Windows works exactly the same in Linux. Home users giving software administator access to their system.
Uh, citation needed?
I'm reminded of another incident: I had a recording of a friend and me playing music. Just an mp3 file. My friend wanted a copy. No problem, thought I, I'll just upload it to a server then he can get it through his browser. Nope. There was no way to convince his anti-virus software (Norton, I think) that the mp3 was not malicious.
Third here. It's been 19 years since I've run anything but linux, freebsd or osx. I had a SuSE release 5 installation running continuously for over 2 years and, yes, the box had an internet connection. What finally crashed it was running SAMBA to transfer files from a Windows box on the LAN.
Yeah. Right! Win7 still uses the same crap brokenware kernel as NT 3.5..... MS have not had a truly viable product since 1991 (and even then it was faulty).
This reminds me of my favorite oxymoron: Microsoft Works.
I went out on a limb and installed the latest gentoo release on a dual-core AMD Toshiba Sattelite (it came w/ Vista preinstalled so I wiped the disk.) Sound works, wi-fi works, dvd burner works and I can play movies in many formats. The only things not working yet are the webcam and the fingerprint scanner but I haven't really tried to set them up yet. It took a bit of tweaking but it beats running evil empire shit.
The Linux community, as a whole, needs to get it's story straight. (Yeah, I'll probably get modded troll, I'm okay with that).
One day I hear Linux has great hardware support. It's not like Linux in the past, we even have *BETTER* hardware support than Windows now.
Then, the next day I hear, 'Well, yeah, Linux doesn't work; but you don't have the right hardware. You need to BUY A NEW FRIGGIN MACHINE if you want to bank on Linux working without spending hours trying to get it to work.
Which is it? It can't be both.
It's "its". "It's" is short for "it is".
It takes a lot of acceleration for my arms to go up.
I thought they worked in government
At todays fear of terrorism levels, they are lucky its just job termination - if they had flown over some sensitive and/or military area they could have been shot down... or not?
Don't you think it's passing strange that NORAD fighters were nowhere to be found during the 30 minutes or so that it took them to realize their error and return? This is SOP whenever contact with any jet plane is lost.