Those "innocent" bystanders allowed a Government to come to power that provided support to the terrorist group that attacked the United States.
I couldn't vote in the 80's, so it isn't my fault. Everyone needs to remember that the United States is the one that funded Hussein and Bin Laden in the first place. Unfortunately, it looks like history will continue to repeat itself.
I caught my first ever virus using Firefox thanks to some sort of PDF exploit. Was browsing normally, got a popup that flashed up for a brief second and I saw it was a PDF of sorts. My hdd started thrashing and my anti-virus started giving me dozens of warnings.
Managed to make sure there was no trace of the virus on my system but it serves as a warning to people who assume Firefox is perfectly safe providing you are careful.
So there was a security vulnerability in Firefox's PDF rendering engine?
so when do you start counting years? Is this 2009 to you too, or something else? Anno dominae is the phrase used to denote why this year is the number it is, and not the 4009th year since the last king of babylon, or whatever.
The "politically correct" term is Common Era, so the current year would be 2009 C.E., and ~3000 years ago would be 1000 B.C.E.
Same goes for car insurance. Why spend $2000 a year ($20,000 a decade) insuring my car?
If your car insurance is $2000 per year, either you're a terrible driver with a long history of causing accidents, or your car is worth so much that you must have tons of extra cash to pay the occasional 5-figure hospital bill.
...despite the repeatable scientific evidence that CO2 increases the retention of solar energy in the lab, when its released into the atmosphere some magical self-regulatory mechanism will magically appear and prevent climate change.
There is such a self-regulatory mechanism that can magically appear, and they're called trees. Not that we've been very good about letting them do their job.
Unfortunately that seems to be the way of a lot of science today. Carbon dating is another minefield that comes to mind.
How so?
I'm curious, too. I thought the only assumptions made by carbon dating were that C-14 is evenly distributed throughout the carbon content of the world and that the percentage of C-14 in a quantity of carbon has remained constant.
That actually sounds reasonable to me. If you plan to run your own web server you are bound to create extra traffic.
Which then reduces the bandwidth I have available to do other things. Why should an ISP care if I'm using 50 kbps for a web server and 50 kbps for porn instead of 100 kbps for porn?
If you have to hide your number you are likely up to no good, why not just make it illegal to hide your caller id
If you don't let the police into your house, you are likeley up to no good. Why not just get rid of search warrants and make it illegal to deny the police entry to your house?
That's just a bit too much hyperbole, don't you think? You're comparing identifying yourself to the party you're contacting when initiating communication (you should always have the option to not initiate communication with someone) to armed law enforcement entering your private residence at any time.
Do I eat in my room? where's my violin? Lotta work isn't it? got a union?
Can't see the TV, must be the Fu-Manchu! Cranked the Phone and the Keystone operator didn't come on the party line, I'll harness up the buckboard and drive into town and see what's wrong!
The main reason for taxes on good is the use of the infrastructure, the roads and the like for the movement of goods, as well as to get money, but downloads don't actually provide any wear on the infrastructure.
Just think what we'd have if the tax on online purchases did go to the infrastructure used for those purchases.
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Those "innocent" bystanders allowed a Government to come to power that provided support to the terrorist group that attacked the United States.
I couldn't vote in the 80's, so it isn't my fault. Everyone needs to remember that the United States is the one that funded Hussein and Bin Laden in the first place. Unfortunately, it looks like history will continue to repeat itself.
I caught my first ever virus using Firefox thanks to some sort of PDF exploit. Was browsing normally, got a popup that flashed up for a brief second and I saw it was a PDF of sorts. My hdd started thrashing and my anti-virus started giving me dozens of warnings.
Managed to make sure there was no trace of the virus on my system but it serves as a warning to people who assume Firefox is perfectly safe providing you are careful.
So there was a security vulnerability in Firefox's PDF rendering engine?
So which is it; A piece of crap, or better than all the other cellphones in the US? I don't think you can really have it both ways.
-1 is a negative number, but it's still higher than -2, -3, -4, etc.
so when do you start counting years? Is this 2009 to you too, or something else? Anno dominae is the phrase used to denote why this year is the number it is, and not the 4009th year since the last king of babylon, or whatever.
The "politically correct" term is Common Era, so the current year would be 2009 C.E., and ~3000 years ago would be 1000 B.C.E.
Same goes for car insurance. Why spend $2000 a year ($20,000 a decade) insuring my car?
If your car insurance is $2000 per year, either you're a terrible driver with a long history of causing accidents, or your car is worth so much that you must have tons of extra cash to pay the occasional 5-figure hospital bill.
I've never understood the US (and increasingly UK) regulators' belief that violence is good and sex is bad.
My guess would be the fact that we have a centuries-long history of being Puritanical conquerors.
download and install every malware/spyware/virus removal program that you can get your hands on
I read about a great one in a PCMag review.
Hey, I'm an emacs user, you insensitive clod!
He was talking about an editor, not an operating system.
...despite the repeatable scientific evidence that CO2 increases the retention of solar energy in the lab, when its released into the atmosphere some magical self-regulatory mechanism will magically appear and prevent climate change.
There is such a self-regulatory mechanism that can magically appear, and they're called trees. Not that we've been very good about letting them do their job.
Unfortunately that seems to be the way of a lot of science today. Carbon dating is another minefield that comes to mind.
How so?
I'm curious, too. I thought the only assumptions made by carbon dating were that C-14 is evenly distributed throughout the carbon content of the world and that the percentage of C-14 in a quantity of carbon has remained constant.
Not to mention innovating the linguistic scope to leverage the creation of value from the verbal interface.
But where are the synergies in that?
If Slashdot focused on legitimate problems and grievances, and actually verified the accuracy of what they post
Then it wouldn't be Slashdot.
That actually sounds reasonable to me. If you plan to run your own web server you are bound to create extra traffic.
Which then reduces the bandwidth I have available to do other things. Why should an ISP care if I'm using 50 kbps for a web server and 50 kbps for porn instead of 100 kbps for porn?
If you have to hide your number you are likely up to no good, why not just make it illegal to hide your caller id If you don't let the police into your house, you are likeley up to no good. Why not just get rid of search warrants and make it illegal to deny the police entry to your house?
That's just a bit too much hyperbole, don't you think? You're comparing identifying yourself to the party you're contacting when initiating communication (you should always have the option to not initiate communication with someone) to armed law enforcement entering your private residence at any time.
More importantly, did they find any frozen caveman lawyers
Do I eat in my room? where's my violin? Lotta work isn't it? got a union?
Can't see the TV, must be the Fu-Manchu! Cranked the Phone and the Keystone operator didn't come on the party line, I'll harness up the buckboard and drive into town and see what's wrong!
See, the Bursar agrees.
How does one automate an opinion piece?
A fork of SciGen, perhaps?
No, this is like me buying a bicycle from you, and you putting proprietary locks on the axles to prevent me from switching them w/o your permission.
And then you complaining that the bike doesn't work when you replaces the tires with tractor tires.
It's the lizards. It's always the lizards.
Sometimes it's the Hypnotoads.
But that would be taxing movies
Isn't that what the article was talking about?
If it weren't for this massive impact some 65k years ago we would still be voting for lizards
I know we Americans don't pay much attention to the SI system, but you might want to check your prefixes.
Just what are the "other" impact hazards?
Mutalisks.
If Mutalisks were ever going to be a hazard, we'd be killed by a Zergling rush long before the Mutalisks got here.
The main reason for taxes on good is the use of the infrastructure, the roads and the like for the movement of goods, as well as to get money, but downloads don't actually provide any wear on the infrastructure.
Just think what we'd have if the tax on online purchases did go to the infrastructure used for those purchases.
I know, it'll never happen. We can dream, though.
In order to tax "porn" you would have to define it, and you would have people disputing your definition from every direction. Probably not practical.
In this case, though, you wouldn't have to define it. Porn movies are still movies, no matter how you define the porn part.
Last I knew, Massachusetts is the only state that actually has a declining population.