I thought at first (from the summary) he was putting out press releases about it or something and I wondered why too. But if you read TFA it turns out he was just in some meeting where he felt he was the most qualified person present to explain the science.
As well as being fun, its an amazing ad for the company, everything they but into their blenders ends up as toxic dust!!!
Yes, and the guy says at the end that he's thinking of putting the stuff on ebay... I wonder if he would actually be allowed to sell that toxic dust? I bet there's a law against it even though it's just the same stuff as is in the iPhone (well, it is the iPhone).
TFA lists all the states and how all this power management stuff is supposed to work... what it doesn't go into is how (or if) it actually does work. My experience is that it doesn't - I press sleep on my Windows XP PC ans all I get is a message telling me that the driver of my MIDI controller keyboard will not let the machine go to sleep!
And on my (admittedly very old) Ubuntu laptop the screen just blacks out for a couple of seconds and then comes back on again. When it was running windows it used to go to sleep fine, but the wireless wouldn't work when it woke up.
I guess other people's mileage probably does vary...
Heh, well I guess it's the Slashdot headline I didn't understand! I guess it means "won't be on the censored list". But the summary also says "the Pirate Bay states that no files have been removed", but the linked article makes it sound like they did.
I want to point out that still to this day, the police has not given us one single hint on what content on the site has been containing child porn - and the things we have filtered out has been proven not to be child porn either.
(my emphasis)
Which sounds to me like they did remove something, and maybe even that if there was child porn they would remove that too. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just the Slashdot headline seems inaccurate. (Unless the article doesn't mean what I think.)
Then send the kid to play outside, with... toy guns and weapons...
Just don't give them any toy guns or weapons. Then at least they get some mental stimulation while they make weapons out of sticks and Lego (US translation: Legos).:D
Heh, true, true. Yesterday I managed 7 mod points on a single funny (I thought) post and only 2 of those were "Funny" points, the others were all "Interesting" and "Troll".
Then the storm came for the Mars Rovers, and I was really quite worried about them. What a relief to know that I'm not sociopathic.
I'm guessing feeling empathy for robots does not help in proving you're not a sociopath. In fact, thinking that having feelings for robots helps may even count against you. Nurse!
Soldiers used to just loot their supplies from the civilian population, so I suggest just making all the gear run off AA's. "Throw out your TV remotes and come out with your hands on your heads".
"the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it" lol. Is there government funding available for professionally supported forgetting? I hope with other posters the guy did copy and distribute the stuff as it should be clearly in the public domain now.
Well there was a copy, but now they've filed it with the court:
Even the lawyers who filed the document with the court are no longer allowed to see it; instead, they've been permitted to file declarations, under seal, based on their memory of its contents.
So I hope they didn't get too good at forgetting, because now they have to try remembering it again.
That's Brazil the Terry Gilliam movie, not the South American country. Thought I'd clear that up before Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decides to invade Slashdistan for badmouthing.
You have that the wrong way round. First you bad mouth the country, they you invade them.
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Hmm, I think you got the puppies answer wrong too - surely the "take them home and sell them" is what they were looking for.
received a license to purchase dirty-bomb nuclear materials
I'd kind of expect that just filling in the "Dirty-bomb materials licence form" would lead to instant arrest.
We just had the Surgeon General's story - so the obvious solution: just ban people from talking about the dust.
I thought at first (from the summary) he was putting out press releases about it or something and I wondered why too. But if you read TFA it turns out he was just in some meeting where he felt he was the most qualified person present to explain the science.
(you knew it was coming) we had to deflect the electron beams ourselves using little magnets we had dug out of the ground with our bare fingernails.
As well as being fun, its an amazing ad for the company, everything they but into their blenders ends up as toxic dust!!!
Yes, and the guy says at the end that he's thinking of putting the stuff on ebay... I wonder if he would actually be allowed to sell that toxic dust? I bet there's a law against it even though it's just the same stuff as is in the iPhone (well, it is the iPhone).
TFA lists all the states and how all this power management stuff is supposed to work... what it doesn't go into is how (or if) it actually does work. My experience is that it doesn't - I press sleep on my Windows XP PC ans all I get is a message telling me that the driver of my MIDI controller keyboard will not let the machine go to sleep!
And on my (admittedly very old) Ubuntu laptop the screen just blacks out for a couple of seconds and then comes back on again. When it was running windows it used to go to sleep fine, but the wireless wouldn't work when it woke up.
I guess other people's mileage probably does vary...
Stop making me smoke you damned scientists!
I'm surprised they are letting lab beagles post on slashdot, is it the result of some animal rights campaign?
Heh, well I guess it's the Slashdot headline I didn't understand! I guess it means "won't be on the censored list". But the summary also says "the Pirate Bay states that no files have been removed", but the linked article makes it sound like they did.
:)
Or something
(my emphasis)
Which sounds to me like they did remove something, and maybe even that if there was child porn they would remove that too. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just the Slashdot headline seems inaccurate. (Unless the article doesn't mean what I think.)
Shouldn't AI be using lossy compression? Certainly my real intelligence uses um, where was I?
Then send the kid to play outside, with ... toy guns and weapons...
:D
Just don't give them any toy guns or weapons. Then at least they get some mental stimulation while they make weapons out of sticks and Lego (US translation: Legos).
You just made me realise that I don't even know what kernel I'm running. I think I should just delete myself right now.
(turns out it is only 2.6.17)
Heh, true, true. Yesterday I managed 7 mod points on a single funny (I thought) post and only 2 of those were "Funny" points, the others were all "Interesting" and "Troll".
It was just an attempt at humour, and no, not from an American.
Then the storm came for the Mars Rovers, and I was really quite worried about them. What a relief to know that I'm not sociopathic.
I'm guessing feeling empathy for robots does not help in proving you're not a sociopath. In fact, thinking that having feelings for robots helps may even count against you. Nurse!
That aliens read the Washington Post
Good point - they probably read one of the down-market tabloids that take alien abductions etc. seriously enough to devote extensive coverage to them.
you're you're you're you're you're you're
Sorry.
Once your bored of them you can use them as a holodeck in your ant farm :)
No. But people just keep churning them out. Must be genetic.
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Now, who's going to help me with my top 7 things we don't need more of:
1) Top X lists of things
Please. The word is "forage".
I think the technical term is actually "collateral foraging" these days.
Soldiers used to just loot their supplies from the civilian population, so I suggest just making all the gear run off AA's. "Throw out your TV remotes and come out with your hands on your heads".
I'll take the $1m in used twenties thanks.
after they opened their uncensored image upload service (bayimg.com).
Well there was a copy, but now they've filed it with the court:
So I hope they didn't get too good at forgetting, because now they have to try remembering it again.
That's Brazil the Terry Gilliam movie, not the South American country. Thought I'd clear that up before Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decides to invade Slashdistan for badmouthing.
You have that the wrong way round. First you bad mouth the country, they you invade them.