Comment Re:bamboo car (Score 5, Funny) 198
The Indian truck manufactuer Tata has been using wood as a construction material for quite some time now.
Other materials used include chewing gum, rubber bands, old newspapers, and spit.
The Indian truck manufactuer Tata has been using wood as a construction material for quite some time now.
Other materials used include chewing gum, rubber bands, old newspapers, and spit.
meh and even it it really was from the crops:
Interesting to see that the supposed origin is northeastern China, which is where the Japanese special unit 731 carried out biological warfare experiments during WWII, polluting large areas with bioweapons products. Perhaps this is a case of the chickens coming home to roost?
I know several admins that mitigated the hole but couldn't replace their certificates either because the signer charges a ridiculous revocation fee (I'm looking at you, StartSSL),
Yup, twenty-five whole dollars. That's the price of several Big Macs, with fries!. Shameless what some CAs will charge.
(Not defending the CA racket here, but $25 isn't really that much when they give the certs out for free. In any case why revoke them, just replace them with a new, free cert. Yes, I know someone can spoof the server using the old cert, but if you want to save the $25...).
I've updated your password to the answer to a new riddle:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Good luck spelling it correctly!
My mother was eaten by Cthulhu you insensitive clod!
As someone with a phd who works around people with phd degrees, the phrase "just not half as smart as he thinks he is" has very wide applicability.
"OK, so you have a PhD. Just don't touch anything".
Is it because of her advanced medical degree? Her first hand knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry?
That was my immediate reaction as well. I saw some snippet of her on TV once and she seemed to be the canonical blond airhead. What next, people clustering to Professor Pamela Anderson to hear about global warming being a scam?
EPOC could do lots more than surf the web; it had apps for all the obvious personal-assistant functions (calendar, notes, to-do, contacts) and had a decent ecosystem of third-party apps.
There may have been a small number of third-party apps, but nothing like what made the iPad and later Android successful. What's worse, there never would be too many more either. I've programmed for EPOC, alongside a large number of other embedded OSes, and it is by far the most alien, difficult-to-work-with OS I've ever used. I've found it easier to move code to MVS (IBM 1960's mainframe OS) than EPOC. Unless they'd completely rewritten the OS in something useful (Linux was mentioned), the market would have been severely restricted no matter how cool the hardware was.
There was some way to have a remote... Say attached to the wall, which would allow you to 'touch' it to have the lights turn on and off, or even possibly dim. One can dream..
Exactly. The headline should have read "LG and Samsung follow Philips in adding pointless expensive gimmicks to lightbulbs in order to part consumers from their money".
Or maybe they were just eating rat?
Well, it's got some rat in it. And get rid of that damn dead bishop on the landing, I've got three of 'em down by the bin, and the dustmen won't touch 'em.
I looked at various peanut butters the other day when I bought some, and bought me some more Jif, instead of Adams.
You put Jif on your bread? While it's probably a less.. intrusive way of cleaning you out than a colonic irrigation, it still seems like a bit much.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
