Comment Can I ask... (Score 1) 197
Too many power users ran off to what? What's the best alternative, KDE excluded, for power users that once liked GNOME?
Dear "root owning" overlords,
When using grep recursively I only get local results:
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I declare this a bug for two reasons:
1. The output is boring.
2. The terminal has more than 2 lines!!! It's an unefficient use of my screenspace.
I believe the reason for this is that the grep command only searches locally for things I am actually looking for, I kind of expect the results I get from my codebase and as such it removes any sense of mystery or something new and exciting to spice up my dull geek existence. That's boring, grep -R should also search amazon, so I get more exciting results such as:
Shark Season 1 Starring Steven Eckholdt, Nora Dunn, Patrick Fabian, et al.
Amazon Instant Video
to buy episodes: $1.99
to buy season: $34.99 ($1.59 per episode)
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Please can you change the grep warez to have this feature, and just install it on my machine while I'm down the pub, after all you do "erm, have root", so it should be easy for you to do
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Sent from my Unity device, (which is why it took several glacial ages and a couple of eras to get it done)
The more you love math and science the further you'll be from people who live for the next episode of Jersey Shore.
"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
Yeah, you got it. The novel was Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke.
BTW, thanks guys for the insightful responses.
A sci-fi author (can't recall who) once wrote in a novel that Earth's crust contains a relatively high percentage of heavier elements because of the Moon. Without Moon's (relatively big, as far as satellites are concerned) gravitational pull, heavier elements would've fallen toward Earth's center leaving only lighter ones to cool down and turn solid on the crust.
Can somebody more knowledgeable on the field comment on the theory? Is there any truth in this? Is this an important factor on making a planet habitable for us? Is this an important factor for forming life (as we know it) on a planet?
Plenty of slashdot posters keep copy/pasting talks like this... and get +5 Funny for it.
So why, in an unlocked european iPhone, going with flash size from 16 to 32 GB and from 32 to 64 GB costs 110 euro and to Apple this costs, respectively, 19$ and 39$? Not much development involved, and manufacturing is already factored in.
This is simply the maximum price the market will bear, and the product is developed up until the cost leaves enough profit (for an arbitrary definition of "enough").
Are you suggesting that since in the Middle ages Christians killed in the name of God, it's ok now for Muslims to kill in the name of God? Is this your idea of religion? Is it ok for these to be the Midlle ages of Islam?
Let's just try to do what's best for humanity already. Let's try to evolve from the dark past. Let's stop preaching ourselves ideas meant to bring order into chaos and let's try to move forward, not to grow roots in a place someone said it's good enough.
Let's suppose that the bill with the forged code randomly ends up in some kind of photo taken with a smartphone, and let's suppose that the smartphone recognizes the QR code and sends the photographer to some kind of phishing website...
I know, totally unlikely as an attack vector, there's far more probability of someone being phished through ordinary spam. But even if the author of TFA didn't had a clue of what he was talking about, the bill with the malicious QR code could indeed be used as an attack vector of sorts...
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
