Comment Re:Alien Civilizations (Score 1) 306
The islands of elite surrounded by starving peasants reminds me of Feintuch's Voices of Hope, or perhaps Tiptree's "Backward, Turn Backward." Brrr...
The islands of elite surrounded by starving peasants reminds me of Feintuch's Voices of Hope, or perhaps Tiptree's "Backward, Turn Backward." Brrr...
My complaint is that the comcast wireless router I was given doesn't let you disable the wireless! I have a much better Apple wireless router, and now this crummy one interferes with it. Grr...
Absolutely true. I recently had a trauma which redefined my pain scale - it used to be that kidney stones and the EMG were the 9, while the spinal taps were about a 7. Now those are both 6, and the torsion was the 9. I only call it not a 10 because I have a particularly vivid imagination, and a 10 sounds like being drawn and quartered while alive, for instance...
Good catch, and for anyone playing along at home, gluten intolerance can manifest in much the same way. Gluten is present in barley, rye, wheat, oats, and spelt, and fortunately nowadays there are lots of products which are marketed "gluten free."
well said, with very minor nitpick: s/other Arab/Arab/ - whether Iraq is an Arab country (or Persian country) depends on who you ask, but I don't know of anyone with any knowledge of Iranian history who would call Iran an Arab country.
I have no knowledge of who's responsible for the worm, but Steve Bellovin wrote about it very intelligently.
I live in Washington DC, and the jury selection process here does not exclude a lot of typical cases (eg lawyers: we have a lot per capita, and the remaining pool wouldn't be big enough). This led to me being on a medical malpractice case regarding a plaintiff who suffered from a condition that I myself have (tinnitus). I like to think that I rendered fair service anyway, but it's still a bit distressing.
I am still amazed that the five most important concepts in mathematics can be expressed in one equation with nothing extraneous. Just reword the equation as e^(i*pi) +1 = 0.
Apple used 2G, 3G, etc to refer to their iPod generations for quite a while, and before that they used the Motorola G3 and G4 processors in Macs.
How long will it be until this is a reality?
My answer would change dramatically if router CLI-configurations are considered "code."
Southwestern Bell + PacBell + SNET + Ameritech = SBC
SBC bought AT&T (LD) and changed its name to AT&T.
AT&T bought BellSouth and at that point owned 100% of Cingular, which was renamed to AT&T.
Therefore,
Southwestern Bell + PacBell + SNET + Ameritech + BellSouth + AT&T (LD) + Cingular = AT&T.
fortune: No such file or directory