Comment It's a trick! (Score 1) 117
They're actually setting up to track us all everywhere we go in our flying cars.
Comment $200 isn't so bad (Score 1) 270
When I was an "avid tinkerer" (in my case, backyard mechanic), $200 took some scrimping but it was a good price for good tools. It compares pretty favorably with the price of a good-quality torque wrench, and very favorably with that of an air compressor and set of air tools, even cheap ones.
Comment It's like, how much more bad could this be? (Score 3, Funny) 316
The answer is none. None more bad.
Comment Re:Windows Update (Score 1) 119
CPUs idle when not doing anything. Processes though can do all sorts of crazy things like, polling something constantly, which keeps the CPU loaded. Why someone would do that is a mystery, but that people do it is not.
Comment Re:Won't it ... ? (Score 1) 313
It should be obvious if you're the server by looking in the console. Your ping would tend to be a giveaway as well.
Comment Re:! surprising (Score 1) 762
Privately owned toll roads.
Private or home schooling.
Highway robbers?
So you mean we couldn't manage without the government?
I mean we even launch space shuttles privately now. What do we need a government for? To tell us we can't drink until we're 21 even though they will ship us off and kill us at 18? To fine us if we don't wear a seat belt even though for nearly 100 years people drove in cars without them just fine. To put us in jail for growing a plant in our own backyard (with a federal minimum sentence of 5 years!). To buy trailers for people who built houses in a flood plane, even when the citizens in the surrounding counties (myself included) offered to have several families stay with them until they could rebuild.
Even well intentioned governments are oppressive and wasteful.
Private or home schooling.
Highway robbers?
So you mean we couldn't manage without the government?
I mean we even launch space shuttles privately now. What do we need a government for? To tell us we can't drink until we're 21 even though they will ship us off and kill us at 18? To fine us if we don't wear a seat belt even though for nearly 100 years people drove in cars without them just fine. To put us in jail for growing a plant in our own backyard (with a federal minimum sentence of 5 years!). To buy trailers for people who built houses in a flood plane, even when the citizens in the surrounding counties (myself included) offered to have several families stay with them until they could rebuild.
Even well intentioned governments are oppressive and wasteful.
Comment Re:Who'd have thought... (Score 2, Interesting) 194
Why if the UK Post Office goes on strike, and nobody notices, because UPS, FedEx, and other private companies (plus email) fill the gap? It would be ironic if the Government Strike proves that the government-run service is no longer needed.
Hmmmm.
I hope the U.S. Post Office goes on strike next. Who need them? Not me.
Comment Re:The Moon (Score 1) 703
Which is about up there with figuring out how to make 2 + 2 = 4.
Everything currently points to it being flat out impossible. Not improbable, not a a tough problem to figure out (ie, usable fusion generators or something that is just a hard problem), but not physically possible.
Assuming that all insolvable problems will magically become not so given enough time and technology isn't a wise bet.
Comment bad summary? (Score 4, Insightful) 86
Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?
Comment How can it be vaporware...? (Score 1) 62
if it's in clinical trials? Maybe it won't pan out, but it is a physical product.
Submission + - Antibiotic Use and Childhood Asthma (reuters.com)
rubmytummy writes: The June 2007 issue of Canadian journal Chest contains the article
"Increased Risk of Childhood Asthma From Antibiotic Use in Early Life". [Reuters' popularized summary; Google News page]
From the Chest abstract:
[Apologies: Biotech is the closest-to-relevant topic on the submission page.]
From the Chest abstract:
I find this especially interesting for two reasons.Independent of well-known asthma risk factors, asthma was significantly more likely to develop [at age 7 years] in children who had received antibiotics in the first year of life...
- A pathologist friend once told me that what is now known as asthma was in decades past frequently diagnosed as "allergies", especially in children.
- I've heard from a number of sources over the years that children who are not exposed to a variety of potential antigens early on are more likely to develop allergies later in life.
[Apologies: Biotech is the closest-to-relevant topic on the submission page.]
Submission + - Communique to \. editors
TropicalCoder writes: "TO THE EDITORS
THIS IS NOT A SUBMISSION — rather — it is an attempt to communicate according to Slashdot policy as defined in the Slashdot FAQ "Where do I submit corrections or updates to previous stories?" "The best way to submit follow ups is just as if you were submitting any other news item to Slashdot: please use the web submission form (rather than email)." Text of communique follows...
Dear Editors,
On 007-03-24 18:27:58 I submitted "New Internet to be a soulless beast?" (IT,The Internet) (pending)
In this submission, the first line was a note directed only to the editors . It said:
[To the editors — REMOVE THIS LINE — and please cancel my previous submission 2007-03-16 20:15:28 The Internet is Broken! (IT,The Internet) (pending) on the same subject as my thinking and research has evolved considerably since then.]
It appears that nobody as much as glanced at my request. My new submission ended up in the Firehose with the above line included — and no action taken on my request to cancel my previous submission. Certainly the inadvertent inclusion of this line adversely affected the flow of my submission when reading it.
I beg of you to cancel the previous submission — specifically 2007-03-16 20:15:28 The Internet is Broken! (IT,The Internet) (pending), because in it I make some substantial criticisms of Stanford University without the necessary research to back me up.
After writing the submission I want canceled, I did a great deal of research and wrote the blog "The Internet is Broken!" that forms the bases of my new submission and contains many links to much new material never before vetted on Slashdot.
My submissions are follow ups to a previous Slashdot story "Researchers Scheming to Rebuild Internet From Scratch"
Please drop me a note confirming that you have indeed removed the requested line from the submission On 007-03-24 18:27:58 I submitted "New Internet to be a soulless beast?" (IT,The Internet) (pending) and that you have canceled 2007-03-16 20:15:28 The Internet is Broken! (IT,The Internet) (pending).
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
"TropicalCoder (898500)"
George W. Taylor
gtaylor AT magma DOT ca
PS: You guys are doing a great job and I am sure that the problem above only happened because you are so busy making such a great web site. gt"
THIS IS NOT A SUBMISSION — rather — it is an attempt to communicate according to Slashdot policy as defined in the Slashdot FAQ "Where do I submit corrections or updates to previous stories?" "The best way to submit follow ups is just as if you were submitting any other news item to Slashdot: please use the web submission form (rather than email)." Text of communique follows...
Dear Editors,
On 007-03-24 18:27:58 I submitted "New Internet to be a soulless beast?" (IT,The Internet) (pending)
In this submission, the first line was a note directed only to the editors . It said:
[To the editors — REMOVE THIS LINE — and please cancel my previous submission 2007-03-16 20:15:28 The Internet is Broken! (IT,The Internet) (pending) on the same subject as my thinking and research has evolved considerably since then.]
It appears that nobody as much as glanced at my request. My new submission ended up in the Firehose with the above line included — and no action taken on my request to cancel my previous submission. Certainly the inadvertent inclusion of this line adversely affected the flow of my submission when reading it.
I beg of you to cancel the previous submission — specifically 2007-03-16 20:15:28 The Internet is Broken! (IT,The Internet) (pending), because in it I make some substantial criticisms of Stanford University without the necessary research to back me up.
After writing the submission I want canceled, I did a great deal of research and wrote the blog "The Internet is Broken!" that forms the bases of my new submission and contains many links to much new material never before vetted on Slashdot.
My submissions are follow ups to a previous Slashdot story "Researchers Scheming to Rebuild Internet From Scratch"
Please drop me a note confirming that you have indeed removed the requested line from the submission On 007-03-24 18:27:58 I submitted "New Internet to be a soulless beast?" (IT,The Internet) (pending) and that you have canceled 2007-03-16 20:15:28 The Internet is Broken! (IT,The Internet) (pending).
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
"TropicalCoder (898500)"
George W. Taylor
gtaylor AT magma DOT ca
PS: You guys are doing a great job and I am sure that the problem above only happened because you are so busy making such a great web site. gt"
Submission + - Get Vista/Works refunded from Dell with 2 emails!
look@thealternative.ch writes: "Although some people asked for Linux pre-installs and Dell seems to listen (Google cache, survey off since Friday), some still think it will be hard to get at least a naked PC. But what about stripping it naked after you bought it? I managed to get Windows Vista (and a bit more) refunded from Dell Germany last week. The process was surprisingly simple:
- After delivery, ask Dell Support for refund by email
- ???
- Refund!!! (aka "Less profit!!!" for other "personas")
Submission + - Federal Agency Bans Microsoft Vista
manibegopa writes: A federal agency is refusing to upgrade its computers with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system, citing concern over costs and compatibility issues.
In a Jan. 19 memo to staff, Dan Mintz, the Transportation Department's chief information officer, imposed an "indefinite moratorium" on upgrading desktop and laptop computers with the new operating system, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.
