Comment Dark Cockpit (Score 1) 195
Only display that which needs immediate attention.
Only display that which needs immediate attention.
So, not waving your "Happy to be rid of you clowns" banner?
It's already too late for us early adopters.
I don't know about that. Google, Facebook and other services 'real names' policies are a relatively recent feature of on-line services. Back when I began setting acounts up, I used throw-away e-mail addresses, pseudonyms and other tactics which are increasingly discouraged. Having put my files and other info. out there encrypted, I feel relatively secure in knowing that all a service provider will have to sell is unintelligable binary blobs.
Yes. Previous years scores are contained in a linked list. All you have to do is
Sorry about that.
Should have stepped right into the Monty Python argument sketch dialog.
People can't just go running around naked, partying and trashing the neighborhood without paying the appropriate government fees.
At some point, you may become angry enough about something to stand up and shout, too.
The trick is to get angry about something that makes a real difference. I can bitch about continental drift all I want. But nobody is going to follow my bumper sticker's advice and re-unite Pangea.
How do you know you're not just as wrong now as scientists were about tectonic plate theory?
We could be. So we construct telescopes to observe and get closer to the truth.
Tomorrow you might suddenly find out the Native Americans are right after all.
If someone looks through the telescope and sees the goddess holding up a sign that says, "Get off my mountaim" we will comply.
But
Yes. Your socks are one example.
Mine is transparent.
You have to shield everything you want to cover with an atmosphere. If you are happy living under a dome, then a much smaller magnetic field will protect against the solar winf impinging on the dome. But if you want to terraform the entire planet, you have to keep the solar wind from 'boiling off' the atmosphere even from the parts you are not living on.
Slashdot beta isn't so bad after all.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro