Comment Re:Win? What kind of drugs are you on? (Score 1) 42
You're smitty on The Other McCain? Cool.
What do you think of the Team Kimberlin fiasco?
You're smitty on The Other McCain? Cool.
What do you think of the Team Kimberlin fiasco?
Oh, and also because the autopsy revealing Duncan's sarcoidosis came out right before I was hospitalized for what sarcoids did to the nerves surrounding and controlling my own heart. I always liked him as a person and actor, and the probability that he died of something that almost killed me struck a nerve (no pun intended).
Why would you complicate an easy answer with facts?
That's the way I (t)roll.
A better example would have been Jim Fix, but there's probably more to that story as well.
All of these comments, and everyone missed the obvious: given that he IS a communist, of course Horowitz would recognize one when he sees one.
Where did this start? On Windows it was obviously the "Blue Screen of Death", Zip Drives had the "Click of Death". Did this phrase have any widespread use before Microsoft/IBM? Wikipedia points to OS/2 as the original BSoD monkier, but I'm wondering if it has roots that go back further than the late 1980s/early 90s.
What if on the main page of your site it says "We have not been served any secret warrants".
Can they force you to leave that on your site?
The hype for this book was huge, with people claiming that it revolutionize the way we would cook and introduce a whole new "scientific" approach to cooking. That was complete nonsense -- it's more about fancy technology and fancy ingredients, with lots of fun pictures. If you like $600 coffee-table books, by all means, get a copy... or maybe get the photos for a steal in an $80 iPad app.
That's already been done.
The guy's name is "Alton Brown".
We don't need this arrogant asshole patent troll to do it. It's been done. (and probably better, I might add)
Fortunately for our lawnmower, generator, and weedwhacker, there's a convenience store nearby that sells ethanol free gas.
It's about a dollar a gallon more expensive, but we save a lot of time and money not buying and using carb cleaner and carb rebuild kits.
...will have only one effect.
One state will will race to the bottom to have practically no restraints on insurance companies with regard to what they have to offer to whom, what they can charge for it, or whether they actually have to keep their end of the bargain when customers need medical bills covered.
Every insurance company will move their operations to that one state and only sell policies from there.
U.S. health insurance practically overnight would become simultaneously the most expensive and the most worthless in the world.
Also note, the energy available for things like tearing cars and bodies apart is much higher at higher speeds.
At 40 MPH there is X amount of energy in the system. At 80 MPH there is FOUR TIMES the energy in the system.
Even a difference between 65 and 75 mph makes a significant difference in the availability of energy to do bad stuff to things insurance companies have to pay for.
Slamming the brakes also assumes the person behind you isn't too close and is paying attention, and the guy behind him, the guy behind him, so on and so forth. Even if you avoid the pile up you just caused a traffic jam. If you can avoid the collision by temporarily speeding up it's much safer to do so.
Also, driving period has the potential to become dangerous. Delcaring passing a slower driver as a dangerous manuever is absurd.
The general point remains. These devices lack situational context, and a design by committee formula for what consistutes safe based on this data is likely to be stupendously flawed. I tend to equate it to the absurdity that IT regulations tend to produce such as the hidden essid requirement of PCI-DSS.
No. The guy behind caused a traffic jam by following too closely.
The point of the gap is to reduce the severity of the maneuvers you are forced to execute by things happening around you. It gives you options.
Make a gap, keep the gap, be safer. The gap allows you to accelerate fast too if you need to. Otherwise, you are forced to brake hard if something enters your driving space because "get behind the threat" is the only option you have left if you didn't leave a decent gap.
Grow up, learn how to drive.
From one perspective some of us do care - they do make stuff that works reasonably well.
But my suspicion is that there's more to this than just abandoning Cisco. In many cases it's a lot cheaper to set up a router based on a PC and Linux, which probably is what happens in "emerging markets".
As for the NSA - they could probably do a lot better for the economy if they did put their effort into tracking down and nuking scammers, spammers and other internet pests - and their karma would be better. And they better use the CIA and others to really "take care" of those problems.
Yup. NSA knows where all the child porn distributors are, what they are using to do it, and who the people are.
But do nothing about it.
That response from the EFF was very educational and worth reading among all the other links in this article. I learned that companies don't really have to go around and actively defend their trademark in court or risk losing it. And I also confirmed my suspicion that no company needs to be ensuring that every time somebody uses their name ("mark") that they have permission.
Here's the link again in case you can't tell which one I'm referring to.
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards
