|
2006/3/3-6 [Uncategorized] UID:42079 Activity:nil |
3/3 Hello soap scum and hard water spot experts. I tried CLR on my shower door and it removed maybe 25% more spots than Tilex Soap Scum. However there are still a lot of spots on the glass and they're just not coming off. Will white vinegar work better? Thanks. \_ get the distilled vinegar. one trick i found effective was to apply it to paper towels and stick the wet paper towel to the surface. the idea is to let the vinegar sit on the spot for a while and let the acid do its thing. keep in mind your shower will smell like vinegar for about a day. >>>>>>> Your Changes Above |
2006/3/3-5 [Recreation/Dating] UID:42080 Activity:low |
3/2 dim, tell us about your hot non-Asian bimbo! Does she have nice boobs? \_ Pretty much all boobs are nice, no? \_ No. Ever been with a chick who was flat, or had one boob significantly larger than the other, or had boobs that were all aeroloa? \_ Can't say that I have. Thanks for sharing. |
2006/3/3-5 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:42081 Activity:nil |
3/2 NYT chart showing housing price trends over the years: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/business/01leonhardt.html Also, article about how a downtrend in prices can actually help homeowners trade up (like I was talking about the other day): http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/business/01leonhardt_side.html \_thanks for the link, I'm trying to convince my wife we should move she is reluctant, I sent her there link. This may be even more apt around here where some cheaper neighborhoods actually have not been declining, but nicer areas like rockridge have. |
2006/3/3-5 [Reference/RealEstate, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:42082 Activity:nil |
3/2 http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/real_estate/luxury_home_sales_soaring "... total sales of homes costing $1 million or more reached $55.9 billion, up 24 percent, compared with $45.1 billion in 2004." Yeah the Bush economy is working!!! Go George W Bush!!! |
2006/3/3-5 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:42083 Activity:high |
3/2 Recent news articles show that income decreased for average Americans, +$1mil home sales surged by 24% from 2004 to 2005, home school trend is going up up and up, 2 newly appointed conservatives, Patriot Act nenewal, Fox News rating going up, Free Republic & National Review subscription going waaaay up, etc. It appears that conservatism is stronger than ever, despite all the distractions from Iraq, Katrina, Enron, Cheney. So I'm curious. Besides whining, what are you liberals gonna do about it? -liberal troll \_ Buying remote land and the needed supplies to get off the grid. \_ I'm not sure that all the things you cite really add up to much besides trolling. \_ Is this graph going up or down? link:csua.org/u/f4y [alexa.com] \_ I wouldn't base anything on alexa's information link:csua.org/u/f4y http://csua.org/u/f4z Fox News continues to slide. Bush at 34% approval. I could go on, but I won't. \_ YOUR own little liberal world is the internet. But you're forgetting the sales of Bible and the CB radio (internet for the Red State folks who can't afford computers), both are going way up. Face it, conservatism and hickism are growing. \_ Off your meds again today? Watch out for those black helicopters. \_ Hey! That's someone else! \_ Don't Black Helicopters pollute the air and require oil subsidies and where people who shouldn't be allowed to drive a big wheel tailgate in the right airlane get Black Helicopter Driving licencses? RAWR!! HELICOPTER CULTURE!!! RAAAWWWRRRR!!!!1!!!one FUCK YOU!11!!! \_ Nope. Sorry. Not going to bite today. I am pretty much at peace with the world. If it makes you feel any better, you can read my flying car rant from the motd archives: http://www.csua.net/~kchang/motd/?entry=38770 \_ I see you might have gotten the dosage correct today. My, my the wonders never cease.... much at peace with the world. |
2006/3/3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:42084 Activity:nil |
2/16 Consequences for violating Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: more economic/nuclear collaboration with USA http://tinyurl.com/rrbfw hmm... and why we are bitching about Iran again? \_ From a "moral superiority" standpoint? There's no reason we should. From a "don't be a dumbass" standpoint? Because they'd actually USE the nukes on us or someone we care about. \_ There are no indication that they would. All the sabre rattling is only help the conservative clerks to hold the power... consider that something like 40% of population is 35 yr or younger and relatively pro-western, don't you think our entire policy toward Iran ever since 1954 is kind of fucked up? \_ I question the wisdom of this on the grounds that, hey, India has one of the fastest growing Muslim populations in the world, don't they? Oh but that's right, Islam is a religion of peace and most of the Islamic world is peaceful, like... um... \_ majority of people in India pratice Hindu, not islam. One don't eat beef, one don't eat pork... if that help you to remember. (yes, i know, that is an over generalization on Hindu's part, but I need to start from somewhere to get those people educated). |
2006/3/3-6 [Recreation/Dating] UID:42085 Activity:moderate |
3/3 I'd like to see a poll on the average time it takes someone to regret a tatoo. \_ When they get re-programmable tatoos, the old ones will seem kind of lame, although if some fucker put one with ads and DRM it could lead to a whole new kind of trouble. \_ I got my first back in...99? Still no regrets -- I actually want to add to it. -mice \_ A friend of mine wanted tats at 16 but her mom said she'd regret it at 30, so she waited until she was 30 to get her first. :-) \_ I got my tattoo when I was 19, 34 now and I still like it. It is rather large but it is on my back so it doesn't show at work and such. \_ I think it varies for male vs female and (esp for female) where you put the tats. Those who opted for front stomach/under belly prior to pregnancy will surely drive up the numbers. Those who gets it on the upper back would most likely be the happiest of the bunch. \_ A friend of mine got a couple of little tattoos (ankles), and 12 years later still has no regrets. -mice years later she has no regrets. -mice years later she still has no regrets. -mice \_ My brother has complete sleeves and a big one on his chest, too. Whether he regrets it or not depends on his mood and what's going on in life. He worked for a straight-laced company and he regretted it big-time. Now he works for a place where lots of guys have tattoos and he's happier about it. He did tell his ex-girlfriend not to get sleeves, too, but she did it anyway. So I think if he had to do it all over he wouldn't do it, because they are there even on days you wish they weren't. \_ Duh. Plus you can't change it. You can put on some different clothes, get a new haircut, but that tat is just there. To me tats are "hi i'm an idiot" signs. \_ whereas in your case you'd need to open your mouth for people to know that. -tom \_ Heh, that's pretty funny. You are rough company, Mr. Holub. \_ Whereas tom always makes sure to announce it loud and clear. \_ hey, who got the saarp brain [sic] transplant? -tom |
2006/3/3-6 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:42086 Activity:high |
3/3 Has the CSUA considered asking alumni to ccme back and give talks about the cool stuff they are doing? I'm thinking of bz (Cyan), maybe aubie (Pixar)... I'm sure there are plenty of others I'm forgetting (no offense intended). Twohey, lea, myself and others could talk about grad school. Brg could too, but I don't know if you would want that. I bet mconst could put on some kind of freaky variety show (he'll solve an open math problem, patch a critical kernel bug, then kick your ass at any video game in existence). There are distance issues involved for some folks, but if they were asked (well, if I was asked) I bet people would make an effort. I think this could be a huge draw, and take advantage of one of the CSUA's core strengths. I'll leave you with the opening to a talk I was writing for UCB undergrads about going to grad school: "This talk is either going to suck donkey balls, or rock you like an exam written by Hilfinger _and_ Garcia. And I just came from the Super-DC, where they are FRESH OUT OF DONKEY BALLS. As Yoda says, there is no try, only do." -jhs \_ I brought in a guy from work to talk about election security. It was a facinating talk, but, of course, almost no one showed up. -jrleek \_ There hasn't ever been anything resembling serious election security in this country. Probably not in most others either. \_ Umm, no duh? So we can't have a talk on it? -jrleek \_ Of course, but it's such an obscure topic for most \- vertex algebras is an obscure topic. election security is hardly obscure. people, especially the politically unaware freshmen that I'm not surprised it wasn't well attended. Do you think most people are aware elections have been rigged since forever? Most people don't even vote so why would they care if an election is manipulated or not? \_ Well, this was primarily about electronic voting. \_ Erm, isn't that sort of part of the purpose of a university, to expose you to obscure topics? -John \_ No. You're supposed to get a 'higher education' which isn't necessarily the same thing. Anyway, even if it was the point, attending a side lecture or talk like this, no matter how interesting or educational, is still voluntary. How many times were you in class when a prof went off on some side topic and someone asked, "will this be on the exam?" Thus, few people attended something that may have been quite interesting and educational. It wasn't on the midterm. \_ Of course it's voluntary. But let's face it, you could, theoretically, learn all the crap you get from a university from books. I don't know about you, but the most valuable thing I got out of Cal was the sum total of exposure to ideas and people that I would not otherwise have had access to. I think "will this be on the exam" is one of the saddest questions imaginable. -John \_ Of course it is. However Cal probably isn't the best choice for people looking for a classical liberal arts education. After the various admissions and self filtering that goes on to create a freshman class, plus the environment once you get here there isn't a lot of room for that sort of thing. Thus, you get a high percentage of people who won't attend what was probably an interesting, yet entirely voluntary/no credit talk. \_ Why not? I don't know about nowadays, but course catalog when I attended (92-96, to be honest) was jam packed with interesting, esoteric stuff. I had a lot of amazing profs _and_ good TAs, as well as contact with some really funky, smart people who enjoyed attending "interesting", voluntary talks. Same university? -John \_ You're either smart and cynical or just plain dumb. It makes me glad I devoted time and effort to fucking with your kind when they were my peers in classes or students in classes I TAed. -dans \_ Ok since you can't even figure out what "kind" I am.... I'm just glad I was here today to give you the opportunity to post how smart you are and how you abused other people in class. Whatever. I don't know what button of yours I hit with my harmless reply to John, but your response is... interesting. \_ This isn't about smart or dumb. It's about your assertion that the purpose of attending university is to get a `higher education' (whatever that means), a view that I hold to be either cynical and shortsighted or outright stupid. Individuals who approach university classrooms with your attitude water down the university experience for everyone. Every time some selfish or stupid twit asks ``Will this be on the midterm,'' it takes away from class time that could be spent *gasp* learning. Thus, I view it as a duty to encourage others to move away from a fundamentally parasitic and harmful attitude toward the university experience, if necessary, by beating it out of them. Cheers. -dans \_ Unfortunately you didn't do as well in reading comp as you did in nastiness and self righteousness. Go re-read and try again. \_ Unfortunately your composition skills, appear grossly inferior to your apparent selfishness and defensiveness. In particular, your capacity to clearly express your views deserves as C+ at best. Back to English 1A with you. It saddens me that you think it is nasty when people call attention to the, in this case ugly, truth of your words. -dans \_ *laugh* "I know you are but what am I?" You're so funny. \_ I'm someone who has the conviction to sign my name and stand behind my words. Who are you? -dans \_ I don't play that game. You can deal with what I say, who I am is not important. If you can't deal, don't. I don't care and didn't ask you to throw your over wrought spew on the thread in the first place. You chose to join a thread and respond to an anonymous person. No one forced you. \_ Eh. -dans \_ You say I don't understand what you wrote. I say you're backpedalling because your words express a cynical and selfish attitude, and I called you on it. We can't both be right. Personally, I throw my hat in with the guy who signs hist name, but I'm biased. -dans \_ You're an idiot. -gwb \_ No, Mr. President, what you meant to say was ``Fuck off'' -rbc \_ I'll explain slowly for you: I have no reason to backpedal anything. I'm somewhat anonymous, this is only the motd, \_ If it's ``only the motd,'' why do you care so much about your anonymity? -dans \_ Meow! any intelligent person who reads English can understand what I said, \_ I disagree with this assertion. -dans \_ MeOW! I never took back a single word of it, and \_ I disagree with this assertion. -dans \_ meOW! signing your name only means you like seeing your name in lights. \_ If you believe this ridiculous idea, it directly contradicts your statement that ``it's only the motd.'' -dans \_ mEOw! I wouldn't take the signed over the unsigned. I would actually read what two people actually said and decide from that alone who was correct and to what degree. Their name status carries no weight. Again, you \_ Your arguments in this thread are, imprecise, sloppily worded, and, based on some readings, logically flawed. You use the resulting lack of clarity as an excuse to justify backpedalling, and then assert that ``any intelligent person who reads English can understand what [you] said.'' \_ MeOw! voluntarily responded to an anon person. Why bother if you automatically dismiss them on that basic \_ [sic] \_ MEOW! alone? \_ Heh. I *broke* the ASUC election system the first year it was computerized. As in I produced a demonstrably working exploit. I then took my findings to the elections chair and worked with him to secure against my exploit and other avenues of attack. I spoke about this at DefCon and Computers Freedom and Privacy in 2004. The following year the election technical lead didn't test the old code until the eve of the elections, and I led the team that wrote a superior replacement in under 8 hours. If you include time to recruit the team members, it took approx. 12 hours from start to rollout. Last I checked, this code was still in use, albeit with some modifications by OCF members. If folks \_ Oh shit. --team member would like, I'd be happy to do a talk on this. If you time it at the beginning of the ASUC election campaign season and flyer on south side, it would probably be a great way to bring in more members that don't have traditional computing backgrounds. If current CSUA members want to see this happen, email me. -dans \_ I probably would have attended. I think what you need to do is get people excited somehow, and then make sure that the talk delivers (see, for example, the series of talks by Brewer, Karp, etc, last year). The CSUA needs positive buzz. In my mind this means more than flyering - it means people going into classes and being _enthusiastic_ about what they are selling. Does current pburo have the mental energy to pull this off? Not meant as offensive. Also, as alumni, I could be wrong, full of shit, or both. -jhs |
2006/3/3-6 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:42087 Activity:nil |
3/3 "Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday...the level of extra-judicial executions and torture is soaring, and morgue workers are being threatened by both government-backed militia and insurgents not to properly investigate deaths." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_human_rights \_ Sure, but the American People Are Safer (TM) \_ Shiites have the FREEDOM to form their own death squads |
2006/3/3-4 [Uncategorized] UID:42088 Activity:nil |
3/3 If I change my nis client to have a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 from 255.255.255.0, it can no longer connect (broadcast mode) to the nisserver with netmask of 255.255.255.0. Would I have the same problem in reverse? (i.e. if I changed the subnetmask of my NIS SERVER to be 255.255.0.0, would clients with netmasks of 255.255.255.0 not be able to connect?) \_obLDAP \_ You need to learn about broadcast domains and VLANs. The short answer is yes, probably. -ausman |
2006/3/3-6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:42089 Activity:high |
3/3 http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/03/cunningham.sentence.ap Take a bribe for $2 mil for only 10 years in prison. That's still over 2X the amount I make a year as an engineer and 1.5X the amount average Harvard MBAs make. Moral of the story: it's ok to take a bribe as long as the amount is big enough, because it pays off. \_ You think being in prison, even a country club prison, for 10 years is worth it? I'll take my freedom thanks. The price for freedom is way higher than 2x your salary. \_ Seriously. this douchebag op thinks prison can't be any harder than a day away from his computer, and actually doesn't realize how he'd likely die within one week, literally, of prison life. people the likes of us on the motd don't last long in prison. \_ My old CS250 TA did a year in county lock-up. It wasn't fun, but he survived ok. He's a really sweet guy too. \_ Did you read the article? First off, it's all in gifts, it's not like they just handed him $2.4mil. Two, he probably doesn't get to keep the stuff. Three, he's old and in poor health. I don't think I'd take $2mil to die in prison. \_ He's also probably going to face a big fine as well. An earlier version of that article claimed $1.6M, but the current article on CNN doesn't say.... \_ He's also probably going to face a big fine as well. According to Yahoo News, he was ordered to pay $1.8M and return $1.85M in valuables. I'm inclined to think that this contradicts the "Moral of the story" you've asserted, OP. \_ He doesn't get to keep it. In fact, it's being auctioned off. http://www.treas.gov/auctions/customs/p030206.html He got 100 months, btw. (8y4m) In sheer dollar amounts, his is the largest set of bribes discovered in the history of the house. \_ I don't buy this crap about being the largest set of bribes. Surely the money Bush or Cheney personally gained from the Iraq war would make this seems like pocket change. \_ Perhaps they mean the largest in the sense of "the largest where there's been a conviction". \_ How much did they each make? \_ I'm glad you think rich people conspire "illegal" ways to get richer. |
2006/3/3-6 [Industry/Startup] UID:42090 Activity:moderate |
3/3 Do you expect your immediate manager to support you/your department even if it's to the detriment of the company? As a manager, should you support your department/staff even when it's to the detriment of the company? If your manager doesn't stand up for you then who will? On the other hand, being a good manager means doing what's best for the company. I'm just curious what others think. Imagine, for instance, that a department is asked to layoff 50% of its employees and outsource that work to India to save the company money. As the manager, do you fight for your employees or not? As an employee, what do you expect your manager to do? \_ IMO: There is no such thing as "the company" for non-trivial sized companies. There is me, my subordinates, my immediate superior in my group and that's it. The sales and marketing team sure as hell isn't going to take a hit so you can get a raise or hire more engineers so you don't have to work 16 hour days. Your manager should fight like a rabid grizzly to save his team. If he isn't there for his staff he isn't doing anything. If there were rumored layoffs coming and I got the slightest hint my manager was going to do anything but fight his ass off for us, I'd immediately post my resume to get a jump on things, so should you. There is no such thing as "the company" to which anyone owes any loyalty. There is the CEO who is going to get a multi hundred million dollar kiss off for killing the company, the rest of the execs who will get around 50-100 million, the lower level execs who might get 2-5 million and everyone else who is getting the shaft when shit hits the fan. \_ So you expect your manager to fight for his subordinates even when the "right" thing to do is clearly accept the recommendation from upper management? What if it's something like relocation and not a layoff? Or what if it concerns salaries/benefits? I mean, I think there is some point where fighting the good fight works against the manager's career, or where the employees can clearly see that a decision is a good one even if it hurts them, no? The question is whether a manager should protect his employees against better judgement and whether employees expect him to. \_ I don't expect him to fall on his sword. I do expect him to put up a good fight or if his group is clearly doomed to have the balls to let them know enough in advance to find another job before the axe drops. If the group goes, but the manager is staying, that's BS. Relocations: some people actually would want one. They aren't necessarily a bad thing if the company is covering the costs and some extra for hassle. Salary/benefits: don't touch my salary/benefits. I accepted a certain offer. The number of cases where staff taking a cut at a tech-oriented company has saved the company is so slim that I can't actually recall any but I'll grant there are probably some. When staff takes a cut, execs never do. You refer a few times to various people's better judgement and what is "right". As determined by who? A corporation is nothing but a large pile of negotiated agreements between the managers, staff, execs, vendors, buyers, and a ton of other people to agree to perform a set of distinct tasks which will provide some service or product. The key phrase here is "distinct tasks". I was hired to perform some set of tasks in exchange for compensation for my time, skills, etc. If I don't get that compensation then why would I perform the tasks? The manager is hired to keep his group as a whole coordinated performing some larger tasks as part of the greater whole. If he lets his group get destroyed why does he still have a job? As far as the general theme of 'greater wisdom coming from on-high': no such animal. They're just people. Some of them might actually know what they're doing and be able to perform their duties better than you could but most are just there because they went to the right schools, were raised in the right families or kissed the right asses for long enough. \_ You are thinking too hard. Imagine, say, you are the manager of the telegraph portion of Western Union. manager of the telegraph portion of the Soviet Union. Management tells you they are going to stop offering that service (which really happened). You haven't had much business, so you know it's a smart thing to do. However, there are some old-time employees who were hired for that particular task and can't transfer somewhere else. You know they will be screwed. Do you argue in favor of telegrams and their value to society and the company or do you work with management to eliminate the department? What about implementing some sort of automation which will vastly shrink your department by spending a lot of money on hardware instead of employees (think auto manufacturers)? Do you fight for your employees or implement the procedure that saves costs? That's what I mean by "right". Sometimes the right decision is obvious. You hire 12 people anticipating lots of business. You have work enough for 2. The right thing is to let 10 go. Do you tell senior management that or do you hold onto your fiefdom for not really your sake, but for the sake of others? From a management perspective it seems obvious, but I am curious what employees think their managers should do "for them" as a "good manager". \_ If you're my manager in a 12-person group with work for two people, and I'm not one of your top two, let me go. You're not doing me any favors by keeping me on when I might be able to get a more interesting job elsewhere, and you're harming your own interests as well. The best thing you can do is look to transfer your extra employees internally or, failing that, arrange for them to get a good send-off (a comp package would be nice) and offer to be a reference. -gm \_ Post "acquisition", I was asked to try to keep my group together. My take on the situation was that most of my group would be let go after the transition period. I didn't make a scene, but I left the company pretty quickly. But that's just me. I fully expected the people I worked for to screw everyone in their path. \_ Asked by who to keep the group together? \_ "It depends". That can be a really tough call for even a good, ethical, loyal and intelligent manager to make under many circumstances. Helpful, huh? -John |
2006/3/3-6 [Reference/Law/Court, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:42091 Activity:nil |
3/3 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-palomares3mar03,0,7560875.story "While this story sounds like a script from 'The Shield' or 'Training Day,' it actually happened." \_ What's a "civilian custodial officer"? |
2006/3/3-6 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:42092 Activity:nil |
3/3 Google/yahoo map question. I have N different addresses. I want to be able to display all of them on either google or yahoo maps at the same time. I want to see the distances relative to each other. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this without using the underlying google/yahoo API. I don't want to write code just to do this simple task. Are there any third party sites that link to google maps that can do this? Thanks. \_ http://mapsonus.com and http://maps.ask.com will both do that, but I don't think they link to google maps (though ask's roughly as good these days) --dbushong \_ yes! http://maps.ask.com does exactly what I need. Thank You very much! |
2006/3/3-6 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:42093 Activity:nil |
3/3 In Java, I know how to put a JAR in my classpath, and I know if I include a native library in my current working directory, it can be loaded through JNI. I have a JAR which contains some native libraries and I'm wondering if there's any way I can jet the JVM load foolib-native.jar so that it can find the native libraries inside without needing to expand the JAR on installation. |
2006/3/3-6 [Reference/RealEstate, Finance/Investment] UID:42094 Activity:nil |
3/3 ARMS and Subprime mortages increasing to record levels. %ARMS %subprime 2003 28% 9.9% 2004 48% 22.2% 2005 47% 24.3% http://tinyurl.com/ntg84 (wsj) In same link, greenback will fall 20% if OPEC switches crude currency to basket (US$, EURO, Yen, pound). \_ I guess we'll have to take your word for it since the link is behind a pay wall. \_ sweet! come on housing bubble!! |
2006/3/3-6 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:42095 Activity:high |
3/3 UNC low-grade terror attack http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=3958312 \_ One idiot driving his car through "a popular campus gathering spot" does not make for a terror attack, no matter why he said he did it. Otherwise, we're going to have to arrest Jodie Foster for the actions of her Army of One. \_ One person can't execute a terror attack? \_ Doesn't it seem odd to you that something that could so easily have killed several people, even by accident was non-fatal, and that the guy is now claiming to be a terrorist? It just doesn't add up. \_ You make the mistake of implying that all terrorists are rational, sane individuals. -John \_ HEIL GERMAN JOHN! \_ And you're making the mistake of assuming that there is any correlation between what the news says and reality. \_ I was about to launch into a diatribe, but then it struck me how random this comment is. -John |
7/12 |