Punctuation is there to help understand the text, not to be part of it
I'd argue that punctuation MUST be considered a part of the text, which further justifies the British style. Punctuation is an essential part of the text in those cases where the punctuation is critical to interpreting/understanding the text.
For example, the difference between "don't, stop" and "don't stop" might even be relevant to some slashdot denizens. The difference between "panda eats shoots and leaves" and "panda eats, shoots, and leaves" even motivated a whole book.
And just think of all those links to goatse-guy (and similar) that we're going to suffer through.
Never mind, we'll probably all go to jail if even one kiddie-porn link shows up in search results for regular porn...
I very much doubt that he said "Asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk 'em all." I know slashdot has incompetent editors, but you could at least get the fucking quote right.
Absolutely correct. From TFA, he actually said "F dash dash dash 'em all".
Let's hope the submitter/editor can get it right, next time.
Etruscan: Lars Porsenna
Babylonian: Hammurabi
Alas, I acquired a smattering of classical knowledge at high school (a few decades ago). Since the classics were taught the "old-fashioned" way (i.e. via sadistic brutality) this knowledge actually survived grad school in Engineering, among other things.
There is probably some off-beat religion that believes it steals their soul, like some used to believe about photography.
Isn't that one of the tenets of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
At least, the C of FSM holds that backscatter X-Ray is bad for its meatballs...
I don't have any version of IE, but do have a few browsers installed on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. FWIW, my IP resolves to somewhere in Finland. Here are the rates offered:
Opera 10.63 = 3.50% new cars, 5.09% used
Konqueror 4.4.2 = 3.50% new cars, 5.09% used
Firefox 3.6.12 = 3.10% new cars, 4.49% used
Chromium 9.0.568 = 2.70% new cars, 4.09% used
Epiphany browser 2.30.2 = 2.70% new cars, 4.09% used
Hitting refresh did not change the rates offered, even if all cookies were deleted.
v2 is compatible with the terms of the Apple App Store and pretty much any other app store out there.
Not according to the FSF.
The Apple App Store conditions are inimical to terms in GPLv2, which states explicitly: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." The Apple App Store explicitly sets such a restriction: "The Usage Rules shall govern your rights with respect to the Products, in addition to any other terms or rules that may have been established between you and another party." and requires that you accept this as a condition of using the App Store. It also lists various GPLv2-violating restrictions in its Usage Rules, such as limiting use of a product to five Apple-authorized devices. http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
How do you suggest getting back without getting felt-up by TSA droogs in Hawaii?
Swimming to Kiribati or the Marshall Islands before getting on a plane sounds a little extreme (Johnston Atoll is closer at only 1300km from Honolulu, but it belongs to the US).
most probably had no fucking clue what was being asked
I suspect you got that right. They would not realize that the "kill switch" probably (i) would cut the US from the internet, but leave the rest of the world largely connected, (ii) would have to disconnect US segments from one another, because a cyberattack would be hosted as much inside the US as outside, (iii) would severely hamper communication inside the US and between the US and the rest of the world, leaving official propaganda supreme in the US, (iv) would cripple commerce and logistics inside the US, but not so much in the rest of the world. And so forth.
Of course, many people may have thought that the "kill switch" would take down the internet in specific evil places outside the US, while leaving it intact in the US and nice friendly countries. If such a thing were possible, you can be sure that the nasty places will also have the same capability, which would render it useless to a US president, since the US is probably more vulnerable to economic, social, and political disruption by loss of internet communication than most other countries.
Unlikely, unless it's one of the pre-production demo models. The Archos 43 is not yet available, and online retailers indicate 8 November as the earliest possible date for shipments. Of course, a few weeks ago, I was promised by Archos sales via email that they'd definitely be shipping in mid-October. C'est la vie.
But Archos 43 doesn't come with the Market app. So now how do I use the Market?
Somehow, I'd rather see politicians appear on the "Penn and Teller: Bullshit!" series than on Mythbusters. Penn and Teller often deal with issues that politicians could address, if they were so inclined. Several politicians and bureaucrats have been on the show, mostly promoting ludicrous stupidity, but occasionally being almost sensible.
"They had an idea of how the gun would change the head of that person but that does not make them responsible for what the gun did."
That's perhaps the stupidest and least relevant attempt at analogy that I've encountered here (against pretty stiff competition, too).
A less-dreadful analogy with guns would be "They knew the hunters were incompetent, so they pointed at the hunters' feet said 'Look, moose!'" Now they may deserve a mild rebuke for confusing the imbeciles, but it's the idiots who pulled the trigger who are responsible for shooting their own feet. In other words, it was the mechanical algorithm's fault, or more correctly the fault of those who authorized it to act on their behalf in such a way.
So these guys figured out how to second-guess somebody's trading algorithm. How in hell is that a crime?
Many mechanical trading algorithms are also trying to second-guess the actions of other market participants in order to make a profit. These guys just did the same, apparently in cases where the trades made by a particular mechanical algorithm would be big enough to move the market themselves.
Mechanical trading algorithms are either fair game, or preferably, should be illegal. If mechanical trading algorithms are legal, then what these men did should definitely not be illegal.
Not monitoring anything isn't good parenting either.
Monitoring should not be equated with controlling. If you don't attempt to micro-manage your kids' lives, they'll have less motivation to conceal stuff from you. And that means that you'll be better-informed about your kids, their classmates and other buddies, and their activities (naughty as well as nice). You'll also be more likely to know when intervention is needed - before disaster strikes - and your advice is more likely to be heeded if it's given sparingly but clearly.
Our teenage daughter is actually not a problem at home, and is fairly laid-back and open with us. Some of her class-mates, however, have rather fraught relationships with their parents (mostly control freaks or religious zealots). Those are also disproportionately the kids who seem headed for problems with society, or have already achieved that status. The kids whose parents are more tolerant seem to get along much better with adults - and with each other.
Or maybe he is Hindu, which would make more sense.
Or celtic. It looks a bit more like the celtic 3-armed swastika than the hindu 4-armed version. At least, it looks that way if I drink enough poteen...
On a side note, did any culture make a 5-armed version?
There are already so many different places to get news from with such a variety of bias from all sides (and, on rare occasion, from no side), I see no reason to actually pay for news online.
The only site where I cross a paywall is the one where I subscribe to the physical news magazine, and thus don't have to pay extra (The Economist). Most of its articles are free online, anyway, and magazine subscribers just get a bit more than non-subscribers. I pay for the magazine because I enjoy reading their intelligent and well-written analyses. Usually, I read it almost cover to cover (skipping some ads), since it's utterly free from horoscopes, sports, celebrity gossip, self-help advice, etc.
Yes, and will continue to do so. A signed document sent by FAX has higher legal status than (i) the same signed document scanned and sent by email, and (ii) an email with an electronic signature. Also it's much easier and faster to send an annotated hardcopy by FAX than to scan it and then send by email (think of concept sketches or marked-up engineering drawings for which a CAD file or CAD program is not readily available).
I guess you're not actually operating any kind of business from that basement...
Half the people I know (mainly younger) don't have land lines.
Not just young people. We stopped having a land line about 8 years ago - cell phone service became so cheap. Everyone in the family has their own cellphone (cost each: euro0.67 per month, euro0.07 per minute/SMS http://www.dna.fi/en/privatecustomers/mobilecommunication/Subscriptions/Sivut/dnaOnni.aspx). My teenage daughter's phone service was recently upgraded to have 384kbps data (cost: euro2.95 per month, no capacity limit, http://www.dna.fi/webshop/Sivut/Default.aspx). The combined monthly bill for the 4 phones rarely exceeds euro12, unless one of us is travelling abroad.
When our company moved office a few years ago, we also abandoned fixed telephone lines for several hundred employees. Everyone already had a company cellphone, so it was a clearly avoidable cost in furnishing the new offices. Now just reception and a few FAX machines have land lines.
Just last year I explained all this Internet privacy concern to my father. I don't think he liked what he learned. Sometimes I really do wish I were just another one of the happy-go-lucky sheeple, because, given the state of the world, "being aware" is just so damn depressing.
There's this choice... "if you had to choose, would you rather be smart or happy?" After having given that some thought, I'm convinced smarts has a negative impact on happiness.:-(
Perhaps, but the bliss of the ignorant will endure only as long as there are enough smart and educated people resisting the many tendencies to drive everyone into servitude and constraint.
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." - J.F.Kennedy, 18 May 1963.
Liberty and learning go hand-in-hand. Separate them, and you lose both.
My oversight.
New/old routers have WiFi which is/was enabled, albeit with MAC filtering and WPA2 (the old one had WPA). The Google Streetview camera car has been through the area last year, so they should have harvested the router's MAC address. Hell, one of our cars is fairly distinctive and appears to be in one of the online images on Streetview.
Well, I entered my router's MAC just for giggles, and it said "Sorry, didn't find anything". This router has been continuously connected with a fixed public IP address for over a year.
Then I entered my previous router's MAC, and got the same result. The previous router is in storage in the attic, but was in use with very few brief breaks for about 6 years. Also with a fixed public IP address.
Clearly, their MAC geolocation database has a teeny hole - or more likely loads of vast gaping chasms.
I don't care what sort of drivel or ads they put in with search results for my name. Anyone with an ounce of sense would mentally filter the results, disregarding all such irrelevancies.
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Punctuation is there to help understand the text, not to be part of it
I'd argue that punctuation MUST be considered a part of the text, which further justifies the British style. Punctuation is an essential part of the text in those cases where the punctuation is critical to interpreting/understanding the text.
For example, the difference between "don't, stop" and "don't stop" might even be relevant to some slashdot denizens. The difference between "panda eats shoots and leaves" and "panda eats, shoots, and leaves" even motivated a whole book.
YAY! Preview-porn is best-porn!
And just think of all those links to goatse-guy (and similar) that we're going to suffer through.
Never mind, we'll probably all go to jail if even one kiddie-porn link shows up in search results for regular porn...
'**** 'em all,' Braun told Xbiz.
I very much doubt that he said "Asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk 'em all." I know slashdot has incompetent editors, but you could at least get the fucking quote right.
Absolutely correct. From TFA, he actually said "F dash dash dash 'em all".
Let's hope the submitter/editor can get it right, next time.
try to name one Etruscan or one Babylonian
Etruscan: Lars Porsenna
Babylonian: Hammurabi
Alas, I acquired a smattering of classical knowledge at high school (a few decades ago). Since the classics were taught the "old-fashioned" way (i.e. via sadistic brutality) this knowledge actually survived grad school in Engineering, among other things.
There is probably some off-beat religion that believes it steals their soul, like some used to believe about photography.
Isn't that one of the tenets of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
At least, the C of FSM holds that backscatter X-Ray is bad for its meatballs...
I don't have any version of IE, but do have a few browsers installed on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. FWIW, my IP resolves to somewhere in Finland. Here are the rates offered:
Opera 10.63 = 3.50% new cars, 5.09% used
Konqueror 4.4.2 = 3.50% new cars, 5.09% used
Firefox 3.6.12 = 3.10% new cars, 4.49% used
Chromium 9.0.568 = 2.70% new cars, 4.09% used
Epiphany browser 2.30.2 = 2.70% new cars, 4.09% used
Hitting refresh did not change the rates offered, even if all cookies were deleted.
v2 is compatible with the terms of the Apple App Store and pretty much any other app store out there.
Not according to the FSF.
The Apple App Store conditions are inimical to terms in GPLv2, which states explicitly: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." The Apple App Store explicitly sets such a restriction: "The Usage Rules shall govern your rights with respect to the Products, in addition to any other terms or rules that may have been established between you and another party." and requires that you accept this as a condition of using the App Store. It also lists various GPLv2-violating restrictions in its Usage Rules, such as limiting use of a product to five Apple-authorized devices.
http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
have fun in Hawaii
Travel to Canada by train/car, fly from there.
How do you suggest getting back without getting felt-up by TSA droogs in Hawaii?
Swimming to Kiribati or the Marshall Islands before getting on a plane sounds a little extreme (Johnston Atoll is closer at only 1300km from Honolulu, but it belongs to the US).
You wonder what is going on in the United States, their legal system appears to be pretty much broken.
Generally broken, but working flawlessly when it's being actively malevolent, as apparently in this case.
most probably had no fucking clue what was being asked
I suspect you got that right. They would not realize that the "kill switch" probably (i) would cut the US from the internet, but leave the rest of the world largely connected, (ii) would have to disconnect US segments from one another, because a cyberattack would be hosted as much inside the US as outside, (iii) would severely hamper communication inside the US and between the US and the rest of the world, leaving official propaganda supreme in the US, (iv) would cripple commerce and logistics inside the US, but not so much in the rest of the world. And so forth.
Of course, many people may have thought that the "kill switch" would take down the internet in specific evil places outside the US, while leaving it intact in the US and nice friendly countries. If such a thing were possible, you can be sure that the nasty places will also have the same capability, which would render it useless to a US president, since the US is probably more vulnerable to economic, social, and political disruption by loss of internet communication than most other countries.
Say I have an Archos 43
Unlikely, unless it's one of the pre-production demo models. The Archos 43 is not yet available, and online retailers indicate 8 November as the earliest possible date for shipments. Of course, a few weeks ago, I was promised by Archos sales via email that they'd definitely be shipping in mid-October. C'est la vie.
But Archos 43 doesn't come with the Market app. So now how do I use the Market?
Well, when you eventually do get that Archos 43, you could download gApps4Archos.apk and install it, following instructions such as http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=38186
Open textbooks for freshmen level classes should be possible
There are free/open textbooks in mathematics, at least at the fresher level. Here are a few:
http://www.lightandmatter.com/calc/calc.pdf some physics books are at the same site
ftp://joshua.smcvt.edu/pub/hefferon/book/book.pdf
http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~stroyan/InfsmlCalculus/FoundInfsmlCalc.pdf
http://www.mecmath.net/calc3book.pdf
http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/mauch-applied_math/applied_math.pdf
LaTeX source is available for some of them. These books mostly bridge from high school calculus to first year college vector calculus (the last one goes a bit further), but may not be aligned with a particular professor's path through the topics. There are various others at high school level, and quite a few in specialized/advanced areas, but not so many at the undergrad level. It's worth browsing through the categories at http://planetmath.org/?op=mscbrowse&from=books for slightly more advanced topics.
Somehow, I'd rather see politicians appear on the "Penn and Teller: Bullshit!" series than on Mythbusters. Penn and Teller often deal with issues that politicians could address, if they were so inclined. Several politicians and bureaucrats have been on the show, mostly promoting ludicrous stupidity, but occasionally being almost sensible.
"They had an idea of how the gun would change the head of that person but that does not make them responsible for what the gun did."
That's perhaps the stupidest and least relevant attempt at analogy that I've encountered here (against pretty stiff competition, too).
A less-dreadful analogy with guns would be "They knew the hunters were incompetent, so they pointed at the hunters' feet said 'Look, moose!'" Now they may deserve a mild rebuke for confusing the imbeciles, but it's the idiots who pulled the trigger who are responsible for shooting their own feet. In other words, it was the mechanical algorithm's fault, or more correctly the fault of those who authorized it to act on their behalf in such a way.
Oh, here's a Dilbert for you http://www.dilbert.com/2010-10-11
So these guys figured out how to second-guess somebody's trading algorithm. How in hell is that a crime?
Many mechanical trading algorithms are also trying to second-guess the actions of other market participants in order to make a profit. These guys just did the same, apparently in cases where the trades made by a particular mechanical algorithm would be big enough to move the market themselves.
Mechanical trading algorithms are either fair game, or preferably, should be illegal. If mechanical trading algorithms are legal, then what these men did should definitely not be illegal.
It's me.
We all know it's that Anonymous Coward person. Must be a shill for an entire organization of spooks...
Not monitoring anything isn't good parenting either.
Monitoring should not be equated with controlling. If you don't attempt to micro-manage your kids' lives, they'll have less motivation to conceal stuff from you. And that means that you'll be better-informed about your kids, their classmates and other buddies, and their activities (naughty as well as nice). You'll also be more likely to know when intervention is needed - before disaster strikes - and your advice is more likely to be heeded if it's given sparingly but clearly.
Our teenage daughter is actually not a problem at home, and is fairly laid-back and open with us. Some of her class-mates, however, have rather fraught relationships with their parents (mostly control freaks or religious zealots). Those are also disproportionately the kids who seem headed for problems with society, or have already achieved that status. The kids whose parents are more tolerant seem to get along much better with adults - and with each other.
Or maybe he is Hindu, which would make more sense.
Or celtic. It looks a bit more like the celtic 3-armed swastika than the hindu 4-armed version. At least, it looks that way if I drink enough poteen...
On a side note, did any culture make a 5-armed version?
There are already so many different places to get news from with such a variety of bias from all sides (and, on rare occasion, from no side), I see no reason to actually pay for news online.
The only site where I cross a paywall is the one where I subscribe to the physical news magazine, and thus don't have to pay extra (The Economist). Most of its articles are free online, anyway, and magazine subscribers just get a bit more than non-subscribers. I pay for the magazine because I enjoy reading their intelligent and well-written analyses. Usually, I read it almost cover to cover (skipping some ads), since it's utterly free from horoscopes, sports, celebrity gossip, self-help advice, etc.
You are still using faxes?
Yes, and will continue to do so. A signed document sent by FAX has higher legal status than (i) the same signed document scanned and sent by email, and (ii) an email with an electronic signature. Also it's much easier and faster to send an annotated hardcopy by FAX than to scan it and then send by email (think of concept sketches or marked-up engineering drawings for which a CAD file or CAD program is not readily available).
I guess you're not actually operating any kind of business from that basement...
Half the people I know (mainly younger) don't have land lines.
Not just young people. We stopped having a land line about 8 years ago - cell phone service became so cheap. Everyone in the family has their own cellphone (cost each: euro0.67 per month, euro0.07 per minute/SMS http://www.dna.fi/en/privatecustomers/mobilecommunication/Subscriptions/Sivut/dnaOnni.aspx). My teenage daughter's phone service was recently upgraded to have 384kbps data (cost: euro2.95 per month, no capacity limit, http://www.dna.fi/webshop/Sivut/Default.aspx). The combined monthly bill for the 4 phones rarely exceeds euro12, unless one of us is travelling abroad.
When our company moved office a few years ago, we also abandoned fixed telephone lines for several hundred employees. Everyone already had a company cellphone, so it was a clearly avoidable cost in furnishing the new offices. Now just reception and a few FAX machines have land lines.
Just last year I explained all this Internet privacy concern to my father. I don't think he liked what he learned. Sometimes I really do wish I were just another one of the happy-go-lucky sheeple, because, given the state of the world, "being aware" is just so damn depressing. ... "if you had to choose, would you rather be smart or happy?" After having given that some thought, I'm convinced smarts has a negative impact on happiness. :-(
There's this choice
Perhaps, but the bliss of the ignorant will endure only as long as there are enough smart and educated people resisting the many tendencies to drive everyone into servitude and constraint.
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." - J.F.Kennedy, 18 May 1963.
Liberty and learning go hand-in-hand. Separate them, and you lose both.
You didn't state if your routers have WiFi.
My oversight.
New/old routers have WiFi which is/was enabled, albeit with MAC filtering and WPA2 (the old one had WPA). The Google Streetview camera car has been through the area last year, so they should have harvested the router's MAC address. Hell, one of our cars is fairly distinctive and appears to be in one of the online images on Streetview.
Well, I entered my router's MAC just for giggles, and it said "Sorry, didn't find anything". This router has been continuously connected with a fixed public IP address for over a year.
Then I entered my previous router's MAC, and got the same result. The previous router is in storage in the attic, but was in use with very few brief breaks for about 6 years. Also with a fixed public IP address.
Clearly, their MAC geolocation database has a teeny hole - or more likely loads of vast gaping chasms.
I don't care what sort of drivel or ads they put in with search results for my name. Anyone with an ounce of sense would mentally filter the results, disregarding all such irrelevancies.