I don't think anyone is accusing Australian government agencies of exercising common sense at this point. The UK is like USA Part 2: The Less Rights Version, and Australia is like UK Part 2: Even Less Rights.
They weren't just burning a yellow ribbon. They were burning someone else's yellow ribbon, and they threw it at the stage where a veteran was standing. They were subsequently arrested for arson and assault - nothing regarding their free speech or expression.
The end result is an invisibility cloak that can perfectly hide a 3×0.4-inch (7.5x1cm) cylinder from microwave radiation.
Isn't this basically where they've been with this research for ages? The only new thing I can see here is that the material was cut into a diamond shape to minimize reflections.
And there goes Zappos, one of the best online retailers the Internet has to offer. Free shipping, to and from, with free returns if you don't like the color or whatever of the product you order, no limit to how many times you can return or exchange things, no questions asked. Extremely courteous customer service, and a really user-friendly website to order from.
I'm positive this will continue to be the case after they have to shell out millions to a bunch of fucking morons up in arms about "Ermagherd, I ordered from teh Zappos! Teh haxxors has mah info!!!11oneeleven!"
Congratulations on being so litigious and fucking petty that you have to SUE THEM for a security breach that probably couldn't have been reasonably avoided(no matter what you may believe, no site is 100% secure), and will likely cause you(the customer) no problems at all. Congratulations on ruining an awesome thing, in the name of "being right" or on "the principle of the thing" - whatever helps your scumbag ass sleep at night.
The police and prisons are a business. How else are they going to stay in business without putting as many people in front of a judge as possible, regardless of the validity and seriousness of their crimes?
I just want to see a little fairness. If someone is going to get in so much trouble for something so physiologically harmless as marijuana, I want to see people getting in the same amount of trouble for drinking a known toxic liquid - namely alcohol - or burning a cancer-inducing substance in public when smoking cigarettes.
The war on drugs needs to leave pot behind. Legalizing it will remove the incentive for these people to 'traffic' the stuff, the criminal systems profiting from its sale will lose great deals of money, and the government can recoup a LOT of money through proper taxation.
Life in prison for growing plants, fuck our legal system.
Marijuana resin is much like rubber resin after burning. It is incredibly sticky and easily penetrates and stains porous material. Alcohol is one of the best solvents of this stuff that I have found, and makes it almost liquid in the right proportions.
Depending on the material, it might be downright permanent if you get this stuff on it.
I think they should start the testing with the cops' houses. I'm sure after a few false hits on Officer Hardass' front lawn they will reconsider this 'tactic'.
the game developers did some seriously stupid shit
That's a bit harsh. This is something people have to rip apart and mod their console to activate. It is not something the game devs intended to be able to do in the first place.
There are a lot of useful purposes for a touch screen. The fact that you don't use them is indicative of nothing but your preference and software habits.
I beg to differ. There are literally HUNREDS of Point-of-Sale programs, all of which work faster with touch screens than with a keyboard and mouse. There is also the learning industry, where disabled or young children can interact with relatively advanced digital technology.
There are fields like testing, interactive advertising, surveying(polling), etc where it's easier to have a 'kiosk' style desktop touch screen computer than to have someone sit down at a keyboard and mouse. They also nicely limit the amount of input a user can provide, and if set up correctly can prevent unauthorized access to parts of the computer system deemed 'off-limits'.
There are also fields such as 3D Design and Human-Computer Interaction that make excellent use of this additional means of control, both on its own and alongside traditional keyboard/mouse setups.
Next time, maybe you should think before you just wildly claim that technology doesn't make sense for a vast market of which you are a minute part.
"People want to be lazy" is your defense for his nonsense?
I don't mind vertical touch screens at all. The fact is, the touch features aren't how I primarily use the screen - I use a normal mouse and keyboard far more. I also point to the fact that MANY people have 'stand cases' for their 'lay-flat' tablets, to make them just that: Vertical! If Apple could un-suck their touch keyboard, it might be a viable way to enter lots of text. Until that time, almost everyone I see using one has some sort of keyboard dock/stand, etc That said, there is no reason that this tablet would HAVE to be used as a vertical screen. It's a tablet, and can be laid flat as easily as an iPad or any other tablet.
The (vertical) touch screen on my computer is useful if I want to do something more artistic(photoshop brushes, etc), or interact with buttons faster than with a mouse. It also allows me to use my off-hand to accurately and quickly click or drag things which I don't want to try to switch-hit with my mouse to click. I also like being able to move the camera on Maya with the touchscreen, while still editing the model with my mouse. It's just more control, and there is no one right way to use it.
What? It's $150 including a case with a keyboard in it. I don't think any tablets worth their parts come close to as low-cost as that. Are you somehow implying that it isn't as good because it doesn't cost the $700 that the trendy-but-extremely-useless iPads do for the same power?
Let's also consider that there are plans for another, larger version of the Surface tablet which will run regular x86 software compatible with Windows, which just hasn't been released yet.
WTF do you think the "I'm a Mac I'm a PC" ads were all about?
Launching an incredibly annoying preppy hipster trend at colleges all across the country, making morons that don't know how to use a computer(and therefore use a Mac) feel superior to smarter people, and inducting a bunch of stupid sheeple into the 'cult of Mac'.
I don't know what the problem is, when I was 7 I was pretty good at setting up PCs as well. I actually made a fair bit of spare cash doing it for friends and neighbors.
By Apple's assumptive logic, that means that Apple is against the free market and fair competition.
I think the misconception here is that Microsoft has done anything wrong.
All they did was include only IE preinstalled on their OS. Somehow that is lawsuit-worthy? Do I see Apple shipping computers with Firefox or IE on them? Of course not. Each brand of OS manufacturer is going to include their own browser. It's not as if MS was PREVENTING someone from installing a competing browser, it just wasn't included with their own branded software pack.
I think the EU regulators are the ones who need to lay off the crack pipe and realize exactly what they're doing - which should be clearly defined as EXTORTION if you look up the definition.
If they're only asking for a total of ~2400$NZ it would probably be less to just settle the case than to go through the whole trial and legal nonsense of it. Compared to the ~7,000,000$US that some cases over here have demanded of people for the same offense, it's a pretty good deal for getting busted when you pirate music.
How about ANY punishment at all for businesses that break this law? Isn't that how laws are supposed to work? You break them, you do the time?
Right now, they don't even bother with half the complaints they get, and there's no solid procedure for reporting violators. Do they really expect anyone who is put-out by these calls to sue the company themselves for harassment?
Cool, I'll take that $50k in cash, check, or money order, anytime...
You'd also better make sure you're trying to punish them for a real crime, and the right crime. What this guy did was sleazy, and to an extent illegal, but it was not rape, it was not murder, it was not assisted suicide, it was just plain pedo-bear skeezyness.
Try the dude for possession of child pornography, try the dude for coercing a minor, do what you have to do. Do NOT try to make this a whole schpiel about "Oh no, cyber bullies!" or try to charge this guy for her death in any way. Even if he is entirely responsible for the picture and its distribution, he did not kill this girl, she chose to take the easy way out and just say "I give up". That's not his fault.
Showing her tatas online was nobody's choice but her own, and she certainly wasn't 'forced' to do anything of the sort. The most someone on a webcam can do is ask. If you don't want to do it, then don't. End the chat. Call Chris Hanson. Whatever.
Unfortunately it looks like she couldn't live with the results of her bad decision. I feel zero sympathy for this girl.
It's not even that. She didn't have sex with anyone, and she wasn't 'forced' to do anything.
she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam.
"Lured" to show her breasts? Come the fuck on. She CHOSE to show her tatas to some guy online. She doesn't have the option to later say "Oh, my bad, that was totally his fault!". She did it, he did not. All he can do is basically ask her to do so. On a webcam. A long distance away from her.
All she had to do was close the window. Yes it's creepy and pedobear-ish of him, but it's not even close to rape.
Even the concept of 'cyber-bullying' is a huge crock of shit. You don't like what you see online? Don't use that site. Close the goddamned window. Nobody is FORCING you to use those sites, and your choice to continue using them when you are being 'bullied' basically says "I want more of this".
It is nobody's fault but her own, and she gets zero sympathy from me.
I think they're trying to say "If you like what you do that you don't mind spending 80-100 hours a week(as in, if it's your hobby as well as your job) you should get a job doing just that!" Who doesn't want to be paid for their hobbies?
As a video game developer, I work at least that many hours in a week on coding/laying out/writing down ideas for games I am working on. I just wish I could find a place that was willing to pay me for 80 hours in a week of just doing what I do anyway.
Actually, I find that the Westboro nutjobs are almost right on the same page as some of the religious extremists that attack our country. "Women in the kitchen, gays are evil, Satan controls your average American!" etc, etc...
Hey, Westboro: The 50s called, and they want your idiocy back.
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Well, duh. He's a criminal or hitman or something. Google it.
Clearly he thinks he can strong-arm the legal process as he does with everyone else in his life.
I don't think anyone is accusing Australian government agencies of exercising common sense at this point. The UK is like USA Part 2: The Less Rights Version, and Australia is like UK Part 2: Even Less Rights.
I will now start tweeting every time I fart, and I will announce it as a "sudden biological gas release event".
They weren't just burning a yellow ribbon. They were burning someone else's yellow ribbon, and they threw it at the stage where a veteran was standing. They were subsequently arrested for arson and assault - nothing regarding their free speech or expression.
The end result is an invisibility cloak that can perfectly hide a 3×0.4-inch (7.5x1cm) cylinder from microwave radiation.
Isn't this basically where they've been with this research for ages? The only new thing I can see here is that the material was cut into a diamond shape to minimize reflections.
And there goes Zappos, one of the best online retailers the Internet has to offer. Free shipping, to and from, with free returns if you don't like the color or whatever of the product you order, no limit to how many times you can return or exchange things, no questions asked. Extremely courteous customer service, and a really user-friendly website to order from.
I'm positive this will continue to be the case after they have to shell out millions to a bunch of fucking morons up in arms about "Ermagherd, I ordered from teh Zappos! Teh haxxors has mah info!!!11oneeleven!"
Congratulations on being so litigious and fucking petty that you have to SUE THEM for a security breach that probably couldn't have been reasonably avoided(no matter what you may believe, no site is 100% secure), and will likely cause you(the customer) no problems at all. Congratulations on ruining an awesome thing, in the name of "being right" or on "the principle of the thing" - whatever helps your scumbag ass sleep at night.
Seriously, America. Fuck you. Fuck you all.
The police and prisons are a business. How else are they going to stay in business without putting as many people in front of a judge as possible, regardless of the validity and seriousness of their crimes?
I just want to see a little fairness. If someone is going to get in so much trouble for something so physiologically harmless as marijuana, I want to see people getting in the same amount of trouble for drinking a known toxic liquid - namely alcohol - or burning a cancer-inducing substance in public when smoking cigarettes.
The war on drugs needs to leave pot behind. Legalizing it will remove the incentive for these people to 'traffic' the stuff, the criminal systems profiting from its sale will lose great deals of money, and the government can recoup a LOT of money through proper taxation.
Life in prison for growing plants, fuck our legal system.
This. This exactly.
Marijuana resin is much like rubber resin after burning. It is incredibly sticky and easily penetrates and stains porous material. Alcohol is one of the best solvents of this stuff that I have found, and makes it almost liquid in the right proportions.
Depending on the material, it might be downright permanent if you get this stuff on it.
I think they should start the testing with the cops' houses. I'm sure after a few false hits on Officer Hardass' front lawn they will reconsider this 'tactic'.
the game developers did some seriously stupid shit
That's a bit harsh. This is something people have to rip apart and mod their console to activate. It is not something the game devs intended to be able to do in the first place.
Nobody.
Clearly you're forgetting about the data wrapper for the Ansible system...
So rest your hand on the desk below the monitor. Nobody's saying you have to leave your hands above the monitor the whole time you are using it.
There are a lot of useful purposes for a touch screen. The fact that you don't use them is indicative of nothing but your preference and software habits.
I beg to differ. There are literally HUNREDS of Point-of-Sale programs, all of which work faster with touch screens than with a keyboard and mouse. There is also the learning industry, where disabled or young children can interact with relatively advanced digital technology.
There are fields like testing, interactive advertising, surveying(polling), etc where it's easier to have a 'kiosk' style desktop touch screen computer than to have someone sit down at a keyboard and mouse. They also nicely limit the amount of input a user can provide, and if set up correctly can prevent unauthorized access to parts of the computer system deemed 'off-limits'.
There are also fields such as 3D Design and Human-Computer Interaction that make excellent use of this additional means of control, both on its own and alongside traditional keyboard/mouse setups.
Next time, maybe you should think before you just wildly claim that technology doesn't make sense for a vast market of which you are a minute part.
"People want to be lazy" is your defense for his nonsense?
I don't mind vertical touch screens at all. The fact is, the touch features aren't how I primarily use the screen - I use a normal mouse and keyboard far more. I also point to the fact that MANY people have 'stand cases' for their 'lay-flat' tablets, to make them just that: Vertical! If Apple could un-suck their touch keyboard, it might be a viable way to enter lots of text. Until that time, almost everyone I see using one has some sort of keyboard dock/stand, etc That said, there is no reason that this tablet would HAVE to be used as a vertical screen. It's a tablet, and can be laid flat as easily as an iPad or any other tablet.
The (vertical) touch screen on my computer is useful if I want to do something more artistic(photoshop brushes, etc), or interact with buttons faster than with a mouse. It also allows me to use my off-hand to accurately and quickly click or drag things which I don't want to try to switch-hit with my mouse to click. I also like being able to move the camera on Maya with the touchscreen, while still editing the model with my mouse. It's just more control, and there is no one right way to use it.
What? It's $150 including a case with a keyboard in it. I don't think any tablets worth their parts come close to as low-cost as that. Are you somehow implying that it isn't as good because it doesn't cost the $700 that the trendy-but-extremely-useless iPads do for the same power?
Let's also consider that there are plans for another, larger version of the Surface tablet which will run regular x86 software compatible with Windows, which just hasn't been released yet.
WTF do you think the "I'm a Mac I'm a PC" ads were all about?
Launching an incredibly annoying preppy hipster trend at colleges all across the country, making morons that don't know how to use a computer(and therefore use a Mac) feel superior to smarter people, and inducting a bunch of stupid sheeple into the 'cult of Mac'.
Obviously.
I don't know what the problem is, when I was 7 I was pretty good at setting up PCs as well. I actually made a fair bit of spare cash doing it for friends and neighbors.
By Apple's assumptive logic, that means that Apple is against the free market and fair competition.
I think the misconception here is that Microsoft has done anything wrong.
All they did was include only IE preinstalled on their OS. Somehow that is lawsuit-worthy? Do I see Apple shipping computers with Firefox or IE on them? Of course not. Each brand of OS manufacturer is going to include their own browser. It's not as if MS was PREVENTING someone from installing a competing browser, it just wasn't included with their own branded software pack.
I think the EU regulators are the ones who need to lay off the crack pipe and realize exactly what they're doing - which should be clearly defined as EXTORTION if you look up the definition.
If they're only asking for a total of ~2400$NZ it would probably be less to just settle the case than to go through the whole trial and legal nonsense of it. Compared to the ~7,000,000$US that some cases over here have demanded of people for the same offense, it's a pretty good deal for getting busted when you pirate music.
How about ANY punishment at all for businesses that break this law? Isn't that how laws are supposed to work? You break them, you do the time?
Right now, they don't even bother with half the complaints they get, and there's no solid procedure for reporting violators. Do they really expect anyone who is put-out by these calls to sue the company themselves for harassment?
Cool, I'll take that $50k in cash, check, or money order, anytime...
You'd also better make sure you're trying to punish them for a real crime, and the right crime. What this guy did was sleazy, and to an extent illegal, but it was not rape, it was not murder, it was not assisted suicide, it was just plain pedo-bear skeezyness.
Try the dude for possession of child pornography, try the dude for coercing a minor, do what you have to do. Do NOT try to make this a whole schpiel about "Oh no, cyber bullies!" or try to charge this guy for her death in any way. Even if he is entirely responsible for the picture and its distribution, he did not kill this girl, she chose to take the easy way out and just say "I give up". That's not his fault.
Showing her tatas online was nobody's choice but her own, and she certainly wasn't 'forced' to do anything of the sort. The most someone on a webcam can do is ask. If you don't want to do it, then don't. End the chat. Call Chris Hanson. Whatever.
Unfortunately it looks like she couldn't live with the results of her bad decision. I feel zero sympathy for this girl.
It's not even that. She didn't have sex with anyone, and she wasn't 'forced' to do anything.
she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam.
"Lured" to show her breasts? Come the fuck on. She CHOSE to show her tatas to some guy online. She doesn't have the option to later say "Oh, my bad, that was totally his fault!". She did it, he did not. All he can do is basically ask her to do so. On a webcam. A long distance away from her.
All she had to do was close the window. Yes it's creepy and pedobear-ish of him, but it's not even close to rape.
Even the concept of 'cyber-bullying' is a huge crock of shit. You don't like what you see online? Don't use that site. Close the goddamned window. Nobody is FORCING you to use those sites, and your choice to continue using them when you are being 'bullied' basically says "I want more of this".
It is nobody's fault but her own, and she gets zero sympathy from me.
I think they're trying to say "If you like what you do that you don't mind spending 80-100 hours a week(as in, if it's your hobby as well as your job) you should get a job doing just that!" Who doesn't want to be paid for their hobbies?
As a video game developer, I work at least that many hours in a week on coding/laying out/writing down ideas for games I am working on. I just wish I could find a place that was willing to pay me for 80 hours in a week of just doing what I do anyway.
Actually, I find that the Westboro nutjobs are almost right on the same page as some of the religious extremists that attack our country. "Women in the kitchen, gays are evil, Satan controls your average American!" etc, etc...
Hey, Westboro: The 50s called, and they want your idiocy back.