That's not how I remember it! Well, by marriage I suppose, but not blood-relations. I don't suppose somebody got confused between incest and paedophilia? Or will they purge journals discussing The Graduate because that has sex with mother and daughter too?
traffic lights? I have more than once seen traffic lights be green in both directions! In Redhill, England there used to be a set designed like that. They were actually there for a pedestrian crossing, but it wasn't at all clear to drivers approaching the T-junction.
I'm inclined to think that nothing will. On a radio phone-in today a senior police officer was interviewed because he had expressed concern that the surveillance society might be eroding civil liberties and he wanted there to be a wider debate. He specifically said that the "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" argument was spurious. Then one of the first callers said that they didn't know what all the fuss was about because it you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. So it doesn't matter what we say, because people are not listening. (The show will be available on listen again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/vine/ under "Tuesday" for a couple of days, but you will have to fast-forward a bit to find the interview. )
Radio pays for the music it plays here in the UK. Although we seem to have a bit more choice than I could find when I was on holiday in Florida, it's still largely the same stuff that the record companies want promoted.
Yes, it is scary. There are lobby groups (I am a member of one) trying to raise public awareness and protect civil liberties, but most people here seem to have swallowed the "If you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" argument hook, line and sinker.
>What's next, restricting every piece of programming on television?
Yes. Didn't you get the memo? Yes, but I don't run Vista, so I couldn't open it. I just got an error saying that my computer's security system wasn't adequate to ensure a satisfactory reading experience.
It's only webmail that's suspended. POP3 still works fine. FWIW, on what was a spam free address I'm now getting something like 2 or 3 spam per day (although that may go up as the list of addresses gets sold on). On my main address, which receives about 100 spam a day (I have good filters...) I can't see the difference.
The recovery disk shipped with most systems will reset the computer to factory state, deleting all user files. Everybody here does have a recent backup, don't they? And you have all checked recently that it works?
It's not the detail that matters, it's the entire image that's is in view, not a corner or portion. The court didn't define "thumbnail", either. So thumbnail to one person is small viable image to another. If the original is 3000 pixels wide, is a 400 pixels enough of a reduction to be considered "thumbnail"? "Fair use" already has to deal with that question in the case of text. Is reproducing an entire volume of Proust's seven-volume "À la recherche du temps perdu" "fair use"? (Ok, it must be public domain by now, but consider a more recent translation of it, where the translation would be in copyright.)
I don't think he should step down. As a judge, he is an expert in the law; that is why he is there. I would expect that he has probably seen hundreds of cases where he doesn't understand the terminology - he cannot be expected to be an expert in every subject. Agreed. The important thing is that the jury understands the subject. Who knows, the judge may have helped them in that.
They're left-wing-nuts. That doesn't mean they're never right, but it does mean that you should carefully scrutinize what comes out of there. Er, remind me: which media sources do we not have to carefully scrutinise? Come to that, which sources in general, (mass) media or not?
It astonishes me that the morons at Hal Leonard can't see that MXTabs is analogous to the iTunes Music Store: a different-yet-profitable delivery system. Why do you think that they can't see it? As far as I (and some of the commentors to the RA) can tell, they see it all too well, and see it as a serious threat to their previous-century business model. So they've started FUD-slinging.
I do occasionally buy music on vinyl and attempt to download a digital copy for use on the move, so yes I agree that is possibly a growing market. Hmm. I'm an avid collector from the vinyl generation, but I would only buy vinyl now if I couldn't get it on CD, and the first thing I'd do would be rip it to MP3.
Oh, so I suppose Darth Vader would be considered liberal, because he could have slowly strangled the life from his enemies with their entrails, but he simply chose not to. Yes, I suppose the RIAA might consider that liberal.
Of course the RIAA will probably extend this to the point where logging on to a site with the word 'music' on it somewhere. Oh, have they gone liberal on us? I would have thought it would be enough to have the letters "m", "u", "i", "s", and "c" anywhere on the site. After all, the pirates could reassemble those into the m-word. Come to think of it, having 1s and 0s on the site might be enough...
Well, your wife certainly has, though not necessarily with you. Hey, I'm a nerd. I'd notice if a procedure produced an output without the required input!
Considering that this is slashdot, the odds of your or my kids being involved is basically 0, because having kids usually requires having sex and we all know we on slashdot don't do that! Now now, don't exaggerate. I have two kids, which by my reckoning means I've had sex (with somebody other than myself) at least twice, which is probably somewhere near the/. average.
I think statistically they are in the same neighborhood.
I don't know about the USA, but according to http://www.fire.org.uk/advice/FA/odpm_fire_pdf_028 815.pdf, between 1998 and 2002 there were on average 1500 fires in schools per year in the UK. If that's in the same neighbourhood as school shootings, move to a new neighbourhood.
This is a classic case of "man bites dog" reporting distorting public perception. School shootings get worldwide coverage, school fires usually barely make it to the local press, so if you get your information from the headlines you get the entirely wrong impression that the headline events are common and the non-headline events are rare.
Considering how (relatively) common school shootings have become, I'm not against the idea of drilling kids on what to do in such a situation. Er, just how common have school shootings become? Relative to what? I thought they were very very rare, and the chance of your or my kids being involved in one was tiny. Isn't that why they still shock?
Microsoft should now list exactly which patents it is referring to, and how the Linux kernel infringes upon them. At worst, the Linux team can then rewrite the offending code so that it no longer infringes. Just like SCO has, you mean?
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That's not how I remember it! Well, by marriage I suppose, but not blood-relations. I don't suppose somebody got confused between incest and paedophilia? Or will they purge journals discussing The Graduate because that has sex with mother and daughter too?
Dang, I like small tits so I'm going to be a cinch to identify :-(
I'm inclined to think that nothing will. On a radio phone-in today a senior police officer was interviewed because he had expressed concern that the surveillance society might be eroding civil liberties and he wanted there to be a wider debate. He specifically said that the "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" argument was spurious. Then one of the first callers said that they didn't know what all the fuss was about because it you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. So it doesn't matter what we say, because people are not listening. (The show will be available on listen again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/vine/ under "Tuesday" for a couple of days, but you will have to fast-forward a bit to find the interview. )
Radio pays for the music it plays here in the UK. Although we seem to have a bit more choice than I could find when I was on holiday in Florida, it's still largely the same stuff that the record companies want promoted.
Yes, it is scary. There are lobby groups (I am a member of one) trying to raise public awareness and protect civil liberties, but most people here seem to have swallowed the "If you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" argument hook, line and sinker.
Yes. Didn't you get the memo? Yes, but I don't run Vista, so I couldn't open it. I just got an error saying that my computer's security system wasn't adequate to ensure a satisfactory reading experience.
I always wondered what /dev/null actually looked like!
It's only webmail that's suspended. POP3 still works fine. FWIW, on what was a spam free address I'm now getting something like 2 or 3 spam per day (although that may go up as the list of addresses gets sold on). On my main address, which receives about 100 spam a day (I have good filters...) I can't see the difference.
The recovery disk shipped with most systems will reset the computer to factory state, deleting all user files. Everybody here does have a recent backup, don't they? And you have all checked recently that it works?
I'm curious to know what, exactly, this means in your little world. It means I'm being ironic.
I think statistically they are in the same neighborhood.
I don't know about the USA, but according to http://www.fire.org.uk/advice/FA/odpm_fire_pdf_028 815.pdf, between 1998 and 2002 there were on average 1500 fires in schools per year in the UK. If that's in the same neighbourhood as school shootings, move to a new neighbourhood.
This is a classic case of "man bites dog" reporting distorting public perception. School shootings get worldwide coverage, school fires usually barely make it to the local press, so if you get your information from the headlines you get the entirely wrong impression that the headline events are common and the non-headline events are rare.