It isn't the place of origin of a doomsday prophesy. There was no Mayan doomsday prophesy, and the Mayan long count has rolled over before without the world ending. No, it's just a calendar rollover like new year and the millennium. Rarer than a new year, not as rare as a millennium, so it should be a decent-sized party but not huge.
Since geeks are the most likely target market to accept a shift to electronic distribution
I'm not convinced of that. Geeks may be the most likely to have the gadgets to read electronically distributed mags, but they're also the ones most likely to know the downsides of that and the ones most likely to quarrel over formats and possible DRM. I think it's fairer to say that geeks are the most likely market to be divided over a shift to electronic distribution.
#2 Change the accounting model. Proceeds from granted patent applications should NOT count as revenue towards the patent office and its continued operations, but should directly go into the US treasury.
So the incentive to ensure patents are approved shifts from the patent office to the government? What could possibly go wrong?
No, he's right. Even in the USA a corporation wouldn't be able to get a law that meant they could take your firstborn son. The Department of Homeland Security would never yield that power.
When "...common side effects may include: itching, rash, diarrhea, constipation, shortness of breath, nausea, inability to urinate, hair falling out, unusual hair growth, erections lasting longer than four hours, seizure, coma, or death..."
WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
What are you going to do with it when you simultaneously have diarrhoea and constipation?
But the point of the story was that all software has bugs
I seem to remember that at the time of the launch of the 777, Boeing claimed that their processes made it impossible for there to be any bugs in its software -- a position it has moved away from.
That's it? Only 24 hours? I doubt most people visit wikipedia more than once a week. I probably hit up an article on it a couple times a week. One day will only reach the attention of a handful of visitors. Make it a full week. The world will survive if they have to get their wikipedia article from the google cache for a few days.
Well, folks might notice that their newspaper is about 50% thinner than usual...
I think I'm pretty much the same speed on either, but I'm now trying to consider why.
I *think* it's because I'm again doing my maths visually.
Interesting. I am very much a verbal reasoner (which is why I don't like things like UML; I deal much better with verbal representations) so the shape of 150 doesn't matter to me (isn't 140 just as rectangular anyway?)
I wonder whether Ada came up in the "Other"? Previous research I've seen shows Ada with a much lower error rate than other languages (although it wasn't clear whether that was because Ada only tends to get chosen when there are a lot of constraints in place to keep the error rate lot).
That's called the slippery slope fallacy. Just because it can be, doesn't mean it will.
Nope. It isn't inferring the claim that it will be abused from the fact that it can be. It doesn't actually state the basis of the inference, but a likely one is past experience.
If we followed your reasoning, no one should ever be allowed to do anything, because they'll abuse the privilege. No driving, you might do it drunk. No buying a home, you might buy one you can't afford. No talking, you might tell a lie.
"All power will be abused" is a great soundbite for anarchists, but it doesn't hold true in the real world.
No, that's your reasoning. It's not in the posting you replied to. The reasoning of the original posting might (at a push) lead to "if driving is allowed, somebody might do it drunk", "if buying a home is allowed, somebody might buy one they can't afford",. "if talking is allowed, somebody might tell a lie." No prohibition in the original, just a statement of consequences.
Firstly, this is a Daily Fail story - take with a large pinch of salt. As shown in the Leveson inquiry, they're happy to run "Organisation wants to ban something" story one day, then "Our campaign has forced organisation to back down" the next - despite no such banning effort happening. In addition, they do have a "anything invented after 1900 is suspicious" agenda.
Well, quite. There's a less hysterical account of the story here. The concern does appear to be the age-old debate on the effect of violent games on the perception of violence.
I think a shooting game in which one has to choose who to shoot (which seems to be the main thing they are complaining about -- indiscriminate killing of non-combatants and prisoners of war) would tend to be a better game than one in which you shoot everything that moves and most things that don't,and the overhead of having to deal with prisoners of war might make for an interesting game dynamic, but I don't see those as matters for legislation. Still, game makers could make in-game compliance with international human rights law more realistic by mentioning, if the player survives to the end (so it will never happen in unbounded games) that the protagonist might have to answer to the court for their actions a couple of years after game time.
Superior replies don't get modded up, the repllies that line up with that randomly chosen user's biases do. People alter their behaviour to appeal to public opinion.
If slashdot really wanted to mod up 'superior' comments then they'd have full-time trained moderators with no biases of their own instead of handing badges to everybody with an opinion of which smartphone OS to use.
Let's face it, the slashdot moderation system has been broken for a long time. That's where the term slashthink/slashdot group think comes from. If you post a comment that general user base of slashdot likes, it will be modded up. If you post a comment, even a really insightful and interesting one that the general user base doesn't like, it will be modded down. Comments that rank up? Promote free speech, removing copyrights, getting rids of patents, point out how "suits" just don't get us geeks and so on. Comments that go immediately down? Tell informative, but bad points about the current state of Linux, dislike Google, try to be reasonable about copyrights and DRM or say that Microsoft's Visual Studio still kicks ass any other IDE out there.
Metamoderation helps, because groupthink has to be really widespread to get past that, and opinion on/. is more diverse than most people realise. Certainly I can only see how "Allow[ing] trusted evaluators to transfer a 'quantity of authority' to like-minded 'contributing authorities', who in turn designate and delegate authority to additional like-minded contributing authorities." would make groupthink even more restrictive and tightly enforced.
Not where they are building the Olympic Village. Before work started on the village, the only thing that CCTV would have seen there would have been a bunch of kids coming in on dirt bikes and vandalising the cameras. Of course, it would then miss the kids leaving the area as deserted as it had been before.
I assume you know that most of the figures cited for the number of CCTV cameras in use in the UK are bogus, by the way. A newspaper counted the number of cameras in two fairly seedy London shopping streets, and extrapolated the number based on the total miles of road in England (including rural lanes), then Citogenesis took over and even the government started citing the inflated figure. Yes, there are about 1.85 million cameras, but the majority are "inside premises, rather than facing the street". Most of the time we are not being watched on the street -- but we are if we go into retail or other business premises.
So now instead of disastrous climate change that we have ideas on how to fix, we now have disastrous climate change that we have no clue how to fix. Could you run by me again why this is "good news"?
I once had an email bounced (by the recipient's UK ISP) because the contents were "obscene". The contents? Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach. Content of that link NSFW, it seems. At least according to that ISP.
Slashdot Mirror
Go via Russia and you have a chance of another Christmas.
It isn't the place of origin of a doomsday prophesy. There was no Mayan doomsday prophesy, and the Mayan long count has rolled over before without the world ending. No, it's just a calendar rollover like new year and the millennium. Rarer than a new year, not as rare as a millennium, so it should be a decent-sized party but not huge.
Since geeks are the most likely target market to accept a shift to electronic distribution
I'm not convinced of that. Geeks may be the most likely to have the gadgets to read electronically distributed mags, but they're also the ones most likely to know the downsides of that and the ones most likely to quarrel over formats and possible DRM. I think it's fairer to say that geeks are the most likely market to be divided over a shift to electronic distribution.
Economists?
#2 Change the accounting model. Proceeds from granted patent applications should NOT count as revenue towards the patent office and its continued operations, but should directly go into the US treasury.
So the incentive to ensure patents are approved shifts from the patent office to the government? What could possibly go wrong?
No, he's right. Even in the USA a corporation wouldn't be able to get a law that meant they could take your firstborn son. The Department of Homeland Security would never yield that power.
When "...common side effects may include: itching, rash, diarrhea, constipation, shortness of breath, nausea, inability to urinate, hair falling out, unusual hair growth, erections lasting longer than four hours, seizure, coma, or death..."
WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
What are you going to do with it when you simultaneously have diarrhoea and constipation?
But the point of the story was that all software has bugs
I seem to remember that at the time of the launch of the 777, Boeing claimed that their processes made it impossible for there to be any bugs in its software -- a position it has moved away from.
It's reasonable
On what grounds?
concurs with observation
What observations?
and has yet to be disproven.
What would disprove it?
That's it? Only 24 hours? I doubt most people visit wikipedia more than once a week. I probably hit up an article on it a couple times a week. One day will only reach the attention of a handful of visitors. Make it a full week. The world will survive if they have to get their wikipedia article from the google cache for a few days.
Well, folks might notice that their newspaper is about 50% thinner than usual...
Our ability to not act on our impulses is what separates the human race from the animals.
Do you have evidence for that, or do you believe it because Aristotle said it a couple of thousand years ago and nobody has dared challenge it?
I'm not saying Republicans are angles or anything like that.
Well, some of them are quite acute, but mainly they're obtuse. It's rare for them to be right.
I think I'm pretty much the same speed on either, but I'm now trying to consider why. I *think* it's because I'm again doing my maths visually.
Interesting. I am very much a verbal reasoner (which is why I don't like things like UML; I deal much better with verbal representations) so the shape of 150 doesn't matter to me (isn't 140 just as rectangular anyway?)
I considered the 50*3 approach for an instant, but decided that 40*3 + 7*3 was easier because I do addition faster than subtraction.
I wonder whether Ada came up in the "Other"? Previous research I've seen shows Ada with a much lower error rate than other languages (although it wasn't clear whether that was because Ada only tends to get chosen when there are a lot of constraints in place to keep the error rate lot).
That's called the slippery slope fallacy. Just because it can be, doesn't mean it will.
Nope. It isn't inferring the claim that it will be abused from the fact that it can be. It doesn't actually state the basis of the inference, but a likely one is past experience.
If we followed your reasoning, no one should ever be allowed to do anything, because they'll abuse the privilege. No driving, you might do it drunk. No buying a home, you might buy one you can't afford. No talking, you might tell a lie.
"All power will be abused" is a great soundbite for anarchists, but it doesn't hold true in the real world.
No, that's your reasoning. It's not in the posting you replied to. The reasoning of the original posting might (at a push) lead to "if driving is allowed, somebody might do it drunk", "if buying a home is allowed, somebody might buy one they can't afford",. "if talking is allowed, somebody might tell a lie." No prohibition in the original, just a statement of consequences.
Firstly, this is a Daily Fail story - take with a large pinch of salt. As shown in the Leveson inquiry, they're happy to run "Organisation wants to ban something" story one day, then "Our campaign has forced organisation to back down" the next - despite no such banning effort happening. In addition, they do have a "anything invented after 1900 is suspicious" agenda.
Well, quite. There's a less hysterical account of the story here. The concern does appear to be the age-old debate on the effect of violent games on the perception of violence.
I think a shooting game in which one has to choose who to shoot (which seems to be the main thing they are complaining about -- indiscriminate killing of non-combatants and prisoners of war) would tend to be a better game than one in which you shoot everything that moves and most things that don't,and the overhead of having to deal with prisoners of war might make for an interesting game dynamic, but I don't see those as matters for legislation. Still, game makers could make in-game compliance with international human rights law more realistic by mentioning, if the player survives to the end (so it will never happen in unbounded games) that the protagonist might have to answer to the court for their actions a couple of years after game time.
Superior replies don't get modded up, the repllies that line up with that randomly chosen user's biases do. People alter their behaviour to appeal to public opinion.
If slashdot really wanted to mod up 'superior' comments then they'd have full-time trained moderators with no biases of their own instead of handing badges to everybody with an opinion of which smartphone OS to use.
FTFY.
Let's face it, the slashdot moderation system has been broken for a long time. That's where the term slashthink/slashdot group think comes from. If you post a comment that general user base of slashdot likes, it will be modded up. If you post a comment, even a really insightful and interesting one that the general user base doesn't like, it will be modded down. Comments that rank up? Promote free speech, removing copyrights, getting rids of patents, point out how "suits" just don't get us geeks and so on. Comments that go immediately down? Tell informative, but bad points about the current state of Linux, dislike Google, try to be reasonable about copyrights and DRM or say that Microsoft's Visual Studio still kicks ass any other IDE out there.
Metamoderation helps, because groupthink has to be really widespread to get past that, and opinion on /. is more diverse than most people realise. Certainly I can only see how "Allow[ing] trusted evaluators to transfer a 'quantity of authority' to like-minded 'contributing authorities', who in turn designate and delegate authority to additional like-minded contributing authorities." would make groupthink even more restrictive and tightly enforced.
Not where they are building the Olympic Village. Before work started on the village, the only thing that CCTV would have seen there would have been a bunch of kids coming in on dirt bikes and vandalising the cameras. Of course, it would then miss the kids leaving the area as deserted as it had been before.
I assume you know that most of the figures cited for the number of CCTV cameras in use in the UK are bogus, by the way. A newspaper counted the number of cameras in two fairly seedy London shopping streets, and extrapolated the number based on the total miles of road in England (including rural lanes), then Citogenesis took over and even the government started citing the inflated figure. Yes, there are about 1.85 million cameras, but the majority are "inside premises, rather than facing the street". Most of the time we are not being watched on the street -- but we are if we go into retail or other business premises.
So now instead of disastrous climate change that we have ideas on how to fix, we now have disastrous climate change that we have no clue how to fix. Could you run by me again why this is "good news"?
5. Discover that now you have to shop somewhere else.
Meh. I routinely opt-out of being hassled by my family by turning off my cellphone. Two birds with one stone.
wtf are you talking about? the phone company can get the information already, AND they don't give a shit what you buy.
They might be interested if you spend a lot of time in rival phone companies' stores.
I once had an email bounced (by the recipient's UK ISP) because the contents were "obscene". The contents? Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach. Content of that link NSFW, it seems. At least according to that ISP.