China has a very oppressive government; India doesn't, as far as I know. It would be interesting to see whether Bing works at all in China... or if it's "restricted" in China like Google Search is.
However, compare Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China ("new regulations to be enforced by the ministry that inflict fines for 'defaming government agencies,' 'splitting the nation,' and leaking "state secrets."")
and Censorship in India, which is also applied to the Internet ("Some media dealing with sex are frequently banned. Films, television shows and music videos are especially prone, however if any literature is banned, it is not usually for pornographic reasons.")
It would also be interesting to know whether Microsoft blocked 'sex' on Bing/India by request. or of its own volition to prevent possible repercussions. The law is enforced more heavily in China than in India, that's for sure.
Aye, I did some research after viewing the Schedule reclassification thread (because the full legalization one is more full of potheads-for-the-sake-of-it and people who just don't care and jump on the bandwagon, I would take everything there with a grain of salt in that one:-). There are indeed road accidents (other comment in this thread) caused by the use of marijuana, and some undesirable effects when "high", and I'm not so keen on full legalization for those reasons. Researching the whole marijuana issue is interesting, and I've only touched the tip of the iceberg yet. Are there any official studies you know about and could link to here?
I don't know if you're referring to the full legalization thread (#2) or just the Schedule reclassification thread (#3), but here goes.
[T]here is a considerable legal difference between "drunk" and driving while "intoxicated" and "under the influence". The concept of drunk, as used in public drunk statutes, refers to a person who is so inebriated that he is incapable of caring for his own safety. This is a considerably greater degree of inebriation than "intoxicated" or "under the influence". This latter condition is often legally defined as that physical state in which the liquor has so far affected the nervous system, brain or muscles as to impair the ability to operate a vehicle in a manner like that of an ordinarily prudent or cautious person under like conditions in the full possession of his faculties using reasonable care. source
[Emphasis mine, from "Drunk driving defense" by Lawrence Taylor & Steven Oberman]
The effects of THC on the body do include relaxation of the muscles, therefore would fall under the term "under the influence" as defined in law. However,
Although marijuana's share of fatal crashes is much lower than those attributed to alcohol, researchers say the results show that marijuana use, even in low doses, significantly increases the risk of fatal car accidents. source
While the quote could be used in an argument on both sides, if marijuana were only reclassified under another Schedule, not fully legalized, the rate of use would be lower than with full legalization (with a law already in place for "intoxicated driving" as above!), so it all comes down to what you'd rather avoid: even more driving accidents than in the current situation; another cause of driving accidents; or perhaps the fact that the "new" cause of accidents is less well detectable by simple behavioral analysis therefore less enforceable. But the point of rescheduling marijuana (#3) is that the current legislation doesn't make sense. See my other comment in this thread for a summary of why.
* marijuana not killing people as much as tobacco and alcohol; * pure THC being ranked as a Schedule III drug and marijuana as a Schedule I drug (see comment by user pbrigando13); * Oxycontin et al., more damaging and causing more of a dependency than marijuana (which creates none), not being on the Controlled Substances List altogether; * (taking this one with a grain of salt) the advantages of marijuana, rarer use of violence and driving accidents from users than alcoholics, etc. (see comment by user onegod1world)
, I'm reconsidering that stance.
Also, I'd like to point out that #1 is End Imperial Presidency -- with 755 votes against #2's 351 --, heavily criticizing Bush's presidency and calling out what happened in Iraq as war crimes, as they should be called. That is a serious one, and I for one am glad that it got voted up top.
... because this type of "Linux for the desktop" articles gets posted almost every month. If I could, I would mark all of these articles dupes even across month boundaries.
Let the flames begin, though. I may* come back to read the comments in the coming days.
_________ * The word MAY, as used in this comment, has the same meaning as in RFC 2119.
If it's not about video piracy, what tells me it's really about telco fees? What's next, they'll say they want to recover a lost human embryo mistakenly packaged inside a server rack?
For some reason, using the UL tag and starting with a LI, even if the first LI is followed by text, yields an empty list item. I had not found a workaround before hitting the Submit button.
If there was a way to mod articles, I'd mod this -1 Troll and -1 Flamebait.
The universal remote has its uses, the smartphone has its own, and, last I checked:
people still play DVDs for entertainment, and the universal remote still works on set-top DVD players;
people still watch TV, and the universal remote still works on televisions;
laptops accepting remote controls sometimes accept the universal remote as well;
etc.
Just because it has less use for presentations doesn't mean that it's dying. If anything, other uses may be found for it, including presentations.
Also, why replace a $20 item (or even less) with a $200 item (or even more) if all you're going to do is watch TV and DVDs with it? If the universal remote is truly dying, then the big phone companies have won the war of overconsumption: sell a product that will be obsolete in two years, make it have tons of uses, and have the buyer depend more and more on it such that s/he deems it absolutely necessary and buys it again and again as newer versions come out with even more feature creep, while making everyone pay the full price for all the features despite many of the buyers not using even an eighth of them.
I'd rather keep that remote, thanks. Mine has lasted around... 10 years now?
OptiPNG apparently doesn't care about my PNG files either, then. Firefox doesn't care enough about my downloads to write them fully to disk before saying the download is done; 'tar z' doesn't care enough about my backups to write them fully to disk before I can use the backup tarball, etc.
And this is where I state that the programs a user uses do not know the intent of said user in all cases. Imagine if the 'tar' utility called fsync on each file when I restored a.tar.gz file containing 1500 small files. The disk would thrash, unless there was some sort of read-ahead done on the.tar.gz before... but then the filesystem metadata for the extracted files would need to be written too, which means that the disk would thrash on writes alone, never mind interwoven with reads.
However, fsyncing a zip file which I'm only creating to send over my LAN and then deleting places unnecessary strain on my hard drive.
Azureus, the well-known Java BitTorrent client, does fsync calls (actually via Java's FileChannel.force(), but that's another story), and I hate that. My connection is liable to filling up the hard drive's seek queue due to metadata updates while downloading, thereby giving less I/O time to other applications and starving them. I would rather see it fsync once at the end of the download, before the hash check, or do data-only fsyncs that need to seek less. I don't care that the file's last-modification time is wrong while I'm downloading.
If all programs will now start to fsync files because of this POSIX rule and the ext4 filesystem, then I will use laptop_mode even on my desktop, because it drops fsyncs to delay writes up to its configured interval. The last thing I need as a desktop user is GNOME or KDE starting slower, which it will if it takes Tso's advice to heart... No more grouping writes across these hundreds of files!
Both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama agree that education needs to be thoroughly reformed.
Who needs education aimed at making the students cram for tests only for the ego of the schools? What good is it if your child forgets everything after them? That doesn't help at all. This, to me, is the core of the issue. Rankings. As an aside, No Child Left Behind makes extensive use of those, to determine which schools should get additional funding.
What I'd like to see is a school system that doesn't focus so much on rankings, fudging scores to get a higher one, pressuring the underprivileged and underscoring to drop out in the process. Those people deserve undiscriminating education too, and equal access to education is something both candidates advocate.
The parents who got complacent will (hopefully) get going with this one, too! Choice quotes from each candidate:
McCain Parental involvement is critical to the success of any pre-K program. Current federal programs will be focused on educating parents on the basics of preparing their children for a productive educational experience. These programs will place an emphasis on reading and numbers skills, as well as nutrition and general health. Reinforcing to parents the fundamental importance of reading to their children as a primary way of expanding their vocabulary and preparing their young minds to learn will be emphasized at every level.
Obama (PDF warning) Investing in early childhood education during the infant and toddler years is particularly critical. Though parents remain the first teachers for our children, an increasing number of infants and toddlers spend significant parts of their day with caretakers other than their parents. In addition to ensuring that child care is accessible and affordable, we must do more to ensure that it is high quality and provides the early education experiences our children need.
Both agree that a child's education starts with the parents' involvement in it. It's common sense to some, I'll admit, but:
Obama Research shows that early experiences shape whether a child's brain develops strong skills for future learning, behavior and success. Without a strong base on which to build, children, particularly disadvantaged children, will be behind long before they reach kindergarten. Investing in early learning also makes economic sense. For every one dollar invested in high quality, comprehensive programs supporting children and families from birth, there is a $7-$10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system, and better health.
The schools have a responsibility in children's education, but then so do the parents! And not just for education, either. Providing healthy food to one's child(ren) is essential to their proper development. Care and affection given to one's child(ren) cannot be replaced by anyone else, and is also essential.
The Govt has a role, but it's not the silver bullet.
(Disclaimer: I'm Canadian, but I'm quite interested in this election.)
You're not alone. Apparently I forgot that copy-paste is a good way to copy text you're about to quote, not just to repeat an item more than once... (I missed "about" in point 1.)
Them computers, they're evil! Back in my day, you had to rewrite everything you wanted to duplicate, by hand, there was none of that copy-paste stuff!
I'm pretty sure the profit comes after farming the ad revenue.
Therefore,
1. Create article designing coin and winning contest 2. Post article to Slashdot including link to website with story 2. Post article to Slashdot including link to website with story 3. Farm ad revenue 4. Profit
(The class learns that the planetarium is closed. Arnold steps to the front of the bus.) Miss Frizzle: Yes, Arnold? Arnold: Isn't there, you know, someplace else you could take us? Miss Frizzle: You mean, another planetarium? Arnold: Well, sort of, but bigger! Miss Frizzle: Bigger? Arnold: You know, the big one. Miss Frizzle: Oh ho! Arnold! Why didn't I think of that? T minus 5 and counting! Four, three, two, one, blastoff! Janet: What's happening? Class: A field trip!
I have indeed heard of such deterioration on the Teen Buzz website (which is currently down for excessive bandwidth usage?) - but this page describes it as well.
Those little annoying sine-wave sounds are also used by TV advertisers such as Kentucky Fried Chicken to grab teens' attention if adults are not their market. (For the record, if you can't hear the tone, it sounds off when the KFC bucket shows up.)
The high quality version of the audio will have the 19 (or up to 22.1) kHz sine wave you choose to use in your video upload. So this is a trade-off of quality (high-quality = eek!) versus lack of unwanted range compression (low-quality = listenable, for lack of a better word).
FWIW, I can hear 19 kHz waves. So this trade-off affects me.
I have read and translated the press release while waiting for this story to come out of the Mysterious Future, and I have tried to convert the grammar appropriately; some commas were actually missing in the source text. I go by the rule that requires adding a comma to each side, before and after, of a comment in a sentence (like in this one!).
However, I don't really care about grammar. It's there, and using it correctly makes sentences more understandable by requiring less time to parse them, making it useful; therefore, I use it.
(Finally, he or she, hmm. I am debating that at the moment; I will get back to you when I have decided on one. Or, actually, not really.)
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China has a very oppressive government; India doesn't, as far as I know. It would be interesting to see whether Bing works at all in China... or if it's "restricted" in China like Google Search is.
However, compare Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China ("new regulations to be enforced by the ministry that inflict fines for 'defaming government agencies,' 'splitting the nation,' and leaking "state secrets."")
and Censorship in India, which is also applied to the Internet ("Some media dealing with sex are frequently banned. Films, television shows and music videos are especially prone, however if any literature is banned, it is not usually for pornographic reasons.")
It would also be interesting to know whether Microsoft blocked 'sex' on Bing/India by request. or of its own volition to prevent possible repercussions. The law is enforced more heavily in China than in India, that's for sure.
Mod parent up! It has a link that leads to a well-prepared article on a study of driving under the influence of THC.
The opposing view point is also in this thread, claiming to also have been gathered from Dutch drivers. Nebulous debates galore.
But, like the parent post says, see for yourself.
Aye, I did some research after viewing the Schedule reclassification thread (because the full legalization one is more full of potheads-for-the-sake-of-it and people who just don't care and jump on the bandwagon, I would take everything there with a grain of salt in that one :-). There are indeed road accidents (other comment in this thread) caused by the use of marijuana, and some undesirable effects when "high", and I'm not so keen on full legalization for those reasons. Researching the whole marijuana issue is interesting, and I've only touched the tip of the iceberg yet. Are there any official studies you know about and could link to here?
I don't know if you're referring to the full legalization thread (#2) or just the Schedule reclassification thread (#3), but here goes.
[T]here is a considerable legal difference between "drunk" and driving while "intoxicated" and "under the influence". The concept of drunk, as used in public drunk statutes, refers to a person who is so inebriated that he is incapable of caring for his own safety. This is a considerably greater degree of inebriation than "intoxicated" or "under the influence". This latter condition is often legally defined as that physical state in which the liquor has so far affected the nervous system, brain or muscles as to impair the ability to operate a vehicle in a manner like that of an ordinarily prudent or cautious person under like conditions in the full possession of his faculties using reasonable care. source
[Emphasis mine, from "Drunk driving defense" by Lawrence Taylor & Steven Oberman]
The effects of THC on the body do include relaxation of the muscles, therefore would fall under the term "under the influence" as defined in law. However,
Although marijuana's share of fatal crashes is much lower than those attributed to alcohol, researchers say the results show that marijuana use, even in low doses, significantly increases the risk of fatal car accidents. source
While the quote could be used in an argument on both sides, if marijuana were only reclassified under another Schedule, not fully legalized, the rate of use would be lower than with full legalization (with a law already in place for "intoxicated driving" as above!), so it all comes down to what you'd rather avoid: even more driving accidents than in the current situation; another cause of driving accidents; or perhaps the fact that the "new" cause of accidents is less well detectable by simple behavioral analysis therefore less enforceable. But the point of rescheduling marijuana (#3) is that the current legislation doesn't make sense. See my other comment in this thread for a summary of why.
#2 has 531 votes, not 351. Typos rule.
I used to think that all drugs were bad, and all that stuff. But after reading the second linked thread, the Schedule I thread, specifically the bits about
* marijuana not killing people as much as tobacco and alcohol;
* pure THC being ranked as a Schedule III drug and marijuana as a Schedule I drug (see comment by user pbrigando13);
* Oxycontin et al., more damaging and causing more of a dependency than marijuana (which creates none), not being on the Controlled Substances List altogether;
* (taking this one with a grain of salt) the advantages of marijuana, rarer use of violence and driving accidents from users than alcoholics, etc. (see comment by user onegod1world)
, I'm reconsidering that stance.
Also, I'd like to point out that #1 is End Imperial Presidency -- with 755 votes against #2's 351 --, heavily criticizing Bush's presidency and calling out what happened in Iraq as war crimes, as they should be called. That is a serious one, and I for one am glad that it got voted up top.
... because this type of "Linux for the desktop" articles gets posted almost every month. If I could, I would mark all of these articles dupes even across month boundaries.
Let the flames begin, though. I may* come back to read the comments in the coming days.
_________
* The word MAY, as used in this comment, has the same meaning as in RFC 2119.
To retain a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5105 ...?
Oh, I get it. Haha. Nice late April Fool's joke, Slashdot!
If it's not about video piracy, what tells me it's really about telco fees? What's next, they'll say they want to recover a lost human embryo mistakenly packaged inside a server rack?
For some reason, using the UL tag and starting with a LI, even if the first LI is followed by text, yields an empty list item. I had not found a workaround before hitting the Submit button.
If there was a way to mod articles, I'd mod this -1 Troll and -1 Flamebait.
The universal remote has its uses, the smartphone has its own, and, last I checked:
Just because it has less use for presentations doesn't mean that it's dying. If anything, other uses may be found for it, including presentations.
Also, why replace a $20 item (or even less) with a $200 item (or even more) if all you're going to do is watch TV and DVDs with it? If the universal remote is truly dying, then the big phone companies have won the war of overconsumption: sell a product that will be obsolete in two years, make it have tons of uses, and have the buyer depend more and more on it such that s/he deems it absolutely necessary and buys it again and again as newer versions come out with even more feature creep, while making everyone pay the full price for all the features despite many of the buyers not using even an eighth of them.
I'd rather keep that remote, thanks. Mine has lasted around... 10 years now?
OptiPNG apparently doesn't care about my PNG files either, then. Firefox doesn't care enough about my downloads to write them fully to disk before saying the download is done; 'tar z' doesn't care enough about my backups to write them fully to disk before I can use the backup tarball, etc.
And this is where I state that the programs a user uses do not know the intent of said user in all cases. Imagine if the 'tar' utility called fsync on each file when I restored a .tar.gz file containing 1500 small files. The disk would thrash, unless there was some sort of read-ahead done on the .tar.gz before... but then the filesystem metadata for the extracted files would need to be written too, which means that the disk would thrash on writes alone, never mind interwoven with reads.
However, fsyncing a zip file which I'm only creating to send over my LAN and then deleting places unnecessary strain on my hard drive.
Azureus, the well-known Java BitTorrent client, does fsync calls (actually via Java's FileChannel.force(), but that's another story), and I hate that. My connection is liable to filling up the hard drive's seek queue due to metadata updates while downloading, thereby giving less I/O time to other applications and starving them. I would rather see it fsync once at the end of the download, before the hash check, or do data-only fsyncs that need to seek less. I don't care that the file's last-modification time is wrong while I'm downloading.
If all programs will now start to fsync files because of this POSIX rule and the ext4 filesystem, then I will use laptop_mode even on my desktop, because it drops fsyncs to delay writes up to its configured interval. The last thing I need as a desktop user is GNOME or KDE starting slower, which it will if it takes Tso's advice to heart... No more grouping writes across these hundreds of files!
Confirming the block on the Orange network.
The contents of the cited Wikipedia page are "Object not found". HTTPS fails to connect at all.
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keep[ thoser reseeaarch gramts comming guys!1 ~VMC */
}
As long as you don't start throwing houses, hotels or even chairs around, we're fine.
Both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama agree that education needs to be thoroughly reformed.
Who needs education aimed at making the students cram for tests only for the ego of the schools? What good is it if your child forgets everything after them? That doesn't help at all. This, to me, is the core of the issue. Rankings. As an aside, No Child Left Behind makes extensive use of those, to determine which schools should get additional funding.
What I'd like to see is a school system that doesn't focus so much on rankings, fudging scores to get a higher one, pressuring the underprivileged and underscoring to drop out in the process. Those people deserve undiscriminating education too, and equal access to education is something both candidates advocate.
The parents who got complacent will (hopefully) get going with this one, too! Choice quotes from each candidate:
McCain Parental involvement is critical to the success of any pre-K program. Current federal programs will be focused on educating parents on the basics of preparing their children for a productive educational experience. These programs will place an emphasis on reading and numbers skills, as well as nutrition and general health. Reinforcing to parents the fundamental importance of reading to their children as a primary way of expanding their vocabulary and preparing their young minds to learn will be emphasized at every level.
Obama (PDF warning) Investing in early childhood education during the infant and toddler years is particularly critical. Though parents remain the first teachers for our children, an increasing number of infants and toddlers spend significant parts of their day with caretakers other than their parents. In addition to ensuring that child care is accessible and affordable, we must do more to ensure that it is high quality and provides the early education experiences our children need.
Both agree that a child's education starts with the parents' involvement in it. It's common sense to some, I'll admit, but:
Obama Research shows that early experiences shape whether a child's brain develops strong skills for future learning, behavior and success. Without a strong base on which to build, children, particularly disadvantaged children, will be behind long before they reach kindergarten. Investing in early learning also makes economic sense. For every one dollar invested in high quality, comprehensive programs supporting children and families from birth, there is a $7-$10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system, and better health.
The schools have a responsibility in children's education, but then so do the parents! And not just for education, either. Providing healthy food to one's child(ren) is essential to their proper development. Care and affection given to one's child(ren) cannot be replaced by anyone else, and is also essential.
The Govt has a role, but it's not the silver bullet.
(Disclaimer: I'm Canadian, but I'm quite interested in this election.)
You're not alone. Apparently I forgot that copy-paste is a good way to copy text you're about to quote, not just to repeat an item more than once... (I missed "about" in point 1.)
Them computers, they're evil! Back in my day, you had to rewrite everything you wanted to duplicate, by hand, there was none of that copy-paste stuff!
I'm pretty sure the profit comes after farming the ad revenue.
Therefore,
1. Create article designing coin and winning contest
2. Post article to Slashdot including link to website with story
2. Post article to Slashdot including link to website with story
3. Farm ad revenue
4. Profit
Fixed :) Gotta love copy-paste.
(The class learns that the planetarium is closed. Arnold steps to the front of the bus.)
Miss Frizzle: Yes, Arnold?
Arnold: Isn't there, you know, someplace else you could take us?
Miss Frizzle: You mean, another planetarium?
Arnold: Well, sort of, but bigger!
Miss Frizzle: Bigger?
Arnold: You know, the big one.
Miss Frizzle: Oh ho! Arnold! Why didn't I think of that? T minus 5 and counting! Four, three, two, one, blastoff!
Janet: What's happening?
Class: A field trip!
Suddenoutbreakofcommonsense? :) Tags of that length are allowed, and it became a standard of sorts already.
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From Dipity. Looks like this story is invalid already.
I have indeed heard of such deterioration on the Teen Buzz website (which is currently down for excessive bandwidth usage?) - but this page describes it as well.
Those little annoying sine-wave sounds are also used by TV advertisers such as Kentucky Fried Chicken to grab teens' attention if adults are not their market. (For the record, if you can't hear the tone, it sounds off when the KFC bucket shows up.)
The high quality version of the audio will have the 19 (or up to 22.1) kHz sine wave you choose to use in your video upload. So this is a trade-off of quality (high-quality = eek!) versus lack of unwanted range compression (low-quality = listenable, for lack of a better word).
FWIW, I can hear 19 kHz waves. So this trade-off affects me.
I come from Quebec, in Canada.
I have read and translated the press release while waiting for this story to come out of the Mysterious Future, and I have tried to convert the grammar appropriately; some commas were actually missing in the source text. I go by the rule that requires adding a comma to each side, before and after, of a comment in a sentence (like in this one!).
However, I don't really care about grammar. It's there, and using it correctly makes sentences more understandable by requiring less time to parse them, making it useful; therefore, I use it.
(Finally, he or she, hmm. I am debating that at the moment; I will get back to you when I have decided on one. Or, actually, not really.)