although I'm sure it would be back to normal once people had forgotten about it.
Not really. The Three Mile Island accident was a mild, harmless incident in a nuclear energy facility but it is still used by nuclear energy opponents to denounce the "harms and perils" of the nuclear power.
The point of terrorism is to create terror, not necessarily by killing people or destroying large infrastructures. A single attack on a civilian nuclear facility, even if it didn't destroy or damage anything sensitive, could be enough to fuel the opponents of nuclear power and set the nuclear energy industry on the USA 50 more years back.
Check this map. It shows clearly where are the proper areas to grow sugar cane, and where the Amazon forest it.
Also, that is not "already-cleared land [that] has been converted to sugar cane production". The portuguese started the so called "Sugarcane cycle" there in 1530. That particular strip of land has no other possible use after our metropolitan overlords cut the original forest under it (Mata Atlântica, not Amazon forest).
Claiming that sugarcane crops are responsible for the destruction of the Amazon forest is as illiterate as claiming that the Gulf of Mexico oil drills are responsible for the erosion in the Grand Canyon National Park. It just doesn't make sense at all.
You and whoever modded your comment insightful are, at best, naive, letting yourselves tpo be misled by the anti-ethanol lobby and, at worst, plain idiots that should study more history and geography and spend less time lurking on Slashdot.
Parent post is inflammatory but not troll. He has a point, this implementation is a minimal test case built in order to prove a point. A skilled C programmer could implement the same test case that would perform better than the LISP one, if the task was worthy.
Had he committed an actual crime (as in criminal offense) and stole the DVD on a store, he would probably only get fined
"Infringement notices not only provide a prompt and direct response to shop theft under $600, they significantly reduce the cost and paperwork associated with prosecution. The ARA would therefore expect that authorities continue working to reduce shop theft and improve deterrence with firmer enforcement measures," Evans said.
From July 1 2008 police will be able to issue infringement notices for seven common offences, including shop theft of less than $600. The infringement fine for this offence will be two penalty units ($227). Guidelines for the use of infringement notices for this offence provide that police will consider factors such as the person's criminal record, whether the matter appears to be part of a wider criminal operation and whether restitution is an issue before deciding whether to issue an infringement.
Notice that even in the case of an actual criminal activity, police will take many variables in context before to punish.
It would be great if Slashdot had a new section called editorial, so the Staff and their frequent contributors could post op-ed pieces like this one. It would be better categorized, separating actual news from opinion, and give users the option to read or disregard it.
I RTFA and, even when searching for answers, Google moped the floor with Wolfram Alpha. I know Alpha is still on its nest but, both sites evolving in the same rate they are evolving now, I don't see Google's dominance being challenged just yet.
Why not? If the price is right and the content is worth, I have no problems in paying for it, just like I don't have problems paying for a ticket to a movie theater or for a nice and shiny DVD.
As most things in life, it all depends on the value you get in return for your money.
Of course there is a Streissand Effect. Apple tried to quash discussion about making their hardware to "talk" to other software (in order to minimize visibility), got countersued and now a lot more people than the original members of the discussion are aware of such subject. That is the very definition of Streisand Effect.
What's up with all these "chinese menace" news? There are two in the front page right now, and more or less a dozen this year. Stirring up the herd with this "us vs. them" mentality is something that I'm not be surprised to see on the mainstream media, but here on Slashdot?
When it is not about the Chinese it is about Venezuela. Or Cuba. Brazil and Iran. Good old (ex)Soviet Russia. The french and the european in general.
Echoing Homeland Security FUD the way Slashdot is doing is only to generate buzz, flamebaiting the pro- and the anti-american, creating nothing but more endless threads of mutual accusations and jingoistic regurgitation, overgeneralizing statements and outright racist/xenophobic ones.
Fuck that, if there is nothing better to fill the main index, please, post less, not worse.
You are generalizing your assumption based on only one data point: TPB. (I've heard that) There are private trackers that even post their indie bands torrents on the first page to promote them (with authorization from the band, of course). I'm not posting the name, but one of them, if you are canadian, you cannot access it anyway:wink::wink::nudge::nudge:
Well, if you have to be pedantic, you can always go and complain with my original source (emphasis mine).
Four men linked to The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, were each jailed for a year on Friday for breaching copyright and ordered to pay 30 million Swedish crowns ($3.58 million) in compensation.
But it is not only Slashdot. Lance Armstrong is doing it, I heard about it the other day on television, something in the lines of "Lance Armstrong informed the public that it may miss the Giro using this novely service, Twitter". Actually, even Associated press "noticed the trend" (or is propagating a well thought press release, depending on what really happened) and released a list with the nicknames of some of the celebrities that uses the service.
That reminds me of what happened last year, lots and lots of stories (even on Slashdot) about Second Life, how people were making money on Second life, virtual property on Second Life, virtual child abuse on Second Life, and so on and so forth, lots of stories with several things in common: lots of mentions of the service name, stock footage of people using it, a long description of the service in question, fake and minor controversies.
Sometimes I wonder if it is only a fad, a hype that is propagated naturally by the collective hysteria or if there are really people in the Marketing business powerful and competent enough to orchestrate a press campaign so pervasive and organic that looks like genuine public interest.
To all the people that already answered saying that it is people right to have a degree in Creationism, you are missing the point. The problem here is not the degree per se (there are already Theology advanced degree courses), but calling it a *Science* degree. Creationism is not science, and should not be equated to one. It is the same reason that makes the advanced degree in Philosophy to be a "Master of Arts", and not "Master of Science".
Upcoming version of browser outperforms current version of competitors is not remarkable. A most relevant comparison would include Firefox 3.1 (already in Beta) and Safari 4 (also in Beta).
The reality is that with the App Store now hosting over 25,000 apps, the competition is fierce. While it's true that a few select apps are making developers rich, the reality is that most apps don't make a lot of money.
And how is that different from what happens IRL (or, as the cool cats are calling it now, AFK)? You enter a market, develop a product and compete with hundreds or thousands of similar offers. A couple will succeed, some will get by and most will flunk and disappear in its own mediocrity (averageness, ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding).
That is not the "[r]ealities of Selling On Apple's App Store", that's the reality of selling. People will copy your idea and sell. People will copy your product look and feel. The toughest ones will survive, the rest won't, but maybe will make enough money to keep the viability of their business choice. Or not. At all.
Some will be expired, but the technology employed on the current chips (state of the art and previous generations) are covered by more recent patents, and if NVidia wants to produce anything more advanced that the good old 8086, they will have to negotiate.
Check this and this articles. That shows the heavy politics involved between the big processor companies in order to be able to produce our beloved processors.
Except that Intel and AMD hold vital patents to the set of technologies that are part of the x86 architeture. They have to cross license because they depend on each other, but they have no obligation to license to NVidia.
Google can help a lot on this kind of calculation.
(250 gigabytes) / (25 Mbps) = 22.7555556 hours
Sometimes, because of how advanced google can be at providing answers for everything and anything, I wonder if with Google we are moving towards singularity. I for one welcome our all-seeing eye overlord.
P.S. It amazes me even more to know that the link to this very Slashdot article was returned by the above linked google query even before I submitted this comment. Scary (and circular) stuff!
Slashdot Mirror
Not really. The Three Mile Island accident was a mild, harmless incident in a nuclear energy facility but it is still used by nuclear energy opponents to denounce the "harms and perils" of the nuclear power.
The point of terrorism is to create terror, not necessarily by killing people or destroying large infrastructures. A single attack on a civilian nuclear facility, even if it didn't destroy or damage anything sensitive, could be enough to fuel the opponents of nuclear power and set the nuclear energy industry on the USA 50 more years back.
Check this map. It shows clearly where are the proper areas to grow sugar cane, and where the Amazon forest it.
Also, that is not "already-cleared land [that] has been converted to sugar cane production". The portuguese started the so called "Sugarcane cycle" there in 1530. That particular strip of land has no other possible use after our metropolitan overlords cut the original forest under it (Mata Atlântica, not Amazon forest). Claiming that sugarcane crops are responsible for the destruction of the Amazon forest is as illiterate as claiming that the Gulf of Mexico oil drills are responsible for the erosion in the Grand Canyon National Park. It just doesn't make sense at all. You and whoever modded your comment insightful are, at best, naive, letting yourselves tpo be misled by the anti-ethanol lobby and, at worst, plain idiots that should study more history and geography and spend less time lurking on Slashdot.
Parent post is inflammatory but not troll. He has a point, this implementation is a minimal test case built in order to prove a point. A skilled C programmer could implement the same test case that would perform better than the LISP one, if the task was worthy.
Notice that even in the case of an actual criminal activity, police will take many variables in context before to punish.
It would be great if Slashdot had a new section called editorial, so the Staff and their frequent contributors could post op-ed pieces like this one. It would be better categorized, separating actual news from opinion, and give users the option to read or disregard it.
Meanwhile, in Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal mutters something about all this wasteful government spending.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana"
I RTFA and, even when searching for answers, Google moped the floor with Wolfram Alpha. I know Alpha is still on its nest but, both sites evolving in the same rate they are evolving now, I don't see Google's dominance being challenged just yet.
Why not? If the price is right and the content is worth, I have no problems in paying for it, just like I don't have problems paying for a ticket to a movie theater or for a nice and shiny DVD.
As most things in life, it all depends on the value you get in return for your money.
Of course there is a Streissand Effect. Apple tried to quash discussion about making their hardware to "talk" to other software (in order to minimize visibility), got countersued and now a lot more people than the original members of the discussion are aware of such subject. That is the very definition of Streisand Effect.
What's up with all these "chinese menace" news? There are two in the front page right now, and more or less a dozen this year. Stirring up the herd with this "us vs. them" mentality is something that I'm not be surprised to see on the mainstream media, but here on Slashdot?
When it is not about the Chinese it is about Venezuela. Or Cuba. Brazil and Iran. Good old (ex)Soviet Russia. The french and the european in general.
Echoing Homeland Security FUD the way Slashdot is doing is only to generate buzz, flamebaiting the pro- and the anti-american, creating nothing but more endless threads of mutual accusations and jingoistic regurgitation, overgeneralizing statements and outright racist/xenophobic ones.
Fuck that, if there is nothing better to fill the main index, please, post less, not worse.
You are generalizing your assumption based on only one data point: TPB. (I've heard that) There are private trackers that even post their indie bands torrents on the first page to promote them (with authorization from the band, of course). I'm not posting the name, but one of them, if you are canadian, you cannot access it anyway :wink: :wink: :nudge: :nudge:
Judging by the recent trial of TPB, following the letter of the law in Sweden is not enough to defend yourself if the case ends up in court.
Not euros but Swedish crowns, what converts to about $3.58 million, or 2.7 million euros
One thing that intrigues me a lot is the number of mentions that service in getting in the media (even mainstream media) in the past weeks. Slashdot, for instance, along with this article has other two in the frontpage (Researchers Can ID Anonymous Twitterers and Build Your Own Open Source Twittering Power Meter.
But it is not only Slashdot. Lance Armstrong is doing it, I heard about it the other day on television, something in the lines of "Lance Armstrong informed the public that it may miss the Giro using this novely service, Twitter". Actually, even Associated press "noticed the trend" (or is propagating a well thought press release, depending on what really happened) and released a list with the nicknames of some of the celebrities that uses the service.
That reminds me of what happened last year, lots and lots of stories (even on Slashdot) about Second Life, how people were making money on Second life, virtual property on Second Life, virtual child abuse on Second Life, and so on and so forth, lots of stories with several things in common: lots of mentions of the service name, stock footage of people using it, a long description of the service in question, fake and minor controversies.
Sometimes I wonder if it is only a fad, a hype that is propagated naturally by the collective hysteria or if there are really people in the Marketing business powerful and competent enough to orchestrate a press campaign so pervasive and organic that looks like genuine public interest.
To all the people that already answered saying that it is people right to have a degree in Creationism, you are missing the point. The problem here is not the degree per se (there are already Theology advanced degree courses), but calling it a *Science* degree. Creationism is not science, and should not be equated to one. It is the same reason that makes the advanced degree in Philosophy to be a "Master of Arts", and not "Master of Science".
Upcoming version of browser outperforms current version of competitors is not remarkable. A most relevant comparison would include Firefox 3.1 (already in Beta) and Safari 4 (also in Beta).
And how is that different from what happens IRL (or, as the cool cats are calling it now, AFK)? You enter a market, develop a product and compete with hundreds or thousands of similar offers. A couple will succeed, some will get by and most will flunk and disappear in its own mediocrity (averageness, ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding).
That is not the "[r]ealities of Selling On Apple's App Store", that's the reality of selling. People will copy your idea and sell. People will copy your product look and feel. The toughest ones will survive, the rest won't, but maybe will make enough money to keep the viability of their business choice. Or not. At all.
Some will be expired, but the technology employed on the current chips (state of the art and previous generations) are covered by more recent patents, and if NVidia wants to produce anything more advanced that the good old 8086, they will have to negotiate.
Check this and this articles. That shows the heavy politics involved between the big processor companies in order to be able to produce our beloved processors.
Except that Intel and AMD hold vital patents to the set of technologies that are part of the x86 architeture. They have to cross license because they depend on each other, but they have no obligation to license to NVidia.
Sometimes, because of how advanced google can be at providing answers for everything and anything, I wonder if with Google we are moving towards singularity. I for one welcome our all-seeing eye overlord.
P.S. It amazes me even more to know that the link to this very Slashdot article was returned by the above linked google query even before I submitted this comment. Scary (and circular) stuff!
There, fixed that for you
Right now I'm browsing the sites mentioned on TFA and nothing happ&/"$%& NO CARRIER