Exactly what I was thinking. If you're going to back a currency with anything, why not do it with something inherently valuable to living things, like distilled water?
Cry me a river. Have you ever thought of going early to the airport? Maybe those people standing around have better time management skills than you, and all you do is let your rage and frustration reach the boiling point like a child that's about to throw a tantrum.
Mod parent up. Autoimmune diseases tear the body apart. I didn't RTFA, but somebody in end-stage kidney failure would likely choose some risky options, maybe even unscientific ones. I am in no way endorsing the pseudoscience going on here with the stem cell treatments, but palliative care is the only option available with modern medicine in these circumstances. With all the stupid laws here in the United States outlawing effective pain-relieving drugs and assisted suicide, people are getting desperate.
Ahh, the smell of fresh Grammar Nazi bait... Every instance of "begging the question" on Slashdot should automatically be modded +5 Funny, since it pulls out the strangest people, debating about the most pointless things that nobody outside a debate club cares about. It's the best meme on this site.
Uh oh. Not only do we have Grammar Nazis, now we have Malapropism Nazis! The horror! I'm sure it was the Roman alphabet equivalent of missing a single brush stroke on a kanji.
Wait till they declare a profit this quarter. The whole country will draw and quarter them.
Yeah, just like we did with Goldman Sachs. Oh, wait. These corporations are acting with impunity simply because they know the legislators are fully behind them. Any attempt from the public to demand accountability (like revoking their corporate charter or seize all their assets in the United States) will immediately result in a media blitz where "the country is on the brink of socialism". If grassroots activism can't push past this point, BP will get away with this now and in the future.
If the distributors don't agree with the GPL, they don't distribute the program. Simple as that. The distributors are well aware of the license terms.
I hope that the viral and binary linking/packaging terms of the GPL are not only challenged but struck down as unenforceable...I do have a problem with license which attempt to "steal" or encumber the rights of other people.
I'm against the proprietary licenses that encumber the rights of the end-users. I hope that those are deemed unenforceable in the future.
20,000 leagues is all the way through the Earth and about a quarter of the way to the moon.
Well, I bet Jules Verne wanted to write a book like that before the editors waltzed all over him saying, "That's impossible! You should make it the distance traveled under the sea!" He had his revenge with the Apollo program. Oh yes.
The consensus among the most vocal crowd on Slashdot is that the government and its various agencies are an extraterrestrial tyrannical force that exists to make our lives a living hell (with the paradoxical exception of our military might), and only the Free Market(tm) can save us. These sorts of people have never understood what democracy entails, and your comment won't enlighten them, sadly.
Solution: Make an online script (I dunno, someplace called "Am I dead yet?"). Log in every couple of days, check "I'm not dead yet!" Use the much cheaper "e-mail marketing" services to notify your relatives immediately if the box hasn't been checked in 48 hours. Make sure that no greedy relatives or old arch-nemeses change your password. These matters are irreversible under normal means. ??? Profit!
Lots of good points, but some seem unnecessarily and impractically harsh.
Stop honoring lesser holidays.
Which ones are the important holidays, and how can you justify those in an impartial manner?
...be quick to permanently expel students who either show little interest in academic life or have behavior problems.
Sounds like one-strike-you're-out to me. Suspensions and counseling should make things clear the first or second time, and you can consider expulsions afterward. Having little interest in academic life is relatively normal, otherwise everybody would be scholars. Not bothering to make a minimal effort suggests a problem.
In essence every student should know that endless help is at hand for excellence but endless rejection and failure are also very real and immediate consequences. Make courses just hard enough so that some good students can not pass them.
This is utterly impractical and it sounds a little vindictive. Set the bar so that some good students are eternally unable to pass any of their courses? Intellectual improvement is the point of going to school, and there should be help for students who have the determination to pass a course.
Be certain that Texas has no influence over text books.
Care to be a little more specific? I'm sure there are many intelligent professors in Texas that publish adequate material for the subject(s) at hand. Though I agree with most of the other stuff. Education should be a higher priority in the United States than our military prowess.
When it comes down to it, nobody needs their clock cycles 24/7 at even load, even though that's what computers are designed to do.
Except for the halt instruction, found in most CPUs, that drastically reduces power consumption while the CPU isn't doing anything. Running a computer at 100% load sucks up more energy, directly and indirectly (e.g. cooling). That's why I don't run x@home distributed computing at 100%; it wears down the computer faster.
I mean, it is sucking the kinetic energy directly out of the movement of air.
This kinetic energy is constantly being supplied by the sun. The troposphere contains ~75% of the air mass in Earth's atmosphere, but it's about 10 kilometers thick, and I doubt any wind turbines of this height currently exist. Besides, we cut down several million acres of trees without any regard to atmospheric patterns.
Funny you should mention that. The discussion is already saturated with laissez-faire anti-union shills. "If only we got rid of public education so the educational system will be driven by profit and market forces! The private sector solves everything!" Take away one of the last things in the United States that the public has any say about, right? Everything will be fine? It sounds to me like education for the rich.
Back before Linux was popular, source code licenses were common and understood...Then Linux came along...
Bullshit. Large corporations with armies of lawyers are now suddenly confused about copyright law because a loose collaboration of idealists decided to subvert them? The consumer software industry has always been trying to dictate what people can and can't do with their computers, and the hardware industry has been on the DRM bandwagon for quite some time, all to get a little more short-term profit. If they're confused about anything, it's because they painted themselves into a legislative corner. Wasn't the GNU project started because the proprietary UNIXes were such a copyright mess to begin with?
It's all about who has true power and who doesn't. Of course people without power (Sys Admins, serfs, peasants, etc) don't play politics; they don't have the attention of the world. It doesn't matter if they say something that means everything to everyone because "The Political Machine" isn't letting them be heard. The rapid corporate consolidation of the press is a very deliberate tactic on this front. Could this all be fixed for the good of the public? It would take organized public action, which the internet could serendipitously enable. That's why censorship of the internet is such a popular topic amongst the power elite at the moment, and probably the ultimate goal of this "cyber warfare defense" nonsense.
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Exactly what I was thinking. If you're going to back a currency with anything, why not do it with something inherently valuable to living things, like distilled water?
Cry me a river. Have you ever thought of going early to the airport? Maybe those people standing around have better time management skills than you, and all you do is let your rage and frustration reach the boiling point like a child that's about to throw a tantrum.
Because third-party developers can write whatever code they want to.
There is a registry setting that forcibly enables ASLR for all executables.
the supplies are not critical
In other words, it had everything worth living for in it. You don't *need* tasty food or new videos to survive.
He said only one percent of Web comments have any value and called the rest 'garbage.'
Funny, that also seems to be the case with most articles. Garbage in, garbage out.
Mod parent up.
Autoimmune diseases tear the body apart. I didn't RTFA, but somebody in end-stage kidney failure would likely choose some risky options, maybe even unscientific ones. I am in no way endorsing the pseudoscience going on here with the stem cell treatments, but palliative care is the only option available with modern medicine in these circumstances. With all the stupid laws here in the United States outlawing effective pain-relieving drugs and assisted suicide, people are getting desperate.
Graham Cluley...declined to identify the site, saying only that it was dedicated to open source software.
Begging the question: was it Slashdot?
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Begging the question
Ahh, the smell of fresh Grammar Nazi bait...
Every instance of "begging the question" on Slashdot should automatically be modded +5 Funny, since it pulls out the strangest people, debating about the most pointless things that nobody outside a debate club cares about. It's the best meme on this site.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
Uh oh. Not only do we have Grammar Nazis, now we have Malapropism Nazis! The horror!
I'm sure it was the Roman alphabet equivalent of missing a single brush stroke on a kanji.
Wait till they declare a profit this quarter. The whole country will draw and quarter them.
Yeah, just like we did with Goldman Sachs. Oh, wait.
These corporations are acting with impunity simply because they know the legislators are fully behind them. Any attempt from the public to demand accountability (like revoking their corporate charter or seize all their assets in the United States) will immediately result in a media blitz where "the country is on the brink of socialism". If grassroots activism can't push past this point, BP will get away with this now and in the future.
Why does it always have to be a "fight"?
Because some people, like the GP, don't understand that war solves absolutely nothing and causes deliberate suffering.
If the distributors don't agree with the GPL, they don't distribute the program. Simple as that. The distributors are well aware of the license terms.
I hope that the viral and binary linking/packaging terms of the GPL are not only challenged but struck down as unenforceable...I do have a problem with license which attempt to "steal" or encumber the rights of other people.
I'm against the proprietary licenses that encumber the rights of the end-users. I hope that those are deemed unenforceable in the future.
20,000 leagues is all the way through the Earth and about a quarter of the way to the moon.
Well, I bet Jules Verne wanted to write a book like that before the editors waltzed all over him saying, "That's impossible! You should make it the distance traveled under the sea!" He had his revenge with the Apollo program. Oh yes.
Wow, just...wow.
You did your math wrong there. A 20-ms cycle is 50 Hz, slower than the AC we get out here in the United States.
They think they have the answer to cheap solar power now, but the Berry glitch will get them. Just wait another 100 hours...any minute now...
It's not "you vs. them."
The consensus among the most vocal crowd on Slashdot is that the government and its various agencies are an extraterrestrial tyrannical force that exists to make our lives a living hell (with the paradoxical exception of our military might), and only the Free Market(tm) can save us. These sorts of people have never understood what democracy entails, and your comment won't enlighten them, sadly.
Don't worry, it's safe to approach during nighttime.
Solution:
Make an online script (I dunno, someplace called "Am I dead yet?").
Log in every couple of days, check "I'm not dead yet!"
Use the much cheaper "e-mail marketing" services to notify your relatives immediately if the box hasn't been checked in 48 hours.
Make sure that no greedy relatives or old arch-nemeses change your password. These matters are irreversible under normal means.
???
Profit!
Lots of good points, but some seem unnecessarily and impractically harsh.
Stop honoring lesser holidays.
Which ones are the important holidays, and how can you justify those in an impartial manner?
...be quick to permanently expel students who either show little interest in academic life or have behavior problems.
Sounds like one-strike-you're-out to me. Suspensions and counseling should make things clear the first or second time, and you can consider expulsions afterward. Having little interest in academic life is relatively normal, otherwise everybody would be scholars. Not bothering to make a minimal effort suggests a problem.
In essence every student should know that endless help is at hand for excellence but endless rejection and failure are also very real and immediate consequences. Make courses just hard enough so that some good students can not pass them.
This is utterly impractical and it sounds a little vindictive. Set the bar so that some good students are eternally unable to pass any of their courses? Intellectual improvement is the point of going to school, and there should be help for students who have the determination to pass a course.
Be certain that Texas has no influence over text books.
Care to be a little more specific? I'm sure there are many intelligent professors in Texas that publish adequate material for the subject(s) at hand.
Though I agree with most of the other stuff. Education should be a higher priority in the United States than our military prowess.
When it comes down to it, nobody needs their clock cycles 24/7 at even load, even though that's what computers are designed to do.
Except for the halt instruction, found in most CPUs, that drastically reduces power consumption while the CPU isn't doing anything. Running a computer at 100% load sucks up more energy, directly and indirectly (e.g. cooling). That's why I don't run x@home distributed computing at 100%; it wears down the computer faster.
I mean, it is sucking the kinetic energy directly out of the movement of air.
This kinetic energy is constantly being supplied by the sun. The troposphere contains ~75% of the air mass in Earth's atmosphere, but it's about 10 kilometers thick, and I doubt any wind turbines of this height currently exist. Besides, we cut down several million acres of trees without any regard to atmospheric patterns.
Funny you should mention that. The discussion is already saturated with laissez-faire anti-union shills. "If only we got rid of public education so the educational system will be driven by profit and market forces! The private sector solves everything!" Take away one of the last things in the United States that the public has any say about, right? Everything will be fine? It sounds to me like education for the rich.
Back before Linux was popular, source code licenses were common and understood...Then Linux came along...
Bullshit. Large corporations with armies of lawyers are now suddenly confused about copyright law because a loose collaboration of idealists decided to subvert them? The consumer software industry has always been trying to dictate what people can and can't do with their computers, and the hardware industry has been on the DRM bandwagon for quite some time, all to get a little more short-term profit. If they're confused about anything, it's because they painted themselves into a legislative corner. Wasn't the GNU project started because the proprietary UNIXes were such a copyright mess to begin with?
Don't throw lawn darts at people!
It's all about who has true power and who doesn't. Of course people without power (Sys Admins, serfs, peasants, etc) don't play politics; they don't have the attention of the world. It doesn't matter if they say something that means everything to everyone because "The Political Machine" isn't letting them be heard. The rapid corporate consolidation of the press is a very deliberate tactic on this front. Could this all be fixed for the good of the public? It would take organized public action, which the internet could serendipitously enable. That's why censorship of the internet is such a popular topic amongst the power elite at the moment, and probably the ultimate goal of this "cyber warfare defense" nonsense.