Do they really think transferring the domain into their control is even remotely likely?
Most likely not. Most likely, no reasonable person actually expects such a thing to happen. But this is, after all, slashdot. And with the new conservative bend on this site (notice how often townhall.com advertises here with various anti-Obama rhetoric) this is exactly what slashdot wants to have on the front page. Because even though the conservatives have power in congress again, they still want to be able to play the "oppressed minority" card, which slashdot will happily aid with.
Now that the conservatives at slashdot (those who hadn't already heard of your plight) are aware of the situation you can rest easy knowing that they've got your back. If you ask nicely Taco may even send some of his TownHall.com ad revenue your way to help with your legal bills.
As they write, 'It is very likely that a large (15-20 cm in diameter), irregularly-shaped, cm-thick pancake [of PETN explosive] with beveled edges, taped to the abdomen, would be invisible to this technology.... It is also easy to see that an object such as a wire or a boxcutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible.'"
Will probably put them on the do-not-fly list for the rest of eternity. Of course, that won't matter much if they are scientists, since our country is about to start eviscerating the research budgets (and hence they will want to do their work elsewhere) anyways.
Disney does, after all, hold to their "vault" model of distribution - where a movie is only for sale for a certain period of time and then taken out of circulation for years before being re-re-released. Amongst others, Tron is an excellent example of this; you can't buy it in a store (Disney-owned store or not) for any price right now because Disney simply won't sell it. So if Disney allowed Netflix to carry all the titles they currently sell, it would be a nice library but it would be neither a comprehensive nor a permanent addition.
I would think someone would have written a browser plug-in by now that would detect all-caps writing and automagically correct it to caps-free.
Of course, there are a few people out there who use caps because their eyesight is so terrible that they cannot read the writing on the screen unless it is all caps; perhaps instead the caps lock key should increment the size of the default font?
If they are making the claim of "200 countries" based on where the users say they are, there is a significant problem in that they are trusting that response to be legit. There was a time when I used to register most of my software to Uzbekistan, even though I have never been there. And of course, if you are registering software with a code that doesn't belong to you, why would you give your real location?
It's really rotten that the US is one of the only places where they charge you to RECEIVE texts!
Indeed it does blow that we are charged for the privilege of receiving a text message. Generally if someone sends me one I respond by calling them on the phone; they generally get the idea after a couple times.
That and I find that few people who communicate largely by text message are worth communicating with often anyways, they seem to be at a different point in their lives than I am - a point that I don't care to return to in my own life.
We already passed a health care bill that was nothing more than a massive handout to the insurance industry. Now we are considering mandating backup cameras on the advice of the insurance industry? Notice that of course they didn't say anything about reducing rates for people who have them; more likely the insurance industry will just start raising further the rates of those who don't (and then later calling it a "discount" for those who do).
Yeah, I'm glad to see that the government isn't just looking out for big business... Remind me again how we changed things in 2008?
It also has a $10-for-100MB no-commitment option for a one-day trip -- it's cheaper than paying for hotel and airport Wi-Fi.
While of course very few airports (and almost none of any importance) have free WiFi, most hotels do. In fact, I often use it as a selection criteria when choosing which hotel to stay at. I can't recall off the top of my head the last time that I stayed at a hotel that did not have free WiFi (although I have stayed at a few that had rather lousy free WiFi).
It's frustrating that our govt either can't or won't do anything to open up the market to more competition.
The cell companies have convinced a significant portion of the customers that they need a plan with unlimited text messages just to exist in this world. Hence they make those of us who don't have it appear to be a minority of customers who don't need anything else.
And IIRC T-Mobile is now charging me $.30 per message, each way. I just don't send any, unless I really really need to (which is almost never). In fact I would just turn the service off altogether, except a while ago I actually found a valid use for it, and I want to have it available just in case another similar situation should arise.
But either way I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for government intervention on the matter.
That was actually a joke. Yes, I know you can use electricity in various ways to heat water. You can also use fire to heat water (and some people over here do that).
Admittedly, the joke wasn't very good. OK, it was pretty terrible, really.
And by that I mean don't kill this guy. No matter how much it might stoke your ego and make you feel righteous, it is the wrong thing to do. Not only would the punishment be orders of magnitude worse than the crime, it wouldn't accomplish anything anyways.
We all read about spam gangs and botnets regularly. We know that no one person is worth crap to the spam community; even if the 10 most prolific spammers were killed this afternoon the volume would not change appreciably - hell there is an argument that could be made that such an action would actually increase spam volume as people from the next tier would start jockeying for power.
Indeed, no amount of violence or government action (or violent government action) will do anything to the spam problem. If you want to stop spam, you need to attack the motivating force behind the spam - and I'll give you a clue, spam isn't sent off just to piss you off (no matter how much you may want to believe to the contrary).
So take a moment, put down your weapons, and listen. Think about why this guy does what he does. If you can change that, then he won't want to do what he's done anymore.
I don't see this guy listed on the spamhaus top 10 spammers list. We know that if he was arrested in the past week his spam volume would not have decreased that dramatically that quickly; so why does the US government disagree with the magnitude of this guy's role?
We may recall that when the PS3 first came out Sony was losing money on each unit sold. That didn't exactly bring down Sony in the process; nor did it cause people to scream out that it was the result of some great conspiracy.
Back on planet earth, the UAW actually bought a portion of GM. Why would they intentionally screw up the profits of GM when they have their own money invested in it? After all, you can't extract money from a company that doesn't exist...
Not on the 8-year-old and their patent, but on the patent mentioned that was issued to the 4-year-old. You don't really expect us to believe that a patent was issued to someone in Texas for an invention that had nothing to do with killing people, do you?
There's lots of games coming out for PS3 or XBox360 that I'd like to play, but these games are not coming out on the Wii because it's simply not powerful enough
The Wii is actually a reasonably powerful system in terms of CPU/GUP/ etc, in spite of the fact that it outputs at 480p. I suspect a bigger part of why a lot of games don't come out for the Wii comes down to the most distinctive element of the system - the controller itself. PS3/Xbox360 controllers have what, 40 buttons on them? The Wii controller has about 7 buttons (not including the D pad). Even if you include the nunchuck the total button count just isn't there and the programmers find that a significant hindrance. A lot of games expect players to instinctively be able to pull of 4 button combos with specific sequences of other presses on either side of the combo; that simply doesn't work with the Wiimote because there aren't enough buttons to do it.
That said, if the Wiimote gained another dozen buttons in the next iteration they would likely lose some of the distinctive market segments that the Wii opened up - older and younger people.
Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away.
If you turn 360 degrees, you are then facing the same direction you started out. If you then started walking after turning 360 degrees you would be walking the same direction you faced when you started turning - which in this case would probably be right into the XBox 360 that you are trying to avoid.
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Do they really think transferring the domain into their control is even remotely likely?
Most likely not. Most likely, no reasonable person actually expects such a thing to happen. But this is, after all, slashdot. And with the new conservative bend on this site (notice how often townhall.com advertises here with various anti-Obama rhetoric) this is exactly what slashdot wants to have on the front page. Because even though the conservatives have power in congress again, they still want to be able to play the "oppressed minority" card, which slashdot will happily aid with.
Now that the conservatives at slashdot (those who hadn't already heard of your plight) are aware of the situation you can rest easy knowing that they've got your back. If you ask nicely Taco may even send some of his TownHall.com ad revenue your way to help with your legal bills.
As they write, 'It is very likely that a large (15-20 cm in diameter), irregularly-shaped, cm-thick pancake [of PETN explosive] with beveled edges, taped to the abdomen, would be invisible to this technology. ... It is also easy to see that an object such as a wire or a boxcutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible.'"
Will probably put them on the do-not-fly list for the rest of eternity. Of course, that won't matter much if they are scientists, since our country is about to start eviscerating the research budgets (and hence they will want to do their work elsewhere) anyways.
This must be pretty fresh, as it shows 0 tweets related to it so far ... oh, wait. It's already 3 days old.
Disney does, after all, hold to their "vault" model of distribution - where a movie is only for sale for a certain period of time and then taken out of circulation for years before being re-re-released. Amongst others, Tron is an excellent example of this; you can't buy it in a store (Disney-owned store or not) for any price right now because Disney simply won't sell it. So if Disney allowed Netflix to carry all the titles they currently sell, it would be a nice library but it would be neither a comprehensive nor a permanent addition.
This is just Lucas starting his own green revolution.
I would think someone would have written a browser plug-in by now that would detect all-caps writing and automagically correct it to caps-free.
Of course, there are a few people out there who use caps because their eyesight is so terrible that they cannot read the writing on the screen unless it is all caps; perhaps instead the caps lock key should increment the size of the default font?
So if the industry leader drops 5% of the calls, AT&T drops 5.1%.
And then T-Mobile in reality drops 51%. But really, what's an order of magnitude between friends?
If they are making the claim of "200 countries" based on where the users say they are, there is a significant problem in that they are trusting that response to be legit. There was a time when I used to register most of my software to Uzbekistan, even though I have never been there. And of course, if you are registering software with a code that doesn't belong to you, why would you give your real location?
It's really rotten that the US is one of the only places where they charge you to RECEIVE texts!
Indeed it does blow that we are charged for the privilege of receiving a text message. Generally if someone sends me one I respond by calling them on the phone; they generally get the idea after a couple times.
That and I find that few people who communicate largely by text message are worth communicating with often anyways, they seem to be at a different point in their lives than I am - a point that I don't care to return to in my own life.
We already passed a health care bill that was nothing more than a massive handout to the insurance industry. Now we are considering mandating backup cameras on the advice of the insurance industry? Notice that of course they didn't say anything about reducing rates for people who have them; more likely the insurance industry will just start raising further the rates of those who don't (and then later calling it a "discount" for those who do).
Yeah, I'm glad to see that the government isn't just looking out for big business... Remind me again how we changed things in 2008?
It also has a $10-for-100MB no-commitment option for a one-day trip -- it's cheaper than paying for hotel and airport Wi-Fi.
While of course very few airports (and almost none of any importance) have free WiFi, most hotels do. In fact, I often use it as a selection criteria when choosing which hotel to stay at. I can't recall off the top of my head the last time that I stayed at a hotel that did not have free WiFi (although I have stayed at a few that had rather lousy free WiFi).
It's frustrating that our govt either can't or won't do anything to open up the market to more competition.
The cell companies have convinced a significant portion of the customers that they need a plan with unlimited text messages just to exist in this world. Hence they make those of us who don't have it appear to be a minority of customers who don't need anything else.
And IIRC T-Mobile is now charging me $.30 per message, each way. I just don't send any, unless I really really need to (which is almost never). In fact I would just turn the service off altogether, except a while ago I actually found a valid use for it, and I want to have it available just in case another similar situation should arise.
But either way I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for government intervention on the matter.
That was actually a joke. Yes, I know you can use electricity in various ways to heat water. You can also use fire to heat water (and some people over here do that).
Admittedly, the joke wasn't very good. OK, it was pretty terrible, really.
And by that I mean don't kill this guy. No matter how much it might stoke your ego and make you feel righteous, it is the wrong thing to do. Not only would the punishment be orders of magnitude worse than the crime, it wouldn't accomplish anything anyways.
We all read about spam gangs and botnets regularly. We know that no one person is worth crap to the spam community; even if the 10 most prolific spammers were killed this afternoon the volume would not change appreciably - hell there is an argument that could be made that such an action would actually increase spam volume as people from the next tier would start jockeying for power.
Indeed, no amount of violence or government action (or violent government action) will do anything to the spam problem. If you want to stop spam, you need to attack the motivating force behind the spam - and I'll give you a clue, spam isn't sent off just to piss you off (no matter how much you may want to believe to the contrary).
So take a moment, put down your weapons, and listen. Think about why this guy does what he does. If you can change that, then he won't want to do what he's done anymore.
I don't see this guy listed on the spamhaus top 10 spammers list. We know that if he was arrested in the past week his spam volume would not have decreased that dramatically that quickly; so why does the US government disagree with the magnitude of this guy's role?
like Europe to get faster charging (our kettles boil in half the time too)
Wow, you mean natural gas burns hotter over on your side of the pond? Now I really need to get over there...
We may recall that when the PS3 first came out Sony was losing money on each unit sold. That didn't exactly bring down Sony in the process; nor did it cause people to scream out that it was the result of some great conspiracy.
Back on planet earth, the UAW actually bought a portion of GM. Why would they intentionally screw up the profits of GM when they have their own money invested in it? After all, you can't extract money from a company that doesn't exist...
Slashdot conservatives will come to tell us how this is the personal doing of Obama in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
designed to help her great-grandma get into the shotgun closet
Guns can be kept in closets? That in and of itself would likely be news in Texas.
Not on the 8-year-old and their patent, but on the patent mentioned that was issued to the 4-year-old. You don't really expect us to believe that a patent was issued to someone in Texas for an invention that had nothing to do with killing people, do you?
Sheesh, I wasn't born yesterday.
There's lots of games coming out for PS3 or XBox360 that I'd like to play, but these games are not coming out on the Wii because it's simply not powerful enough
The Wii is actually a reasonably powerful system in terms of CPU/GUP/ etc, in spite of the fact that it outputs at 480p. I suspect a bigger part of why a lot of games don't come out for the Wii comes down to the most distinctive element of the system - the controller itself. PS3/Xbox360 controllers have what, 40 buttons on them? The Wii controller has about 7 buttons (not including the D pad). Even if you include the nunchuck the total button count just isn't there and the programmers find that a significant hindrance. A lot of games expect players to instinctively be able to pull of 4 button combos with specific sequences of other presses on either side of the combo; that simply doesn't work with the Wiimote because there aren't enough buttons to do it.
That said, if the Wiimote gained another dozen buttons in the next iteration they would likely lose some of the distinctive market segments that the Wii opened up - older and younger people.
Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away.
If you turn 360 degrees, you are then facing the same direction you started out. If you then started walking after turning 360 degrees you would be walking the same direction you faced when you started turning - which in this case would probably be right into the XBox 360 that you are trying to avoid.
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