Odd that the title that is most often bundled with 3D sets - Monsters vs Aliens isn't on the list of titles you can buy. Nonetheless the titles offered aren't exactly movies that sold out 3D theaters for very long. And a lot of what's listed as coming soon isn't likely to bring a lot of interest either.
Almost anywhere you go these days (particularly at airports), if you check for available WiFi settings, you have a pretty good chance of seeing an ad hoc network for 'Free Public WiFi.'
Doesn't match my experience. I have done a fair bit of flying lately - and always needing at least one connection each time because my closest airport sucks - and haven't seen it at the airports I've been to. I have checked for WiFi at coffee shops and restaurants and haven't seen that SSID there either. Lately I have been connecting through some of the busiest airports in the country (O'Hare and Newark Liberty in particular) and haven't seen this.
In fact, I can't think of the last time I did see it. I often use my blackberry to access open WiFi spots, and I don't have a record of a network that I have connected to called 'Free Public WiFi'.
People claim that legalizing pot will bring gazillions of dollars into the government coffers by taxing the product.
However they don't explain why we should believe that current dealers would be willing to start collecting and submitting taxes to the government. They already have a product that they are selling tax-free, what is the incentive for the dealers to start charging more for the same product?
Whoever wrote the TFS doesn't fucking live in Minnesota, that's pretty certain. The DFL has run Minnesota for the past eon.
No, what is clear is that you don't live in Minnesota - or haven't for the past few decades. The current conservative idiot ("Teflon" Tim Pawlenty) is just the latest in a string of ever-more-conservative governors going back to the 80s. Look at the past three governors:
Arne Carlson - Registered Republican, more conservative than his predecessor by a long shot
Jesse Ventura - Registered "whatever", several orders of magnitude more conservative than Carlson
Teflon Tim - Registered Republican and GOP presidential hopeful. Several orders of magnitude more conservative than Dick Cheney.
Based on the trend it is likely that the next governor of MN will be Pat Buchanan, as a late write-in. Really there are few states excluding Texas that are more conservative than Minnesota currently, and Pawlenty has worked hard to change that.
He is doing everything he can to position himself as a GOP presidential candidate. He likely did this because he knows that certain hard-core conservatives view free software as a stepping stone to socialism. Costs to the state are irrelevant if the decision improves his stance in the eyes of the GOP.
He has already shown a willingness to crap all over the state constitution in the name of keeping up conservative appearances, so this really should surprise anyone.
A 1 ounce gold bar is worth somewhere beyond $1,000 USD. Yet 1 ounce of gold is not very large in volume; I don't see people rushing out to buy these very small "bars" at an ATM in a public place.
Thank you for replying. I can tell you that more than once I have written comments specifically trying to get the attention of the slashdot editor who posted a story, and received no response.
The vast majority of people do not want to download a PDF and spend an hour reading through an academic paper when there's a (reasonably well-informed) news article available
However I hope we agree that there are also a lot of very poorly informed news articles on scientific work that get through as well. Sadly enough some of those have made the slashdot front page.
The other big problem is that many of these scientific papers are paywalled
Although that is becoming less of an issue as time moves forward for many reasons:
A lot of very good research is published in publicly-accessible (non-paywalled) journals
A recent law went into effect stating that research funded by the US NIH must have its published results publicly accessible (even if it's in Nature)
Much of the most attention-grabbing research in paywalled journals gets written up by editors on those journals, who do write-ups that are freely accessible
Many people live or work very close to an institution that has access to the paywalled journals
There have been times when I have provided links to the original work that was indeed freely available - I'd say more work could be done by editors before posting Wall Street Journal (or other newspaper) summaries of academic publications.
Yet for some reason it doesn't seem to be. Slashdot posts a lot of links to news articles about published scientific articles, when they rightfully should be linking to the original articles instead.
Neither OS will last long enough to justify learning how to program for it if you don't already know. We already have a ton of kids who are writing crappy applications for either (or both), distinguishing a good program is so difficult you're better off learning how to manage punch cards because they won't be that relevant of a learning tool that much longer.
And it would like to point out that the article starts by pointing out that this applies to new tower construction. It does not mean that existing towers must come down.
If we say those numbers are for the US, and consider that the US population is on the order of 300 million, that makes for around 1 record sold for every 333 people (or 3 for every 1,000 people). They then roughly tripled these numbers, to around 1 per 110 people, or maybe 10 per 1,000 people.
That still isn't really a ton of albums. I don't really know 110 people personally, so it is not statistically likely that I know someone in this country who bought a new album on vinyl this year.
This news broke yesterday, what's with the delay? I submitted it yesterday and it was passed on; why is it news now that it is 25 hours older? Yesterday it was all over CNN and others, nobody is talking about it today because it's already old news.
Why is this new at all, let alone front page news? I shouldn't just blame slashdot though, both yahoo and cnn mention this as well.
Have you been paying attention lately? The last several months (or more), anytime anything remotely... what's the word... gossip-worthy... happens at facebook and slashdot goes nuts, plastering it promptly on the front page. I'm surprised that there wasn't another article the moment the problem was resolved.
I've seen that before. The towing companies do flat-out ignore court judgments, or just keep appealing them until the plaintiff runs out of money to continue with proceedings (or if they are really lucky until they find a judge who buys their pile of lies).
so you usually have to include the person who instructed them as well
I figured life would be more civilized across the pond (it generally is). Here we allow the towing companies to patrol lots on their own; they basically don't need anyone to instruct them to do anything in some cases. Then since there is no witness to the impound, it becomes he-said, he-said and the judge will almost invariably favor the towing company (if the plaintiff gets that far).
Most people know nothing about the legal framework bit and probably pay up with little fuss, so in essence it is exactly the same thing.
And as the towing companies take advantage of the public ignorance, they can operate in blatant violation whenever they want to increase revenue.
so just take your car back from the impound don't pay
That isn't an option since the private impound companies hold your car as hostage inside a locked facility; you can't get it until you pay them for it. Often they won't even allow you to see your car until you pay them - and of course usually they make you sign a form where you release them of any and all liability for damage done in order to get your car back from them.
Some jurisdictions in the US have essentially legalized auto theft - provided you happen to be an impound company. Years ago a company impounded my car from my contracted parking space and the police refused to get involved. Basically, if you're dealing with a for-profit (or "not-for-profit" - whatever the hell that actually means) company, your chance of getting the government or law enforcement to help you is almost zero.
The two did not need to be mutually exclusive. Had the accusations been deemed valid and a guilty verdict handed down as a result, the parents could have then sued him after that.
and had they found him innocent through insufficient evidence or simply him having better paid lawyers they would get nothing.
The OJ Simpson case tells us that is simply not true.
Instead they dropped the charges - an almost unquantifiably selfish and greedy choice - and took the money.
how the F@#$@# is it a greedy act to take what is on offer over a gamble of getting a conviction.
It's greedy because if the offense alleged actually happened they owe it to other children to see it prosecuted and tried to the fullest extent of the law. If the offense actually occurred, and they neglected to pursue it, it likely happened again to other victims and the parents who neglected to pursue charges share the blame for those offenses.
Who says that they actually helped their children with the money? They could have blown it on crack for all we know.
who says they blew it all on crack,
Nobody. It is one of many options they could have pursued with the money.
they could have used it to save a thousand homeless children for all we know
We can speculate any of a great number of things they could have done with the money.
wtf is your point here, assuming the worst of people just because you can?
You are trying to elevate them to sainthood for their very greedy distortion of justice.
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To protect the environment, our cars are now greener than ever. Why, even the wiring is biodegradable!
Car wiring has been self-degrading a lot longer than just since 2002...
Good Americans start their Christmas shopping immediately after Labor Day.
Because that is what Jesus would do!
Odd that the title that is most often bundled with 3D sets - Monsters vs Aliens isn't on the list of titles you can buy. Nonetheless the titles offered aren't exactly movies that sold out 3D theaters for very long. And a lot of what's listed as coming soon isn't likely to bring a lot of interest either.
I'd be interested to see if this could be used in a football stadium (domed or not) with all the extra noise and people.
Because of course professional basketball games are so dull, sparsely attended, and quiet that it makes a perfect test bed...
...is it 315 or 325? Sheesh.
Fancy slashdot web2.0 math tells us there is no difference between those numbers.
That's the SSID for my home wi-fi :-D.
Funny, that's the combination to my luggage...
Almost anywhere you go these days (particularly at airports), if you check for available WiFi settings, you have a pretty good chance of seeing an ad hoc network for 'Free Public WiFi.'
Doesn't match my experience. I have done a fair bit of flying lately - and always needing at least one connection each time because my closest airport sucks - and haven't seen it at the airports I've been to. I have checked for WiFi at coffee shops and restaurants and haven't seen that SSID there either. Lately I have been connecting through some of the busiest airports in the country (O'Hare and Newark Liberty in particular) and haven't seen this.
In fact, I can't think of the last time I did see it. I often use my blackberry to access open WiFi spots, and I don't have a record of a network that I have connected to called 'Free Public WiFi'.
People claim that legalizing pot will bring gazillions of dollars into the government coffers by taxing the product.
However they don't explain why we should believe that current dealers would be willing to start collecting and submitting taxes to the government. They already have a product that they are selling tax-free, what is the incentive for the dealers to start charging more for the same product?
Whoever wrote the TFS doesn't fucking live in Minnesota, that's pretty certain. The DFL has run Minnesota for the past eon.
No, what is clear is that you don't live in Minnesota - or haven't for the past few decades. The current conservative idiot ("Teflon" Tim Pawlenty) is just the latest in a string of ever-more-conservative governors going back to the 80s. Look at the past three governors:
Based on the trend it is likely that the next governor of MN will be Pat Buchanan, as a late write-in. Really there are few states excluding Texas that are more conservative than Minnesota currently, and Pawlenty has worked hard to change that.
He is doing everything he can to position himself as a GOP presidential candidate. He likely did this because he knows that certain hard-core conservatives view free software as a stepping stone to socialism. Costs to the state are irrelevant if the decision improves his stance in the eyes of the GOP.
He has already shown a willingness to crap all over the state constitution in the name of keeping up conservative appearances, so this really should surprise anyone.
A 1 ounce gold bar is worth somewhere beyond $1,000 USD. Yet 1 ounce of gold is not very large in volume; I don't see people rushing out to buy these very small "bars" at an ATM in a public place.
The vast majority of people do not want to download a PDF and spend an hour reading through an academic paper when there's a (reasonably well-informed) news article available
However I hope we agree that there are also a lot of very poorly informed news articles on scientific work that get through as well. Sadly enough some of those have made the slashdot front page.
The other big problem is that many of these scientific papers are paywalled
Although that is becoming less of an issue as time moves forward for many reasons:
There have been times when I have provided links to the original work that was indeed freely available - I'd say more work could be done by editors before posting Wall Street Journal (or other newspaper) summaries of academic publications.
Yet for some reason it doesn't seem to be. Slashdot posts a lot of links to news articles about published scientific articles, when they rightfully should be linking to the original articles instead.
I previously heard the first run would have 10,000 copies printed; now we are hearing 9,500.
Neither OS will last long enough to justify learning how to program for it if you don't already know. We already have a ton of kids who are writing crappy applications for either (or both), distinguishing a good program is so difficult you're better off learning how to manage punch cards because they won't be that relevant of a learning tool that much longer.
And it would like to point out that the article starts by pointing out that this applies to new tower construction. It does not mean that existing towers must come down.
If we say those numbers are for the US, and consider that the US population is on the order of 300 million, that makes for around 1 record sold for every 333 people (or 3 for every 1,000 people). They then roughly tripled these numbers, to around 1 per 110 people, or maybe 10 per 1,000 people.
That still isn't really a ton of albums. I don't really know 110 people personally, so it is not statistically likely that I know someone in this country who bought a new album on vinyl this year.
I remember seeing the commercials just a few months ago where Verizon was bragging about reducing the rate for their "unlimited everything" plan.
This news broke yesterday, what's with the delay? I submitted it yesterday and it was passed on; why is it news now that it is 25 hours older? Yesterday it was all over CNN and others, nobody is talking about it today because it's already old news.
Why is this new at all, let alone front page news? I shouldn't just blame slashdot though, both yahoo and cnn mention this as well.
Have you been paying attention lately? The last several months (or more), anytime anything remotely ... what's the word ... gossip-worthy ... happens at facebook and slashdot goes nuts, plastering it promptly on the front page. I'm surprised that there wasn't another article the moment the problem was resolved.
Accused by a site that is dependent on scripts coming from other domains.
They seldom honour court judgements
I've seen that before. The towing companies do flat-out ignore court judgments, or just keep appealing them until the plaintiff runs out of money to continue with proceedings (or if they are really lucky until they find a judge who buys their pile of lies).
so you usually have to include the person who instructed them as well
I figured life would be more civilized across the pond (it generally is). Here we allow the towing companies to patrol lots on their own; they basically don't need anyone to instruct them to do anything in some cases. Then since there is no witness to the impound, it becomes he-said, he-said and the judge will almost invariably favor the towing company (if the plaintiff gets that far).
Most people know nothing about the legal framework bit and probably pay up with little fuss, so in essence it is exactly the same thing.
And as the towing companies take advantage of the public ignorance, they can operate in blatant violation whenever they want to increase revenue.
so just take your car back from the impound don't pay
That isn't an option since the private impound companies hold your car as hostage inside a locked facility; you can't get it until you pay them for it. Often they won't even allow you to see your car until you pay them - and of course usually they make you sign a form where you release them of any and all liability for damage done in order to get your car back from them.
Some jurisdictions in the US have essentially legalized auto theft - provided you happen to be an impound company. Years ago a company impounded my car from my contracted parking space and the police refused to get involved. Basically, if you're dealing with a for-profit (or "not-for-profit" - whatever the hell that actually means) company, your chance of getting the government or law enforcement to help you is almost zero.
The two did not need to be mutually exclusive. Had the accusations been deemed valid and a guilty verdict handed down as a result, the parents could have then sued him after that.
and had they found him innocent through insufficient evidence or simply him having better paid lawyers they would get nothing.
The OJ Simpson case tells us that is simply not true.
Instead they dropped the charges - an almost unquantifiably selfish and greedy choice - and took the money.
how the F@#$@# is it a greedy act to take what is on offer over a gamble of getting a conviction.
It's greedy because if the offense alleged actually happened they owe it to other children to see it prosecuted and tried to the fullest extent of the law. If the offense actually occurred, and they neglected to pursue it, it likely happened again to other victims and the parents who neglected to pursue charges share the blame for those offenses.
Who says that they actually helped their children with the money? They could have blown it on crack for all we know.
who says they blew it all on crack,
Nobody. It is one of many options they could have pursued with the money.
they could have used it to save a thousand homeless children for all we know
We can speculate any of a great number of things they could have done with the money.
wtf is your point here, assuming the worst of people just because you can?
You are trying to elevate them to sainthood for their very greedy distortion of justice.