....until the light turns yellow, and oncoming drivers continue to pass through the intersection. Oh no, the light is now red, there is intersecting traffic, and youre blocking one of the traffic lanes. At this point you can either do a really dangerous left turn, or remain blocking the traffic, or try to back up (assuming people havent filled in behind you.
Entering the intersection makes sense when you can see an opening coming shortly, but if there is a line of traffic entering the intersection to make a left turn is just going to make traffic worse and create a dangerous situation.
Id never heard of this, can you explain? I had always understood that to be simply because of gravity. I knew the core was supposed to be the cause of our magnetosphere, but thats it.
A third-party tool that was horrible, to be sure, but again, where's your citation that they blamed the users and ever said what you put in quotes?
Unfortunately, hes NOT lying, and that quote was from a fairly high up executive... Mr. THOMAS HESSE (President, Sony BMG Global Digital Business): Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989260
That quote isnt itself a crime, but it certainly is a poor attempt to defend their actions, and kind of indicates Sony's relationship with its customers.
If you want to know the reasons basically everyone on the internet hates sony, you can start by reading Maddox's take on it (which is pretty spot on, despite the crudity of it). Long story short,
They shut down Lik-Sang. Wonderful, now I cant buy Hori controllers anymore. The irony of it is that apparently even Sony employees were importing thru LikSang
They had the whole rootkit debacle mentioned above, which they handled with the grace of an elephant and about as much tact as Maddox. I think they eventually released a tool to remove the kit, which ended up either causing further problems or not actually fixing the broken CD drives it created. (Windows reinstall necessary). Mark Russinovich has a writeup on the whole thing, but the NPR link above summarizes it pretty well.
Part of Sony is Sony BMG, which is part of the RIAA that everyone on the internet loves so much.
They started removing features from the PS3 from iteration 2 on (USB ports, etc), which is always a way to make your customers love you.
They got the crap hacked out of them, and then denied the severity of it, resulting in tworather spot (and hillarious) on Penny Arcade comics. They also posted a...post... on it which basically sums it up: They lack the ability to communicate in a meaningful way with their customers.
Theyre behind Blu-Ray, and its encryption, which again is super duper popular with normal slashdot folks.
Not all of those are crimes (blu-ray), but when you add them together you get the impression that Sony doesnt even really pretend to care about its customers, and really is your stereotypical faceless monster of a corporation. They barely even have a cool-factor to offset it, like Nintendo can pull off.
Except in this case the "OEM part" doesnt actually work with any of the things that use Java-- at least not that ive seen. Its more like the OEM part is a rock, and theyre telling you to figure out how to make it pump water on your own. Wonderful.
Oh good grief, most users, even those capable of pinning a version, arent going to know that its being pulled. Why would they suspect that their next update will be REMOVING software?
THIS type of thing is why people have to be so cautious about updates: Some genius thought it would be a good idea to throw incompatibility drama into what should be a simple upgrade process. Are they even going to warn users?
Why is this flamebait? Its utterly accurate. I havent been able to deploy Java7 anywhere, mostly because i havent found more than 1 program (minecraft) which actually works with it.
Im not saying its ideal, but come up with a way to fix it without oppressive regulation like "you are no longer in control over what media your company sells" and "you are required to have these opposing political views on your radio station" (and if either of those sounds like a good idea, you havent thought about the implications hard enough).
Id rather have a de-facto corporate censorship than whatever regulation might fix it-- said regulations tend to be a case of "the cure being worse than the disease".
It isn't so much the amount of radiation people in Japan are worried about, it is the effect on the surrounding area and those living there, and the fact that it was a wake-up call regarding nuclear safety in earthquakes.
Fair enough. I have just two questions, then: How did natural gas, oil and coal plants fare during the event? Is there any reason to believe that one of those plants failing would have no negative effects on the environment?
Last I checked, US nuclear workers had lower safe limits than US children do, so that's not as much problem as you might think.
It also highlights how much ignorance (or dishonesty, but I try to be an optimist) and fearmongering there is around this whole topic. It makes most of the discussions on Fukushima a waste of time.
Nothing can remove that scar from my mine. I try to laugh about things like this, but it's really very difficult. I hope this is the last ever nuclear emergency in the world, but I doubt it will be.
I dont think anyone wants to belittle how terrible cancer or radiation poisoning are, but when you take a dose of perspective and remember that the earthquake+tsunami (one of the most powerful events in recorded history as quakes go) killed some 16,000 people, injured another 6,000, and a further 4,000 are still unaccounted for, the Fukushima event becomes a mere blip. A plant was destroyed (as were another 125,000 buildings), the background radiation increased a bit, and some people may have gotten "slightly worrying" doses of radiation that will likely have no long term effects.
The big travesty about the whole thing was that the immediate international response by the media seemed more focused on "OHNOES WHAT ABOUT US? RADIATION IS COMING" and "hah, see, nuclear IS bad" rather than on focusing on the scale of the devastation caused by the tsunami and the relief efforts. I think I saw a few videos of the wave, and heard one or two stories on the recovery (almost ALL linked in some way with the Fukushima issue), compared with the months of debate on NPR about how we shouldnt have nuclear in our country (conservative media was not innocent in all of this either).
Its enough to make anyone feel bitter and cynical about our media.
Its a private website, Google is not required to host your content, nor to be unbiased about what content they show, nor are they forbidden from shopping your videos, or taking them down, or deleting them, or killing your whole google account if they want.
You need to take a step back and remember that "free video hosting by google" is not a constitutional right.
How are you going to sue a private company with the goal that they be required to host your content whether you like it or not, for free, on their terms? Pray tell, what law are you alleging they have broken?
Im sorry, I fully support the right of any provider of a free service to set their own terms and tell you to get bent if you dont like it.
Everyone pay attention and read this, it may be the most insightful comment on slashdot regarding the balance between security and freedom. Most of the arguments people get into here are because they do not understand that these considerations must be balanced.
GET OVER YOURSELF. People will still make music I like, movies I like, and games I want to play.
You really think Blizzard would invest hundreds of millions into game development, servers, bandwidth, etc on the off chance you feel like throwing them a dollar?
The reason these triple A products exist is because they are paid for and turn a profit-- that is, because there are people who actually CONTRIBUTE to the economy by paying for the entertainment they consume.
Consuming without paying for it just makes you a freeloader, no matter how much you try to justify it or argue your way around it. You think Louis would do comedy for a living if he couldnt actually make a buck doing so?
So no, they're not obligated to create the entertainment I want for the price I demand... unless they actually want to turn a profit.
I dont think Ive seen anyone, on any discussion forum, denounce the idea of refusing to buy a product because you didnt think it was a good value.
The point is that its pretty hard to justify taking a product without paying for it simply because you find the price requested too much. Whether or not a physical product was lost doesnt change that you arent entitled to it just because you really really want it.
a true conservative republican wouldn't approve at all of the Patriot Act
No true Scotsman.
Thats not quite a no true scotsman, hes stating that to be a "by definition" reality. You might as well claim that "Someone who is pro-big-government is by definition not a libertarian" is a No True Scotsman.
I would hazard that that might be for the same reason IE tends to have lower memory than competitors on Windows, but regardless, safari is NOT so good on windows-- the tables are pretty much reversed, with Safari-on-Win being a bloated, unresponsive beast.
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....until the light turns yellow, and oncoming drivers continue to pass through the intersection. Oh no, the light is now red, there is intersecting traffic, and youre blocking one of the traffic lanes. At this point you can either do a really dangerous left turn, or remain blocking the traffic, or try to back up (assuming people havent filled in behind you.
Entering the intersection makes sense when you can see an opening coming shortly, but if there is a line of traffic entering the intersection to make a left turn is just going to make traffic worse and create a dangerous situation.
Well, good thing there are no bad people in other countries. Its comforting to know that all evil and corruption in the world is confined to the US.
and it also helps to keep our atmosphere in tact
Id never heard of this, can you explain? I had always understood that to be simply because of gravity. I knew the core was supposed to be the cause of our magnetosphere, but thats it.
A third-party tool that was horrible, to be sure, but again, where's your citation that they blamed the users and ever said what you put in quotes?
Unfortunately, hes NOT lying, and that quote was from a fairly high up executive...
Mr. THOMAS HESSE (President, Sony BMG Global Digital Business): Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989260
That quote isnt itself a crime, but it certainly is a poor attempt to defend their actions, and kind of indicates Sony's relationship with its customers.
If you want to know the reasons basically everyone on the internet hates sony, you can start by reading Maddox's take on it (which is pretty spot on, despite the crudity of it). Long story short,
Not all of those are crimes (blu-ray), but when you add them together you get the impression that Sony doesnt even really pretend to care about its customers, and really is your stereotypical faceless monster of a corporation. They barely even have a cool-factor to offset it, like Nintendo can pull off.
Except in this case the "OEM part" doesnt actually work with any of the things that use Java-- at least not that ive seen. Its more like the OEM part is a rock, and theyre telling you to figure out how to make it pump water on your own. Wonderful.
Oh good grief, most users, even those capable of pinning a version, arent going to know that its being pulled. Why would they suspect that their next update will be REMOVING software?
THIS type of thing is why people have to be so cautious about updates: Some genius thought it would be a good idea to throw incompatibility drama into what should be a simple upgrade process. Are they even going to warn users?
Why is this flamebait? Its utterly accurate. I havent been able to deploy Java7 anywhere, mostly because i havent found more than 1 program (minecraft) which actually works with it.
Lots of them?
Im not saying its ideal, but come up with a way to fix it without oppressive regulation like "you are no longer in control over what media your company sells" and "you are required to have these opposing political views on your radio station" (and if either of those sounds like a good idea, you havent thought about the implications hard enough).
Id rather have a de-facto corporate censorship than whatever regulation might fix it-- said regulations tend to be a case of "the cure being worse than the disease".
When the Banqiao dam failed in China in 1975 (due to a typhoon), it killed about 86,000 people on the spot and another 150,000 people to disease.
It isn't so much the amount of radiation people in Japan are worried about, it is the effect on the surrounding area and those living there, and the fact that it was a wake-up call regarding nuclear safety in earthquakes.
Fair enough. I have just two questions, then:
How did natural gas, oil and coal plants fare during the event?
Is there any reason to believe that one of those plants failing would have no negative effects on the environment?
And obviously, all of that renewable energy would have withstood a 9.0 quake and 40-foot tsunami, right?
Last I checked, US nuclear workers had lower safe limits than US children do, so that's not as much problem as you might think.
It also highlights how much ignorance (or dishonesty, but I try to be an optimist) and fearmongering there is around this whole topic. It makes most of the discussions on Fukushima a waste of time.
Nothing can remove that scar from my mine. I try to laugh about things like this, but it's really very difficult. I hope this is the last ever nuclear emergency in the world, but I doubt it will be.
I dont think anyone wants to belittle how terrible cancer or radiation poisoning are, but when you take a dose of perspective and remember that the earthquake+tsunami (one of the most powerful events in recorded history as quakes go) killed some 16,000 people, injured another 6,000, and a further 4,000 are still unaccounted for, the Fukushima event becomes a mere blip. A plant was destroyed (as were another 125,000 buildings), the background radiation increased a bit, and some people may have gotten "slightly worrying" doses of radiation that will likely have no long term effects.
The big travesty about the whole thing was that the immediate international response by the media seemed more focused on "OHNOES WHAT ABOUT US? RADIATION IS COMING" and "hah, see, nuclear IS bad" rather than on focusing on the scale of the devastation caused by the tsunami and the relief efforts. I think I saw a few videos of the wave, and heard one or two stories on the recovery (almost ALL linked in some way with the Fukushima issue), compared with the months of debate on NPR about how we shouldnt have nuclear in our country (conservative media was not innocent in all of this either).
Its enough to make anyone feel bitter and cynical about our media.
Such a secret agreement, if it existed, would be in violation of antitrust laws.
Somehow a video streaming site is violating anti trust by working with a media producer, and this is in competition with a bulk upload/download site?
Thats one heck of a reach.
Its a private website, Google is not required to host your content, nor to be unbiased about what content they show, nor are they forbidden from shopping your videos, or taking them down, or deleting them, or killing your whole google account if they want.
You need to take a step back and remember that "free video hosting by google" is not a constitutional right.
How are you going to sue a private company with the goal that they be required to host your content whether you like it or not, for free, on their terms? Pray tell, what law are you alleging they have broken?
Im sorry, I fully support the right of any provider of a free service to set their own terms and tell you to get bent if you dont like it.
When the actions of the service owner directly contradict the very NAME of the service in question,
So they changed it from a series of tubes to a dump truck?
Wasnt google sued by several companies due to their resistance to filtering videos?
Yea, but I guess their duty is to run Youtube into the ground through litigation, right?
Everyone pay attention and read this, it may be the most insightful comment on slashdot regarding the balance between security and freedom. Most of the arguments people get into here are because they do not understand that these considerations must be balanced.
GET OVER YOURSELF. People will still make music I like, movies I like, and games I want to play.
You really think Blizzard would invest hundreds of millions into game development, servers, bandwidth, etc on the off chance you feel like throwing them a dollar?
The reason these triple A products exist is because they are paid for and turn a profit-- that is, because there are people who actually CONTRIBUTE to the economy by paying for the entertainment they consume.
Consuming without paying for it just makes you a freeloader, no matter how much you try to justify it or argue your way around it. You think Louis would do comedy for a living if he couldnt actually make a buck doing so?
So no, they're not obligated to create the entertainment I want for the price I demand... unless they actually want to turn a profit.
I dont think Ive seen anyone, on any discussion forum, denounce the idea of refusing to buy a product because you didnt think it was a good value.
The point is that its pretty hard to justify taking a product without paying for it simply because you find the price requested too much. Whether or not a physical product was lost doesnt change that you arent entitled to it just because you really really want it.
a true conservative republican wouldn't approve at all of the Patriot Act
No true Scotsman.
Thats not quite a no true scotsman, hes stating that to be a "by definition" reality. You might as well claim that "Someone who is pro-big-government is by definition not a libertarian" is a No True Scotsman.
Teabagger
Oops, your bias is showing (maturity level, too).
I would hazard that that might be for the same reason IE tends to have lower memory than competitors on Windows, but regardless, safari is NOT so good on windows-- the tables are pretty much reversed, with Safari-on-Win being a bloated, unresponsive beast.