distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
I don't know, a research chair sounds a bit dangerous, however distinguished it may be. I think he better stick with his current chair until this new one is at least in beta testing...
I know it's popular to hate on American football because it's American
I don't hate it because it's American, I hate it because it's boring. I actually tried watching it for a while and I found that it consists mostly of commercials, with short bursts of football in between. If they would just get on with playing instead of having constant advertisement filled breaks it might be more interesting.
'If the application gets people to slow down, I think it's generally considered to be a good thing,' said Atkinson."
Isn't the whole idea of this app to allow people slow down just before the speed trap? If they drive slowly all the time then they don't care about speed traps in the first place
He seems to have the required determination though. His name can be rearranged to "No Alibi" and also "I No Bail"
Hmm, so he's got the weird looks, unusual name and anagrams working for him, but the lack of beard is a serious handicap for a language developer. I guess the future of this language is still up in the air
That's a good question. Most people never get tested and those who do and are negative wouldn't normally be assumed to be negative specifically because they are immune to the virus. Seems like it would take a more or less unusual case, such as a person heavily exposed to the virus and not infected and then someone gets curious as to why. I wonder if there are many more cases of natural immunity than reported.
How about making a video of a crack appearing on a white wall (matching exactly the color of the airplane ceiling) and slowly spreading until sky starts to show through and then perhaps a goblin peering in or something, and projecting that on the plane ceiling. Fun.
High churn rates mean new customers have low, volatile expected lifetime values.
People don't stay on dating sites for long
This has a negative impact on the equity value of each customer, making it difficult to justify the valuation multiples seen by membership-driven websites in other verticals.
I'm not exactly a gadget freak but I have to say I do want one of these (not at this price though). With the ability to store a whole bunch of video on a tiny device and the major problem of having to watch it on the little screen, this seems to fill the gap nicely. You just need a flat surface (as the review says, back of the seat in front of you on a plane or whatever) and you can watch it comfortably. And it still fits in your pocket. Why isn't everybody making them?
I mean, I'm all for freezing polar bears and other endangered species so that we can revive them when the weather is better (kind of like that grain vault) but shouldn't it be regulated so that it isn't creating awkward scenarios?
Like what, a long extinct animal suddenly appearing at a dinner party, causing everybody to spit out their drinks?
Mammoths? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a live animal in order to clone a dead one. I guess they can grow them in an elephant or another close cousin, is that the idea?
In other news, Helicopter Celebrates its 500th Year! Bring out the cake, and thanks for giving us the helicopter Leonardo, what would we do without it for the last five centuries!
This is not the anniversary of the laptop, it's the anniversary of the first known time someone made a drawing of something that roughly looks like a laptop (more like a tablet) on paper.
Good job with the title yet again slashdot editors.
Exactly. And how about yogurt packaging that doesn't spray your shirt with yogurt when you start peeling off the top? How about soda cans that you don't have to push the opening (that rats were peeing on back at the warehouse) into the soda itself? How about those fancy bottle caps that you are supposed to pull open and closed with your teeth so you only need one hand, except that there is no opening for air to enter the bottle, so when you start drinking you create a tug of war for soda between your mouth and the vacuum inside the increasingly flattened bottle? The list is endless...
We blame ourselves for everything, when in fact there's no evidence that, if we all vanished tomorrow, animals wouldn't continue to die out as they always have..
No, but there is evidence that since humans came to the scene, and especially since the industrial age, the species are going extinct at a rate from 100s to 1000s of times greater than before.
People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder never happens, right? The overwhelming scientific consensus it that the warming is proceeding much faster than in the past and that this caused at least in part by human activity. If you have strong evidence to the contrary please contact your local oil company, they will be only too happy to help you get it published.
We have serious problems with pollution and habitat loss, none with "Global Warming" which is nothing but a scam to take advantage of Gaia-worship and gullible fools.
It's incredible what kind of nonsense gets modded insightful. A scam by whom? By the national academies of science of all developed countries: http://royalsociety.org/displaypagedoc.asp?id=20742 Why would they take part in a scam? What would just about all major scientific organizations and a vast majority of individual scientists involved in climate research have to gain by putting their reputations on the line in order to "take advantage of Gaia-worship and gullible fools"? What would they have to gain from it?
I understood your point, but my comment was aimed at Palin for picking out the science expenditure out of all things that the government is spending money on, and the possibility that she picks her targets in order to placate the religious right (or possibly even out of her own genuine religious beliefs which would be even worse) more than in order to reduce the government spending in general
Yes, there is unnecessary government spending but to say that the money spent scientific research is the reason the country is in debt is laughable. Ok, it's not, it's actually pretty sad. I guess for someone who believes that all the knowledge is contained in an ancient book and that a magical being in the sky is controlling everything that goes on on Earth, any money spent on science is wasted. ( http://www.google.com/search?q=palin+religious+beliefs )
The guy could have been convicted simply for beating someone up, or even just for threatening to do so unless he would give up those items (blackmail or whatever you call it). But instead, he got convicted for stealing something virtual, which only exists in a game.
IANAL but to me it seems that the question is not whether those items have real world value (it seems they have though, if they can be sold for real money) but whether they are property of the victim. It is theft to steal someone else's property regardless of its value. For example, stealing something like photos or other items of purely sentimental value to their owner is still theft. So, stealing someone's paper photo collection is theft but copying digital photos from their hard drive and deleting the originals (ok, unlikely scenario but just making a point) is ok?
This ruling is the first of its kind for the Netherlands
I doubt that. I'm sure there were other cases of teenagers being convicted for stealing something in the Netherlands. It was something of value, otherwise they wouldn't have wanted it so badly, and the victim was deprived of it. Obviously, there is the issue of beating and threatening with a knife, but even if that wasn't the case it wouldn't be any less of a theft than if they stole some physical object. Can someone tell me what is the complicated issue that tfa is talking about? Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Step 1. Convince him to buy an expensive, complex and impossible to manage closed source program that he will approve, Lotus Notes or anything by SAP comes to mind, preferably for a totally inappropriate purpose.
Step 2. Maneuver yourself into being next in line for his job.
Step 3. Encourage end users to complain about the software as much as possible. Plot behind the scenes to make sure his bosses know he is responsible.
Step 4. Once he is fired, take his job and replace the closed source software with open source.
1. 600X actual damages is constitutionally excessive.
Just curious, who came up with 33 cents per file as the "actual" damages and why? Accepting, as the court did, that there was harm suffered from her sharing files, the question is how much. If she shared a file with just one other person who would have otherwise bought it on itunes, the damage would be $1. How do you come up with a fraction of $1.
2: Attempted Distribution != Distribution. Or in other terms: Making Available != Distribution.
If the investigators' claim that they downloaded files shared by her are questionable then this could be a legitimate complaint. However, we are not talking about the investigators' word here. It seems easy to prove that they did in fact download them, log files etc.
I mean how hard is it to NOT self-incriminate oneself: Say you forgot.
Sure, it's done all the time. You are opening yourself to perjury though, which could be a more serious charge than the original crime. As far as I know you need a certain amount of time to pass before "i forgot" can be taken seriously by the judge/jury. You can't open a combination lock one day and claim that you forgot the key the next day.
Well I guess a parallel can be made with a physical lock that is opened with a number combination. You would have to open it if the police have a warrant, even though the combination is stored only in your memory.
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distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
I don't know, a research chair sounds a bit dangerous, however distinguished it may be. I think he better stick with his current chair until this new one is at least in beta testing...
I know it's popular to hate on American football because it's American
I don't hate it because it's American, I hate it because it's boring. I actually tried watching it for a while and I found that it consists mostly of commercials, with short bursts of football in between. If they would just get on with playing instead of having constant advertisement filled breaks it might be more interesting.
'If the application gets people to slow down, I think it's generally considered to be a good thing,' said Atkinson."
Isn't the whole idea of this app to allow people slow down just before the speed trap? If they drive slowly all the time then they don't care about speed traps in the first place
He seems to have the required determination though. His name can be rearranged to "No Alibi" and also "I No Bail"
Hmm, so he's got the weird looks, unusual name and anagrams working for him, but the lack of beard is a serious handicap for a language developer. I guess the future of this language is still up in the air
I want to see BattleBots with these babies.
How many natural immune donors are there?
That's a good question. Most people never get tested and those who do and are negative wouldn't normally be assumed to be negative specifically because they are immune to the virus. Seems like it would take a more or less unusual case, such as a person heavily exposed to the virus and not infected and then someone gets curious as to why. I wonder if there are many more cases of natural immunity than reported.
How about making a video of a crack appearing on a white wall (matching exactly the color of the airplane ceiling) and slowly spreading until sky starts to show through and then perhaps a goblin peering in or something, and projecting that on the plane ceiling. Fun.
Translation:
High churn rates mean new customers have low, volatile expected lifetime values.
People don't stay on dating sites for long
This has a negative impact on the equity value of each customer, making it difficult to justify the valuation multiples seen by membership-driven websites in other verticals.
So you don't make that much money per customer
I'm not exactly a gadget freak but I have to say I do want one of these (not at this price though). With the ability to store a whole bunch of video on a tiny device and the major problem of having to watch it on the little screen, this seems to fill the gap nicely. You just need a flat surface (as the review says, back of the seat in front of you on a plane or whatever) and you can watch it comfortably. And it still fits in your pocket. Why isn't everybody making them?
I mean, I'm all for freezing polar bears and other endangered species so that we can revive them when the weather is better (kind of like that grain vault) but shouldn't it be regulated so that it isn't creating awkward scenarios?
Like what, a long extinct animal suddenly appearing at a dinner party, causing everybody to spit out their drinks?
Mammoths? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a live animal in order to clone a dead one. I guess they can grow them in an elephant or another close cousin, is that the idea?
In other news, Helicopter Celebrates its 500th Year! Bring out the cake, and thanks for giving us the helicopter Leonardo, what would we do without it for the last five centuries!
This is not the anniversary of the laptop, it's the anniversary of the first known time someone made a drawing of something that roughly looks like a laptop (more like a tablet) on paper.
Good job with the title yet again slashdot editors.
Exactly. And how about yogurt packaging that doesn't spray your shirt with yogurt when you start peeling off the top? How about soda cans that you don't have to push the opening (that rats were peeing on back at the warehouse) into the soda itself? How about those fancy bottle caps that you are supposed to pull open and closed with your teeth so you only need one hand, except that there is no opening for air to enter the bottle, so when you start drinking you create a tug of war for soda between your mouth and the vacuum inside the increasingly flattened bottle? The list is endless...
We blame ourselves for everything, when in fact there's no evidence that, if we all vanished tomorrow, animals wouldn't continue to die out as they always have..
No, but there is evidence that since humans came to the scene, and especially since the industrial age, the species are going extinct at a rate from 100s to 1000s of times greater than before.
People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder never happens, right? The overwhelming scientific consensus it that the warming is proceeding much faster than in the past and that this caused at least in part by human activity. If you have strong evidence to the contrary please contact your local oil company, they will be only too happy to help you get it published.
We have serious problems with pollution and habitat loss, none with "Global Warming" which is nothing but a scam to take advantage of Gaia-worship and gullible fools.
It's incredible what kind of nonsense gets modded insightful. A scam by whom? By the national academies of science of all developed countries: http://royalsociety.org/displaypagedoc.asp?id=20742 Why would they take part in a scam? What would just about all major scientific organizations and a vast majority of individual scientists involved in climate research have to gain by putting their reputations on the line in order to "take advantage of Gaia-worship and gullible fools"? What would they have to gain from it?
I understood your point, but my comment was aimed at Palin for picking out the science expenditure out of all things that the government is spending money on, and the possibility that she picks her targets in order to placate the religious right (or possibly even out of her own genuine religious beliefs which would be even worse) more than in order to reduce the government spending in general
Yes, there is unnecessary government spending but to say that the money spent scientific research is the reason the country is in debt is laughable. Ok, it's not, it's actually pretty sad. I guess for someone who believes that all the knowledge is contained in an ancient book and that a magical being in the sky is controlling everything that goes on on Earth, any money spent on science is wasted. ( http://www.google.com/search?q=palin+religious+beliefs )
The guy could have been convicted simply for beating someone up, or even just for threatening to do so unless he would give up those items (blackmail or whatever you call it). But instead, he got convicted for stealing something virtual, which only exists in a game.
IANAL but to me it seems that the question is not whether those items have real world value (it seems they have though, if they can be sold for real money) but whether they are property of the victim. It is theft to steal someone else's property regardless of its value. For example, stealing something like photos or other items of purely sentimental value to their owner is still theft. So, stealing someone's paper photo collection is theft but copying digital photos from their hard drive and deleting the originals (ok, unlikely scenario but just making a point) is ok?
This ruling is the first of its kind for the Netherlands
I doubt that. I'm sure there were other cases of teenagers being convicted for stealing something in the Netherlands. It was something of value, otherwise they wouldn't have wanted it so badly, and the victim was deprived of it. Obviously, there is the issue of beating and threatening with a knife, but even if that wasn't the case it wouldn't be any less of a theft than if they stole some physical object. Can someone tell me what is the complicated issue that tfa is talking about? Seems pretty straightforward to me.
(b) the maintainer is not a crazy man and works well with other LKML developers
Also important, he might be more focused due to not being in prison for first degree murder
Step 1. Convince him to buy an expensive, complex and impossible to manage closed source program that he will approve, Lotus Notes or anything by SAP comes to mind, preferably for a totally inappropriate purpose.
Step 2. Maneuver yourself into being next in line for his job.
Step 3. Encourage end users to complain about the software as much as possible. Plot behind the scenes to make sure his bosses know he is responsible.
Step 4. Once he is fired, take his job and replace the closed source software with open source.
Good luck!
1. 600X actual damages is constitutionally excessive.
Just curious, who came up with 33 cents per file as the "actual" damages and why? Accepting, as the court did, that there was harm suffered from her sharing files, the question is how much. If she shared a file with just one other person who would have otherwise bought it on itunes, the damage would be $1. How do you come up with a fraction of $1.
2: Attempted Distribution != Distribution. Or in other terms: Making Available != Distribution.
If the investigators' claim that they downloaded files shared by her are questionable then this could be a legitimate complaint. However, we are not talking about the investigators' word here. It seems easy to prove that they did in fact download them, log files etc.
I mean how hard is it to NOT self-incriminate oneself: Say you forgot.
Sure, it's done all the time. You are opening yourself to perjury though, which could be a more serious charge than the original crime. As far as I know you need a certain amount of time to pass before "i forgot" can be taken seriously by the judge/jury. You can't open a combination lock one day and claim that you forgot the key the next day.
Well I guess a parallel can be made with a physical lock that is opened with a number combination. You would have to open it if the police have a warrant, even though the combination is stored only in your memory.