Here's the correct link to the/. article discussing the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act. This group of senators is passing so many damn thinkofthechildren bills to ensure their reelections that it's hard to figure out which one we're talking about at any given time. Their constituents should be ashamed if they believe these bills are doing anything but wasting tax dollars and time that could be used to discuss important issues.
Are stories ever rejected under this system? I have some light blue and green stories that have just been sitting there in the firehose for a month now, "Pending"...
"Call me when you rank your firehose stories by popularity using a number, okay?"
But what about color-blind synesthetes who see numbers as colors, but can't distinguish between certain hues. How will they ever get along using your proposed ranking system??!?!
Call me when you rank your firehose stories by anything other than color or grapheme.
"People might pay more attention to their subject line and try to do a better job of selling the story. Or they could post leading and inflammatory headlines to get extra attention...that's kind of staple around here anyways..."
So what happens when someone posts a story with the subject "CURE FOR CANCER DISCOVERED!!!!" and the body is just a big ol' link to goatse. It gets modded + to the extreme, and some unknowing editor comes along and approves it without thinking...
You're right, that is about on par for/. already...
If you click on "Parent", you can view my original post, and see that I already discussed that, and said that people will probably just based solely on the subject text.
The firehose view just lists the story subjects and allows the user to click +/- from there. Yes, you can view the entire story, but I think most people are just going to vote based on the subject alone. Is this good or bad?
Now if only American court rooms cared at all about the "public interest", rather than the special interests that have so much power, maybe we'd start seeing similar sound-mindedness.
That would be the ultimate mechanical turk - sitting around watching youtube videos all day and getting paid... in addition to what you are already being paid as you put off work to watch youtube videos all day.
"Paternoster was unaware that the Kazaa software was installed on his computer. While on a tour of duty in Germany from 2004 to 2005, the document says, another soldier downloaded the software and set up a Kazaa account under Paternoster's name. Last summer Paternoster discovered the software and 'thousands of files downloaded on his computer by the soldiers he housed,' and he uninstalled the software and deleted the files, according to the document."
So, is unknowing possession a crime in this case? Let the poor analogies begin...
They should trial this in the fattest city in the US (apparently, Houston). Install these devices on every refrigerator door, toilet flusher, and McDonald's trash can flap in the city, and watch the pounds melt off.
"I get an e-mail from the broker saying, 'Sorry, my client is not interested in the space, too bad we couldn't make the big bucks' -- then there's a frown face!"
Maybe she should've made them an offer they couldn't refuse. Then she wouldn't have anything to worry about (except blowback).
"in reference to a character who had died earlier in the movie but, for some reason, showed back up on the control room alive and well, working in another scene"
The funniest part is that it was just "in another scene", it was in the very next scene after her death. If you watch the credits, they make fun of the person responsible for Continuity.
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Here's the correct link to the /. article discussing the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act. This group of senators is passing so many damn thinkofthechildren bills to ensure their reelections that it's hard to figure out which one we're talking about at any given time. Their constituents should be ashamed if they believe these bills are doing anything but wasting tax dollars and time that could be used to discuss important issues.
This is the same Mary Pryor who is cosponsoring the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act.
"Nothing for you to see here; please move along"
Wow! The image compression used by Microsoft's HD Photo format is so good that it can reduce any image down to 0 bits!
Are stories ever rejected under this system? I have some light blue and green stories that have just been sitting there in the firehose for a month now, "Pending"...
"Call me when you rank your firehose stories by popularity using a number, okay?"
But what about color-blind synesthetes who see numbers as colors, but can't distinguish between certain hues. How will they ever get along using your proposed ranking system??!?!
Call me when you rank your firehose stories by anything other than color or grapheme.
"People might pay more attention to their subject line and try to do a better job of selling the story. Or they could post leading and inflammatory headlines to get extra attention...that's kind of staple around here anyways..."
/. already...
So what happens when someone posts a story with the subject "CURE FOR CANCER DISCOVERED!!!!" and the body is just a big ol' link to goatse. It gets modded + to the extreme, and some unknowing editor comes along and approves it without thinking...
You're right, that is about on par for
If you click on "Parent", you can view my original post, and see that I already discussed that, and said that people will probably just based solely on the subject text.
The firehose view just lists the story subjects and allows the user to click +/- from there. Yes, you can view the entire story, but I think most people are just going to vote based on the subject alone. Is this good or bad?
Now if only American court rooms cared at all about the "public interest", rather than the special interests that have so much power, maybe we'd start seeing similar sound-mindedness.
Are you sure it wasn't simply the case that they're out of money and/or nobody will distribute the documentary for them?
That would be the ultimate mechanical turk - sitting around watching youtube videos all day and getting paid... in addition to what you are already being paid as you put off work to watch youtube videos all day.
From the more detailed article:
"Paternoster was unaware that the Kazaa software was installed on his computer. While on a tour of duty in Germany from 2004 to 2005, the document says, another soldier downloaded the software and set up a Kazaa account under Paternoster's name. Last summer Paternoster discovered the software and 'thousands of files downloaded on his computer by the soldiers he housed,' and he uninstalled the software and deleted the files, according to the document."
So, is unknowing possession a crime in this case? Let the poor analogies begin...
The linked article is pretty light on content. It does have a link to this article which actually goes into detail about the countersuit.
They should trial this in the fattest city in the US (apparently, Houston). Install these devices on every refrigerator door, toilet flusher, and McDonald's trash can flap in the city, and watch the pounds melt off.
"I get an e-mail from the broker saying, 'Sorry, my client is not interested in the space, too bad we couldn't make the big bucks' -- then there's a frown face!"
Maybe she should've made them an offer they couldn't refuse. Then she wouldn't have anything to worry about (except blowback).
This is old news for Ohioans. I submitted this story to /. 2 weeks ago...
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"Wall-mounted keyboards; it must be THE FUTURE!"
"in reference to a character who had died earlier in the movie but, for some reason, showed back up on the control room alive and well, working in another scene"
The funniest part is that it was just "in another scene", it was in the very next scene after her death. If you watch the credits, they make fun of the person responsible for Continuity.
"Gettin' water for Rowsdower... bippity boppity bowsdower!"
Or the car trying to start... "RRR RRR RRR RRR ROWSDOWER!"
What's everyone's favorite line from MST3K?
Mine: "We will be approaching speeds of... 3!"
Do ISPs really do this? I've never really noticed anything like this.
It's called oversight. Punchscan makes it easy for every single voter to ensure that the items they marked are exactly what was entered into the database. People can even download large randomly-selected chunks of the database to help ensure integrity. Read Wikipedia for more of the security features.