If its made by M$ whats the difference between it and a black hat worm?
A black hat worm might have a bug that prevents it from working on your machine. Microsoft has better programmers, though, so their worm *will* get you.
Bonus: The end of the series has been plotted out and sealed
with the studio, so no inconclusive endings a la X-Files,
no cancellations before the show ends a la Serenity.
If everyone publicly boycotted it, from now on, it probably would be cancelled. All that sealing the ending with the studio (not Price Waterhouse? Or even just their lawyer?) guarantees is that, like escrowed code, you can eventually find out how the writers wanted it to come out in rough draft phase.
Maybe they DO want an inconclusive ending a la X-Files, too. Writers can be stupid, even when they are smart. George Bernard Shaw wrote (in the aftermath, from the original play program for Pygmalion) that Eliza Doolittle married Freddy, after all.
Most people in America are joining colleges to loyally wear hats and t-shirts of their favorite college sports team. Or mardi gras or parties or frat or sex or free beer.
I have never met anyone in a science or engineering major who went into that major for the sex and free beer, let alone silly hats and t-shirts. The Ag and Liberal Arts majors don't count in this discussion, and Business majors don't count in any discussion worth having.
Probably at the beginning of scientific medicine, treating all the casulties during the Napoleonic Wars.
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but when you right down to it, do you really think the banking industry, the petroleum industry, and countless others are going to roll over tomorrow and start hacking JSON?
No, but we can hope.
So far as I have seen it and used it, XML has all the problems of ASN.1 (which the telecommunication industry, especially wireless, is wedded to), and lacks its conciseness. They seem especially alike because it appears that in both, everyone insists on misusing it and reinventing the wheel (and not by putting in spokes, bearings, or a suspension, either).
Oh, correction: I like when my MMORPG uses it, because I can figure out where each monster will spawn without having to write my own parser (yet again).
Well, first of all, a headline like "Christian groups oppose stem cell research" will be read and interpreted differently. Since Westerners are very familiar with the diversity of Christian groups, we automatically discount that such a headline is representative of all Christians.
Obviously, you are new here.
Quite a few of the posters DO assume that the above headline applies to ALL Christians, just as they are convinced that we all support bombing abortion clinics or threatening their doctors with more than disapprobation, but that most of us are too chicken to do it ourselves.
Of course, there have been non-Christians who looked askance on embyonic stem cell research, but those are never written about (as they ruin a good rant, I suppose) here.
> Ok, but I don't follow his God, I'm a Astru Priest > (follow the Norse gods) so what does it matter if > I see an image of him
Nothing. After all, even most "moderate" Muslims think that YOU should be forced to convert to Islam or be killed (not being one of the "People Of The Book"). So whatever you do only justifies your being killed, whether you look at the picture, draw the picture, denounce the picture, or just go to the market to buy bread and milk before the next snow storm hits.
Sorry, dude, you're screwed, anyway that you look at it.
> I'd fly on that plane and feel perfectly safe. > > "Welcome to Atheist Airlines."
Yeah, until a bunch decide to fly the plane into St Peter's or St Paul's or St Patrick's on Easter. Or, more historically, to liquidate the Ukranian Kulaks (or in American, non-"poor white trash" types) because they don't follow the right ideology, or Cambodian city dwellers for basically the same reason. Or educated Chinese because Mao was in a bad mood.
No, they weren't, except for the Rump. Unfortunately for the English, the Rump got control of Parliament, and followed every wild idea that they had, until they got sick of themselves, even. Hence Cromwell followed by another Charles with the same ideas that got his father chopped.
> The English finally managed to get rid of them, > a good many ended up in the Colonies, and are > the forefathers of the mouthy evangelistic types
No, they weren't. Find me one "mouthy" Congregationalist or Unitarian. Or even a (Northern) Presbyterian.
The "mouthy" types are mostly from the Scotch-Irish wave (so-called, because NONE were Irish [militantly so -- the stay behinds include Ian Paisley], and most were not Scotch -- my small line of S/I ancestors were mostly Welsh, frex). The Scotch Irish left for economic reasons, and a lack of wars between a united Rngland/Scotland making their fractious nature no longer a benefit to whichever government employed them.
> who attack the greater society with much zeal.
You do realize that you non- and anti-religious are the minority in the USA, don't you? WE are the greater society (and if you are not an American or Permanent Resident, you have no standing to complain about internal USA matters, anyway). Just because you don't know any (by deliberate policy, no doubt) doesn't mean that we aren't here, or that we all think that IntDesign is anything but either nonsense or nonscience.
"It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately."'
But putting a picture of the Almighty doesn't offend Islam? Look up "Sistine Chapel" and he is right there, with Adam. But then, He is just the Creator, and has an entire Commandment against that sort of thing (two, if you count not taking His name in vain).
From someone who, for the most part, cannot conceive why people would want to use an Internet-based something like Facebook, in the first place (seriously, why post your life to 1 billion Chinese, let alone any other group?):
Why is the application not treated as-if it were another user? From what I understand, there is a reasonable granularity of privacy settings for users. Let each app be a unique user, and you automatically get these benefits.
Or are the apps client-based, so that my Facebook on machine X can use apps and on machine Y it cannot, because of how it was set up? In this case, I suppose that I understand (since an app running as "me" only restricts "my" privacy as a favor, and cannot be compelled or punished, except by deletion).
* Wireless extremly high bandwidth long range communication unit.
Satphones, been around for almost a decade. Just never sold.
Anyway, cellular high bandwidth makes more sense.
* Replicator, with lots of item blueprints (including all other items on my wishlist) downloadable via the communication unit
* Energy device to power the replicator.
I used to know the plots and best lines of each episode, but even I think that you might have seen a few too many episodes. Maybe we should wait until after the War of the Supermen (WWIII).
Those are the three main ones. Add this one as a bonus:
* Automatic doctor unit that can fix any injuries. Bonus if it can extend life.
OK, you can test the Autodoc V0.8 model, when we need to test the apendectomy code.
Sorry, but the best evidence is that he is living in the "tribal" areas of Pakistan (where the government control ends at the range of its guns, and its army doesn't go -- sort of like Bedford-Stuyvestant in NYC, during the 1970s and 80s).
> Guess living in a cave really is a safe place to be.
Well, NORAD certainly thought so (replace NORAD with Stargate Command, for this bunch:-).
So the only half Iranians get to vote on is already pre-selected by the aforementioned asshats. As that list probably contains only friends of asshats, they're likely be asshats as well. So in fact, unelected asshats vote for candidates and Iranians just decide whose face is prettier.
The correct term for that is "Hobson's Choice", I believe.
Not quite. Hobson's Choice is to accept or reject the one alternative. The Iranian election is like choosing the Homecoming Queen from your high school, at best (i.e., who really cares, except the person elected as hand puppet for the mullahs?); at worst, it is like Blue Simms vs. Red Simms, from Moon Over Parador (which would be worse than a Hobson's Choice).
It is strange, this one event is more popular for its commercials than for the actual game.
For a very rarified group. My sister was "in The Business" (as she pronounces it)(film/ad business, that is), yet never notes the commercials. Neither does anyone else that I have met in person. All of them view it as either (1) a potentially interesting game (2) a good excuse for a party, like Cinco De Mayo is an excuse for tequilla, or (3) MUST SEE TV, as OUR TEAM is playing. Having grown up in the Pittsburgh, PA area during the Steelers Dynasty of the 1970s, I can understand this, even if I might not feel it (except two years ago, when WE WON!!!!!:-).
I would point out that broadcast TV is payed for by ad agencies bying airtime for their clients, so NOT making a big deal about the commercials on the Today Show, or the like, would be biting the hand that feeds them, and thus not done.
Tell it to Harold Stassen, who was a real Governor with real support, before he became a running joke at the Republican conventions. How many current liberal Republicans do you know of?
Tell it to Gus Hall. How well do Communist Parties do, in US elections?
Tell it to the guy who always came on with a single half hour commercial, consisting of a dry lecture of obscure historical claims, decrying the Queen of England and her influence over the Federal Reserve, whose name I cannot even remember, now.
His running will do little. Lots of liberaterian leaning candidates running for lots of offices as Republicans might. Even running campaigns for non-liberaterian leaning candidates could.
> Yeah the Constitution, REAL CRAZY. Thomas Jefferson > called and he wants to Bitch Slap your momma for > calling him a nutbag!
Thomas Jefferson spent no time at the Constitutional Convention, as he was Ambassador to France while it was going on. When it was proposed, he was against it. When it was enacted, he helped establish the political party for people who had been against it, which was called the Democratic-Republican party, and became the Democratic Party (shades of the RepCongo/DemRepCongo switch!).
Thomas Jefferson, if alive today, would be a Democrat, and would loudly proclaim his support for Obama, while secretly ensuring his defeat by Hillary (probably by using Aaron Burr), because he was notoriously hypocritical.
> IF George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were alive today. WHO would they vote for?
Unless Abe Lincoln was also alive, they would all vote for Geo. Washington (Jefferson relucantly).
The resson that religion has taken such a large place in politics is that, for the longest time, it was simply assumed to be there, and mainly one of the "so-called" Mainline denominations of Protestantism. Only in the last 30 years or so have explicitly non-religious people (more non-religious even than Unitarian Universalists, who fervently believe that there just might be a divine principle, and you should probably act as if there were, but are unwilling to state more than that) started loudly assuming that religious == evil and stupid since they are certain that THEY and all their friend are good and smart, and like Pauline Kael, refuse to believe that there are enough on the other side, since they don't meet them (usually deliberately).
For those who don't know, Pauline Kael was a famous film critic who (it is said) refused to believe that Richard Nixon could have beaten George McGovern, who lost in a landslide, because she didn't know anyone who voted for him.
Last that I heard, Slashdot was not a part of or owned by the US Federal government, but was a private corporation. Therefore, Federal guarantees of rights do not apply.
> and the PEOPLE choosing their president?
You obviously did not paid attention in High School Civics class. "The PEOPLE" have never chosen the President.
They are back again. Or at least, they were, last August. I haven't seen any high school seniors since Labor Day, except in foul weather gear.
> calculators worn on the hips like cell phones
Well, I wore mine like a six-shooter!:-)
Which brings up Westerns all the time in theaters as well as on TV, not just one or two every three years. And Fright Night/Chiller Theater/Vampira, aka the 1950s and earlier shlock monster festival, usually late Saturday night (for whippersnappers, movies that old didn't have to pay residuals to the actors and crew, so it was much easier/cheaper to run them to death, because the rental agencies just paid the studios).
> Last I saw, microsoft was offering $31 per share. The current price is $27.59.
Yes, I actually read the article, and clearly I remembered the wrong prices.
> I really hate the position they could be placed in.
Well, before things go through, they just have to review everything that they did, and note where the prior work can be found, then send it off to the FSF or such, to defend against all the baseless patent claims that will appear. Once it goes through, that would probably violate fiduciary duty, even after they quit, in two weeks plus any accrued vacation time (assuming that they feel as you do about MS, which is quite probable).
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A black hat worm might have a bug that prevents it from working on your machine. Microsoft has better programmers, though, so their worm *will* get you.
> to demonstrate to the world (and the Chinese) that was have functional ASAT capability.
Just like the Chinese, who have already demonstrated their ASAT capability by pulling the same stunt on one of their satellites.
If everyone publicly boycotted it, from now on, it probably would be cancelled. All that sealing the ending with the studio (not Price Waterhouse? Or even just their lawyer?) guarantees is that, like escrowed code, you can eventually find out how the writers wanted it to come out in rough draft phase.
Maybe they DO want an inconclusive ending a la X-Files, too. Writers can be stupid, even when they are smart. George Bernard Shaw wrote (in the aftermath, from the original play program for Pygmalion) that Eliza Doolittle married Freddy, after all.
I have never met anyone in a science or engineering major who went into that major for the sex and free beer, let alone silly hats and t-shirts. The Ag and Liberal Arts majors don't count in this discussion, and Business majors don't count in any discussion worth having.
Probably at the beginning of scientific medicine, treating all the casulties during the Napoleonic Wars.
No, but we can hope.
So far as I have seen it and used it, XML has all the problems of ASN.1 (which the telecommunication industry, especially wireless, is wedded to), and lacks its conciseness. They seem especially alike because it appears that in both, everyone insists on misusing it and reinventing the wheel (and not by putting in spokes, bearings, or a suspension, either).
Oh, correction: I like when my MMORPG uses it, because I can figure out where each monster will spawn without having to write my own parser (yet again).
Obviously, you are new here.
Quite a few of the posters DO assume that the above headline applies to ALL Christians, just as they are convinced that we all support bombing abortion clinics or threatening their doctors with more than disapprobation, but that most of us are too chicken to do it ourselves.
Of course, there have been non-Christians who looked askance on embyonic stem cell research, but those are never written about (as they ruin a good rant, I suppose) here.
> Ok, but I don't follow his God, I'm a Astru Priest
> (follow the Norse gods) so what does it matter if
> I see an image of him
Nothing. After all, even most "moderate" Muslims think that YOU should be forced to convert to Islam or be killed (not being one of the "People Of The Book"). So whatever you do only justifies your being killed, whether you look at the picture, draw the picture, denounce the picture, or just go to the market to buy bread and milk before the next snow storm hits.
Sorry, dude, you're screwed, anyway that you look at it.
> I'd fly on that plane and feel perfectly safe.
>
> "Welcome to Atheist Airlines."
Yeah, until a bunch decide to fly the plane into St Peter's or St Paul's or St Patrick's on Easter. Or, more historically, to liquidate the Ukranian Kulaks (or in American, non-"poor white trash" types) because they don't follow the right ideology, or Cambodian city dwellers for basically the same reason. Or educated Chinese because Mao was in a bad mood.
> The Puritans were a horrible lot.
No, they weren't, except for the Rump. Unfortunately for the English, the Rump got control of Parliament, and followed every wild idea that they had, until they got sick of themselves, even. Hence Cromwell followed by another Charles with the same ideas that got his father chopped.
> The English finally managed to get rid of them,
> a good many ended up in the Colonies, and are
> the forefathers of the mouthy evangelistic types
No, they weren't. Find me one "mouthy" Congregationalist or Unitarian. Or even a (Northern) Presbyterian.
The "mouthy" types are mostly from the Scotch-Irish wave (so-called, because NONE were Irish [militantly so -- the stay behinds include Ian Paisley], and most were not Scotch -- my small line of S/I ancestors were mostly Welsh, frex). The Scotch Irish left for economic reasons, and a lack of wars between a united Rngland/Scotland making their fractious nature no longer a benefit to whichever government employed them.
> who attack the greater society with much zeal.
You do realize that you non- and anti-religious are the minority in the USA, don't you? WE are the greater society (and if you are not an American or Permanent Resident, you have no standing to complain about internal USA matters, anyway). Just because you don't know any (by deliberate policy, no doubt) doesn't mean that we aren't here, or that we all think that IntDesign is anything but either nonsense or nonscience.
But putting a picture of the Almighty doesn't offend Islam? Look up "Sistine Chapel" and he is right there, with Adam. But then, He is just the Creator, and has an entire Commandment against that sort of thing (two, if you count not taking His name in vain).
Why is the application not treated as-if it were another user? From what I understand, there is a reasonable granularity of privacy settings for users. Let each app be a unique user, and you automatically get these benefits.
Or are the apps client-based, so that my Facebook on machine X can use apps and on machine Y it cannot, because of how it was set up? In this case, I suppose that I understand (since an app running as "me" only restricts "my" privacy as a favor, and cannot be compelled or punished, except by deletion).
Satphones, been around for almost a decade. Just never sold.
Anyway, cellular high bandwidth makes more sense.
I used to know the plots and best lines of each episode, but even I think that you might have seen a few too many episodes. Maybe we should wait until after the War of the Supermen (WWIII).
OK, you can test the Autodoc V0.8 model, when we need to test the apendectomy code.
> IRAQ HAS NEVER ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES
Well, they were shooting at our planes occasionally, throughout the Cease Fire period after Gulf War I.
They didn't attack CONUS, granted.
Sorry, but the best evidence is that he is living in the "tribal" areas of Pakistan (where the government control ends at the range of its guns, and its army doesn't go -- sort of like Bedford-Stuyvestant in NYC, during the 1970s and 80s).
> Guess living in a cave really is a safe place to be.
Well, NORAD certainly thought so (replace NORAD with Stargate Command, for this bunch :-).
Not quite. Hobson's Choice is to accept or reject the one alternative. The Iranian election is like choosing the Homecoming Queen from your high school, at best (i.e., who really cares, except the person elected as hand puppet for the mullahs?); at worst, it is like Blue Simms vs. Red Simms, from Moon Over Parador (which would be worse than a Hobson's Choice).
For a very rarified group. My sister was "in The Business" (as she pronounces it)(film/ad business, that is), yet never notes the commercials. Neither does anyone else that I have met in person. All of them view it as either (1) a potentially interesting game (2) a good excuse for a party, like Cinco De Mayo is an excuse for tequilla, or (3) MUST SEE TV, as OUR TEAM is playing. Having grown up in the Pittsburgh, PA area during the Steelers Dynasty of the 1970s, I can understand this, even if I might not feel it (except two years ago, when WE WON!!!!! :-).
I would point out that broadcast TV is payed for by ad agencies bying airtime for their clients, so NOT making a big deal about the commercials on the Today Show, or the like, would be biting the hand that feeds them, and thus not done.
> runs, the more exposure those ideas get.
Tell it to Harold Stassen, who was a real Governor with real support, before he became a running joke at the Republican conventions. How many current liberal Republicans do you know of?
Tell it to Gus Hall. How well do Communist Parties do, in US elections?
Tell it to the guy who always came on with a single half hour commercial, consisting of a dry lecture of obscure historical claims, decrying the Queen of England and her influence over the Federal Reserve, whose name I cannot even remember, now.
His running will do little. Lots of liberaterian leaning candidates running for lots of offices as Republicans might. Even running campaigns for non-liberaterian leaning candidates could.
> Yeah the Constitution, REAL CRAZY. Thomas Jefferson
> called and he wants to Bitch Slap your momma for
> calling him a nutbag!
Thomas Jefferson spent no time at the Constitutional Convention, as he was Ambassador to France while it was going on. When it was proposed, he was against it. When it was enacted, he helped establish the political party for people who had been against it, which was called the Democratic-Republican party, and became the Democratic Party (shades of the RepCongo/DemRepCongo switch!).
Thomas Jefferson, if alive today, would be a Democrat, and would loudly proclaim his support for Obama, while secretly ensuring his defeat by Hillary (probably by using Aaron Burr), because he was notoriously hypocritical.
> IF George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were alive today. WHO would they vote for?
Unless Abe Lincoln was also alive, they would all vote for Geo. Washington (Jefferson relucantly).
For those who don't know, Pauline Kael was a famous film critic who (it is said) refused to believe that Richard Nixon could have beaten George McGovern, who lost in a landslide, because she didn't know anyone who voted for him.
> What happened to freedom of speech, expression,
Last that I heard, Slashdot was not a part of or owned by the US Federal government, but was a private corporation. Therefore, Federal guarantees of rights do not apply.
> and the PEOPLE choosing their president?
You obviously did not paid attention in High School Civics class. "The PEOPLE" have never chosen the President.
> Already, we have laptops that are more than powerful enough for all desktop computer needs.
But your "needs" will expand. Can your laptop keep your entire movie/music collection, now?
> Everyone that can't get what they need done on a laptop is going to be using a workstation.
What is a desktop but a workstation running the wrong operating system?
> Servers and mainframes, well who knows,
Where the I/O intensive stuff runs, as always (for expanding sizes defining what is intensive).
But did you know that anvils have uses other than being dropped on cartoon characters? And Monty Python sketch characters? :-)
They are back again. Or at least, they were, last August. I haven't seen any high school seniors since Labor Day, except in foul weather gear.
> calculators worn on the hips like cell phones
Well, I wore mine like a six-shooter! :-)
Which brings up Westerns all the time in theaters as well as on TV, not just one or two every three years. And Fright Night/Chiller Theater/Vampira, aka the 1950s and earlier shlock monster festival, usually late Saturday night (for whippersnappers, movies that old didn't have to pay residuals to the actors and crew, so it was much easier/cheaper to run them to death, because the rental agencies just paid the studios).
> Last I saw, microsoft was offering $31 per share. The current price is $27.59.
Yes, I actually read the article, and clearly I remembered the wrong prices.
> I really hate the position they could be placed in.
Well, before things go through, they just have to review everything that they did, and note where the prior work can be found, then send it off to the FSF or such, to defend against all the baseless patent claims that will appear. Once it goes through, that would probably violate fiduciary duty, even after they quit, in two weeks plus any accrued vacation time (assuming that they feel as you do about MS, which is quite probable).