No, they want the companies' money (for taxes), they want the area to be cleaned up and made nice, but they get mad when the rents rise to unaffordable levels and they're forced to move. The problem is, you can't have it both ways
There's a third way, which actually makes far less sense than the others. I've seen this first hand as well. They want a top-tier company to locate in that neighborhood, and they want that company to hire the local residents for all of their positions, maybe with a small amount of training. As if you can just grab a random person and thrust him into a coding job or engineer, or animator or... etcetc. Yes, a lot of advocacy feel that companies should not hire the best talent who wants to work there, companies should just hire who is living nearby. Because every job is a 1950s assembly line.
The Ukrainians weren't anti-government, they were anti-one-specific-government. And also vaguely anti-"pro-Russian"-government. And it would be a mistake to think that all of Ukraine felt this way. The matter isn't settled in Ukraine, any more than it is in Egypt, not by a long shot.
Yeah, it's entirely possible for someone to consent to sex one night and then not consent to sex the next morning
But what if you consent one evening, but the next morning decide you didn't consent? That was the situation at issue here, but it's mostly moot since the woman involved has dropped the charges. That just leaves the rest of us in the rape discussion spinning the wheels endlessly.
I dunno, he had a number of moments of lucidity, like when he and Ray were talking in the car about the increase in spiritual activity, and he's the one who points out that maybe what they've been seeing is what was written of the last days in the Book of Revelations. It's a pretty sobering moment, one of the few moments that the movie doesn't try to play for laughs.
He was supposed to be the straight man amongst the zaniness; he was more of an urban everyman rather than the university staff steeped in academia that made up the other three's background.
I'm not sure I buy the Uncle Tom Foolery angle, especially since he gets about the same serious/comedy mixture that Murray's Venkman got.
The big difference is that an iOS device isn't supposed to be a general-purpose computing device.
That's what we liked to say. That's not true though, it is, and has been, positioned as a general-purpose computing device. The iPad in particular is the replacement for all notebook-style computers and many laptops.
There's a big difference between passive advertisements that air on TV and magazines, and online advertisers like Google who actively try to gather as much personal information to do whatever they wish.
The judge who tried to restrict the FCC should be smacked down with contempt of congress. Enough said.
The judge made the right call. It sucks, but he made the right call. The FCC tried to treat the carriers as both common carriers and non-common carriers. They are NOT common carriers, so you cannot apply common carrier-specific rules to them, which is what the FCC was trying to do.
Of course, and that's why Comcast does what it currently does. It's profitable. It's more profitable to restrict competing services. It's more profitable to become the regional monopoly. It's more profitable to charge a high price while not putting that money into the infrastructure needed to provide excellent service.
Many people will choose the better company with the better service, maybe even paying more to do so. But when you're the only game in town, you can focus solely on profit without regard to consequences, not what is good for your customers. Sure, all companies focus on profit, and that's not a terrible thing in itself, but most executives also realize certain actions will lose them customers in the long run. In many (fortunately not all) markets Comcast doesn't need to have that worry. Sure, they have to provide a minimal amount of service. The TV has to work. The Internet has to be up. But throttling large-bandwidth applications, throttling services that compete with their own offerings.. they've crunched the numbers and discovered it will make them more money to do so.
Even if you can reform the company and make it "do the right thing," it sure as hell won't be more profitable.
Which side in the conflict there won't even recognize the right of the other to exist, and openly calls for it to be literally "wiped off the map" - all but publicly calling for genocide?
Not that I'm any friend of Israel, but Ahmadinejad didn't claim Iran would wipe them off the map. The accurate translation was that "the regime which occupies Jerusalem would vanish from the pages of time." The mistranslation has been repeated endlessly by those who have an axe to grind.
A lie made to discredit Iran is the same as a lie made to discredit Israel: still a lie.
Hey Californians. I live on the other coast and I have a hole in my back yard where I can pump all the water out I could ever want - for free.
That only works until you deplete the groundwater supplies, and once depleted, they take a long time to refill. Also, drawing excess water from the California aquifer has caused salt water to seep in, which obviously will make things worse.
Desalination is extremely expensive, such that building and operating enough desalination plants to provide for CA's water needs would dwarf the cost of the NIF. Also, the sheer amount of energy required would contribute heavily to the emissions that are partly responsible for the state being in its current mess.
Plus, the entire premise of the NIF is to find a power source that would allow for the slowing or reversal of planetary climate change. Which could, ironically, fuel the desalination plants on the cheap.
If I have to rinse for twice as long, I'm pretty sure I'm using just as much water
Not necessarily, you have to factor in the proportion of time in the shower spent rinsing. Versus soaping up, just standing in the water while trying to wake up, etc.
I suspect the actual DNS being hunted for are the cheats' "DRM" servers that ensure you paid the guy who made the cheat money.
Imagine, Newell said exactly this. Only DRM sites, not web sites. How did you guess it?
He has access to a magical scroll of knowledge that tells him more details about a story than what the Slashdot summary says. It's a remarkable device!
This is why I don't like the idea that games seemed to have moved away from hosting your own server.
Sadly, even most of the games with random matching force one of the players to serve as the server. Only MMOs really work in the way you describe.
I think Blizzard's non-MMO games use game servers instead of having one person host. Diablo 3, Starcraft II, etc. Though Starcraft 1 did make one person host, and that caused chaos when one person has a slower (dialup) connection than everyone else (dsl).
So are you saying that if I go through your mail and send the contents of anything that looks sketchy to someone, that's bad... but if I translate the contents into a different language before I send them, that's OK?
Oh, if the FBI had evidence that you'd, say, been sending letters to terrorist cells, then yes, I think it would be totally reasonable for them to go through your mail. If they had no such suspicion, no, that wouldn't be reasonable. That's the analogy that (somewhat works).
What they SHOULD be doing is downloading their hash list to YOUR computer, comparing THEIR list against your cache, and setting a flag if there's a match.
As every game company knows, the server should not expose any information to the client that you don't want the user to know, whether the software will tell them or not. Valve likely does not want the list of websites to get out, as not finding your favorite website in the banned list means you can view it with impunity. I wouldn't trust the public key security (all they have to do is mess it up), so why should they bother when they can run the checks server-side instead?
Of course, if it's done locally, then all it takes is a quick hack to get around the detection system, and they're no further ahead. But now that the system is known, all people have to do is flush their DNS cache prior to playing and THIS system is stymied too.
That's true, the system will only catch the unwary cheater.
Should have become a Yanky football player and gotten a scholarship and bullied your nerds to do your assignments whilst you are off on a fratternity booze up.
Yeah... professional sports isn't a career path either. They're a pyramid with very few spots at the top.
But now we get childish anti-science potshots making it up to score 5, Informative? What the heck happened? Has Slashdot been taken over by commenting shrills paid by the Koch brothers? Or did all the intelligent Slashdotters simply leave long ago? If so, could someone please tell me where they went?
As always, post moderations swing wildly at first, but then even out over time. It might have been +5 when you saw it, but by the time ran across it it had dropped to -1. These things usually sort themselves out, but it takes time.
Sorry, but Star Trek went post-scarcity because they had limitless energy, and the ability to create whatever forms of matter they needed, and more or less obviated the need for money and the like.
You're right, and I'd postulate that there are three things that create and exacerbate scarcity: 1) Energy. They seem to have solved easy anti-matter generation and stable storage. Cool 'nuff. We're still hoping for cold fusion some day. 2) Whatever resources they need. Their technology lets them become alchemists, transmuting matter into energy, and then into another form of matter. They don't seem to play enough with the implications of this in the show. 3) Ubiquitous transporters allow them to beam anything, anywhere on a planet, instantly. That solves one of the biggest drivers of scarcity today: logistics. We have plenty of food, and even plenty of donated food to feed countries of starving people; it's actually getting the food to the hungry that is the trickiest problem.
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Just because you have some magic technology allowing you to get it doesn't mean you can or should use it. Now you are talking about moving massive amounts of water around from the oceans to locations where it would not have been ordinarily. You think that will have no ecological impact?
I think it might have a beneficial ecological impact, given that the oceans have been getting slightly more desalinized thanks to melting arctic ice.
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Oh I'd be happy to chat about it off of Slashdot, though it's not something I want to post publicly. :-)
No, they want the companies' money (for taxes), they want the area to be cleaned up and made nice, but they get mad when the rents rise to unaffordable levels and they're forced to move. The problem is, you can't have it both ways
There's a third way, which actually makes far less sense than the others. I've seen this first hand as well.
They want a top-tier company to locate in that neighborhood, and they want that company to hire the local residents for all of their positions, maybe with a small amount of training. As if you can just grab a random person and thrust him into a coding job or engineer, or animator or... etcetc. Yes, a lot of advocacy feel that companies should not hire the best talent who wants to work there, companies should just hire who is living nearby. Because every job is a 1950s assembly line.
The Ukrainians weren't anti-government, they were anti-one-specific-government. And also vaguely anti-"pro-Russian"-government. And it would be a mistake to think that all of Ukraine felt this way. The matter isn't settled in Ukraine, any more than it is in Egypt, not by a long shot.
Yeah, it's entirely possible for someone to consent to sex one night and then not consent to sex the next morning
But what if you consent one evening, but the next morning decide you didn't consent? That was the situation at issue here, but it's mostly moot since the woman involved has dropped the charges. That just leaves the rest of us in the rape discussion spinning the wheels endlessly.
I dunno, he had a number of moments of lucidity, like when he and Ray were talking in the car about the increase in spiritual activity, and he's the one who points out that maybe what they've been seeing is what was written of the last days in the Book of Revelations. It's a pretty sobering moment, one of the few moments that the movie doesn't try to play for laughs.
He was supposed to be the straight man amongst the zaniness; he was more of an urban everyman rather than the university staff steeped in academia that made up the other three's background.
I'm not sure I buy the Uncle Tom Foolery angle, especially since he gets about the same serious/comedy mixture that Murray's Venkman got.
The big difference is that an iOS device isn't supposed to be a general-purpose computing device.
That's what we liked to say. That's not true though, it is, and has been, positioned as a general-purpose computing device. The iPad in particular is the replacement for all notebook-style computers and many laptops.
No, Netscape Navigator was not good.
Navigator 1.1N was pretty sweet. Netscape 3 was pretty disappointing, and Netscape Communicator and beyond was a total disaster.
There's a big difference between passive advertisements that air on TV and magazines, and online advertisers like Google who actively try to gather as much personal information to do whatever they wish.
Oh, you don't like people using Netflix? Well, fuck you then, I'll just download off usenet and torrents (via a vpn).
"Oh no! He's screwing over our competitors because we're screwing over our competitors too! *sobs*"
The judge who tried to restrict the FCC should be smacked down with contempt of congress.
Enough said.
The judge made the right call. It sucks, but he made the right call.
The FCC tried to treat the carriers as both common carriers and non-common carriers. They are NOT common carriers, so you cannot apply common carrier-specific rules to them, which is what the FCC was trying to do.
Who value profit like everyone else.
Of course, and that's why Comcast does what it currently does. It's profitable.
It's more profitable to restrict competing services.
It's more profitable to become the regional monopoly.
It's more profitable to charge a high price while not putting that money into the infrastructure needed to provide excellent service.
Many people will choose the better company with the better service, maybe even paying more to do so. But when you're the only game in town, you can focus solely on profit without regard to consequences, not what is good for your customers. Sure, all companies focus on profit, and that's not a terrible thing in itself, but most executives also realize certain actions will lose them customers in the long run. In many (fortunately not all) markets Comcast doesn't need to have that worry. Sure, they have to provide a minimal amount of service. The TV has to work. The Internet has to be up. But throttling large-bandwidth applications, throttling services that compete with their own offerings.. they've crunched the numbers and discovered it will make them more money to do so.
Even if you can reform the company and make it "do the right thing," it sure as hell won't be more profitable.
Which side in the conflict there won't even recognize the right of the other to exist, and openly calls for it to be literally "wiped off the map" - all but publicly calling for genocide?
Not that I'm any friend of Israel, but Ahmadinejad didn't claim Iran would wipe them off the map. The accurate translation was that "the regime which occupies Jerusalem would vanish from the pages of time." The mistranslation has been repeated endlessly by those who have an axe to grind.
A lie made to discredit Iran is the same as a lie made to discredit Israel: still a lie.
Hey Californians. I live on the other coast and I have a hole in my back yard where I can pump all the water out I could ever want - for free.
That only works until you deplete the groundwater supplies, and once depleted, they take a long time to refill. Also, drawing excess water from the California aquifer has caused salt water to seep in, which obviously will make things worse.
The plains states are getting into some very real trouble soon as agriculture has been draining the enormous High Plains Aquifer System.
Why is "a green lawn" the only measure of outdoor beauty?
Desalination is extremely expensive, such that building and operating enough desalination plants to provide for CA's water needs would dwarf the cost of the NIF. Also, the sheer amount of energy required would contribute heavily to the emissions that are partly responsible for the state being in its current mess.
Plus, the entire premise of the NIF is to find a power source that would allow for the slowing or reversal of planetary climate change. Which could, ironically, fuel the desalination plants on the cheap.
If I have to rinse for twice as long, I'm pretty sure I'm using just as much water
Not necessarily, you have to factor in the proportion of time in the shower spent rinsing. Versus soaping up, just standing in the water while trying to wake up, etc.
I suspect the actual DNS being hunted for are the cheats' "DRM" servers that ensure you paid the guy who made the cheat money.
Imagine, Newell said exactly this. Only DRM sites, not web sites. How did you guess it?
He has access to a magical scroll of knowledge that tells him more details about a story than what the Slashdot summary says. It's a remarkable device!
This is why I don't like the idea that games seemed to have moved away from hosting your own server.
Sadly, even most of the games with random matching force one of the players to serve as the server. Only MMOs really work in the way you describe.
I think Blizzard's non-MMO games use game servers instead of having one person host. Diablo 3, Starcraft II, etc. Though Starcraft 1 did make one person host, and that caused chaos when one person has a slower (dialup) connection than everyone else (dsl).
So just run a script to purge the DNS cache every 10 minutes. Solves the problem.
I think the problem is that the cheat has to be online-connected to a cheat server, so it may randomly repopulate the DNS cache.
So are you saying that if I go through your mail and send the contents of anything that looks sketchy to someone, that's bad... but if I translate the contents into a different language before I send them, that's OK?
Oh, if the FBI had evidence that you'd, say, been sending letters to terrorist cells, then yes, I think it would be totally reasonable for them to go through your mail. If they had no such suspicion, no, that wouldn't be reasonable. That's the analogy that (somewhat works).
What they SHOULD be doing is downloading their hash list to YOUR computer, comparing THEIR list against your cache, and setting a flag if there's a match.
As every game company knows, the server should not expose any information to the client that you don't want the user to know, whether the software will tell them or not. Valve likely does not want the list of websites to get out, as not finding your favorite website in the banned list means you can view it with impunity. I wouldn't trust the public key security (all they have to do is mess it up), so why should they bother when they can run the checks server-side instead?
Of course, if it's done locally, then all it takes is a quick hack to get around the detection system, and they're no further ahead. But now that the system is known, all people have to do is flush their DNS cache prior to playing and THIS system is stymied too.
That's true, the system will only catch the unwary cheater.
Should have become a Yanky football player and gotten a scholarship and bullied your nerds to do your assignments whilst you are off on a fratternity booze up.
Yeah... professional sports isn't a career path either. They're a pyramid with very few spots at the top.
But now we get childish anti-science potshots making it up to score 5, Informative? What the heck happened? Has Slashdot been taken over by commenting shrills paid by the Koch brothers? Or did all the intelligent Slashdotters simply leave long ago? If so, could someone please tell me where they went?
As always, post moderations swing wildly at first, but then even out over time. It might have been +5 when you saw it, but by the time ran across it it had dropped to -1. These things usually sort themselves out, but it takes time.
Sorry, but Star Trek went post-scarcity because they had limitless energy, and the ability to create whatever forms of matter they needed, and more or less obviated the need for money and the like.
You're right, and I'd postulate that there are three things that create and exacerbate scarcity: 1) Energy. They seem to have solved easy anti-matter generation and stable storage. Cool 'nuff. We're still hoping for cold fusion some day. 2) Whatever resources they need. Their technology lets them become alchemists, transmuting matter into energy, and then into another form of matter. They don't seem to play enough with the implications of this in the show. 3) Ubiquitous transporters allow them to beam anything, anywhere on a planet, instantly. That solves one of the biggest drivers of scarcity today: logistics. We have plenty of food, and even plenty of donated food to feed countries of starving people; it's actually getting the food to the hungry that is the trickiest problem.
Just because you have some magic technology allowing you to get it doesn't mean you can or should use it. Now you are talking about moving massive amounts of water around from the oceans to locations where it would not have been ordinarily. You think that will have no ecological impact?
I think it might have a beneficial ecological impact, given that the oceans have been getting slightly more desalinized thanks to melting arctic ice.
NBC affiliates broadcast free-to-air across the United States, so why should they limit online streaming?
Because they're owned by Comcast now?