In other business news, Microsoft was unable to confirm or deny receipt of a large shipment of reel-to-reel tapes with no return address and a Fort Meade, MD postmark.
So four moderateors don't follow New Voyages? I don't!
Real Star Trek has gotten in trouble before for ethnically-implausible casting: Chinese Wang as Korean Kim, Korean Park as Japanese Saito. Plus many more instances of implausible casting for which they didn't get in trouble — either because of the viewer demographics, or the fact that the animosity between the actor's and character's groups has subsided: Hispanic Montalbán for Central-Asian Kahn Singh, English actors for the entire French Picard family.
J. Random Moderator is more likely to have these incidents in mind, and not know that Mr. Lim is a decent, professional actor. Myself included.
My guess is they aren't: they're just going to look at the period when the law was effective and if queries dipped during that period " or slowed in growth, or whatever " they'll say, "Aha! The law worked! That means it IS the least restrictive means to keep babies away from German scheisse videos!" <em> added.
Can you play Spot The Fallacy? Cause Ash^H^H^H Ch^H^H B^H Gonzales is betting they can slip that one under the radar.
The easiest way to game the system might be to simply enter your floor number over and over, to fool the computer into thinking there's an increased demand for that floor.
I haven't seen this system in action, but I can't imagine it being much different than an inside-out elevator panel, or the old up and down buttons: hitting the button eighty bazillion times (though recorded by the computer, and maybe incorporated into long-term averages) probably won't register as more demand for the elevator in the short run than pressing the button once. If they're worried about an elevator going over-capacity because eighty bazillion people seem to want to go to the same floor as some jerk (or more likely a five year-old), it'd probably sanity check against the historical data.
Which makes me think of something else, actually: is there a risk in possibly B0fff00r 0v3rf1uX0r1n6 the main dispatch computer by way of a lobby panel?
Am I the only person who keeps reading that headline as: "Web Site Judges Users Insanity"?
But Postini sezzzzzz!!!!!
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Yet the amount of spam seems to be declining. Postini (www.postini.com) keeps real-time data on the amount of spam it stops. A few years ago, it said spam made up around 80% of all the email circulating. When I looked last week the figure was about 60%.
Or maybe this one application / website (the only source cited for concluding spam is down) is just letting more spam get through undetected...
Here's hoping that they have a consultant on the show to make it technically accurate.
I don't know. Do drunken help desk techs routinely tell senior executives who can't find the Any Key to "Feck Off!"? Because Father Ted feckin' rocks, but I don't suppose it's representative of how a real church... on a desert island... operates.
The speed of light is a constant, even near a black hole.
The speed of light is constant with respect to inertial frame of reference (e.g. whether I'm looking at the light standing still, or you're looking at the light travelling down the road at some appreciable fraction of the speed of light), not constant with respect to the medium. While I gave up on Physics after my freshman year of college, I'm willing to accept that the pull of the black hole on photons falls more under the heading of medium than inertia.
Ok... the school... [is] subject to other laws. Minimum Wage. As far as I know schools are not exempt from providing compensation for work. 100 hours of community service required by the institution would be considered work and therefore the student would be required compensation.... [T]hey do NOT have the right to have the student work for no pay.
How is this terrifically different than schools that require community (i.e., for the benefit of charities other than the school) service on all or certain students as a curricular requirement? I mean, I don't know of a 13th Ammendment case that's challenged these provisions... but if the settlement agreement says, "You agree to volunteer 100hrs of service time to a mutually agreed-upon charity...." So long as they don't mean the school, or its subsidiaries (e.g., the athletic dept., the alumni association, the fundraising foundation, et c.): How is this different?
The NC-17 rating was given due to "some graphic sexual content" and will likely limit the movie's distribution, as many theater chains will not show NC-17 movies.
It's an independently released documentary. For fuck's sake, that pretty much limits its distribution to places that would show it irrespective of its rating already. Hell, the new rating may open its distribution circle to the kinds of theatres Pee-Wee Herman frequents.
This is Microsoft! When it goes PFFFTTTTT, you're supposed to buy an XBOX 460, or if it's not out yet, pony up another $400 to replace the system you bought.
Like everybody in the entertainment industry, they're entitled to a profit.
It's a very neat video that explains what trusted computing is supposed to be and what it's not. But it doesn't actually say much about why T.C. is dangerous for the end user. I'd have liked to see more of that.
One more minute, of that, and it'd really be perfect.:-)
Does packet-switching change this? And if so, are you saying his brain's out of date? And if not, what does this mean for public slashdot's outcry for open access for CLEC's?
How many tax dollars have been spent on stuff like National Reconnassiance Office for Kids? Not enough, if you subscribe to the theory that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
But there's a certian value in the idea of the site: if you work there, how are you going to explain what you do at work to your kids. Without having to kill them, I mean.
We have a "priest-penitent" privilege that applies to faiths other than Catholics... all without getting the constitutional jibbly-jibblies about who is or isn't priestly or penitent enough to qualify for the privilige.
Is there a reason to think we won't get to a similar equillibrium about journalists once we decide to go down that road? I mean, that's a big reason detractors cite against a statutory shield for journalists.
All the same, do we want a shield law? I mean, the other privileges we have are bound up in the third-parties' Fifth Amendment rights: we want people to be able to talk to attorneys, doctors, therapists, immediate family members and religious counsel without fear that their seeking help or guidance will land them in the dock. Who does a shield law protect? I mean, the guilty whistleblower is likely to get some sort of immunity if he should testify in open court and anonymous sources are less credible than named ones.
Just thinking aloud in that last paragraph. I hadn't thought about this since starting law school.
I'm a bit of a paranoid libertarian myself, but that link is horseshit. Fascism is a philosophy, not a mystery syndrome. And maybe some people in the Administration do have authoritarian leanings but... even under Dr. Britt's criteria we still fall short, if only by degrees
To say that the U.S. has military supremacy is the most far-fetched of them all. I could only find two cabinet secretaries who had military service listed in their Wikipedia biography: Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson. That's troublesome in its own right, but might explain why there are so many hawks in the Administration. Regardless, when you start getting into fascist military cults... you don't see Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld running around in military uniforms making up medals to give each other like Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, or dare I say it: Hussein's government in Iraq all did.
Again, it's not that I'm not scared: it could happen; we're inching towards it. But what's his face's attempt to force fit fascism into modern American society is a joke.
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Been there. Done that. Didn't you get your $13.00 gift certificate?
In other business news, Microsoft was unable to confirm or deny receipt of a large shipment of reel-to-reel tapes with no return address and a Fort Meade, MD postmark.
So four moderateors don't follow New Voyages? I don't!
Real Star Trek has gotten in trouble before for ethnically-implausible casting: Chinese Wang as Korean Kim, Korean Park as Japanese Saito. Plus many more instances of implausible casting for which they didn't get in trouble — either because of the viewer demographics, or the fact that the animosity between the actor's and character's groups has subsided: Hispanic Montalbán for Central-Asian Kahn Singh, English actors for the entire French Picard family.
J. Random Moderator is more likely to have these incidents in mind, and not know that Mr. Lim is a decent, professional actor. Myself included.
But now that we're all on the same page... LOL!
My guess is they aren't: they're just going to look at the period when the law was effective and if queries dipped during that period " or slowed in growth, or whatever " they'll say, "Aha! The law worked! That means it IS the least restrictive means to keep babies away from German scheisse videos!" <em> added.
Can you play Spot The Fallacy? Cause Ash^H^H^H Ch^H^H B^H Gonzales is betting they can slip that one under the radar.
I haven't seen this system in action, but I can't imagine it being much different than an inside-out elevator panel, or the old up and down buttons: hitting the button eighty bazillion times (though recorded by the computer, and maybe incorporated into long-term averages) probably won't register as more demand for the elevator in the short run than pressing the button once. If they're worried about an elevator going over-capacity because eighty bazillion people seem to want to go to the same floor as some jerk (or more likely a five year-old), it'd probably sanity check against the historical data.
Which makes me think of something else, actually: is there a risk in possibly B0fff00r 0v3rf1uX0r1n6 the main dispatch computer by way of a lobby panel?
Am I the only person who keeps reading that headline as: "Web Site Judges Users Insanity"?
From the article:
Or maybe this one application / website (the only source cited for concluding spam is down) is just letting more spam get through undetected...
I don't know. Do drunken help desk techs routinely tell senior executives who can't find the Any Key to "Feck Off!"? Because Father Ted feckin' rocks, but I don't suppose it's representative of how a real church... on a desert island... operates.
But if he's legally insane, he can't be tried for treason / sedition / whatnot. Yet.
Which is why we gotta frame him for a murder in Texas. Fast.
The speed of light is constant with respect to inertial frame of reference (e.g. whether I'm looking at the light standing still, or you're looking at the light travelling down the road at some appreciable fraction of the speed of light), not constant with respect to the medium. While I gave up on Physics after my freshman year of college, I'm willing to accept that the pull of the black hole on photons falls more under the heading of medium than inertia.
How is this terrifically different than schools that require community (i.e., for the benefit of charities other than the school) service on all or certain students as a curricular requirement? I mean, I don't know of a 13th Ammendment case that's challenged these provisions... but if the settlement agreement says, "You agree to volunteer 100hrs of service time to a mutually agreed-upon charity...." So long as they don't mean the school, or its subsidiaries (e.g., the athletic dept., the alumni association, the fundraising foundation, et c.): How is this different?
Iz-nawt a dupe! That was on hardware.slashdot.org, and this is on science.slashdot.org. Totally different websites!</straightface>
It's an independently released documentary. For fuck's sake, that pretty much limits its distribution to places that would show it irrespective of its rating already. Hell, the new rating may open its distribution circle to the kinds of theatres Pee-Wee Herman frequents.
Yes.
I don't use the toolbar either. Because I'm affraid of a spyware threat maybe somewhere down the line, too. That said:
I hope it's just coincidence that your sigfile offers tin-foil hats for pets and your post is a little on the conspiracy theory side of things. :-)
Open up??? Replace battery??? Repair???
This is Microsoft! When it goes PFFFTTTTT, you're supposed to buy an XBOX 460, or if it's not out yet, pony up another $400 to replace the system you bought.
Like everybody in the entertainment industry, they're entitled to a profit.
Trusted computing is soon to be found in:
Desktop computers, Notebooks, Servers, PDA's, Cellphones, Game units, DVD-players, Set-top boxes, Watches, Mixers, Steam Irons, Fridges, Fire Extinguishers, Grandfathers' Earplugs, Toilets, Dogs, LAFKON, Boxes...
It's a very neat video that explains what trusted computing is supposed to be and what it's not. But it doesn't actually say much about why T.C. is dangerous for the end user. I'd have liked to see more of that.
One more minute, of that, and it'd really be perfect. :-)
Does packet-switching change this? And if so, are you saying his brain's out of date? And if not, what does this mean for public slashdot's outcry for open access for CLEC's?
Sorry. Econ major. Law student.
How many tax dollars have been spent on stuff like National Reconnassiance Office for Kids? Not enough, if you subscribe to the theory that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
But there's a certian value in the idea of the site: if you work there, how are you going to explain what you do at work to your kids. Without having to kill them, I mean.
We have a "priest-penitent" privilege that applies to faiths other than Catholics... all without getting the constitutional jibbly-jibblies about who is or isn't priestly or penitent enough to qualify for the privilige.
Is there a reason to think we won't get to a similar equillibrium about journalists once we decide to go down that road? I mean, that's a big reason detractors cite against a statutory shield for journalists.
All the same, do we want a shield law? I mean, the other privileges we have are bound up in the third-parties' Fifth Amendment rights: we want people to be able to talk to attorneys, doctors, therapists, immediate family members and religious counsel without fear that their seeking help or guidance will land them in the dock. Who does a shield law protect? I mean, the guilty whistleblower is likely to get some sort of immunity if he should testify in open court and anonymous sources are less credible than named ones.
Just thinking aloud in that last paragraph. I hadn't thought about this since starting law school.
I'm a bit of a paranoid libertarian myself, but that link is horseshit. Fascism is a philosophy, not a mystery syndrome. And maybe some people in the Administration do have authoritarian leanings but... even under Dr. Britt's criteria we still fall short, if only by degrees
To say that the U.S. has military supremacy is the most far-fetched of them all. I could only find two cabinet secretaries who had military service listed in their Wikipedia biography: Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson. That's troublesome in its own right, but might explain why there are so many hawks in the Administration. Regardless, when you start getting into fascist military cults... you don't see Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld running around in military uniforms making up medals to give each other like Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, or dare I say it: Hussein's government in Iraq all did.
Again, it's not that I'm not scared: it could happen; we're inching towards it. But what's his face's attempt to force fit fascism into modern American society is a joke.
Oh, come on! How come the first guy who made an "In North Korea" joke didn't get modded up to 5?
Oh... that's right... it would have been the guy who submitted the story.
That's just LAME! ... D'oh!
It's because the Sears Tower isn't the tallest building any more.