If you think open source is not the way to go, then why bother asking slashdot? Seriously? You won't get the answers you're looking for here.
Yes he will.
The way I read it, ethically he thinks open source might be the right thing. Practically, it might not be a reality. He's fishing for examples of unconventional open-source money generating techniques.
They could have hooked up laser lights to it. Then, have a helium-filled borg balloon in the sky, and a "phaser" would shoot out from the Enterprise. Pyrotechnics ensue.
Here's an example that is admittedly a bit of a stretch.
The military busts up a terrorist cell and finds a PS3. Turns out the PS3 was owned by a highly-wanted terrorist previously as evidenced by credit card/bank info still in the console (if it exists as such). They now have a definitive link from that cell to another person of interest.
I dunno, it's either something like that, or maybe they just want to look on the friends list?
"Oh yeah, look at this friends list. It's like a who's who of the scum of the earth. Xx|
I imagine Disney's Snow White has its opening weekend revenues many times over the last few decades. By your system copyright could be extrapolated to be virtually infinite with just a bit of hand-waving and dodgy math.
A solid, unbreakable term like 1 year would be enough.
Is the FDA on board with pesticide being passed thru at detectable levels in a supposedly simple processed food product?
Welp, farmers are definitely the sort of folks that try to make the best use of anything. "Ah hell, well this batch isn't any good for selling, but I guess I could feed it to the bees..."
Which would be a very neat conclusion... if it weren't for the fact that non-HFCS fed bees have also been hit by CCD. It doesn't let the insecticide or even tainted HFCS off the hook, but it does suggest that that it's not so simple as "stop feeding HFCS, bees survive".
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The government uses misinterpreted data all the time to justify stupid shit. Maybe we can use THIS to justify getting rid of HFCS! Quiet you fool!
IIRC, two thirds of those quakes were within a half mile of drilling sites. Seems significant to me, anyway.
I know "correlation is not causation" and all that, but... I dunno, can this be an exception to the rule?
I think we can safely say that fracking is *somehow* involved in the increase. Even if it's just in this small area, it shows that it is possible and it warrants more investigation.
Why do I have the bad feeling that in the next 10-20 years we're gonna have something like Deepwater Horizon, but it's gonna be on land? Some poor little podunk town that never has earthquakes is gonna be shaken to bits because of fracking.
Well, how often does a magnitude 6 quake happen? Let's just say for the sake of argument that it's once a year. That's nearly 100 mini-quakes a day. What if it happens more often?
The ideal, I suppose, would be to do it at a rate where our engineering can withstand it. If the building codes can handle mag 5s with little problem, then fire those off periodically to prevent worse ones.
I would say the great thing about science is that the repeatability of an experiment is the best fact-checker in the world.
In your scenario, one of three things would happen:
1) The experiment is repeated. Turns out that maybe fracking isn't all that harmful. It's not 100% sure but it adds more weight to the argument that fracking is safe.
2) The experiment is repeated. The results come out quite differently via multiple independent re-tests. Dismissed as a load of bullshit.
3) No experiment protocols are published. Dismissed as a load of bullshit due to inability to verify the experiment.
Well, you know what says a lot about the pilots? They ejected as close to the last second as possible. When you have a rocket chair that leads to instant safety, it's gotta be pretty goddamned hard not to take that option when you know shit hit the fan.
But they didn't. They got the plane under control as best they could and only ejected when crashing was practically imminent.
but channels that cater to other ethnicities (Vietnamese, Korean, Persian, Russian, etc) would likely wither pretty quickly.
I can tell you that they would probably do just fine.
For the most part, you buy a "language package" or "country package" for a few channels in that language and/or from that country. My Portuguese friends (or rather, their families who still actually care about TV) have satellite specifically because it's the only thing that can give them channels in their own language. Moreover, 99% of the content is just beamed in straight from home, so I imagine (aside from licensing) the costs of running those stations is quite low.
Not that I live in a more rural area, but when "Internet" for some people is a Satellite link, over a mobile phone, or over a telephone line... I don't think it's really right to say you're living the Dark Ages. Middle Ages, maybe.
Meanwhile, Swedes get the Renaissance and South Korea gets the Enlightenment...
"demonization of things like guns that are also a form of power" How so when the NRA is one of the nation's biggest lobbying groups and most of Congress is in their pocket? Soon they will push to allow prisoners to have guns.
Sorry, no. This is patently ridiculous.
Although, perhaps you meant "ex-convicts". I actually think that maybe they should be allowed to have guns. What happened to "you've served your time, now rejoin society as a regular, productive person"? Somewhere along the way we created this label of "ex-con" and used it to take away the rights of people unfortunate enough to land in jail.
As such, every video - every video should have a transcript included in the post. People who don't want to (or can't) watch the video aside, what about *blind* people that can't watch the video (due to lack of plugins/permissions, not due to lack of sight d=)? No machine-readable text = no story for them.
1) Don't post advertisements. Or, if you're going to, at least say they are outright. Don't try to disguise it as a story. This isn't Huffpost or Fox News, most of your readership actually has a pretty large amount of still-functioning brain cells. We can tell when you're bullshitting us.
2) I joined Slashdot... hoo, 5 years ago. Maybe longer. How is it that Slashdot actually runs slower now? Doesn't anyone consider efficiency in coding as being important anymore?
3) Add proper UTF-8 support. Add support for loads of characters. What if I want to type in Japanese or use symbols? And on that note, remove the "junk characters" filter. ASCII art is a part of Slashdot's history. Sure, people used it to make goatse, but by that same logic why not remove hyperlinking since people still link to it today? The trolls will be modded down as always. Let us have some opportunity for creativity again.
4) Lastly, take a look at your functionality. When a *free* forum suite like PHPBB - hell, when free shit like *Wordpress* has more functionality in their comment system, something is very wrong. You're a tech site. If anything you should be on the forefront on this kind of shit, not lagging behind.
Slashdot Mirror
I have tried using my Kindle when we're told to pull up a specific chapter, but the interface is so tedious
God helps those who mod their own Kindles themselves. Or something like that.d=
If you think open source is not the way to go, then why bother asking slashdot? Seriously? You won't get the answers you're looking for here.
Yes he will.
The way I read it, ethically he thinks open source might be the right thing. Practically, it might not be a reality. He's fishing for examples of unconventional open-source money generating techniques.
They could have hooked up laser lights to it. Then, have a helium-filled borg balloon in the sky, and a "phaser" would shoot out from the Enterprise. Pyrotechnics ensue.
WHY DID THEY NOT BUILD THIS.
Here's an example that is admittedly a bit of a stretch.
The military busts up a terrorist cell and finds a PS3. Turns out the PS3 was owned by a highly-wanted terrorist previously as evidenced by credit card/bank info still in the console (if it exists as such). They now have a definitive link from that cell to another person of interest.
I dunno, it's either something like that, or maybe they just want to look on the friends list?
"Oh yeah, look at this friends list. It's like a who's who of the scum of the earth. Xx|
50 years from now, we're gonna find that Chinese and Russian agents have secretly been passing messages in seemingly nonsense posts on Slashdot.
Taking bets. My guess is this one is about a Russian sub off the coast of Beijing.
the statement that "God is a dog's anus farting loudly"
lol, sounds like someone really, really, really horribly misinterpreted a Buddhist riddle or something.
"What is the sound of a dog's anus farting loudly? Within that, you will find god."
They shouldn't be locked in the first place, like in Europe.
I imagine Disney's Snow White has its opening weekend revenues many times over the last few decades. By your system copyright could be extrapolated to be virtually infinite with just a bit of hand-waving and dodgy math.
A solid, unbreakable term like 1 year would be enough.
But was this food grade HFCS?
Is the FDA on board with pesticide being passed thru at detectable levels in a supposedly simple processed food product?
Welp, farmers are definitely the sort of folks that try to make the best use of anything. "Ah hell, well this batch isn't any good for selling, but I guess I could feed it to the bees..."
Which would be a very neat conclusion... if it weren't for the fact that non-HFCS fed bees have also been hit by CCD. It doesn't let the insecticide or even tainted HFCS off the hook, but it does suggest that that it's not so simple as "stop feeding HFCS, bees survive".
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The government uses misinterpreted data all the time to justify stupid shit. Maybe we can use THIS to justify getting rid of HFCS! Quiet you fool!
You fight piracy by going to the root cause and removing it.
One of the "root causes" is foreign corporations overfishing and dumping toxic waste off of their coastal waters, thereby ruining the local fishing industry and putting a LOT of Somalis out of the jobs. How would you go about solving that?
Google the (mythical) hemline index.
That sounds like a website where they categorize pictures of women in miniskirts and rate them.
IIRC, two thirds of those quakes were within a half mile of drilling sites. Seems significant to me, anyway.
I know "correlation is not causation" and all that, but... I dunno, can this be an exception to the rule?
I think we can safely say that fracking is *somehow* involved in the increase. Even if it's just in this small area, it shows that it is possible and it warrants more investigation.
Why do I have the bad feeling that in the next 10-20 years we're gonna have something like Deepwater Horizon, but it's gonna be on land? Some poor little podunk town that never has earthquakes is gonna be shaken to bits because of fracking.
Well, how often does a magnitude 6 quake happen? Let's just say for the sake of argument that it's once a year. That's nearly 100 mini-quakes a day. What if it happens more often?
The ideal, I suppose, would be to do it at a rate where our engineering can withstand it. If the building codes can handle mag 5s with little problem, then fire those off periodically to prevent worse ones.
I would say the great thing about science is that the repeatability of an experiment is the best fact-checker in the world.
In your scenario, one of three things would happen:
1) The experiment is repeated. Turns out that maybe fracking isn't all that harmful. It's not 100% sure but it adds more weight to the argument that fracking is safe.
2) The experiment is repeated. The results come out quite differently via multiple independent re-tests. Dismissed as a load of bullshit.
3) No experiment protocols are published. Dismissed as a load of bullshit due to inability to verify the experiment.
Well, you know what says a lot about the pilots? They ejected as close to the last second as possible. When you have a rocket chair that leads to instant safety, it's gotta be pretty goddamned hard not to take that option when you know shit hit the fan.
But they didn't. They got the plane under control as best they could and only ejected when crashing was practically imminent.
The United States should declare war on itself and win hearts and minds by providing jobs and building infrastructure.
but channels that cater to other ethnicities (Vietnamese, Korean, Persian, Russian, etc) would likely wither pretty quickly.
I can tell you that they would probably do just fine.
For the most part, you buy a "language package" or "country package" for a few channels in that language and/or from that country. My Portuguese friends (or rather, their families who still actually care about TV) have satellite specifically because it's the only thing that can give them channels in their own language. Moreover, 99% of the content is just beamed in straight from home, so I imagine (aside from licensing) the costs of running those stations is quite low.
Not that I live in a more rural area, but when "Internet" for some people is a Satellite link, over a mobile phone, or over a telephone line... I don't think it's really right to say you're living the Dark Ages. Middle Ages, maybe.
Meanwhile, Swedes get the Renaissance and South Korea gets the Enlightenment...
60 tons is an awful lot.
How about something around 10 tons? Maybe with a "Boxer" Shot Cannon. Adjust the bi-lateral angle to 3.5. And don't forget the Lambda driver!
It's posts like this that make me appreciate Slashdot.
It's you.
How are you gentlemen?
"demonization of things like guns that are also a form of power"
How so when the NRA is one of the nation's biggest lobbying groups and most of Congress is in their pocket? Soon they will push to allow prisoners to have guns.
Sorry, no. This is patently ridiculous.
Although, perhaps you meant "ex-convicts". I actually think that maybe they should be allowed to have guns. What happened to "you've served your time, now rejoin society as a regular, productive person"? Somewhere along the way we created this label of "ex-con" and used it to take away the rights of people unfortunate enough to land in jail.
As such, every video - every video should have a transcript included in the post. People who don't want to (or can't) watch the video aside, what about *blind* people that can't watch the video (due to lack of plugins/permissions, not due to lack of sight d=)? No machine-readable text = no story for them.
1) Don't post advertisements. Or, if you're going to, at least say they are outright. Don't try to disguise it as a story. This isn't Huffpost or Fox News, most of your readership actually has a pretty large amount of still-functioning brain cells. We can tell when you're bullshitting us.
2) I joined Slashdot... hoo, 5 years ago. Maybe longer. How is it that Slashdot actually runs slower now? Doesn't anyone consider efficiency in coding as being important anymore?
3) Add proper UTF-8 support. Add support for loads of characters. What if I want to type in Japanese or use symbols? And on that note, remove the "junk characters" filter. ASCII art is a part of Slashdot's history. Sure, people used it to make goatse, but by that same logic why not remove hyperlinking since people still link to it today? The trolls will be modded down as always. Let us have some opportunity for creativity again.
4) Lastly, take a look at your functionality. When a *free* forum suite like PHPBB - hell, when free shit like *Wordpress* has more functionality in their comment system, something is very wrong. You're a tech site. If anything you should be on the forefront on this kind of shit, not lagging behind.