I'm going to call shenanigans here. You may wish to actually look a copy of the United States Code because the Declaration of Independence isn't codified anywhere in there. Probably what you're thinking of is the United States Statutes at large because it is, indeed, in the first volume of that.
However, that doesn't mean it's the law of the land. It's the foundation for our country, but the Congress as we have it now (and really the country as we know it) didn't exist until the current Constitution was ratified in 1788. You could say that it was an act of a Congress, namely the Second Continental Congress which is the group that agreed to promulgate it. However, it's just a declaration of intent. A very powerful one, but not the law of the land.
The Confederation Congress which was organized under the Articles of Confederation followed the Second Continental Congress and wasn't particularly noteworthy other than for its lack of being able to do anything. The current Constitution was drafted to remedy this and when ratified created the United States as we know it. Read any important US Supreme Court opinion and it's the Constitution that is the bedrock law of the land. Very rarely will you even see reference to the Declaration of Independence, noteworthy as it might be.
Is it just me or is it a little amusing that the guy who was telling them that the 4 ft. 9 in. gauge wasn't necessarily a good idea was named John C. Gault?
I don't really care what Linux is doing in 2031. I'm more concerned about 2038. Or rather, what it's not doing toward the end of January.
On a serious note, how is Year 2038 being dealt with?
I'm an extrovert (I generally recharge by hanging out with people) and I find myself making excuses from time to time for not going to lunch with groups of people. I deal with so many people in person for work related stuff even I need some quiet time sometimes. Usually not to recharge but to just get some of my own stuff done. Sometimes eating at my desk and reading the interwebs for an hour is just what I need.
Unless you're the phone company or something similar, crying about 10 year old operating system software being unsupported is pretty weak. And hell, even the phone companies update the software on their switches at least yearly. The 4ESS has been around since the 70s but it's undergone a processor upgrade in the 1990s and the software was updated quarterly until very recently.
Also if you're the phone company you're not running Windows XP on your phone switches.
But seriously, think about what you were doing with technology 10 years ago. That's like 100 human years! (I know, that means nothing really) Can you imagine if someone was complaining that their Nokia 6250 from 2000 wasn't getting firmware updates anymore? Live in the now! Or the last five years!
I switched to using Macs in 2001. Which was great because I could just tell everyone I knew who used Windows "oh sorry, I use Macs.. I really have no idea". This worked pretty well until about 2007 when my parents finally got a Mac. On the plus side, stuff usually just works for them now, so it's not really a big deal.
Someone from Google can correct me if I'm really wrong here, but I've asked a number of Google developers if they really get to use their 20% time. The general answers have been either "Yeah right. Hardly anyone does." to "Sure! I can use 20% of the 60-70 hours a week I regularly am at the campus on whatever I want."
Not sure if that's really what people think about when they hear about the 20% time philosophy. Seems like it's more of a marketing / recruiting thing.
It's not available on the Tivo yet, so for right now Netflix trumps it. Also the lack of DVDs being sent to me until all this crap about digital rights get figured out. Though the price is right for me, and I've already got Prime, so I can't complain too much. Hopefully this is just a taste of things to come.
It's official. I'll put up $100, but only if your robit looks like Bender and is powered by cheap bourbon. Sabotaging your competitors earns a 10% bonus.
I was there for the Schneier / McConnell / Chertoff panel yesterday, mostly for the lulz and got some. Perhaps the best part was when Mike McConnell (former Director NSA and Director of National Intelligence) told Bruce Schneier that he was as big a supporter of privacy as anyone else, even him. The look on Schneier's face was priceless.
I noticed yesterday that I have 154 movies or TV series in my Instant queue that are "saved". This means that they were once available to view but now aren't. Sure some of these are Stars releases that are only available for a limited time. But if even half of them are just things that Netflix had the rights to stream but has now lost that's really pathetic. As long as this continues and the only things available to stream are a very small percentage of their library, any of which might disappear with very little notice, there's no way they can do anything but spend the money to ship DVDs. They just raised their rates about 15% a couple months ago. I'm still paying because I don't know of a better legal option and I'm still holding out hope that the streaming situation will improve "sometime soon".
I'm only fluent in English and can get by in Spanish. Both are relatively easy from a typing perspective. How fast can one type a similar paragraph in a language that uses the Latin alphabet vs. Chinese? It can't be too daunting giving the large amount of Chinese that's out there but if one was fluent in both and context didn't matter, would they tend towards Chinese or English based on speed alone?
The linked web page doesn't really explain what's going on. For someone who uses Unix but is far from an expert, can someone describe what's going on and why this is cool? Does it even matter if you're not into deep kernal stuff?
On the flip side of this, when I got married last year, my wife and I wished there was a tactful way to tell people "just send us cash to pay for our honeymoon!" We ended up finding a website called honeyfund.com where you can basically let people pay for specific things you plan to do on the honeymoon. You add whatever you want and a description and they can either send you cash or Paypal it. I think there was a minimal setup fee but otherwise they don't take a cut.
The people I know from the Midwest who would have balked at just sending cash loved it because they could see that they were helping out with something that we'd really enjoy. There's nothing that ties you to doing exactly what you said you would with the money -- it's sort of a good faith thing. But I'd say we were about 80% accurate. For people who really wanted to get us nice china or other household appliances we did the normal registry stuff, but I was impressed by how many people opted for just sending us cash.
As much as I appreciate you finding and scanning that article, is it possible to have it available in a higher resolution so it's actually readable? I'm sure I could fight my way through it and make out what's it saying but if you have higher resolution scans available it would be much appreciated.
If you have access to one of these machines at work and you can't copy something, maybe there's a good reason for it. If it's hindering your job, go up the chain (painful perhaps but such is life). If you're doing it for personal reasons, maybe you should go to a copy shop.
If you're the nefarious type, photograph the pages and print them elsewhere.
If you own the copier, you control the keywords.
I'm looking at this from the employer perspective. I'm purposely not looking at the copyrighted work angle. Though I have to say this doesn't seem to be aimed at that. Doesn't seem like a huge YRO issue though. But maybe someone can come up with some alternate arguments.
I love IMDB for keeping track of movies I've seen but they have some really annoying policies around what gets included. How is this any different than the 60 or Funny Or Die movies in IMDB right now? http://www.imdb.com/company/co0215655/ I don't think any of those have gotten anything other than web streaming distribution.
A while back I thought I'd add a few obscure short Russian films that are included on a DVD set I have. Mostly fascinating propaganda from the 1950s or so. About half of the films are in IMDB. I spent a good hour or so using their ancient and difficult to use system entering all of the data that I could find which was relatively substantial. Go figure, they actually had a lot of production information in the credits for the main one I wanted to submit. So I put all the data in, got the e-mail that said OK we'll take a look! Waited. Waited. Got another automated e-mail saying well you don't have enough information. Please add more. So I tried to clean things up a bit. Waited.. Waited.. finally got an e-mail saying Well, sorry, none of our staff have looked at this yet, and don't expect them to. Resubmit with more information if you want us to maybe consider it. !!!
What do they want?? There's tons of movies in there that don't even have things like director and producer credits much less acting credits. After that I just don't see the point in trying to help.
I feel bad for these guys with this torrent movie. Can't imagine they'll get very far on their own with them.
I prefer IMDB for rating stuff. I have a list of about 500 movies I want to see so I don't really need more recommendations right now. I also have been very interested in short subject pieces (short attention span?) lately ranging from animated to pre-1900 Edison etc. stuff. There's a lot of DVDs of these but if I want to keep track of what I've seen and what I thought of individual "movies" I have to go somewhere other than Netflix.
IMDB is very good for this since they're about 98% complete in my current experience. There's some obscure stuff that hasn't made it in there, but often I'm surprised at how comprehensive it is. I only rate individual "films" and TV series. I don't do individual TV shows since I can remember most every movie I've seen, and TV series that I've seen, but my memory of random individual shows from mostly forgotten sitcoms from the early 1980s is poor. There's also sometimes a substantial delay in them updating with new episodes of lesser watched shows. If it's not in IMDB within an hour or two of when I watch it it probably will never get rated by me.
Even with that I'm approaching 3000 ratings on IMDB. That said, I stopped rating stuff on Netflix after about 1000 ratings and it does mention some interesting things from time to time.
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I'm going to call shenanigans here. You may wish to actually look a copy of the United States Code because the Declaration of Independence isn't codified anywhere in there. Probably what you're thinking of is the United States Statutes at large because it is, indeed, in the first volume of that.
However, that doesn't mean it's the law of the land. It's the foundation for our country, but the Congress as we have it now (and really the country as we know it) didn't exist until the current Constitution was ratified in 1788. You could say that it was an act of a Congress, namely the Second Continental Congress which is the group that agreed to promulgate it. However, it's just a declaration of intent. A very powerful one, but not the law of the land.
The Confederation Congress which was organized under the Articles of Confederation followed the Second Continental Congress and wasn't particularly noteworthy other than for its lack of being able to do anything. The current Constitution was drafted to remedy this and when ratified created the United States as we know it. Read any important US Supreme Court opinion and it's the Constitution that is the bedrock law of the land. Very rarely will you even see reference to the Declaration of Independence, noteworthy as it might be.
Wow this guy would be the king of using screwdrivers. Lucky bastard.
Is it just me or is it a little amusing that the guy who was telling them that the 4 ft. 9 in. gauge wasn't necessarily a good idea was named John C. Gault?
I wonder if Ayn Rand had any idea.
I don't really care what Linux is doing in 2031. I'm more concerned about 2038. Or rather, what it's not doing toward the end of January. On a serious note, how is Year 2038 being dealt with?
I'm an extrovert (I generally recharge by hanging out with people) and I find myself making excuses from time to time for not going to lunch with groups of people. I deal with so many people in person for work related stuff even I need some quiet time sometimes. Usually not to recharge but to just get some of my own stuff done. Sometimes eating at my desk and reading the interwebs for an hour is just what I need.
Unless you're the phone company or something similar, crying about 10 year old operating system software being unsupported is pretty weak. And hell, even the phone companies update the software on their switches at least yearly. The 4ESS has been around since the 70s but it's undergone a processor upgrade in the 1990s and the software was updated quarterly until very recently.
Also if you're the phone company you're not running Windows XP on your phone switches.
But seriously, think about what you were doing with technology 10 years ago. That's like 100 human years! (I know, that means nothing really) Can you imagine if someone was complaining that their Nokia 6250 from 2000 wasn't getting firmware updates anymore? Live in the now! Or the last five years!
We were doing this with microwave ovens back in the 90s. What's the big deal?
First use of FYI in the OED is 1941 in the Washington Post.
That's cool. 2 MW. But it would be nice to know how much the building and its occupants use in an average 24 hour period.
I switched to using Macs in 2001. Which was great because I could just tell everyone I knew who used Windows "oh sorry, I use Macs.. I really have no idea". This worked pretty well until about 2007 when my parents finally got a Mac. On the plus side, stuff usually just works for them now, so it's not really a big deal.
Someone from Google can correct me if I'm really wrong here, but I've asked a number of Google developers if they really get to use their 20% time. The general answers have been either "Yeah right. Hardly anyone does." to "Sure! I can use 20% of the 60-70 hours a week I regularly am at the campus on whatever I want."
Not sure if that's really what people think about when they hear about the 20% time philosophy. Seems like it's more of a marketing / recruiting thing.
It's not available on the Tivo yet, so for right now Netflix trumps it. Also the lack of DVDs being sent to me until all this crap about digital rights get figured out. Though the price is right for me, and I've already got Prime, so I can't complain too much. Hopefully this is just a taste of things to come.
It's official. I'll put up $100, but only if your robit looks like Bender and is powered by cheap bourbon. Sabotaging your competitors earns a 10% bonus.
I was there for the Schneier / McConnell / Chertoff panel yesterday, mostly for the lulz and got some. Perhaps the best part was when Mike McConnell (former Director NSA and Director of National Intelligence) told Bruce Schneier that he was as big a supporter of privacy as anyone else, even him. The look on Schneier's face was priceless.
I noticed yesterday that I have 154 movies or TV series in my Instant queue that are "saved". This means that they were once available to view but now aren't. Sure some of these are Stars releases that are only available for a limited time. But if even half of them are just things that Netflix had the rights to stream but has now lost that's really pathetic. As long as this continues and the only things available to stream are a very small percentage of their library, any of which might disappear with very little notice, there's no way they can do anything but spend the money to ship DVDs. They just raised their rates about 15% a couple months ago. I'm still paying because I don't know of a better legal option and I'm still holding out hope that the streaming situation will improve "sometime soon".
I'm only fluent in English and can get by in Spanish. Both are relatively easy from a typing perspective. How fast can one type a similar paragraph in a language that uses the Latin alphabet vs. Chinese? It can't be too daunting giving the large amount of Chinese that's out there but if one was fluent in both and context didn't matter, would they tend towards Chinese or English based on speed alone?
Can you imagine the perfumer...
[Perfumer going about his business mixing civet urine and various fatty acids] Ah that smells lovely!
[Phone rings]
Scientist: Hi! We need your nose for some important historical work.
Perfumer: Right-o!
Scientist: So you know this guy Henry IV? Head chopped off. Lost for ages?
Perfumer to self: Oh crap.. is this going where I think it's going? I read that Süskind novel..
Scientist: Yeah well, we need you to sniff this skull we found!
Perfumer: Jerry... is that you? It's a bit early for April fools.
Scientist: No really! This is important! You can help us solve a huge mystery.
Perfumer: Well... OK [to self: pretty sure this is a set up..]
[Two weeks later]
Perfumer: 30 years in the business, dozens of successful fragrances... and here I am sniffing a skull. Oh! Myrrh!
The linked web page doesn't really explain what's going on. For someone who uses Unix but is far from an expert, can someone describe what's going on and why this is cool? Does it even matter if you're not into deep kernal stuff?
It's a streetlight!
Oh wait, wrong website.
On the flip side of this, when I got married last year, my wife and I wished there was a tactful way to tell people "just send us cash to pay for our honeymoon!" We ended up finding a website called honeyfund.com where you can basically let people pay for specific things you plan to do on the honeymoon. You add whatever you want and a description and they can either send you cash or Paypal it. I think there was a minimal setup fee but otherwise they don't take a cut.
The people I know from the Midwest who would have balked at just sending cash loved it because they could see that they were helping out with something that we'd really enjoy. There's nothing that ties you to doing exactly what you said you would with the money -- it's sort of a good faith thing. But I'd say we were about 80% accurate. For people who really wanted to get us nice china or other household appliances we did the normal registry stuff, but I was impressed by how many people opted for just sending us cash.
As much as I appreciate you finding and scanning that article, is it possible to have it available in a higher resolution so it's actually readable? I'm sure I could fight my way through it and make out what's it saying but if you have higher resolution scans available it would be much appreciated.
Censorship == bad but...
If you have access to one of these machines at work and you can't copy something, maybe there's a good reason for it. If it's hindering your job, go up the chain (painful perhaps but such is life). If you're doing it for personal reasons, maybe you should go to a copy shop.
If you're the nefarious type, photograph the pages and print them elsewhere.
If you own the copier, you control the keywords.
I'm looking at this from the employer perspective. I'm purposely not looking at the copyrighted work angle. Though I have to say this doesn't seem to be aimed at that. Doesn't seem like a huge YRO issue though. But maybe someone can come up with some alternate arguments.
Huh, if that's true I was unaware of it and stand corrected. (I know, a rare situation on Slashdot.)
I love IMDB for keeping track of movies I've seen but they have some really annoying policies around what gets included. How is this any different than the 60 or Funny Or Die movies in IMDB right now? http://www.imdb.com/company/co0215655/ I don't think any of those have gotten anything other than web streaming distribution.
A while back I thought I'd add a few obscure short Russian films that are included on a DVD set I have. Mostly fascinating propaganda from the 1950s or so. About half of the films are in IMDB. I spent a good hour or so using their ancient and difficult to use system entering all of the data that I could find which was relatively substantial. Go figure, they actually had a lot of production information in the credits for the main one I wanted to submit. So I put all the data in, got the e-mail that said OK we'll take a look! Waited. Waited. Got another automated e-mail saying well you don't have enough information. Please add more. So I tried to clean things up a bit. Waited.. Waited.. finally got an e-mail saying Well, sorry, none of our staff have looked at this yet, and don't expect them to. Resubmit with more information if you want us to maybe consider it. !!!
What do they want?? There's tons of movies in there that don't even have things like director and producer credits much less acting credits. After that I just don't see the point in trying to help.
I feel bad for these guys with this torrent movie. Can't imagine they'll get very far on their own with them.
I prefer IMDB for rating stuff. I have a list of about 500 movies I want to see so I don't really need more recommendations right now. I also have been very interested in short subject pieces (short attention span?) lately ranging from animated to pre-1900 Edison etc. stuff. There's a lot of DVDs of these but if I want to keep track of what I've seen and what I thought of individual "movies" I have to go somewhere other than Netflix.
IMDB is very good for this since they're about 98% complete in my current experience. There's some obscure stuff that hasn't made it in there, but often I'm surprised at how comprehensive it is. I only rate individual "films" and TV series. I don't do individual TV shows since I can remember most every movie I've seen, and TV series that I've seen, but my memory of random individual shows from mostly forgotten sitcoms from the early 1980s is poor. There's also sometimes a substantial delay in them updating with new episodes of lesser watched shows. If it's not in IMDB within an hour or two of when I watch it it probably will never get rated by me.
Even with that I'm approaching 3000 ratings on IMDB. That said, I stopped rating stuff on Netflix after about 1000 ratings and it does mention some interesting things from time to time.