Those do solve the problem of me worrying about exploding meth labs (I don't - If my neighbor's house went up, mine certainly would too, but I've never lost a minute of sleep over it.) But I'd really like to see a situation where nobody had to worry about exploding junkies.
Drugs are not necessarily manufactured in the same areas where drugs are primarily dealt or consumed - Suburban areas work well because they're not swept regularly for drugs (although you do hear about a lot more exploding trailers than exploding 3-story houses). The cops busted one about a mile from me a couple of years ago that was being run from a rented house worth ~$375k. Regardless, I see no reason why anyone who is not involved with meth should be at risk (or even inconvenienced when they start requiring licenses for fingernail polish) because we force it underground.
Please do not interpret this as an endorsement of meth - I've lost friends to it and it's a god-awful drug. But cracking down on home chemists and turning addicts into criminals to try to curb it is not only nonsensical, it's dangerous.
I'm still trying to find funding for my Tamper Indicative Toggle Switch. I even offered to change the name to Authenticated Smart Switch. For some reason, my boss objected to both names.
It's not so much that I object to somebody doing something stupid and blowing themselves up, it's that if my neighbor is boiling acetone so that he can make meth and he sparks up a cigarette, my house is going up in smoke right beside his. I see a few potential solutions: * Ban/require licensed acetone purchases * Reduce/eliminate the demand for meth * Meet the demand for meth by making it in professional labs by people who actually know what they're doing
Personally, I like the latter 2 options, but we seem to be moving closer and closer to the first.
if they have a list of all the kiddie porn sites on the web, why don't they just go after the site owners? even if the sites are hosted overseas, there are very few countries in the world that tolerate that sorta thing, and with a little international pressure it shouldn't be too hard to get their own governments to shut them down.
If you're talking about shutting down sites with 5 year olds, you're probably right - Not many countries would refuse to cooperate. But if you're talking about sites featuring 13-18 year olds, the lines get a little blurry from one country to the next (I think IANAL nor a pedophile). So, like the TPB shutdown, the "best" they could do is illegally shut down the sites temporarily before they returned as strong as ever (along with some extra publicity) and possibly try and convict the site owners in absentia so that you can arrest them if they ever decide to visit your country.
And, like the other posters point out, this isn't really about shutting down kiddie porn. It's about giving the government the ability to filter the Internet as they see fit. The kids are just a convenient launching point because, as everyone knows, opposing censorship == supporting child abuse.
It's not "patenting patent trolling" that needs to be non-obvious, it's the action they're trying to patent - "patent trolling". Patent trolling, although it may not have been obvious back when it became a major problem, is now so common as to be laughably obvious. Unfortunately, prior art exists everywhere.
Exactly what I was thinking - For most Windows users, the user is a major bottle-neck. By simply responding more quickly to them and allowing them some time to react (even if the system isn't fully ready to react to their next input), you can certainly improve performance. While there are a lot of users that do care about encoding time and Office benchmarks, most users just want IE and Outlook to let them start typing quickly so that they can forward on the latest news regarding Bill Gates paying people for testing their new e-mail system or letting their voice be heard by voting on "Am I Hot or Not?"
Boycott is still an option, just a very inconvenient one due to your life choices. If your ISP options were bad enough, you could change careers or move. Those are major adjustments to (I assume) minor grievances, so I suspect that you'll do neither. There are only a few things that can't be boycotted if the situation is dire enough.
Don't like your ISP options? Sign off the Internet when at home or move. Think music costs too much? Stick to free music services or limit yourself to your current collection. Think gas costs too much? Use less - Move, change jobs, or change transportation methods if necessary. Pissed off about everything? Move to Montana with a.22 for shooting rabbits, self-fertilize your garden, and buy a typewriter to draft your manifesto.
People often misdefine "boycott" as "switch to another brand" when "give the industry the bird and do without" is a perfectly good alternative. It's too often the case that, even though we're willing to pony up for the services we use because they're so damned convenient, we feel exploited and treating luxuries as necessities is the only way to rationalize our frustrating spending habits.
I'm as guilty as most - I often pay more than I feel is fair just because reducing use is inconvenient. But, I neither steal nor whine needlessly about my choices as long as an alternative is available to me that I could use to express my discontent.
but was intended for additional security measures to be added to it later
Ok, so this approach where you release something half-way done and fix it later is much older than I thought.
Well, yeah. Here's the first instance I know of:
Carl: Hey, I just figured out that by attaching a piece of slate and some handles to this thing I call the "wheel", I can haul around deer carcasses much more easily than my previous method of throwing them over my shoulder and crawling. I call this new contraption the "wheelbarrow".
Lenny: That's great! I think that I'll use it to haul home my fiance after I propose by clubbing her over the head. When I'm moving people around with it, I'll call it a "car". Of course, if anyone wanted to use the "car" for frequent trips or moving multiple people around, they'd have to make significant improvements.
Homer: Your car sucks. Why in the hell did you design it like this? This thing looks like it was made to haul around deer carcasses, not people! This is obviously an incomplete solution - Why did you show it to us without perfecting it first!?! You're an idiot.
Preemptive retort to silly overly-critical responses: I agree, it is a deeply flawed analogy. It's primary intent was humor while only lightly relating to the incomplete implementation of the DNS system.
High churn rates mean new customers have low, volatile expected lifetime values. This has a negative impact on the equity value of each customer, making it difficult to justify the valuation multiples seen by membership-driven websites in other verticals.
...but an English translation might be more accessible.
People don't keep their memberships for very long. Because of that, the difference between your recruiting cost and your subscription price has to be wider than other membership sites.
A "snowball" is a term used to describe an affect of exponential increase, not a person.
Snowball was a character in Clerks - The opening plot point to a rather uncomfortable scene. I find it distasteful (pun intended) that you feel the need to bring him up here. However if you were instead referring to the Trotsky-pig from Animal Farm you are entirely forgiven - That is a fine example of a large group turning on their victim due to mob mentality and a malicious leader acting as a catalyst.
Actually, dedazo, you and WillyHill are the only 2 real slashdot users. The rest of us are all twitter sockpuppets - It's the only way to keep M$ off our scent. Sorry to burst your bubble.
If you read the agreement, you'll see that it restricts each public library to exactly one Google terminal. Tens of millions of books online-but at any given moment, no more than 16,543 people are allowed to read them without paying. (That's how many public libraries and branches there are in the United States, according to the American Library Association-one for every 18,500 Americans.)
I'm not sure what the procedure is for turning your house into a public library, but I suspect that you're SOL - Especially if you're not willing to open up to the public.
Exactly - The reason is obvious. Most people are right-handed so, when not on a computer, the right hand is the most convenient for recreation. However, since the poster is referring specifically to the masturbatory habits of gamers, because most right-handed people keep the mouse on the right, and because the right hand can be used most flexibly to control both the keyboard and mouse when the left hand is otherwise occupied and the mouse is to the right of the keyboard, the left hand is the one most likely to be found in a gamer's pants. OP should think through these things before making silly statements like that.
A hundred pennies is still $1. 0x100 pennies == $2.56. I'm not sure that 'hundred' is really defined in the hex world. It's like the old "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - Those who understand binary and those that don't" gag falling apart outside print because the word 'ten' blows it.
IANA mathemagician - Feel free to correct me if I'm full of shit.
As of today, it is clear that ten articles were accepted in October, six in November, and four in December (so far). See http://slashdot.org/~rpiquepa for yourself.
Umm... What? I count 6 in October and none yet for next month or the month after. Did someone forget to proof-read his copy-pasta?
Virgins? You want virgins? Log into slashdot - This place is full of them! I'm hoping that for my 30th birthday, mom will send a friendly prostitute down to the basement with a cake.
Myth Busters build a remote controlled car every other episode (they always seem to build it from scratch... odd).
Here's something that's bugged me for years (morbid though alert). You can easily add a couple of servos to a car's control system and control it via remote (although long range trips would be tricky even with long-range communications and a camera).
Servos and remotes are cheaper than people. Why do we still have suicide bombers?
Why can't they just cut wasteful, federal spending....and let ALL tax payers keep more of their own money?
Up until 5-6 years ago, that was McCain's mantra. I loved it and was very excited about him. Unfortunately, he shifted gears and molded himself into a 'W'-loving GOP lapdog (presumably to make his presidential bid more realistic). I would like to assume that he's just trying to placate the GOP base and would revert to his long-standing principles (up until his personality adjustment half a decade ago), but unfortunately he's too damned believable. I actually think that he would stick to his current platform which, IMO, is more thought-out and in many ways superior to Obama's, but still B.S.
That said, even though I fear the "Fair Tax" and don't like the history of anti-drug campaigning (despite having come around and lobbying for the MPP), I voted Barr.
Yes, hunting still counts as killing things - I never implied that it didn't. I was just trying to expand on your analogy a little bit so that it was somehow relevant to the discussion.
I swear - Some browsers must prepend a line that reads "First off let me say that everything in your post is completely wrong." to every reply. It's the only way that I can explain posts like this.
Guns aren't always used to kill things either. I mean, you can use them for target practice, right?
Guns are often used for hunting - A legal, useful, and environmentally friendly way to gather food. Sometimes guns are used for legal and useful things and sometimes they're used for crime.
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Those do solve the problem of me worrying about exploding meth labs (I don't - If my neighbor's house went up, mine certainly would too, but I've never lost a minute of sleep over it.) But I'd really like to see a situation where nobody had to worry about exploding junkies.
Drugs are not necessarily manufactured in the same areas where drugs are primarily dealt or consumed - Suburban areas work well because they're not swept regularly for drugs (although you do hear about a lot more exploding trailers than exploding 3-story houses). The cops busted one about a mile from me a couple of years ago that was being run from a rented house worth ~$375k. Regardless, I see no reason why anyone who is not involved with meth should be at risk (or even inconvenienced when they start requiring licenses for fingernail polish) because we force it underground.
Please do not interpret this as an endorsement of meth - I've lost friends to it and it's a god-awful drug. But cracking down on home chemists and turning addicts into criminals to try to curb it is not only nonsensical, it's dangerous.
I'm still trying to find funding for my Tamper Indicative Toggle Switch. I even offered to change the name to Authenticated Smart Switch. For some reason, my boss objected to both names.
It's not so much that I object to somebody doing something stupid and blowing themselves up, it's that if my neighbor is boiling acetone so that he can make meth and he sparks up a cigarette, my house is going up in smoke right beside his. I see a few potential solutions:
* Ban/require licensed acetone purchases
* Reduce/eliminate the demand for meth
* Meet the demand for meth by making it in professional labs by people who actually know what they're doing
Personally, I like the latter 2 options, but we seem to be moving closer and closer to the first.
if they have a list of all the kiddie porn sites on the web, why don't they just go after the site owners? even if the sites are hosted overseas, there are very few countries in the world that tolerate that sorta thing, and with a little international pressure it shouldn't be too hard to get their own governments to shut them down.
If you're talking about shutting down sites with 5 year olds, you're probably right - Not many countries would refuse to cooperate. But if you're talking about sites featuring 13-18 year olds, the lines get a little blurry from one country to the next (I think IANAL nor a pedophile). So, like the TPB shutdown, the "best" they could do is illegally shut down the sites temporarily before they returned as strong as ever (along with some extra publicity) and possibly try and convict the site owners in absentia so that you can arrest them if they ever decide to visit your country.
And, like the other posters point out, this isn't really about shutting down kiddie porn. It's about giving the government the ability to filter the Internet as they see fit. The kids are just a convenient launching point because, as everyone knows, opposing censorship == supporting child abuse.
I'm not sure about the Red Cross or ACLU, although I trust each more than Halliburton.
Now if the EFF held this patent, I may actually sleep better.
It's not "patenting patent trolling" that needs to be non-obvious, it's the action they're trying to patent - "patent trolling". Patent trolling, although it may not have been obvious back when it became a major problem, is now so common as to be laughably obvious. Unfortunately, prior art exists everywhere.
Exactly what I was thinking - For most Windows users, the user is a major bottle-neck. By simply responding more quickly to them and allowing them some time to react (even if the system isn't fully ready to react to their next input), you can certainly improve performance. While there are a lot of users that do care about encoding time and Office benchmarks, most users just want IE and Outlook to let them start typing quickly so that they can forward on the latest news regarding Bill Gates paying people for testing their new e-mail system or letting their voice be heard by voting on "Am I Hot or Not?"
Boycott is still an option, just a very inconvenient one due to your life choices. If your ISP options were bad enough, you could change careers or move. Those are major adjustments to (I assume) minor grievances, so I suspect that you'll do neither. There are only a few things that can't be boycotted if the situation is dire enough.
Don't like your ISP options? Sign off the Internet when at home or move. .22 for shooting rabbits, self-fertilize your garden, and buy a typewriter to draft your manifesto.
Think music costs too much? Stick to free music services or limit yourself to your current collection.
Think gas costs too much? Use less - Move, change jobs, or change transportation methods if necessary.
Pissed off about everything? Move to Montana with a
People often misdefine "boycott" as "switch to another brand" when "give the industry the bird and do without" is a perfectly good alternative. It's too often the case that, even though we're willing to pony up for the services we use because they're so damned convenient, we feel exploited and treating luxuries as necessities is the only way to rationalize our frustrating spending habits.
I'm as guilty as most - I often pay more than I feel is fair just because reducing use is inconvenient. But, I neither steal nor whine needlessly about my choices as long as an alternative is available to me that I could use to express my discontent.
Ok, so this approach where you release something half-way done and fix it later is much older than I thought.
Well, yeah. Here's the first instance I know of:
Carl: Hey, I just figured out that by attaching a piece of slate and some handles to this thing I call the "wheel", I can haul around deer carcasses much more easily than my previous method of throwing them over my shoulder and crawling. I call this new contraption the "wheelbarrow".
Lenny: That's great! I think that I'll use it to haul home my fiance after I propose by clubbing her over the head. When I'm moving people around with it, I'll call it a "car". Of course, if anyone wanted to use the "car" for frequent trips or moving multiple people around, they'd have to make significant improvements.
Homer: Your car sucks. Why in the hell did you design it like this? This thing looks like it was made to haul around deer carcasses, not people! This is obviously an incomplete solution - Why did you show it to us without perfecting it first!?! You're an idiot.
Preemptive retort to silly overly-critical responses: I agree, it is a deeply flawed analogy. It's primary intent was humor while only lightly relating to the incomplete implementation of the DNS system.
Cheers.
People don't keep their memberships for very long. Because of that, the difference between your recruiting cost and your subscription price has to be wider than other membership sites.
Better?
A "snowball" is a term used to describe an affect of exponential increase, not a person.
Snowball was a character in Clerks - The opening plot point to a rather uncomfortable scene. I find it distasteful (pun intended) that you feel the need to bring him up here. However if you were instead referring to the Trotsky-pig from Animal Farm you are entirely forgiven - That is a fine example of a large group turning on their victim due to mob mentality and a malicious leader acting as a catalyst.
Actually, dedazo, you and WillyHill are the only 2 real slashdot users. The rest of us are all twitter sockpuppets - It's the only way to keep M$ off our scent. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Rik Powers? No way.
Marry Michelle Rohl.
Rik Rohl would be awesome.
You mean that 2girls1cup wasn't a comedy sketch? That explains why I was the only one laughing while everyone else in the room was retching...
That almost makes it sound like there's something wrong with me instead of them.
They could probably burn off as many copies as they wanted, assuming that the book isn't copyrighted. Otherwise they may run into trouble.
FTA:
If you read the agreement, you'll see that it restricts each public library to exactly one Google terminal. Tens of millions of books online-but at any given moment, no more than 16,543 people are allowed to read them without paying. (That's how many public libraries and branches there are in the United States, according to the American Library Association-one for every 18,500 Americans.)
I'm not sure what the procedure is for turning your house into a public library, but I suspect that you're SOL - Especially if you're not willing to open up to the public.
Exactly - The reason is obvious. Most people are right-handed so, when not on a computer, the right hand is the most convenient for recreation. However, since the poster is referring specifically to the masturbatory habits of gamers, because most right-handed people keep the mouse on the right, and because the right hand can be used most flexibly to control both the keyboard and mouse when the left hand is otherwise occupied and the mouse is to the right of the keyboard, the left hand is the one most likely to be found in a gamer's pants. OP should think through these things before making silly statements like that.
Karma bonus abandoned for obvious reasons.
A hundred pennies is still $1. 0x100 pennies == $2.56. I'm not sure that 'hundred' is really defined in the hex world. It's like the old "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - Those who understand binary and those that don't" gag falling apart outside print because the word 'ten' blows it.
IANA mathemagician - Feel free to correct me if I'm full of shit.
As of today, it is clear that ten articles were accepted in October, six in November, and four in December (so far). See http://slashdot.org/~rpiquepa for yourself.
Umm... What? I count 6 in October and none yet for next month or the month after. Did someone forget to proof-read his copy-pasta?
Virgins? You want virgins? Log into slashdot - This place is full of them! I'm hoping that for my 30th birthday, mom will send a friendly prostitute down to the basement with a cake.
That was part of the design.
Your binding didn't break - It was disassembled.
Myth Busters build a remote controlled car every other episode (they always seem to build it from scratch... odd).
Here's something that's bugged me for years (morbid though alert). You can easily add a couple of servos to a car's control system and control it via remote (although long range trips would be tricky even with long-range communications and a camera).
Servos and remotes are cheaper than people. Why do we still have suicide bombers?
Why can't they just cut wasteful, federal spending....and let ALL tax payers keep more of their own money?
Up until 5-6 years ago, that was McCain's mantra. I loved it and was very excited about him. Unfortunately, he shifted gears and molded himself into a 'W'-loving GOP lapdog (presumably to make his presidential bid more realistic). I would like to assume that he's just trying to placate the GOP base and would revert to his long-standing principles (up until his personality adjustment half a decade ago), but unfortunately he's too damned believable. I actually think that he would stick to his current platform which, IMO, is more thought-out and in many ways superior to Obama's, but still B.S.
That said, even though I fear the "Fair Tax" and don't like the history of anti-drug campaigning (despite having come around and lobbying for the MPP), I voted Barr.
Yes, hunting still counts as killing things - I never implied that it didn't. I was just trying to expand on your analogy a little bit so that it was somehow relevant to the discussion.
I swear - Some browsers must prepend a line that reads "First off let me say that everything in your post is completely wrong." to every reply. It's the only way that I can explain posts like this.
Guns aren't always used to kill things either. I mean, you can use them for target practice, right?
Guns are often used for hunting - A legal, useful, and environmentally friendly way to gather food. Sometimes guns are used for legal and useful things and sometimes they're used for crime.
Thank you - Good analogy.