My biggest issue is doing away with iTunes DJ. I use tons of playlists, but the DJ was and still is the best way to listen to them. It played a playlist but allowed me to easily change the order of songs coming up without clicking the shuffle button a bunch of times. I could manually change my order without affecting the playlist. And, perhaps most importantly, if I wanted to listen to one or two songs NOT in that playlist, just find them and add them to the queue. It's essentially a way to make quick, on-the-fly, and temporary playlists.
The reelection of the first non-white person to be president in the USA was the biggest and most-watched news event, any type of racism not aimed at Obama would not relevant, regardless of where it came from or was aimed at.
I personally imagine the USAF having one as a bit of an insult: "Hey guys, I know we took this program away from you but here, show it off any way!" The Enterprise is housed on a World War II aircraft carrier alongside the only tourable nuclear submarine (USS Growler) and the transonic Concorde as well as aircraft from all branches of the military and a Soyuz capsule. A Sea, Air, and Space museum sounds like a perfect place for a shuttle.
Please keep doing what you're doing. I had my graphing calculator stolen in high school, and was not happy about having to shell out the cash for a new one. I had a test later that day that required one, so I went to the head of the department and she reached into a box marked "graduated" and pulled one out. She put every found calculator that came her way into a box labelled with that year. Four years later she moved it into the graduated box, understanding that the student had since left and would not be claiming their lost property. She simply handed me one and said not to worry about it. A decade later I still use it.
I can't speak for the younger ages (what this is really about, since wide-spread anti-vaccination folks are relatively a recent phenomenon) but this has already happened at the upper levels! You need to have a fair number of vaccines (e.g., Hepatitis and Meningitis) before many high schools these days, and for college as well. Those are two examples where teenage kids are the perfect risk group given increased sexual and drinking activity whilst living together tightly (dorms in college) and the schools have made a calculated choice NOT to let these terrible things sweep in easily. Everyone complies now, but in ten years when these anti-vaccer's kids are headed off to get a BA in English I wonder if mommy and daddy will still be scared of the Hep.
Maybe, but the reason Mr. and Mrs. Public couldn't vote on every single bill or issue is time spent voting and time spent understanding and debating the issue. The advent of internet polling does away with the former - it's trivial to register a vote on an online poll every morning. As for the latter, well, since when have our elected officials fully and honestly understood and debated every bill? A large portion of what gets voted on is just "issue bills," and those are usually treated as if they're black and white concepts anyway. In the end, all this guy needs to do is efficiently and fairly distill the essence of each bill into a few bullet points that people can easily say "Yea" or "Nay" on. If that arrives in everyone's inbox by 7AM he can have most of his voting planned by 10AM.
Other forms of slavery were toppled by people comming to their senses. The fall of intellectual property will be the same.
In the USA at least, slavery was toppled by a gruesome and bloody war, after which the justice system allowed a system only slightly less worse to become institutionalized for over 100 years.
Slashdot ought to be ashamed to give publicity to cheats and thieves.
But I read about politicians on here almost every day!
In all seriousness, though, just because they're bad doesn't mean it's not noteworthy or news for nerds. The hacktivist stories are a good example. The legality of actions may or may not (in this case) be worth debating, but we should be able to divorce that from other stories that are, on their own, worth discussing.
This work was supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
NICT, for the record, is in Japan, so unless you are a Japanese taxpayer (who, based on your sig, also feels very strongly about slavery during the 1860s in the USA) no, you do not own the article.
How am I supposed to take the summary seriously when it refers to the scientists as a "team of researchers"? They aren't actually a group of players on the same side in a competitive sport!
Maybe we just use different words to mean different things in different contexts, especially when they have a different but slightly related and understandable similarity to the original meaning.
You just proved your own point. Science works by independent replication of large claims, so when a large claim is made people try to reproduce it. Nobody in the scientific community wants just one proof of a concept, so others aggressively, if you will, seek to either reject or support the original conclusion. If nobody challenged them, it'd be the least scientific move possible, it'd look like the Catholic Church.
If the population as a whole was actually capable of acting responsibly then a lot of "safety stuff" would be less necessary. We might as well remove the unnecessary regulations stopping cocaine from being sold at middle schools, people should just act responsibly and know not to do it. And, as long as you're driving, let's toss the regulations for bridge safety - do the responsible thing and only drive on bridges you know to be structurally sound!
Only those Operating Systems, or versions thereof, supported by the version of Firefox the ESR is based upon will be supported through the life of that release.
I still have no idea. FF 3.6 isn't drawn connected to anybody so I assume it means based off of FF 10 so... no?
No, Fukushima proved that, given a disaster that killed at least 15,000 people, with many thousands still unaccoutned for, that the entire world will forget it and focus on a dangerous yet manageable situation which has thus far caused no deaths directly, and might, given a worst-case-scenario playout, cause 1,000 cases of cancer, not deaths.
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My biggest issue is doing away with iTunes DJ. I use tons of playlists, but the DJ was and still is the best way to listen to them. It played a playlist but allowed me to easily change the order of songs coming up without clicking the shuffle button a bunch of times. I could manually change my order without affecting the playlist. And, perhaps most importantly, if I wanted to listen to one or two songs NOT in that playlist, just find them and add them to the queue. It's essentially a way to make quick, on-the-fly, and temporary playlists.
The reelection of the first non-white person to be president in the USA was the biggest and most-watched news event, any type of racism not aimed at Obama would not relevant, regardless of where it came from or was aimed at.
They do the same thing on TV. "World premier of MOVIE", "US premier of MOVIE", "Network premier", "Cable premier", "Season premier", and so on.
I personally imagine the USAF having one as a bit of an insult: "Hey guys, I know we took this program away from you but here, show it off any way!" The Enterprise is housed on a World War II aircraft carrier alongside the only tourable nuclear submarine (USS Growler) and the transonic Concorde as well as aircraft from all branches of the military and a Soyuz capsule. A Sea, Air, and Space museum sounds like a perfect place for a shuttle.
Please keep doing what you're doing. I had my graphing calculator stolen in high school, and was not happy about having to shell out the cash for a new one. I had a test later that day that required one, so I went to the head of the department and she reached into a box marked "graduated" and pulled one out. She put every found calculator that came her way into a box labelled with that year. Four years later she moved it into the graduated box, understanding that the student had since left and would not be claiming their lost property. She simply handed me one and said not to worry about it. A decade later I still use it.
I can't speak for the younger ages (what this is really about, since wide-spread anti-vaccination folks are relatively a recent phenomenon) but this has already happened at the upper levels! You need to have a fair number of vaccines (e.g., Hepatitis and Meningitis) before many high schools these days, and for college as well. Those are two examples where teenage kids are the perfect risk group given increased sexual and drinking activity whilst living together tightly (dorms in college) and the schools have made a calculated choice NOT to let these terrible things sweep in easily. Everyone complies now, but in ten years when these anti-vaccer's kids are headed off to get a BA in English I wonder if mommy and daddy will still be scared of the Hep.
When Israelis say it it's spelled "Oy" and is usually followed by "vey!"
FTFC just might be the best and most useful acronym I've seen in a long time.
Maybe, but the reason Mr. and Mrs. Public couldn't vote on every single bill or issue is time spent voting and time spent understanding and debating the issue. The advent of internet polling does away with the former - it's trivial to register a vote on an online poll every morning. As for the latter, well, since when have our elected officials fully and honestly understood and debated every bill? A large portion of what gets voted on is just "issue bills," and those are usually treated as if they're black and white concepts anyway. In the end, all this guy needs to do is efficiently and fairly distill the essence of each bill into a few bullet points that people can easily say "Yea" or "Nay" on. If that arrives in everyone's inbox by 7AM he can have most of his voting planned by 10AM.
Other forms of slavery were toppled by people comming to their senses. The fall of intellectual property will be the same.
In the USA at least, slavery was toppled by a gruesome and bloody war, after which the justice system allowed a system only slightly less worse to become institutionalized for over 100 years.
So what's your gameplan? I look forward to hearing about what you receive, too.
Slashdot ought to be ashamed to give publicity to cheats and thieves.
But I read about politicians on here almost every day!
In all seriousness, though, just because they're bad doesn't mean it's not noteworthy or news for nerds. The hacktivist stories are a good example. The legality of actions may or may not (in this case) be worth debating, but we should be able to divorce that from other stories that are, on their own, worth discussing.
I respectfully disagree. The most boring thing in our solar system is what we're doing now - nothing and going anywhere.
This work was supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
NICT, for the record, is in Japan, so unless you are a Japanese taxpayer (who, based on your sig, also feels very strongly about slavery during the 1860s in the USA) no, you do not own the article.
Oddly cruel. It is a bit like letting homeless people crowd around a burning house instead of demolishing it. I imagine they see a lot of tears there.
Actually, it'd make more sense to call it "King Cone" if Google wanted to show good humor.
How am I supposed to take the summary seriously when it refers to the scientists as a "team of researchers"? They aren't actually a group of players on the same side in a competitive sport!
Maybe we just use different words to mean different things in different contexts, especially when they have a different but slightly related and understandable similarity to the original meaning.
This is how science works!
You just proved your own point. Science works by independent replication of large claims, so when a large claim is made people try to reproduce it. Nobody in the scientific community wants just one proof of a concept, so others aggressively, if you will, seek to either reject or support the original conclusion. If nobody challenged them, it'd be the least scientific move possible, it'd look like the Catholic Church.
Peter Jackson?
If the population as a whole was actually capable of acting responsibly then a lot of "safety stuff" would be less necessary. We might as well remove the unnecessary regulations stopping cocaine from being sold at middle schools, people should just act responsibly and know not to do it. And, as long as you're driving, let's toss the regulations for bridge safety - do the responsible thing and only drive on bridges you know to be structurally sound!
Only those Operating Systems, or versions thereof, supported by the version of Firefox the ESR is based upon will be supported through the life of that release.
I still have no idea. FF 3.6 isn't drawn connected to anybody so I assume it means based off of FF 10 so... no?
--posted using FF 3.6--
I think s/he is blaming the media for reporting on the result of polls poorly.
No, Fukushima proved that, given a disaster that killed at least 15,000 people, with many thousands still unaccoutned for, that the entire world will forget it and focus on a dangerous yet manageable situation which has thus far caused no deaths directly, and might, given a worst-case-scenario playout, cause 1,000 cases of cancer, not deaths.
Or at least don't answer them three sentences later.
Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently?
...because they have always done it like that, and they have confidence in their own security and safekeeping of data.
That's unfortunate - France's nuclear power plants were a key part of Germany's decision to go non-nuclear but still buy tons of nuclear-based power from France.