The 5th AMendment does not apply here. The 5th Amendment only prevents companies/people from testifying against themselves. This would not be testimony, but evidence.
This is the single most important piece of information, and they nearly swept it under the rug in the article.
To give credit where it's due, the New York Times essentially broke that story back in February. (No doubt this is where the News magazine heard of it). Read the abstract (or buy it ha ha) Here.
So let me understand this. I can pay $40-50 a month now to get a "broadband connection" that's slow as molasses (read "as a modem") because my roomates on the phone. Wow progress.
1995. Two phone lines. Slow Net, Clear phone call. 2000: One line. Fast broadband. Clear Phone Call 2002: One line. Slow Broadband. questionable clarity phone call.
This is really funny. Let's avoid "long distance" charges by using the exact same phone lines but calling the information "data" rather than "voice" and therefore bringing the charges under a "data" pricing scheme which is currently fixed-cost.
No, you don't get the real benefit here. A new technique for moving the sound of a voice from one spot to another has made this process dramatically more efficient. However, phone companies (for a variety of legitimate reasons) don't use these techniques. You can use VOIP however and harness those efficiencies. However, you take on the problems that the phone companies avoid. AKA Possible latency problems, lack of reliability, etc.
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Uhh.. that's BS. What cell phone company has 500 (ANYTIME) minutes for $20 bucks
Sprint ($50) ATT $50-70 Verizon $55 Cingular 50-70
Yes, they all give you 2500 "off peak" (when you sleep) hours, but you (read most people) don't use them.
In addition to the other comments refuting your statements, I would add: the Second Amendment was never about hunting.
To add to that. The second amendment was never about an individual's right to a gun. The second amendment has never been seen by the Supreme Court to prohibit banning guns in the U.S. The second amendment simply authorizes a MILITIA and the courts take the term literally. It means army, national guard etc.
The second amendment argument is a simplistic one that is used as propeganda in the public. In reality the NRA etc use other legal and social arguments
Re:You've completely missed the point....
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(I didn't see any, so consider yourself lucky).
Teoma went live (as opposed to slashdot's premature posting yesterday). I found something I couldn't find during a week long search on google. I was really impressed. I would have been interested to hear from the general slashdot audience.
Yall really are geeks. If you really want to effectively get your voice heard, you need to take a hint from the Republicans (they usually do it best). "Slander" the bill! Call it bad names etc! (ie. Partial Birth Abortion). Then pound it into the public's consciousness. Don't call it CBDTPA, DMCA or. SSSCA. My eyes are glazed over and I can't imagine what regular "folks" think about names such as those.
Conspiracy theories aside, the only way to win a seat in Congress is to get the most votes. Writing a letter shows one voter. A petition shows that many people who care enough to spend 10 seconds on an issue. Instead, Internet privacy/freedom advocates need to learn to LOBBY and to play their issues to the general public. Learn to go to Congress and say, hey, we can and will win this debate with the public. Don't be on the wrong side when Hollywood forces crap technology onto consumers and makes the tech industry in the U.S. go the way of Detroit in the 1980s. Come to our side now or we'll blame you when Joe Public asks why he need to pay $15 to record "Who wants to be a millionaire" on his DVD Recorder.
BTW. Please don't think Adam Schiff supports this bill because he was paid to do so. Burbank elected him because he supports Hollywood. I mean it's really that simple. There's no scandal here.
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To add to this. Personally, I thought LOTR had it in the bag for "best picture", but I didn't think the movie was that great. It's not my thing. I was much more engaged and interested by Beautiful Mind and enjoyed it more. My *only* issue with it was how it is supposedly not truthful to Nash's life. A problem, but something I could get over.
Honda built a manufacturing plant in Marysville, OH. Probably because it was the most cost-efficient thing to do over having the job done in Japan, Mexico, or Korea. Dell built a plant outside Nashville, TN. Same reason as Honda.
heh. The Japanese automakers made U.S. plants because the U.S was running so scared of the Japonese automakers that it was considering huge import taxes. Honda didn't want to spend $1 billion on a plant or something to find out that it couldn't sell a car to the U.S. without paying a $5,000 tax to get it into the U.S. Eventually japan's economy cooled and the U.S. no longer feared Japan's economic strength (and we had all of these new factories)..., but that's why they're over here in the U.S.
According to dictionary.com mutation is "An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality." This is exactly what the article is talking about: a change in the physical nature of the thumb or, in other words, a physical mutation.
Quite the opposite. Nothing changed. Young people simply learned about their hands and applied the skills differently (because of different experiences). There was nothing that was physically or genetically altered.
A spammer uses a "drop box" by sending a spam from one account and putting the "reply to" as another. Novell/Myrealbox.com doesn't want to freely help out spammers in this way.
so says http://anti-spam.outblaze.com/ anyway
It's NOT a drop box for spam YOU RECIEVE. (AKA I'll give some website my realbox.com e-mail because i don't really care about it)
As terrible as 9/11 was, it was not an emergency large enough to invoke the EBS
I think you're really underestimating the severity of 9/11. Maybe it wasn't so bad in your neck of the woods, but in NY and D.C. itcertainly was. My apartment sits about 1 mile from the Pentagon (I felt the impact of the third plane). For hours my roomates and I sat looking outside wondering where the hell the rumored plane 4 was. The news media didn't know, but there was no EMS broadcast to say either: A. No plane four, you are safe. B. Plane four coming get out of the way or C. It's rumored, so get out of the way anyway.
News media didn't know. government did know much earlier about where planes were (in fact they scrambled jets at plane 3, the jets had already been heading to NY so were to late.). (How about EMS THEN!) They should have said something about the possibility of other planes. Especially when they found plane 4.
All my roomates and I knew is there might be a second plane headed within walking disance of our apartment (between National Airport and the Pentagon). That and that there was one place it wasn't landing... the Pentagon. Whether it got shot down and hit my 12 story building, now that's another story.
remove the entire altheletic programs and put that money into important things like Reading, Writing, Math, and science FIRST
Don't let student graduate without Calculus, physics, chemistry, computing
This is beyond idiotic. Athletics (even if you don't like them) provides meaningful stress relief, keeps students in shape (huge health benefits). It's about teaching kids to stay fit throughout their lives--so they live longer and think better. Oh and MANY of the smartests, best students are great athletes and athletics help them get there. Finally, it keeps many students IN school who would otherwise drop out.
Your second idea is even worse (I'm assuming high school level here). Let's force students to struggle with corriculum they aren't going to ever understand. Some of what you mention is great, but it is bizarly limited to Math and Science. Everyone should take some science and some upper level sciences. But don't force people to spend half the curriculum in it when they aren't talented at it and don't enjoy it when there is something else equally valuable.
I don't know where I'd be if I couldn't calculate the volume of a coke can. Although I'd say it's about 16+x oz
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What next, the state is going to charge me for every minute I'm on the freeway?
I don't really think so. Right around the time IE started gaining interest, Netscape was starting to...err..show it's age[1].
I'm not so convinced this was really the fault of Netscape. I think you're to quick to say that Netscape coincidentally sucked when IE was good. I'm willing to wager that at least one major reason (if not the prime one) that Netscape put out a crap product was that it was cutting corners to keep ahead of Microsoft. Netscape felt (rightly so probably) that it's 4.0 browser had to be out first (it *was*), but the product was at least matched if not beat by IE 4.0. When MS hit 5.0 it had a damn good codebase because it knew the race was a marathon and MS had the deep pockets to sustain the product until it won (even if that had to take until 6.0). If Netscape fell behind, it would never recover. Netscape sprinted because it was the only option--to pull of the miracle, make a great product quickly and then do it again and again. When Netscape finished 4.0 and was readying for 5.0, it realized it had a pile of junk jury rigged as a quazi quality browser.
MS should be given some credit here. It understands as a company that it needs to look long term. However, it always can (and others can't)because of it's already established monopolies that serve as cash cows for their next endeavours. Version 1.0 won't make it, but (famously) Version 3.0 ain't half bad. Ver. 4 is quality in terms of what people expect and by Version 5 or so they've got it figured out and they've got the world.
Netscape lost this bet because they didn't have the monopoly/already established cash flow that ensured their success. All their eggs were in 4.0 and they weren't getting any more.
Unless that content isn't text. MSNBC's "Year in Photos 2001" brilliantly uses Flash, HTML and Movies to create the best "package" of the "year in photos". All I can say is it's impressive--and I work for the competition Washington Post: Cameraworks.
Check out this link: (Choose large pictures. Then Editors Choice) MSNBC Year In Photos"
Yes it's bandwidth intensive, but multimedia has got to be. It's a power photo essay and it's unique. It's not a magazine, not a newspapers, not television etc. It's the web at its best.
Slashdot Mirror
Breaking News!!!! Extra Extra!!
Microsoft Rich! Really Rich.
Who'd have thunk it..
The 5th AMendment does not apply here. The 5th Amendment only prevents companies/people from testifying against themselves. This would not be testimony, but evidence.
Guess I better find a new homepage:
;-)
http://news.google.com/
Switching to:
Slashdot.org. Oh wait. Shit!
Guess I better find a new life
Nice advert free gallery of the photos available from WashingtonPost.com. Nice and big too.
Click for Gallery
Hehege. Just watch it be my year and a half over due 3rd data set.
This is the single most important piece of
information, and they nearly swept it under the rug in the article.
To give credit where it's due, the New York Times essentially broke that story back in February. (No doubt this is where the News magazine heard of it). Read the abstract (or buy it ha ha) Here.
Way to go, fuckmonkeys. Hey by the way, Darth Vader was Luke's father.
The correct phrasing is now:
Hey by the way, Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader
In related news. Prodigy chooses Lynx to form the foundation of it's internet browser. Using Lynx as a client is now in the works
So let me understand this. I can pay $40-50 a month now to get a "broadband connection" that's slow as molasses (read "as a modem") because my roomates on the phone. Wow progress.
1995. Two phone lines. Slow Net, Clear phone call.
2000: One line. Fast broadband. Clear Phone Call
2002: One line. Slow Broadband. questionable clarity phone call.
Fantabulous!
This is really funny. Let's avoid "long distance" charges by using the exact same phone lines but calling the information "data" rather than "voice" and therefore bringing the charges under a "data" pricing scheme which is currently fixed-cost.
No, you don't get the real benefit here. A new technique for moving the sound of a voice from one spot to another has made this process dramatically more efficient. However, phone companies (for a variety of legitimate reasons) don't use these techniques. You can use VOIP however and harness those efficiencies. However, you take on the problems that the phone companies avoid. AKA Possible latency problems, lack of reliability, etc.
Uhh.. that's BS. What cell phone company has 500 (ANYTIME) minutes for $20 bucks
Sprint ($50)
ATT $50-70
Verizon $55
Cingular 50-70
Yes, they all give you 2500 "off peak" (when you sleep) hours, but you (read most people) don't use them.
In addition to the other comments refuting your statements, I would add: the Second Amendment was never about hunting.
To add to that. The second amendment was never about an individual's right to a gun. The second amendment has never been seen by the Supreme Court to prohibit banning guns in the U.S. The second amendment simply authorizes a MILITIA and the courts take the term literally. It means army, national guard etc.
The second amendment argument is a simplistic one that is used as propeganda in the public. In reality the NRA etc use other legal and social arguments
(I didn't see any, so consider yourself lucky).
Teoma went live (as opposed to slashdot's premature posting yesterday). I found something I couldn't find during a week long search on google. I was really impressed. I would have been interested to hear from the general slashdot audience.
Oh well
Conspiracy theories aside, the only way to win a seat in Congress is to get the most votes. Writing a letter shows one voter. A petition shows that many people who care enough to spend 10 seconds on an issue. Instead, Internet privacy/freedom advocates need to learn to LOBBY and to play their issues to the general public.
Learn to go to Congress and say, hey, we can and will win this debate with the public. Don't be on the wrong side when Hollywood forces crap technology onto consumers and makes the tech industry in the U.S. go the way of Detroit in the 1980s. Come to our side now or we'll blame you when Joe Public asks why he need to pay $15 to record "Who wants to be a millionaire" on his DVD Recorder.
BTW. Please don't think Adam Schiff supports this bill because he was paid to do so. Burbank elected him because he supports Hollywood. I mean it's really that simple. There's no scandal here.
To add to this. Personally, I thought LOTR had it in the bag for "best picture", but I didn't think the movie was that great. It's not my thing. I was much more engaged and interested by Beautiful Mind and enjoyed it more. My *only* issue with it was how it is supposedly not truthful to Nash's life. A problem, but something I could get over.
Honda built a manufacturing plant in Marysville, OH. Probably because it was the most cost-efficient thing to do over having the job done in Japan, Mexico, or Korea. Dell built a plant outside Nashville, TN. Same reason as Honda.
heh. The Japanese automakers made U.S. plants because the U.S was running so scared of the Japonese automakers that it was considering huge import taxes. Honda didn't want to spend $1 billion on a plant or something to find out that it couldn't sell a car to the U.S. without paying a $5,000 tax to get it into the U.S. Eventually japan's economy cooled and the U.S. no longer feared Japan's economic strength (and we had all of these new factories)..., but that's why they're over here in the U.S.
According to dictionary.com mutation is "An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality." This is exactly what the article is talking about: a change in the physical nature of the thumb or, in other words, a physical mutation.
Quite the opposite. Nothing changed. Young people simply learned about their hands and applied the skills differently (because of different experiences). There was nothing that was physically or genetically altered.
A spammer uses a "drop box" by sending a spam from one account and putting the "reply to" as another. Novell/Myrealbox.com doesn't want to freely help out spammers in this way.
so says http://anti-spam.outblaze.com/ anyway
It's NOT a drop box for spam YOU RECIEVE. (AKA I'll give some website my realbox.com e-mail because i don't really care about it)
Novell runs www.myrealbox.com as a demonstration of their e-mail products.
It's free and you get
Pop3, IMAP, SMTP
10 Megs of space
webmail
all free, no ads
I've been using the service for years and I don't ever remember it being down.
As terrible as 9/11 was, it was not an emergency large enough to invoke the EBS
I think you're really underestimating the severity of 9/11. Maybe it wasn't so bad in your neck of the woods, but in NY and D.C. itcertainly was. My apartment sits about 1 mile from the Pentagon (I felt the impact of the third plane). For hours my roomates and I sat looking outside wondering where the hell the rumored plane 4 was. The news media didn't know, but there was no EMS broadcast to say either: A. No plane four, you are safe. B. Plane four coming get out of the way or C. It's rumored, so get out of the way anyway.
News media didn't know. government did know much earlier about where planes were (in fact they scrambled jets at plane 3, the jets had already been heading to NY so were to late.). (How about EMS THEN!) They should have said something about the possibility of other planes. Especially when they found plane 4.
All my roomates and I knew is there might be a second plane headed within walking disance of our apartment (between National Airport and the Pentagon). That and that there was one place it wasn't landing... the Pentagon. Whether it got shot down and hit my 12 story building, now that's another story.
ha
;-). Keep it even simpler
Don't you remember that show. neither worked. They both just rammed the wall with their trucks.
remove the entire altheletic programs and put that money into important things like Reading, Writing, Math, and science FIRST
Don't let student graduate without Calculus, physics, chemistry, computing
This is beyond idiotic. Athletics (even if you don't like them) provides meaningful stress relief, keeps students in shape (huge health benefits). It's about teaching kids to stay fit throughout their lives--so they live longer and think better. Oh and MANY of the smartests, best students are great athletes and athletics help them get there. Finally, it keeps many students IN school who would otherwise drop out.
Your second idea is even worse (I'm assuming high school level here). Let's force students to struggle with corriculum they aren't going to ever understand. Some of what you mention is great, but it is bizarly limited to Math and Science. Everyone should take some science and some upper level sciences. But don't force people to spend half the curriculum in it when they aren't talented at it and don't enjoy it when there is something else equally valuable.
I don't know where I'd be if I couldn't calculate the volume of a coke can. Although I'd say it's about 16+x oz
What next, the state is going to charge me for every minute I'm on the freeway?
Yup,
London may tax roads during rush hour
I don't really think so. Right around the time IE started gaining interest, Netscape was starting to...err..show it's age[1].
I'm not so convinced this was really the fault of Netscape. I think you're to quick to say that Netscape coincidentally sucked when IE was good. I'm willing to wager that at least one major reason (if not the prime one) that Netscape put out a crap product was that it was cutting corners to keep ahead of Microsoft. Netscape felt (rightly so probably) that it's 4.0 browser had to be out first (it *was*), but the product was at least matched if not beat by IE 4.0. When MS hit 5.0 it had a damn good codebase because it knew the race was a marathon and MS had the deep pockets to sustain the product until it won (even if that had to take until 6.0). If Netscape fell behind, it would never recover. Netscape sprinted because it was the only option--to pull of the miracle, make a great product quickly and then do it again and again. When Netscape finished 4.0 and was readying for 5.0, it realized it had a pile of junk jury rigged as a quazi quality browser.
MS should be given some credit here. It understands as a company that it needs to look long term. However, it always can (and others can't)because of it's already established monopolies that serve as cash cows for their next endeavours. Version 1.0 won't make it, but (famously) Version 3.0 ain't half bad. Ver. 4 is quality in terms of what people expect and by Version 5 or so they've got it figured out and they've got the world.
Netscape lost this bet because they didn't have the monopoly/already established cash flow that ensured their success. All their eggs were in 4.0 and they weren't getting any more.
Unless that content isn't text. MSNBC's "Year in Photos 2001" brilliantly uses Flash, HTML and Movies to create the best "package" of the "year in photos". All I can say is it's impressive--and I work for the competition Washington Post: Cameraworks.
Check out this link: (Choose large pictures. Then Editors Choice)
MSNBC Year In Photos"
Yes it's bandwidth intensive, but multimedia has got to be. It's a power photo essay and it's unique. It's not a magazine, not a newspapers, not television etc. It's the web at its best.