Who doesn't know their area code + phone number? Thats 10 digits. I don't think adding an extra digit will exhaust the average joe's memory capacity.
As to universal numbering, I DON'T WANT to be assigned a phone number that sticks with me. I WANT to be able to avoid having others know how to contact me.;)
I submitted this story a couple days ago, got rejected. I was a bit less polite though.
Bush's decision does not ban stem cell research. It does not ban cultivating new cell lines. It bans federal funds from going specifically to this kind of research. That's it.
So. No federal funds, researchers have to use private funds for this research. So what does Clark do? Withholds $60 million for this research in a hissy fit, and also withholds $150 mills for the building of a biomed center. That's $210 million in private capital that Jim Clark is withholding in "protest."
Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, Jimmy.
That's a damn good idea, actually. Do any office suites anywhere have such a modular bring-your-own-functionality-plugin-and-go feature? THAT would be cool as hell, and allows third parties to address lack of features that users want.
Yes, what about Wordperfect? Why isn't WP ever included in these love fests? If anything, WP has the best potential for Office killer on Linux. Its already polished code, its been around for ever, and it offers the same, or better, functionality as Office. Where is it in all these discussions?
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Even that is moot, since both KDE and Gnome have "start" buttons. CDE doesn't, but its just as idiot proof as anything else (point, click, ugh. cant find? point, click, browse until find. ugh).
And thank whatever gods that may be for the loss of the integration. What a mistake that bit of contrivance was.
And your point is... what exactly? That because its a PITA, we don't have to worry about it, because you shouldn't be embedding objects, etc. in documents? Way to relegate your office proggies to obscurity. Not the way we want to go.
The Letter is a manifesto on what civil disobedience IS, and is not merely a "civil rights" paper. The principles are the same no matter the issue at hand. Anonymous breaking of the law is merely disrespect for the law and merely terrorism.
Then, you completely supported my argument:
"The alternative is that if somebody cracks a security scheme, and doesn't want to be a martyr, then they stay completely silent. Which doesn't do any good"
The protestor must submit to the legal ramifications of his actions, so as to draw attention to the injustice of the law in question. In the case you stated, Martin Luther King would have suggested massive civil disobedience by massive and public violations of the DMCA - and loudly and publicly take their punishment, without resistance. Even BRINGING the infraction to the attention of the authorities with full expectation of punishment.
Blame your fellow Slashdotters. This proves once and for all that the average Slashdotter is a moronic ass. The "malicious code" was inserted after the story was posted on Slashdot. Slashdot is a breeding ground for jerks and trolls. Considering how the number of posts per story seem to drop during school season, I'd say 75% of Slashdotters are in Elementary School.
(Note for slashdotters and others just wandering in -- this is a Wiki. The idea of a Wiki is that anyone can edit anything (see WikiWeb for details). The part of this idea is that 1) people don't randomly delete things for fun, and 2) other people can put back old versions of a page, if necessary. So if you get a really strong urge to prove your cleverness by clicking the "Delete this page" link on the left, just don't, ok? We've had ~3000 (not a typo) times more stupid deletion attempts than normal since Berlin showed up on Slashdot. The jerk who crashed a bunch of people's computers by putting malicious javascript in BerlinVsX wasn't very cool either -- I'm soliciting suggestions on how to prevent that in the future. (Over 1/4 of our normal pageviews are from people using IE -- the developers, myself included, certainly have nothing against users of that browser!)
Well I haven't used Mozilla in many a milestone. Not since before Netscape 6 was released, at least.
So I decided to download it and try er out for this article, see how theyre coming along.
You know what, sparky? I am impressed. Aside from the rare jpeg mangle, its worked great. And bloated? At only 8 megs? Come on, its not Opera but lets be reasonable. Im impressed enough with the progress and usability that Im gonna be using Mozilla 0.93 full time.
Why is it, watching the last part of the clip where Ballmer is behind the podium, if you turn off the sound, you get the impression Ballmer is speaking in German, and the title of the keynote is "Triumph of the Spirit?"
More garbage FUD in the disinformation category. As many have already pointed out, this only applies to federal funding of stem cell research. It **does not** I repeat, categorically, **does not** prohibit stem cell research.
It would help if we had a rigorous college ed major. The article is right, an elementary ed major is the only one you don't need a science class for. I think its ludicrous that college education majors are concentrated on teaching only *teaching* and have no emphasis on actual, gasp, proficiency in the field the prospective teacher wishes to teach. Elementary ed is the joke major. I'm not trolling here, Im serious. Take a survey of the college athletes and the Greek system, and find your elementary ed majors. It's the major for those who do not wish to put in any effort but recieve a college degree and a guaranteed job (with 3 months paid vacation) and you have plenty of free time for partying.
I've now had a TNT and a GeForce2 GTS. Never once had a driver problem, in windows or linux. No lockups caused by the card, even when playing Quake3 at 1200x1024 on my lil old TNT. You've got some other issue going on man, or really bad luck.
Actually, NVIDIA is releasing the Detonator 4 EARLY. They were going to release it in the Fall of this year, but decided to drop the ball into play a bit before that...
Clueless America bashers. Did you read the article? Did anyone bother to actually read the convention?
From the article:
"Unfortunately, the UN registry relies on a treaty that allows long delays in providing data, and does not require nations to give final orbits. "In fact, they mostly provide only the initial orbit," said Petr Lala, research chief for the UN office, which is aware of McDowell's findings."
There is no deadline for registering orbits, and no stipulation that FINAL orbits (or CHANGED orbits, as spy sats CHANGE orbits) must be reported.
Now, go read the Convention:
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SORegister/registxt .h tm
The Convention states that each launching State will maintain its own register of orbits, and "The contents of each registry and the conditions under which it is maintained shall be determined by the State of registry concerned." That information is then communicated to the UN Register. In other words, when and what gets registered is at the DISCRETION OF THE LAUNCHING STATE.
This treaty is meant to determine responsibility in the event of a space collision. NOT as a means to track objects in space for safety of orbits.
The ignorance and disinformation that gets spewed on Slashdot can get burdensome, I swear.
Have you actually *watched* the first three films without the rosy glasses lately? Star Wars was a B-grade space opera flick (no doubt only justified by the then cutting edge FX and Alec Guiness) and the followups weren't much better. Sir Alec turned his nose up at the films ("that Force rubbage"). They're BAD man. I mean, "Star Wars?" How much cheesier of a title can you get? You only think they're wonderful because, like me, you saw them as a kid. There are NO adult themes or elements in ANY of the films, these are aimed at children, Lucas has said they always were and always will.
Now, I didn't expect much from Phantom Menace, and I actually got more than I expected. I saw kids leaving the theater with wide eyes and full of excitement. No doubt the same way I looked when I saw Star Wars in the theater more than 20 years ago.
Get over it, man. Star Wars is a children's franchise. It was never good to begin with, so why expect it to be the pinnacle of film now?
They would lose the suit. You can't patent GENES per se, but the particular expression of how that gene builds a particular protein. Here's a link to an article in Sci Am with John Doll, director of biotech at the USPO.
To quote: "When you have a patent on a particular gene, it's made up of a series of nucleotide sequences called exons that code for a particular protein. Let's say you have six blocks of exons that came together to express a particular protein. Under a different condition in that cell line, maybe all six of the exons don't function. So now there are maybe four blocks of exons that come together to express a totally different protein. That new set of exon blocks would be a separate patentable invention, and the people who had the patent to the first six would not gain exclusive rights to the protein expressed by the four new blocks of exons."
Not NASA, the Mars Society. This is a privately funded venture, by a private organization. They're partnering with NASA on research and exchange, but its not a "NASA" idea or project.
http://www.marssociety.org
Here's to private enterprise providing the balls to get some work done towards sending humans to Mars. If they have their way, and NASA doesn't scoot its butt into gear, they intend to try to get the funding to go to Mars without Nasa. Join up, some em some funds, take part.
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Who doesn't know their area code + phone number? Thats 10 digits. I don't think adding an extra digit will exhaust the average joe's memory capacity.
;)
As to universal numbering, I DON'T WANT to be assigned a phone number that sticks with me. I WANT to be able to avoid having others know how to contact me.
Derek
I submitted this story a couple days ago, got rejected. I was a bit less polite though.
Bush's decision does not ban stem cell research. It does not ban cultivating new cell lines. It bans federal funds from going specifically to this kind of research. That's it.
So. No federal funds, researchers have to use private funds for this research. So what does Clark do? Withholds $60 million for this research in a hissy fit, and also withholds $150 mills for the building of a biomed center. That's $210 million in private capital that Jim Clark is withholding in "protest."
Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, Jimmy.
Derek
You're right. Unfortunately you have yet to perfect the subtlety necessary for such greatness. Troll.
Derek
That's a damn good idea, actually. Do any office suites anywhere have such a modular bring-your-own-functionality-plugin-and-go feature? THAT would be cool as hell, and allows third parties to address lack of features that users want.
Derek
Yes, what about Wordperfect? Why isn't WP ever included in these love fests? If anything, WP has the best potential for Office killer on Linux. Its already polished code, its been around for ever, and it offers the same, or better, functionality as Office. Where is it in all these discussions?
Derek
Even that is moot, since both KDE and Gnome have "start" buttons. CDE doesn't, but its just as idiot proof as anything else (point, click, ugh. cant find? point, click, browse until find. ugh).
And thank whatever gods that may be for the loss of the integration. What a mistake that bit of contrivance was.
Derek
And your point is... what exactly? That because its a PITA, we don't have to worry about it, because you shouldn't be embedding objects, etc. in documents? Way to relegate your office proggies to obscurity. Not the way we want to go.
Derek
The Letter is a manifesto on what civil disobedience IS, and is not merely a "civil rights" paper. The principles are the same no matter the issue at hand. Anonymous breaking of the law is merely disrespect for the law and merely terrorism.
Then, you completely supported my argument:
"The alternative is that if somebody cracks a security scheme, and doesn't want to be a martyr, then they stay completely silent. Which doesn't do any good"
The protestor must submit to the legal ramifications of his actions, so as to draw attention to the injustice of the law in question. In the case you stated, Martin Luther King would have suggested massive civil disobedience by massive and public violations of the DMCA - and loudly and publicly take their punishment, without resistance. Even BRINGING the infraction to the attention of the authorities with full expectation of punishment.
Derek
I am not affiliated in any way with the project Berlin.
Just stating the facts, jack. Slashdot is for kiddies.
Derek
Blame your fellow Slashdotters. This proves once and for all that the average Slashdotter is a moronic ass. The "malicious code" was inserted after the story was posted on Slashdot. Slashdot is a breeding ground for jerks and trolls. Considering how the number of posts per story seem to drop during school season, I'd say 75% of Slashdotters are in Elementary School.
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From the Berlin FAQ page:
http://www2.berlin-consortium.org/wiki/html/Ber
(Note for slashdotters and others just wandering in -- this is a Wiki. The idea of a Wiki is that anyone can edit anything (see WikiWeb for details). The part of this idea is that 1) people don't randomly delete things for fun, and 2) other people can put back old versions of a page, if necessary. So if you get a really strong urge to prove your cleverness by clicking the "Delete this page" link on the left, just don't, ok? We've had ~3000 (not a typo) times more stupid deletion attempts than normal since Berlin showed up on Slashdot. The jerk who crashed a bunch of people's computers by putting malicious javascript in BerlinVsX wasn't very cool either -- I'm soliciting suggestions on how to prevent that in the future. (Over 1/4 of our normal pageviews are from people using IE -- the developers, myself included, certainly have nothing against users of that browser!)
Umm, civil disobedience REQUIRES submitting oneself to the legal repurcussions of one's actions. Otherwise, its just vandalism.
Try reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is textbook legal philosophy on civil disobedience.
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
Derek
Well I haven't used Mozilla in many a milestone. Not since before Netscape 6 was released, at least.
So I decided to download it and try er out for this article, see how theyre coming along.
You know what, sparky? I am impressed. Aside from the rare jpeg mangle, its worked great. And bloated? At only 8 megs? Come on, its not Opera but lets be reasonable. Im impressed enough with the progress and usability that Im gonna be using Mozilla 0.93 full time.
Derek
You still have to pay for the internet link. Where is this giving yourself DSL? Pfft.
Pay for the DSL or fractional T1, and shaddup.
Derek
Why is it, watching the last part of the clip where Ballmer is behind the podium, if you turn off the sound, you get the impression Ballmer is speaking in German, and the title of the keynote is "Triumph of the Spirit?"
Maybe its just me?
Derek
THAT is what Microsoft is banking on, junior.
Derek
More garbage FUD in the disinformation category. As many have already pointed out, this only applies to federal funding of stem cell research. It **does not** I repeat, categorically, **does not** prohibit stem cell research.
Cripes.
Derek
It would help if we had a rigorous college ed major. The article is right, an elementary ed major is the only one you don't need a science class for. I think its ludicrous that college education majors are concentrated on teaching only *teaching* and have no emphasis on actual, gasp, proficiency in the field the prospective teacher wishes to teach. Elementary ed is the joke major. I'm not trolling here, Im serious. Take a survey of the college athletes and the Greek system, and find your elementary ed majors. It's the major for those who do not wish to put in any effort but recieve a college degree and a guaranteed job (with 3 months paid vacation) and you have plenty of free time for partying.
Derek
Then you're not trying hard enough, junior!
:P
Yes, Linux does crash. And if its Cobolt Linux, it crashes ALOT.
Derek
I've now had a TNT and a GeForce2 GTS. Never once had a driver problem, in windows or linux. No lockups caused by the card, even when playing Quake3 at 1200x1024 on my lil old TNT. You've got some other issue going on man, or really bad luck.
Derek
Actually, NVIDIA is releasing the Detonator 4 EARLY. They were going to release it in the Fall of this year, but decided to drop the ball into play a bit before that...
Derek
Clueless America bashers. Did you read the article? Did anyone bother to actually read the convention?
t .h tm
From the article:
"Unfortunately, the UN registry relies on a treaty that allows long delays in providing data, and does not require nations to give final orbits. "In fact, they mostly provide only the initial orbit," said Petr Lala, research chief for the UN office, which is aware of McDowell's findings."
There is no deadline for registering orbits, and no stipulation that FINAL orbits (or CHANGED orbits, as spy sats CHANGE orbits) must be reported.
Now, go read the Convention:
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SORegister/registx
The Convention states that each launching State will maintain its own register of orbits, and "The contents of each registry and the conditions under which it is maintained shall be determined by the State of registry concerned." That information is then communicated to the UN Register. In other words, when and what gets registered is at the DISCRETION OF THE LAUNCHING STATE.
This treaty is meant to determine responsibility in the event of a space collision. NOT as a means to track objects in space for safety of orbits.
The ignorance and disinformation that gets spewed on Slashdot can get burdensome, I swear.
Derek
Have you actually *watched* the first three films without the rosy glasses lately? Star Wars was a B-grade space opera flick (no doubt only justified by the then cutting edge FX and Alec Guiness) and the followups weren't much better. Sir Alec turned his nose up at the films ("that Force rubbage"). They're BAD man. I mean, "Star Wars?" How much cheesier of a title can you get? You only think they're wonderful because, like me, you saw them as a kid. There are NO adult themes or elements in ANY of the films, these are aimed at children, Lucas has said they always were and always will.
Now, I didn't expect much from Phantom Menace, and I actually got more than I expected. I saw kids leaving the theater with wide eyes and full of excitement. No doubt the same way I looked when I saw Star Wars in the theater more than 20 years ago.
Get over it, man. Star Wars is a children's franchise. It was never good to begin with, so why expect it to be the pinnacle of film now?
Derek
To quote: "When you have a patent on a particular gene, it's made up of a series of nucleotide sequences called exons that code for a particular protein. Let's say you have six blocks of exons that came together to express a particular protein. Under a different condition in that cell line, maybe all six of the exons don't function. So now there are maybe four blocks of exons that come together to express a totally different protein. That new set of exon blocks would be a separate patentable invention, and the people who had the patent to the first six would not gain exclusive rights to the protein expressed by the four new blocks of exons."
Derek
Not NASA, the Mars Society. This is a privately funded venture, by a private organization. They're partnering with NASA on research and exchange, but its not a "NASA" idea or project.
http://www.marssociety.org
Here's to private enterprise providing the balls to get some work done towards sending humans to Mars. If they have their way, and NASA doesn't scoot its butt into gear, they intend to try to get the funding to go to Mars without Nasa. Join up, some em some funds, take part.
Derek
Mod this cowboy up.
+5 informative!
Derek