No offence, but I think that for the most part, you Americans have lost the freedoms that you all tout - you just aren't aware of it properly yet.
You get fondled to get onto a plane, you can't protest the President anywhere near where anyone can see it and so many other things. Sure, you might still have the right to carry guns for the most part, but you have lost the freedoms that really matter.
For the most part, actually, so has the rest of the world. Such are the times we live in heh.
I believe they copy-pasted that page. Stealing is something they can learn from Congress.
It's funny how things are learned. I remember the days when NASA scientists used to do the teaching to congress about how to build space ships. Now it seems to be congress telling NASA scientists how to do it. Seems that congress learns quickly...
Seeing as Kepler uses transits to find these planets, I wonder what the expected timeframe is for when they start really pumping out the data. I mean, if it looking at the right place for a year solid, it would expect to see one dimming of our sun from us (if it was pointed at our system from elsewhere). And that is only to find a single transit. Then add another year to get the orbit, probably another year at least to confirm.
To me it seems that it is going to be a very slow start (apart from these totally hotrock type planets with insanely quick orbit) but then the taps will be turned on and they will start finding exponentially more and more?
Unless I have gone funny, I think that nature has pulled a swift one here that no-one has picked up... Here's how:
Males found women less attractive when in contact with the tears - not even knowing what they were.
Therefore, something in the tears makes males less likely to see an attractive woman. It doesn't say that it makes the woman crying the ONLY one less attractive.
Therefore, perhaps it is a mechanism developed by nature to stop males just finding a "hottie" so to speak while another woman was crying and instead focus as a group on what was making the woman cry?
Problem is fixed, woman stops crying and the males then pair off with the females and further the species once more?
hmmmm, this is/. and I seem to have missed a 4) PROFIT!!!! in there, but meh.
I always caught myself wondering if I was looking at the edge of a primordial black hole or whether it had already gobbled up a few galaxies worth of matter...
Man what is happening over there in the US? Didn't you guys start off as the good guys? When did it all start to go so horribly wrong?
When they relized there was more money to be made the other way. Same for just about every other country. We all like to be "nice" and "good" until we do it for long enough to work out that there is a limit to what can be done wearing those clothes. At some point it becomes too easy to pop on another outfit to keep the profits and power rising at the same percentages.
This is one of those funny things I don't really get. I mean I am all for technology and love gadgets, but I don't see the point in putting technology into something just for the sake of putting technology into something. What ever happened to:
Does it have a valid use?
Does it improve the item in some way?
Has adding the feature still kept the product simple and intuitive?
Are the benefits going to outweigh the drawbacks?
In my books, if you answer "No" to any of those, then don't put it in. These rules really apply to just about everything, from cars and wireless in this case, to software design, to home improvement projects.
Actually, from memory, they have been flogging net TV as a stupid idea and useless from when Google busted out the idea. I think that they are more likely to be "tagging along... just in case" rather than thinking it really is a good product to try.
To me, it is along the lines of "Lets make Bing to combat Google." and "Lets make the Zune to combat iPods.". I think it is arriving too late and with too little - not to mention that it really isn't in their core product offering. They didn't get to where they are by making hardware and these types of products, they got there by making software that anyone could install on their own hardware. Apple is the lot making hardware - and even when Google decided to start crashing the MS operating system party, they did so by making it for phones first rather than trying to compete head on.
My guess is that this will be an expensive learning experience for MS. It isn't a totally new market, Google has product, Apple has product, it's not like when Apple plopped out an iPod that had zero competition and had a bull market.
And if you feel some of what *was* published should not have been, maybe you should take it up with the newspaper that made the decision to publish it.
Good god, put that logic and clear thinking away man! Can't you see there is an angry mob here brandishing pitchforks and flaming brands?
Start madly flailing our arms in a haphazard way above our heads, screaming about how a CME will cause worldwide power outages, cause the end of civilization and generally revert us to either man eating cannibals, savages with funny tattoos and a general like of badly built all terrain vehicles slapped together out of junk or living under a sheet of ice a mile thick after increased solar activity somehow triggers a massive chain reaction that activates new types of particles in the earth's core and causes massive volcanic activity thus blocking out the sun?
*flails arms madly above head while running in small circles*
Not really a big step forward from the many "Congestion" taxes that are out there. Try to drive a car anytime through the middle of London and see how much it costs you...
Well, the first sentence of the two-sentence summary suggests that what makes this newsworthy is the fact it's being done defensively ahead of a major wikileak.
Yes, but I wonder if they are buying domains like: Wewentbroke.com, bankgobyebye.com, Wetookyourmoney.com and my personal favorite: Wethoughtboombutwentbust.com
I would totally have to disagree with you on this sorry. I lived in Newtown sydney right next to a very very busy set of train lines, and while they were noisy, you could rarely hear a train as it was approaching.
Secondly, even if you see a train, the stopping distance is so long that if you trip, fall, whatever while it is approaching, it won't likely stop in time to not hit you.
Finally, you would be surprised about how many accidents involving people and trains are not accidents at all.
The Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) suggests that the main issues
for rail safety in Australia are suicides, level crossing accidents and pedestrians struck
by trains (BTRE 2002).
This is directly from a report published using data obtained (link to full PDF) from our Bereau of Transportation.
Yes, thank you for that wonderful insight, but rather than that, this is again a case that is much bigger than what people are seeing - or bigger than some people want it to be.
Does a company really have the power to decide who and what can be developed for a piece of hardware it makes? Today they are saying no to an adult game. Okay, sure, I wouldn't want my kids getting their hands on this game, but that is up to ME as the parent to monitor and choose.
I thought this was part of American "First Sale" doctrine? As in, once someone buys it, they are allowed to do anything they like with it? I would say a lot of people will agree with this choice today, but what happens when the precident is already set and they start making decisions that folks don't actually like?
Ah but why does the postal service "need to make this trip anyway"? If you cut out all the bulk stuff, they would probably only need to send a truck once a week.
They need to make the trip every day as they have a volume of deliveries that have been sent first class. They might only have one first class delivery per street, but as that is the service they are promising when accepting a first class mail to be sent, they therefore have to "make the trip anyway" - so at that point they may as well fill the rest of the truck with crap and try to make a few bucks off it.
The point is, unless you change "first class" mail to be deliverable once per week rather than on a daily basis, you will end up driving around empty trucks each day of the week. Yes, your per item profit will be higher, but your overall net profit will be lower.
If they can indeed negotiate a "once per week" trip down a street for any mail item, I totally agree that increasing the price significantly on the junk mail will be a sound business decision, but until they do that, they are indeed likely making money by filling your mailbox with all the crap that they can shove into a truck.
That "bulk rate pre-metered" stuff that costs next to nothing for a business to send, but still must be routed and delivered just like the payments I mail.
That might not actually be the right approach. If the postal service has to make the trip anyway, this bulk stuff can be delivered pretty much when they please. It might actually be making the most profit for them. The standard mail needs to be delivered on time, so the truck is already making the trip around - why not just pump some trash mail into your mailbox at the same time?
It might not be profitable to do those runs as a trip on its own, but I can't imagine that there is a lot of extra cost when pushing three envelopes into a mailbox rather than just one - meaning that carrying all those extra envelopes is almost pure profit.
Oh yes, the future of modern warfare and sabotage is most certainly here.
Absolutely. If anyone ever needed a proof of concept to do something like this, you can't go idly past this one. I totally agree that this will open a LOT of eyes who will all now be in the "Lets do one of those worm things to solve [insert problem], it worked with the Iranian nuclear program..."
Might be a good time for the CV to start brushing up on writing some malware. Maybe form a small botnet or two just to cut your teeth on... Certainly beats spamming out messages about all sorts of pharmaceuticals as far as a paycheck goes.
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No offence, but I think that for the most part, you Americans have lost the freedoms that you all tout - you just aren't aware of it properly yet.
You get fondled to get onto a plane, you can't protest the President anywhere near where anyone can see it and so many other things. Sure, you might still have the right to carry guns for the most part, but you have lost the freedoms that really matter.
For the most part, actually, so has the rest of the world. Such are the times we live in heh.
Were you in Sweden at the time, and did you make him breakfast and throw him a party later in the day? Just asking...
1) Convince Microsoft to adopt similar bug strategy.
2) Start using software as it was designed to be used...
3) PROFIT!!
Yes, that's right. No step 4.
*sips coffee*
I believe they copy-pasted that page. Stealing is something they can learn from Congress.
It's funny how things are learned. I remember the days when NASA scientists used to do the teaching to congress about how to build space ships. Now it seems to be congress telling NASA scientists how to do it. Seems that congress learns quickly...
Or "Word" eh?
Seeing as Kepler uses transits to find these planets, I wonder what the expected timeframe is for when they start really pumping out the data. I mean, if it looking at the right place for a year solid, it would expect to see one dimming of our sun from us (if it was pointed at our system from elsewhere). And that is only to find a single transit. Then add another year to get the orbit, probably another year at least to confirm.
To me it seems that it is going to be a very slow start (apart from these totally hotrock type planets with insanely quick orbit) but then the taps will be turned on and they will start finding exponentially more and more?
Unless I have gone funny, I think that nature has pulled a swift one here that no-one has picked up... Here's how:
/. and I seem to have missed a 4) PROFIT!!!! in there, but meh.
Males found women less attractive when in contact with the tears - not even knowing what they were.
Therefore, something in the tears makes males less likely to see an attractive woman. It doesn't say that it makes the woman crying the ONLY one less attractive.
Therefore, perhaps it is a mechanism developed by nature to stop males just finding a "hottie" so to speak while another woman was crying and instead focus as a group on what was making the woman cry?
Problem is fixed, woman stops crying and the males then pair off with the females and further the species once more?
hmmmm, this is
*sips coffee*
I always caught myself wondering if I was looking at the edge of a primordial black hole or whether it had already gobbled up a few galaxies worth of matter...
Wait, what are we talking about?
Man what is happening over there in the US? Didn't you guys start off as the good guys? When did it all start to go so horribly wrong?
When they relized there was more money to be made the other way. Same for just about every other country. We all like to be "nice" and "good" until we do it for long enough to work out that there is a limit to what can be done wearing those clothes. At some point it becomes too easy to pop on another outfit to keep the profits and power rising at the same percentages.
Oh you.... Bringing all that common sense and logic to slashdot. Have you yourself been smoking some of this medicine perhaps?
*sips coffee*
This is one of those funny things I don't really get. I mean I am all for technology and love gadgets, but I don't see the point in putting technology into something just for the sake of putting technology into something. What ever happened to:
Does it have a valid use?
Does it improve the item in some way?
Has adding the feature still kept the product simple and intuitive?
Are the benefits going to outweigh the drawbacks?
In my books, if you answer "No" to any of those, then don't put it in. These rules really apply to just about everything, from cars and wireless in this case, to software design, to home improvement projects.
Actually, from memory, they have been flogging net TV as a stupid idea and useless from when Google busted out the idea. I think that they are more likely to be "tagging along... just in case" rather than thinking it really is a good product to try.
To me, it is along the lines of "Lets make Bing to combat Google." and "Lets make the Zune to combat iPods.". I think it is arriving too late and with too little - not to mention that it really isn't in their core product offering. They didn't get to where they are by making hardware and these types of products, they got there by making software that anyone could install on their own hardware. Apple is the lot making hardware - and even when Google decided to start crashing the MS operating system party, they did so by making it for phones first rather than trying to compete head on.
My guess is that this will be an expensive learning experience for MS. It isn't a totally new market, Google has product, Apple has product, it's not like when Apple plopped out an iPod that had zero competition and had a bull market.
We can only hope that he is sold for parts before he comes up with any other brilliant plans.
I would say that there is much more chance that his next brilliant plan will be the reason he is sold for his parts.
See what I did there?
He'll get his Darwin award soon enough, and the world will be stronger for it.
Yup. Evolution at work right there. Almost took him out of the running so to speak. Maybe next time. I am sure there will be a next time :)
*sips coffee*
And if you feel some of what *was* published should not have been, maybe you should take it up with the newspaper that made the decision to publish it.
Good god, put that logic and clear thinking away man! Can't you see there is an angry mob here brandishing pitchforks and flaming brands?
*Sips coffee*
Start madly flailing our arms in a haphazard way above our heads, screaming about how a CME will cause worldwide power outages, cause the end of civilization and generally revert us to either man eating cannibals, savages with funny tattoos and a general like of badly built all terrain vehicles slapped together out of junk or living under a sheet of ice a mile thick after increased solar activity somehow triggers a massive chain reaction that activates new types of particles in the earth's core and causes massive volcanic activity thus blocking out the sun?
*flails arms madly above head while running in small circles*
Not really a big step forward from the many "Congestion" taxes that are out there. Try to drive a car anytime through the middle of London and see how much it costs you...
Well, the first sentence of the two-sentence summary suggests that what makes this newsworthy is the fact it's being done defensively ahead of a major wikileak.
Yes, but I wonder if they are buying domains like: Wewentbroke.com, bankgobyebye.com, Wetookyourmoney.com and my personal favorite: Wethoughtboombutwentbust.com
Here is Sydney, the trains are quite large, double storey and mainly 8 cars long but even with that they are almost silent as they approach.
Secondly, even if you see a train, the stopping distance is so long that if you trip, fall, whatever while it is approaching, it won't likely stop in time to not hit you.
Finally, you would be surprised about how many accidents involving people and trains are not accidents at all.
The Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) suggests that the main issues for rail safety in Australia are suicides, level crossing accidents and pedestrians struck by trains (BTRE 2002).
This is directly from a report published using data obtained (link to full PDF) from our Bereau of Transportation.
Let me introduce you to Common Sense... Oh, I see you two just met...
Fuck you, Microsoft. ;-)
Yes, thank you for that wonderful insight, but rather than that, this is again a case that is much bigger than what people are seeing - or bigger than some people want it to be.
Does a company really have the power to decide who and what can be developed for a piece of hardware it makes? Today they are saying no to an adult game. Okay, sure, I wouldn't want my kids getting their hands on this game, but that is up to ME as the parent to monitor and choose.
I thought this was part of American "First Sale" doctrine? As in, once someone buys it, they are allowed to do anything they like with it? I would say a lot of people will agree with this choice today, but what happens when the precident is already set and they start making decisions that folks don't actually like?
Ah but why does the postal service "need to make this trip anyway"? If you cut out all the bulk stuff, they would probably only need to send a truck once a week.
They need to make the trip every day as they have a volume of deliveries that have been sent first class. They might only have one first class delivery per street, but as that is the service they are promising when accepting a first class mail to be sent, they therefore have to "make the trip anyway" - so at that point they may as well fill the rest of the truck with crap and try to make a few bucks off it.
The point is, unless you change "first class" mail to be deliverable once per week rather than on a daily basis, you will end up driving around empty trucks each day of the week. Yes, your per item profit will be higher, but your overall net profit will be lower.
If they can indeed negotiate a "once per week" trip down a street for any mail item, I totally agree that increasing the price significantly on the junk mail will be a sound business decision, but until they do that, they are indeed likely making money by filling your mailbox with all the crap that they can shove into a truck.
That "bulk rate pre-metered" stuff that costs next to nothing for a business to send, but still must be routed and delivered just like the payments I mail.
That might not actually be the right approach. If the postal service has to make the trip anyway, this bulk stuff can be delivered pretty much when they please. It might actually be making the most profit for them. The standard mail needs to be delivered on time, so the truck is already making the trip around - why not just pump some trash mail into your mailbox at the same time?
It might not be profitable to do those runs as a trip on its own, but I can't imagine that there is a lot of extra cost when pushing three envelopes into a mailbox rather than just one - meaning that carrying all those extra envelopes is almost pure profit.
Oh yes, the future of modern warfare and sabotage is most certainly here.
Absolutely. If anyone ever needed a proof of concept to do something like this, you can't go idly past this one. I totally agree that this will open a LOT of eyes who will all now be in the "Lets do one of those worm things to solve [insert problem], it worked with the Iranian nuclear program..."
Might be a good time for the CV to start brushing up on writing some malware. Maybe form a small botnet or two just to cut your teeth on... Certainly beats spamming out messages about all sorts of pharmaceuticals as far as a paycheck goes.
Link to actual article is:
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