users HATE dialog boxes. I don't know whoever thought modal dialog boxes for everything where a bright idea.
The solution for that is to always make a "save" choice per default, and then allow the user to change the choice with a nonmodal, nonblocking dialog. If the user does not want to change anything, no action is required.
Like in firefox "this site requires additional addons, click here to install them" displayed on top of the page (and not in a dialog box).
Isn't the set of all computable numbers also countable infinite? So you could have a continuous function which diverges from the sum of its Fourier series in all computable points?
I have found no german source reporting about any accepted law. A copyright reform is currentlys in discussion, but I am pretty sure it has not yet been voted on in fact this article with todays date says the reform is not yet throught the parliament: http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/03/25/a0113.1/text
The second law of thermodynamics is only a statistical law, meaning it is true only on average. A glass of lukewarm watter can separate into a hot and a cold half just by brownian motion, the chance for this is just incredible small.
If you have a closed system in thermal equilibrum and you wait long enough, you will get any possible configuration of energy despite the laws of thermodynamics.
The thermal equilibrum for the universe would probably be a giant black hole with almost all the mass of the universe, whose evaporation via hawking radiation is on average countered by the surrounding particles that fall into it.
Waiting for this black hole to evaporate because by sheer chance no particles fall into it, and subsequently waiting for the particles from the ex-black hole to form galaxies will take looooooong, but the probability is not zero, so it will happen eventually. Given infinite time, it will happen again and again.
They aren't preventing Chinese people from getting to google.com
Actually they do: if google can detect your country, you get redirected to the url of your country. I am pretty sure this is the same in china as it is in my country.
This will also change the results you get: the french google will return results in a different order than the german or the english one, apparently some sort of positive bias for the right language
There are ways around this (very annoying) redirect, but they are not easy to find for the uninformed.
The european servers manage just fine. You say "no idea how they manage it", but have you bothered to check it? Apparently you do know that it is possible.
Europeans can play on french, english or german servers and there is no incentive to play on a server whose language you don't understand if you have better alternatives.
Have you ever thought that if this does not work out on the us servers, maybe it is because non-english speakers cannot go to their own server?
The chinese gold farmers will get on any servers anyway, since it is profitable enough for them to import the games and they don't care about legality or the other players.
Now this is not that big a deal after all, at least I can play on different language servers, the only reason i brought this up is that when blizzard says "it's important to us that the entire player base is able to play together" that is clearly marketing bullshit
it's important to us that the entire player base is able to play together
Exept US, european and asian players --> cann't join the same realms legally
Exept an early player on a now full realm and a new player wo cannot join that realm
Heck, exept any two players that have started on different realms, they cannot play together unless one of them starts over since Blizzard does not even offer character transfers.
So, this does not seem so important to them so far. Why now?
The good use here is that now Nees has what he needs to prove that McKillip is, in fact, one of those spammers who has been mis-using the city's email newsletter list to feed hist own personal list for political spam. (That is, one spammer has already grabbed a copy.
It seems that he actually proved the exact opposite: Anyone can go and grab this list (althought until now only copy it by hand, not electronically)
So the mayor can just claim that - he got the list from some "associate" that assured him the list contains only adresses that have opted in to receive politcal spam, - or that some evil dude must have taken the list, and submitted every address from it into the mayors politcal-spam-opt-in-form, just to discredit him.
So the next time the mayor can just get these addresse from some address dealer who in turn can get them for free from the city after this judgement. Maybe that's what he has done anyway: get some dealer to "hand-copy" the addresses for him, whit plausible deniability as part of the deal, it's what I would do to cover my ass.
Spamming is bad, but what does it matter where the adresses came from?
Sure, the mayor should not spam. But when he spams, who cares whether he got the list from the city, or from some address dealer who in turn got it for free from the city.
After all, as this case shows, the city has to give out the list to anyone who asks.
- If the mayor sent unsolicited mail to peolpe, then he is a spammer, - it should be easy to verify whether the recipents have opted in to him, - if they have not, then get his ass!
(On a side note, what did you do to get a 0 starting score?)
Why don't we just build a 500 mile high pyramid of some description?
Because even if we had materials with the neccessary compressive strength to support the base of a 500 mile high pyramid, the earths crust definitely isnt made out of such materials, so it would sink into the ground.
Yeah, I know, joke, head, woosh.
plus to avoid causing the earths axis to wobble, we would probably have to build two of the darn things on opposide sides:)
I have to disagree on your concept of what the free market is.
The market, if left alone by democratic laws cannot be truly called "free", at least not in a good way. It is still impeded by big corporations throught cartels, monopolistic behaviours and all the other perks a free market brings with it. Left alone, a market will drift away furhter and further from being free, so additional tweaking by laws is neccessary and in the interest of the people.
Such tweaking by laws is already being done today. There are hundreds of laws that deal with nothing else. Examples include the laws against price fixing, or (in my country) laws against requiring and storing private information whithout explicit consent of the customer, EU laws that require a minimum timespan for warranties, and so on.
The question is whether such tweaking is neccessary in this case (rfid tags). Honestly, I am myself not sure yet if, and what exactly, should be tweaked.
But such laws cannot be called undemocratic if reached in a democratric fashion. And I am not talking about a simple rule to forbid the sale of all rfid tags, so the choice of people who want to buy those should not be limited much.
It all boils down to this: I suppose a significant fraction of people would prefer not to be traced throught each item they buy, or at least be given a choice in the matter, but does not have the time and resources to research each purchase beforehand. After all, it is not like this is listed on the case.
These people would be in favor of laws that ensure this choice, for example a law that each rfid tag has to be removable by the customer, or a law that rfid tags in the components have to be listed like ingredients for food.
As I said, I am not yet sure if such a law is neccessary or what form it would take, but if a law is made in a democratic fashion, then it cannot be called "undemocratic", and just the fact that it limits the power of the "free market" should not be a reason to oppose it.
The market has spoken. O mighty market, thy word be the law! Deliver us from our suffering!
No constitution on earth(even in Switzerland!) states that you have a right to skis.
On the other hand, several constituions, including mine, state that your right to privacy is in many occasions stronger than the right of "the market" to do whatever it pleases. Of course rfid is such a new developement that laws and judgement dealing with it are scarce.
You either take what the market produces, produce your own, or don't use the product. Simple as that.
Or you limit the almighty power of "the market" through rules, preferably in a democratic way. If you are a big corporation, you can also try lobbying, cartels, monopoluistic pracises and and and...
You seem to believe in the free market as some sort of noble goal, but do you really think that we have a working one, or any chance of getting it?
People seem to think they should be able to do whatever they want, but go crying when someone else reserves that same right for themselves.
Thats total nonsense. what gave you that idea? There are a lot of things that I don't think I should be able to do. Just for starters I don't believe I should be able to murder anyone, and I likewise will go crying "murder" when someone else does that.
And if you cannot be bothered to do your research ahead of time, don't expect me to care when you whine about the RFID tags in your skis.
But will you care when there are NO skis without rfid tags available for sale anywhere because too few people knew about the problem or bothered to research ahead of time?
Slashdot Mirror
Better give each others affidavits stating something like
:)
"I hereby give XY permission to break&enter my home in the case of my death"
Or, just wire your porn stash up to blow
During the funeral:
"And now, as expressed in his will, all the porn on Dale's computer will be shown to the mourners."
Now that's a way to go!
If I ever work up the guts I might put something like this in the will.
got the idea from this comic
(which I hereby shamelessly plug, because they deserve to be slashdotted)
Actually, IE does the same thing under XP SP2.
I believe IE was even first to do display the yellow bar instead of dialog boxes.
users HATE dialog boxes. I don't know whoever thought modal dialog boxes for everything where a bright idea.
The solution for that is to always make a "save" choice per default, and then allow the user to change the choice with a nonmodal, nonblocking dialog.
If the user does not want to change anything, no action is required.
Like in firefox
"this site requires additional addons, click here to install them" displayed on top of the page (and not in a dialog box).
They dont stay the same in my browser (firefox 1.5)
They definitely change depending on the search
Isn't the set of all computable numbers also countable infinite?
So you could have a continuous function which diverges from the sum of its Fourier series in all computable points?
I have found no german source reporting about any accepted law.
A copyright reform is currentlys in discussion, but I am pretty sure it has not yet been voted on
in fact this article with todays date says the reform is not yet throught the parliament:
http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/03/25/a0113.1/text
"Exposure to porn makes people more likely to believe that rape is acceptable. "
And exposure to hats makes people more likely to go bald.
It's true, I have the statistics to back it up! Nine in ten hat-wearers are bald by now! Protect your heads, don't wear hats!
The second law of thermodynamics is only a statistical law, meaning it is true only on average.
A glass of lukewarm watter can separate into a hot and a cold half just by brownian motion, the chance for this is just incredible small.
If you have a closed system in thermal equilibrum and you wait long enough, you will get any possible configuration of energy despite the laws of thermodynamics.
The thermal equilibrum for the universe would probably be a giant black hole with almost all the mass of the universe, whose evaporation via hawking radiation is on average countered by the surrounding particles that fall into it.
Waiting for this black hole to evaporate because by sheer chance no particles fall into it, and subsequently waiting for the particles from the ex-black hole to form galaxies will take looooooong, but the probability is not zero, so it will happen eventually.
Given infinite time, it will happen again and again.
Should I ever want to discuss something illegal I would either use GPG through email or encrypted IM anyway.
Which in turn makes it easier to prove it was you who sent the message, for example if your partner later decides to betray you.
You are right, I just deleted my cookies and sure enough that link is there.
Could have sworn it wasn't there the last time I had to change this thought. might be my memory.
They aren't preventing Chinese people from getting to google.com
Actually they do: if google can detect your country, you get redirected to the url of your country. I am pretty sure this is the same in china as it is in my country.
This will also change the results you get: the french google will return results in a different order than the german or the english one, apparently some sort of positive bias for the right language
There are ways around this (very annoying) redirect, but they are not easy to find for the uninformed.
The european servers manage just fine.
You say "no idea how they manage it", but have you bothered to check it? Apparently you do know that it is possible.
Europeans can play on french, english or german servers and there is no incentive to play on a server whose language you don't understand if you have better alternatives.
Have you ever thought that if this does not work out on the us servers, maybe it is because non-english speakers cannot go to their own server?
The chinese gold farmers will get on any servers anyway, since it is profitable enough for them to import the games and they don't care about legality or the other players.
Now this is not that big a deal after all, at least I can play on different language servers, the only reason i brought this up is that when blizzard says "it's important to us that the entire player base is able to play together" that is clearly marketing bullshit
it's important to us that the entire player base is able to play together
Exept US, european and asian players --> cann't join the same realms legally
Exept an early player on a now full realm and a new player wo cannot join that realm
Heck, exept any two players that have started on different realms, they cannot play together unless one of them starts over since Blizzard does not even offer character transfers.
So, this does not seem so important to them so far. Why now?
The good use here is that now Nees has what he needs to prove that McKillip is, in fact, one of those spammers who has been mis-using the city's email newsletter list to feed hist own personal list for political spam. (That is, one spammer has already grabbed a copy.
It seems that he actually proved the exact opposite:
Anyone can go and grab this list (althought until now only copy it by hand, not electronically)
So the mayor can just claim that
- he got the list from some "associate" that assured him the list contains only adresses that have opted in to receive politcal spam,
- or that some evil dude must have taken the list, and submitted every address from it into the mayors politcal-spam-opt-in-form, just to discredit him.
So the next time the mayor can just get these addresse from some address dealer who in turn can get them for free from the city after this judgement.
Maybe that's what he has done anyway: get some dealer to "hand-copy" the addresses for him, whit plausible deniability as part of the deal, it's what I would do to cover my ass.
Spamming is bad, but what does it matter where the adresses came from?
Sure, the mayor should not spam.
But when he spams, who cares whether he got the list from the city, or from some address dealer who in turn got it for free from the city.
After all, as this case shows, the city has to give out the list to anyone who asks.
- If the mayor sent unsolicited mail to peolpe, then he is a spammer,
- it should be easy to verify whether the recipents have opted in to him,
- if they have not, then get his ass!
(On a side note, what did you do to get a 0 starting score?)
So he successfully sued the city to give him the email adresses of all people that are on some city mailing list?
So any Spammer can now just request these lists to get free verified addresses?
How is that in the public interest? What laws are the basis for this?
Would it have been so hard to include prices with the game reviews?
For a few games there was a direct buy link, but for example for TubeTwist I was absolutely unable to find out any price or way to buy.
For the ones which I did manage to look up, the price seemed too high to be worth it, so I'll just assume the same for the others?
maybe he just wanted one he could easily change to "improve" it?
Why don't we just build a 500 mile high pyramid of some description?
:)
Because even if we had materials with the neccessary compressive strength to support the base of a 500 mile high pyramid, the earths crust definitely isnt made out of such materials, so it would sink into the ground.
Yeah, I know, joke, head, woosh.
plus to avoid causing the earths axis to wobble, we would probably have to build two of the darn things on opposide sides
what the heck oprah IS, see this wikipedia article
Apparently it is some sort of talk show.
I have to disagree on your concept of what the free market is.
The market, if left alone by democratic laws cannot be truly called "free", at least not in a good way. It is still impeded by big corporations throught cartels, monopolistic behaviours and all the other perks a free market brings with it. Left alone, a market will drift away furhter and further from being free, so additional tweaking by laws is neccessary and in the interest of the people.
Such tweaking by laws is already being done today. There are hundreds of laws that deal with nothing else. Examples include the laws against price fixing, or (in my country) laws against requiring and storing private information whithout explicit consent of the customer, EU laws that require a minimum timespan for warranties, and so on.
The question is whether such tweaking is neccessary in this case (rfid tags). Honestly, I am myself not sure yet if, and what exactly, should be tweaked.
But such laws cannot be called undemocratic if reached in a democratric fashion. And I am not talking about a simple rule to forbid the sale of all rfid tags, so the choice of people who want to buy those should not be limited much.
It all boils down to this: I suppose a significant fraction of people would prefer not to be traced throught each item they buy, or at least be given a choice in the matter, but does not have the time and resources to research each purchase beforehand.
After all, it is not like this is listed on the case.
These people would be in favor of laws that ensure this choice, for example a law that each rfid tag has to be removable by the customer, or a law that rfid tags in the components have to be listed like ingredients for food.
As I said, I am not yet sure if such a law is neccessary or what form it would take, but if a law is made in a democratic fashion, then it cannot be called "undemocratic", and just the fact that it limits the power of the "free market" should not be a reason to oppose it.
The market has spoken.
O mighty market, thy word be the law! Deliver us from our suffering!
No constitution on earth(even in Switzerland!) states that you have a right to skis.
On the other hand, several constituions, including mine, state that your right to privacy is in many occasions stronger than the right of "the market" to do whatever it pleases.
Of course rfid is such a new developement that laws and judgement dealing with it are scarce.
You either take what the market produces, produce your own, or don't use the product. Simple as that.
Or you limit the almighty power of "the market" through rules, preferably in a democratic way.
If you are a big corporation, you can also try lobbying, cartels, monopoluistic pracises and and and...
You seem to believe in the free market as some sort of noble goal, but do you really think that we have a working one, or any chance of getting it?
People seem to think they should be able to do whatever they want, but go crying when someone else reserves that same right for themselves.
Thats total nonsense. what gave you that idea?
There are a lot of things that I don't think I should be able to do. Just for starters I don't believe I should be able to murder anyone, and I likewise will go crying "murder" when someone else does that.
And if you cannot be bothered to do your research ahead of time, don't expect me to care when you whine about the RFID tags in your skis.
But will you care when there are NO skis without rfid tags available for sale anywhere because too few people knew about the problem or bothered to research ahead of time?