You're more correct than your score suggests. If they're creating laws that say "Privacy mode is not legal FOR SPAM!" Then in less than a year, the "FOR SPAM" qualifier will be removed, because it's seen only as a precedent for some other case where someone claims their privacy matters. "No it doesn't. Not if you were doing something unpopular, like breaking laws. Just look at this CAN-SPAM case."
Many biologists think that dog attack cats and dolphins attack sharks for the reason that the latter of each pairing is too similar to the former of each, that the former might draw the comfort of familiarity until the revulsion of what appears to be an abomination of one's own species at closer inspection -- an "Uncanny Valley in the wild" so to speak. Are dogs and cats friendly once they've become acquainted? Oftentimes. Are sharks and dolphins friendly after becoming acquained in a controlled environment? I'll leave that as an experiment up to the user.
That makes them their works. I'm with fandingo; they are being supreme jerks about this, but it's their property and they can do as they please with it.
Ooooh, so they can have all their cake and eat it too? Bullocks. Then my computer is my property so I can do anything I want with it - including downloading everything CBS has ever broadcast, and then I can burn copies of it all with MY dvd burners and sell those copies in bulk because they're MY DVDs with which I can do whatever I want. CBS doesn't like that? Tough Titties. They have only their own greed to blame, since they set the rules of this game -- if you have it in your house, then no one else has claim to it. If they so blatantly ignore the owners of public domain (the public), then the public has the right to ignore their ownership.
And if CBS wants to sue me, they'll have to wait in line. I'm sure the government is going to have me very busy when they find most of my tax form [REDACTED] and then me expecting a 1000% tax refund.
Not entirely. Medical costs were going to cause a recession if the banks did not. Very few of those issues are being resolved, and more are being created. Calling attention to this gouging, and finding ways around the ridiculous pricing of equipment that hospitals are forced to deal with will be critical to many of the largest national economies in the next 10 years. Hospitals are constantly going bankrupt, doctors are all quitting (you can make more money as an unaccreditted investor, with less stress and less risk than practicing surgery) and the definition of malpractice is being warped to include any risk as unnacceptable -- which, in medicine, means every case you take, you CAN be sued for -- so only a masochist will want to be a doctor.
Can't be a very successful band without some form of digital media, whether you're signed or produce it yourself.
Bands earn money by performing and touring.
99.9% of the world gets by on getting money for continuing to work, not by forcing everyone to pay them for something they did 20 years ago. The entertainment industry will soon realize their draconian "get rich quick!" schemes are dead. Their creativity-killing "sell-a-single-never-work-again" methods are finally dying. It's tragic that if someone actually releases 3 albums in a year, they are viewed as a hack. That's how bad it's gotten, and it can and will change -- soon.
"But that will kill the creative industry and entertainment industry!" you might say. Hooty tooty. If I ask you to name the most brilliant English writer of all time, and then the greatest, most creative influence on music of all time, and you are over the age of 12, you will name two people who did not operate under a "publish today without having to perform tomorrow, and you will still eat" creed. They will be people who starved if they tried to sit back and watch money roll in for Romeo and Juliet or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Copyright is ruined. It was ruined by those who thought they could get away by expanding it to infinity. Their greed has turned on them, and when the camel realized he doesn't have the carry the straw anymore, he won't sit and wait for one more to break his back.
Does this mean that small development houses are going to have to change the way they operate? Most likely. They'll still have many years until the laws change -- but those who change earlier will be the ones who make insane amounts of money on lifeboats while the great ships are all sinking.
The saddest part of it all is you see greed shining through many of the relief organizations. They're asking for money instead of supplies. I didn't realize that Haitians thrive on eating dollar bills, and repair the damaged buildings using nothing but quarters. I know that those organizations don't already have enough EMERGENCY-USEFUL supplies stockpiled, and the money isn't going directly into transporting and distributing those supplies, so the answer is: they're all taking advantage of this disaster.
You don't want a truck, full of food, to send directly to Haiti, but you want the MONEY to BUY a truck, full of food, to send to Haiti? I hear the same thing from homeless guys who tell me that they promise to buy a hamburger if I give them a dollar to do it. I wouldn't be so miffed about it if I didn't already contribute a lot to these organizations only to see them pulling this stunt in the name of a disaster.
Haitians don't need money right now. They need things to eat. They need clean water to drink. They need medical supplies, clothes, and building supplies. If an 8.0 earthquake struck Los Angeles, the very last thing people on the street need is lots of Yen -- with nowhere to exchange it and nothing to buy it with. If you send money, it will be skimmed and you will be taken advantage of. If you send supplies, much less so.
No. Studying something unique in the animal kingdom for 20 years does not make it evidence for anything. The slug is able to build chlorophyl from borrowed chloroplasts -- something no other animal has done. How long it's been doing that, we don't know. It's something cool and something that biological researchers can observe and attempt to understand outside of the pseudoscientific holy war of the church of evolutionism vs. all other religions. Dragging evolutionism vs creationism into this will only ink up the waters on any research done, and cast biology even further into its current dark age.
Laws have become horribly, horribly complex. I'm not sure any of us can do that for anything we do.
Yes and no.
They've become so horribly complex that it only matters who has the better lawyer -- so there is something you can do. "But I can't afford having a lawyer!" Oh yes you can!
Find a law office, enter it, ask the lawyer for his card and say, in a single sentence, what you're doing, and then say "If anyone has a problem with what I'm doing, and attempts to sue me, I would like to use you as my attorney. Can I keep this card and call you my lawyer as the time arises?" -- most will say "Yes" because then they have the promise of a client without any work being done. Some will say "No" -- but only if they are already overbooked or have watched too many movies. In cases like that, just go next door, and try again.
When questioned "Then what is the force that draws objects together?" The scientist took off his glasses, and while cleaning them and offered up, in a resolute voice: "Love."
It is a good reason, but its not the only one. EA also uses intrusive DRM in their games which damages users' computers and doesn't respect their property (namely the aforementioned computer) or their freedom. I have neither bought nor played an EA game for a long time now and with the way things are going it doesn't look like that will change any time soon. Message to EA: DRM KILLS THE FUN OF GAMING, DRM == LOST SALE, END THE MADNESS AND DUMP DRM.
I just get the copy that doesn't include the DRM. If watching Disney's Robin Hood taught me anything, it's better to be a criminal in robbing from the rich, than to be a bad guy.
So a muslim fundamentalist is really an atheist nihilist?
Sexual nihilist. They say that the main causes for suicide bombing is the combination that:
- Islam is a polygamist culture.
- Islam, coarsely described, says Heaven is the sexing up lots of ladies.
Invariably, the suicide bombers are single males who have less a chance of marrying a woman (since the well-to-do's tend to marry more than their share) and see this as their only sanctioned escape of sexual frustration/loneliness. This escape, of course, was designed by men who took the exact words that condemned them in the Quran and twisted it to say that the cause of a suicide bomber will send him to these virgins.
You are completely wrong. People will come to America. If you want to limit the H1-B program, then you limit what will stay here to those who came illegallly; while those who follow the rules, learn the language, go to our schools, learn from our programs, and when we've invested tens of thousands of dollars and man-hours in each of these people, are sent back with the warning that if we see their faces after x amount of days, it will not be as friends.
Keep sending back anyone who plays by our rules and respect our laws. Then keep wondering why many of our cities are turning into warrens of lawlessness -- greatly caused by immigrants and their children who were taught that they can only live here because they break our laws.
I thought it may be anti-technology... but the technology of burning up fuel while flying James Cameron's personal jet plane is ok. Then I thought it might be about wastefulness... but the $500,000,000 to make a 3-hour entertainment movie is also ok. Perhaps it's about greed? No... the $1B gross the movie has raked in, so far, is also not just perfectly acceptable, but nominal. The message is... veterans are evil... unless they're crippled or deserters.
I think we should just lasso the thing so it whips down into the middle east, solving war for 300 years. That should finally shut up all those "Peace is the only answer" hippies.
Via email this morning, asking how the picture quality was, I found out that last night my daughter watched Baby Geniuses while my wife and I were at her company's Christmas party. Do you think I'll ever be able to run for public office with that kind of thing on my record? Do you? Just by posting this, I'm probably going to have to start over with a new slashdot account.
But one aspect of weightlessness was so unpleasant was so unpleasant that even the thrill of exploration didn't make up for it. For one thing, it could be painful.... If you opened the valve too soon, some part of the mechanism was liable to poke into the end of your penis, which prevented you from urinating. And at that point, as if to confirm your worst fears, the suction began to pull you in. Now you were being jabbed and pulled at the same time, so you shut the valve, and as the mechanism resealed itself it caught a little piece of you in it. It took only one episode like that to convince you to never let it happen again. Next time you had a strategy: start flowing a split-second before you turn on the valve. But once you began to urinate the condom popped off and out came a flurry of little golden droplets at play in the wonderland, floating around and making your misfortune everybody's misfortune! And in no time at all the whole device reeked; it was an affront to the senses just sitting there.
You're speaking to the wrong audience. For most of these guys, that sounds like the closest thing to a blowjob they'll ever get.
I guess there is also some chance that there is some botnet out there set to verify that mail reaches addresses, and it is just running out of control.
This. It's not just about finding whether the email address is correct, though, it's also testing the junkmail filters -- seeing what words will get a domain on a blacklist and which will still get delivered or bounced at the directory level. I learned this after researching why I got a promising email titled "TEENAGE GIRL HAS SEX WITH BAT!" only to open it up and find a disappointing message like "Gillette rosemary is talking sweet sound to hair bounces great. Sounded of?"
Hostage for what? A meeting with the mayor? He wouldn't give an idiot the passwords because he knew the drive home would be on unlit streets if he did. Simply because you manage over someone doesn't mean you should have access to all of their passwords or classified information. Can you imagine what could have happened if he did just fork over the passwords to anyone up the chain of command? City loses power the next day -- and who is to blame? "Well, Terry was logged in on his account when it went down. (Just after his boss fired him, too! Suspicious!)" So he went with the approach that he'll put the password where only a new sys admin would be able to get to it -- in the hands of the mayor (unless the mayor turns around and gives it to the non-IT-versed manager above Childs, in which case, Childs's hands are clean if city loses power.)
In this case, he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, so he went with what he thought was the right thing to do in his "I hate managers and only an idiot would fire me" brain.
It's probably a non-paying, volunteer position. However, I doubt you'd go a week before coming home to find a ferrari in your driveway with the license plate "MCAFEE 1" and a note that says "From an old friend." in the driver's seat, under the key.
Please explain the misapplication of the derivative operation in a manner that an 8th-grader could grasp.
The reason why you have trouble with this is because you don't know what it actually means. If you did, you could explain it in simpler terms. Einstein and Hawking took no pride in being able to speak above everyone or attempt to use unneccessarily big words in attempting to communicate a complex idea (ping pong, mirrors, and tiny rocketships were all it took to describe the special theory of relativity). Their works are respected and accepted due to their ability to dumb things down. They were able to do that because they understood the concepts they were attempting to broadcast to their audiences.
Perhaps you could explain it as "People who think that daddy's car is going to kill the planet do so because the CO2 released in the 1960's caused the temperature to increase in the 1940's. If they can convince enough people that they're right, they can make so much money that they can all buy their own soccer teams."
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You're more correct than your score suggests. If they're creating laws that say "Privacy mode is not legal FOR SPAM!" Then in less than a year, the "FOR SPAM" qualifier will be removed, because it's seen only as a precedent for some other case where someone claims their privacy matters. "No it doesn't. Not if you were doing something unpopular, like breaking laws. Just look at this CAN-SPAM case."
Many biologists think that dog attack cats and dolphins attack sharks for the reason that the latter of each pairing is too similar to the former of each, that the former might draw the comfort of familiarity until the revulsion of what appears to be an abomination of one's own species at closer inspection -- an "Uncanny Valley in the wild" so to speak. Are dogs and cats friendly once they've become acquainted? Oftentimes. Are sharks and dolphins friendly after becoming acquained in a controlled environment? I'll leave that as an experiment up to the user.
Vampire:tM:B Release Date: November 16, 2004
World of Warcraft Release Date: November 23, 2004
The game was released with only a week to live.
That makes them their works. I'm with fandingo; they are being supreme jerks about this, but it's their property and they can do as they please with it.
Ooooh, so they can have all their cake and eat it too? Bullocks. Then my computer is my property so I can do anything I want with it - including downloading everything CBS has ever broadcast, and then I can burn copies of it all with MY dvd burners and sell those copies in bulk because they're MY DVDs with which I can do whatever I want. CBS doesn't like that? Tough Titties. They have only their own greed to blame, since they set the rules of this game -- if you have it in your house, then no one else has claim to it. If they so blatantly ignore the owners of public domain (the public), then the public has the right to ignore their ownership.
And if CBS wants to sue me, they'll have to wait in line. I'm sure the government is going to have me very busy when they find most of my tax form [REDACTED] and then me expecting a 1000% tax refund.
Not entirely. Medical costs were going to cause a recession if the banks did not. Very few of those issues are being resolved, and more are being created. Calling attention to this gouging, and finding ways around the ridiculous pricing of equipment that hospitals are forced to deal with will be critical to many of the largest national economies in the next 10 years. Hospitals are constantly going bankrupt, doctors are all quitting (you can make more money as an unaccreditted investor, with less stress and less risk than practicing surgery) and the definition of malpractice is being warped to include any risk as unnacceptable -- which, in medicine, means every case you take, you CAN be sued for -- so only a masochist will want to be a doctor.
The cost difference is incredibly important.
Can't be a very successful band without some form of digital media, whether you're signed or produce it yourself.
Bands earn money by performing and touring.
99.9% of the world gets by on getting money for continuing to work, not by forcing everyone to pay them for something they did 20 years ago. The entertainment industry will soon realize their draconian "get rich quick!" schemes are dead. Their creativity-killing "sell-a-single-never-work-again" methods are finally dying. It's tragic that if someone actually releases 3 albums in a year, they are viewed as a hack. That's how bad it's gotten, and it can and will change -- soon.
"But that will kill the creative industry and entertainment industry!" you might say. Hooty tooty. If I ask you to name the most brilliant English writer of all time, and then the greatest, most creative influence on music of all time, and you are over the age of 12, you will name two people who did not operate under a "publish today without having to perform tomorrow, and you will still eat" creed. They will be people who starved if they tried to sit back and watch money roll in for Romeo and Juliet or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Copyright is ruined. It was ruined by those who thought they could get away by expanding it to infinity. Their greed has turned on them, and when the camel realized he doesn't have the carry the straw anymore, he won't sit and wait for one more to break his back.
Does this mean that small development houses are going to have to change the way they operate? Most likely. They'll still have many years until the laws change -- but those who change earlier will be the ones who make insane amounts of money on lifeboats while the great ships are all sinking.
Best way to take out an enemy's catapult offensive is, obviously, to build your own squad of catapults!
The saddest part of it all is you see greed shining through many of the relief organizations. They're asking for money instead of supplies. I didn't realize that Haitians thrive on eating dollar bills, and repair the damaged buildings using nothing but quarters. I know that those organizations don't already have enough EMERGENCY-USEFUL supplies stockpiled, and the money isn't going directly into transporting and distributing those supplies, so the answer is: they're all taking advantage of this disaster.
You don't want a truck, full of food, to send directly to Haiti, but you want the MONEY to BUY a truck, full of food, to send to Haiti? I hear the same thing from homeless guys who tell me that they promise to buy a hamburger if I give them a dollar to do it. I wouldn't be so miffed about it if I didn't already contribute a lot to these organizations only to see them pulling this stunt in the name of a disaster.
Haitians don't need money right now. They need things to eat. They need clean water to drink. They need medical supplies, clothes, and building supplies. If an 8.0 earthquake struck Los Angeles, the very last thing people on the street need is lots of Yen -- with nowhere to exchange it and nothing to buy it with. If you send money, it will be skimmed and you will be taken advantage of. If you send supplies, much less so.
No. Studying something unique in the animal kingdom for 20 years does not make it evidence for anything. The slug is able to build chlorophyl from borrowed chloroplasts -- something no other animal has done. How long it's been doing that, we don't know. It's something cool and something that biological researchers can observe and attempt to understand outside of the pseudoscientific holy war of the church of evolutionism vs. all other religions. Dragging evolutionism vs creationism into this will only ink up the waters on any research done, and cast biology even further into its current dark age.
Laws have become horribly, horribly complex. I'm not sure any of us can do that for anything we do.
Yes and no.
They've become so horribly complex that it only matters who has the better lawyer -- so there is something you can do. "But I can't afford having a lawyer!" Oh yes you can!
Find a law office, enter it, ask the lawyer for his card and say, in a single sentence, what you're doing, and then say "If anyone has a problem with what I'm doing, and attempts to sue me, I would like to use you as my attorney. Can I keep this card and call you my lawyer as the time arises?" -- most will say "Yes" because then they have the promise of a client without any work being done. Some will say "No" -- but only if they are already overbooked or have watched too many movies. In cases like that, just go next door, and try again.
When questioned "Then what is the force that draws objects together?" The scientist took off his glasses, and while cleaning them and offered up, in a resolute voice: "Love."
It is a good reason, but its not the only one. EA also uses intrusive DRM in their games which damages users' computers and doesn't respect their property (namely the aforementioned computer) or their freedom. I have neither bought nor played an EA game for a long time now and with the way things are going it doesn't look like that will change any time soon. Message to EA: DRM KILLS THE FUN OF GAMING, DRM == LOST SALE, END THE MADNESS AND DUMP DRM.
I just get the copy that doesn't include the DRM. If watching Disney's Robin Hood taught me anything, it's better to be a criminal in robbing from the rich, than to be a bad guy.
So a muslim fundamentalist is really an atheist nihilist?
Sexual nihilist. They say that the main causes for suicide bombing is the combination that:
- Islam is a polygamist culture.
- Islam, coarsely described, says Heaven is the sexing up lots of ladies.
Invariably, the suicide bombers are single males who have less a chance of marrying a woman (since the well-to-do's tend to marry more than their share) and see this as their only sanctioned escape of sexual frustration/loneliness. This escape, of course, was designed by men who took the exact words that condemned them in the Quran and twisted it to say that the cause of a suicide bomber will send him to these virgins.
You are completely wrong. People will come to America. If you want to limit the H1-B program, then you limit what will stay here to those who came illegallly; while those who follow the rules, learn the language, go to our schools, learn from our programs, and when we've invested tens of thousands of dollars and man-hours in each of these people, are sent back with the warning that if we see their faces after x amount of days, it will not be as friends.
Keep sending back anyone who plays by our rules and respect our laws. Then keep wondering why many of our cities are turning into warrens of lawlessness -- greatly caused by immigrants and their children who were taught that they can only live here because they break our laws.
I thought it may be anti-technology... but the technology of burning up fuel while flying James Cameron's personal jet plane is ok. Then I thought it might be about wastefulness... but the $500,000,000 to make a 3-hour entertainment movie is also ok. Perhaps it's about greed? No... the $1B gross the movie has raked in, so far, is also not just perfectly acceptable, but nominal. The message is... veterans are evil... unless they're crippled or deserters.
I think we should just lasso the thing so it whips down into the middle east, solving war for 300 years. That should finally shut up all those "Peace is the only answer" hippies.
Via email this morning, asking how the picture quality was, I found out that last night my daughter watched Baby Geniuses while my wife and I were at her company's Christmas party. Do you think I'll ever be able to run for public office with that kind of thing on my record? Do you? Just by posting this, I'm probably going to have to start over with a new slashdot account.
Perhaps in the near future it will be repurposed to filter out the stupid.
I have a hostfile for that.
twitter.com 127.0.0.1
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But one aspect of weightlessness was so unpleasant was so unpleasant that even the thrill of exploration didn't make up for it. For one thing, it could be painful.... If you opened the valve too soon, some part of the mechanism was liable to poke into the end of your penis, which prevented you from urinating. And at that point, as if to confirm your worst fears, the suction began to pull you in. Now you were being jabbed and pulled at the same time, so you shut the valve, and as the mechanism resealed itself it caught a little piece of you in it. It took only one episode like that to convince you to never let it happen again. Next time you had a strategy: start flowing a split-second before you turn on the valve. But once you began to urinate the condom popped off and out came a flurry of little golden droplets at play in the wonderland, floating around and making your misfortune everybody's misfortune! And in no time at all the whole device reeked; it was an affront to the senses just sitting there.
You're speaking to the wrong audience. For most of these guys, that sounds like the closest thing to a blowjob they'll ever get.
I guess there is also some chance that there is some botnet out there set to verify that mail reaches addresses, and it is just running out of control.
This. It's not just about finding whether the email address is correct, though, it's also testing the junkmail filters -- seeing what words will get a domain on a blacklist and which will still get delivered or bounced at the directory level. I learned this after researching why I got a promising email titled "TEENAGE GIRL HAS SEX WITH BAT!" only to open it up and find a disappointing message like "Gillette rosemary is talking sweet sound to hair bounces great. Sounded of?"
The guy tried to hold the city hostage
Hostage for what? A meeting with the mayor? He wouldn't give an idiot the passwords because he knew the drive home would be on unlit streets if he did. Simply because you manage over someone doesn't mean you should have access to all of their passwords or classified information. Can you imagine what could have happened if he did just fork over the passwords to anyone up the chain of command? City loses power the next day -- and who is to blame? "Well, Terry was logged in on his account when it went down. (Just after his boss fired him, too! Suspicious!)" So he went with the approach that he'll put the password where only a new sys admin would be able to get to it -- in the hands of the mayor (unless the mayor turns around and gives it to the non-IT-versed manager above Childs, in which case, Childs's hands are clean if city loses power.)
In this case, he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, so he went with what he thought was the right thing to do in his "I hate managers and only an idiot would fire me" brain.
What is the punishment for being accessory to such a crime?
It's probably a non-paying, volunteer position. However, I doubt you'd go a week before coming home to find a ferrari in your driveway with the license plate "MCAFEE 1" and a note that says "From an old friend." in the driver's seat, under the key.
You're mistaking "body language" for sign language.
Please explain the misapplication of the derivative operation in a manner that an 8th-grader could grasp.
The reason why you have trouble with this is because you don't know what it actually means. If you did, you could explain it in simpler terms. Einstein and Hawking took no pride in being able to speak above everyone or attempt to use unneccessarily big words in attempting to communicate a complex idea (ping pong, mirrors, and tiny rocketships were all it took to describe the special theory of relativity). Their works are respected and accepted due to their ability to dumb things down. They were able to do that because they understood the concepts they were attempting to broadcast to their audiences.
Perhaps you could explain it as "People who think that daddy's car is going to kill the planet do so because the CO2 released in the 1960's caused the temperature to increase in the 1940's. If they can convince enough people that they're right, they can make so much money that they can all buy their own soccer teams."