All of the buzzwords make my head spin. Did anyone else spot any content in that article? I was keeping my eye open, but it was mostly yadda yadda unified media yadda yadda web services yadda yadda etc.
According to Prof Herrin, the two events agree with predictions for strangelet impacts, which are expected to occur about once a year. He added, however, that finding more would be difficult, as seismic databases now automatically remove all signals not linked to earthquakes. He said: "To find more events we need to get at the data before that happens."
In other words, various governmental sources have gotten tired of seismologists finding underground nuclear testing and told them to quit revealing the secrets. And they did.
There was an article called "Why does the Associated Press change it's articles?" in _You_Are_Being_Lied_To_ from Disinfo press. The manipulation of articles after release has been occuring since before the first online media stand opened it's doors.
A quote:
On July 5, 2000, AP released two versions of an article about the European Parliament voting to expand its probe into Echelon, the US-based communications-eavesdropping network that monitors phone calls, faxes, and email worldwide. At 5:33 PM, the headline read, "European Parliament Votes for Wider Probe Into US Spying." The hammer must've come down awfully fast, because when the second version of the article was put on the wire at 6:14 PM, the headline had been softened considerably: "Europe Votes for Wider Probe of Alleged U.S. Spy Network." Ah, so now the spying is merely "alleged." And, more subtly, it's not even US "spying" anymore-it's just a "spy network." They may or may not be actively spying, but the network is there. Allegedly.
In case you people haven't been paying attention, the readers of the newspapers and other media are not the customers. They are the product, and they are being sold to the advertisers. The advertisers themselves are the customers - they pay for the paper (what you pay doesn't cover the cost of the paper, much less provide any profit). And since the customer is always right, the press is happy to change it's articles for them, or even for the government.
The common rebuttal to this is some kind of petulant namby-pamby whining about freedom of the press. The people who decide what goes in the press are high, high up in the heirarchy. You don't rise to those positions unless you've proven yourself to be the kind of slick manipulator whose first priority is keeping the advertisers, and whose second priority is luring in readers. Printing the truth or having any level of integrity is twenty-second priority, just after priority twenty-one, keeping a steady supply of cocaine, priority twenty, getting rid of subordinates who might get you in trouble, and priority ninteen, having a good retirement package.
If they are checking to see if.pro registrants are certified professionals, then they don't *need* 300$ as a barrier to non-professionals. They have one. They're checking. That's the barrier. In this case,.pro addresses should be slightly more expensive to pay for the identity check, but $300 is a lot.
If they arn't checking, then the 300$ isn't going to do anything to keep non-professionals from just paying up.
So the 300$ is either a totally redundant or completely useless barrier to entry, one or the other. Perhaps both.
Everyone knows that "someexistingproduct.pro" addresses will exist, anyway... pepsi.pro will point to pepsi's legal representitives, of course. Or maybe pepsi's home page which has a link to thier legal representitives. Or maybe pepsi will just sue like mad untill they get "pepsi.pro" free and clear with no restrictions.
Somebody come up with something better than DNS and TLD registration, please...
They're obviously a cult. And since computer code can be munitions, and we never know what they're hiding in the depths of thier hard drives, it's time to send the BATF and FBI in to kill them all and burn the place to the ground, in whichever order they'd like.
2) Microsoft must release full API documentation detailing all APIs that non-OS tasks can call.
Heh. Big fat hole here. What defines an "API that non-OS tasks can call"? It's not you. It's not me. They're all technically callable - even if it's just a chunk of assembly code buried in a disused directory in a file called "Beware of the Lepord.dll", I can parse it or bring it into memory and far jump to it. So the only thing that decides what is and is not callable is... you guessed it... Microsoft. I'd have a feeling that we'd have a technical difference of opinion as to what is and is not callable, which means back to court!
I want a brand new stage for a bill going to Congress.
Here's the current first stage:
Any Member, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, or the Delegates in the House of Representatives may introduce a bill at any time while the House is in session by simply placing it in the "hopper," a wooden box provided for that purpose located on the side of the rostrum in the House Chamber. Permission is not required to introduce the measure.
I want the bill to go before the United States general population before it enters the bill process. All bills to be considered by Congress get posted on a government web site and sit there for a week before they proceed through Congress. Right now there's no requirement for them to tell us a single thing about the bill before it's passed and published. I want to see it in mint form, and I want it to sit there for a week so we can get some input in on the damn thing.
Hmmm. What's MusicNet cost? 10 dollars a month? That means that if you download, uh, over 40000 songs in a month, you're costing them money. That's only one song a minute all month long! Anyone got a T1, a *large* hard drive, and a grudge?
But all the invisible hands do about the same thing... cover up the hole in your financial theory. Invisible hands are the dark matter of the financial universe.
I was explaining this to a bank teller and her eyes were bugging out. "You're having a 50$ gift certificate promotion to get me to deposit 5,000 dollars. When I give you 5,000 dollars, you get to make 50,000 or more in new loans, which will make you at least 5,000 a year in interest payments . . . your generosity does not impress me. Give me a real cut. That impresses me." (all numbers approximates, of course.) She *works* in a bank, you think she'd at least have casual knowledge of the principles involved.
All companies have to pay out dividends eventually, otherwise the price of the share would be zero (since the price of the share is basically the net present value of the the stream of expected dividends).
Huh? Real estate deals in trading shares of things (land) that produce no dividends. (Your 100 acre lot never sends you a cheque.) Things do not have to produce dividends to have value, and anything that has value has a market.
Their company cultrue seems to foster turning employees into assholes.
You'd be an asshole too if you worked register there. I have never been in a best buy where each register didn't have at least two people waiting in line. I've stopped shopping there since twice they've had register wait times of over 15 minutes or more.
You'd think that they'd know how bad that is for thier buisness - half of what I bought in Best Buy was impulse buys. You make me wait that long and the impulse fades - I set my 'best buy' on the counter and go see a movie instead.
At the moment, we wern't even talking about record labels. Someone said they were willing to give out thier writing for free. I was just pointing out that giving out free stuff doesn't work for everybody.
Maybe you should try threaded mode - it really does help you attach your flame to the appropriate post.
Slashdot Mirror
A Trenchwars Site
It's an old networked game, but has the most teamwork oriented play I've seen. It's also less likely to irritate the "doom causes violence" crowd.
I can't get to the apocalypses, or anything on perl.com, from two different sites. Is there a mirror anywhere? Is nothing sacred?
Ahem. *cough* There's nothing useful in this Apocalypse. Go read something else, so I can read it.
If it doesn't disrupt someone's revenue stream, it can hardly be considered innovative.
Promote Linux as the premier OS for security. It's already good - make it damn near perfect.
BSD is good. Redhat gets rooted in 6 hours. That's not good.
All of the buzzwords make my head spin. Did anyone else spot any content in that article? I was keeping my eye open, but it was mostly yadda yadda unified media yadda yadda web services yadda yadda etc.
Ick. Which church?
How many seconds were left in The Matrix?
According to Prof Herrin, the two events agree with predictions for strangelet impacts, which are expected to occur about once a year. He added, however, that finding more would be difficult, as seismic databases now automatically remove all signals not linked to earthquakes. He said: "To find more events we need to get at the data before that happens."
In other words, various governmental sources have gotten tired of seismologists finding underground nuclear testing and told them to quit revealing the secrets. And they did.
There was an article called "Why does the Associated Press change it's articles?" in _You_Are_Being_Lied_To_ from Disinfo press. The manipulation of articles after release has been occuring since before the first online media stand opened it's doors.
A quote:
On July 5, 2000, AP released two versions of an article about the European Parliament voting to expand its probe into Echelon, the US-based communications-eavesdropping network that monitors phone calls, faxes, and email worldwide. At 5:33 PM, the headline read, "European Parliament Votes for Wider Probe Into US Spying." The hammer must've come down awfully fast, because when the second version of the article was put on the wire at 6:14 PM, the headline had been softened considerably: "Europe Votes for Wider Probe of Alleged U.S. Spy Network." Ah, so now the spying is merely "alleged." And, more subtly, it's not even US "spying" anymore-it's just a "spy network." They may or may not be actively spying, but the network is there. Allegedly.
In case you people haven't been paying attention, the readers of the newspapers and other media are not the customers. They are the product, and they are being sold to the advertisers. The advertisers themselves are the customers - they pay for the paper (what you pay doesn't cover the cost of the paper, much less provide any profit). And since the customer is always right, the press is happy to change it's articles for them, or even for the government.
The common rebuttal to this is some kind of petulant namby-pamby whining about freedom of the press. The people who decide what goes in the press are high, high up in the heirarchy. You don't rise to those positions unless you've proven yourself to be the kind of slick manipulator whose first priority is keeping the advertisers, and whose second priority is luring in readers. Printing the truth or having any level of integrity is twenty-second priority, just after priority twenty-one, keeping a steady supply of cocaine, priority twenty, getting rid of subordinates who might get you in trouble, and priority ninteen, having a good retirement package.
One of the supposed purposes of Lojban is to create a language more ideal for communicating with humans.
If they are checking to see if .pro registrants are certified professionals, then they don't *need* 300$ as a barrier to non-professionals. They have one. They're checking. That's the barrier. In this case, .pro addresses should be slightly more expensive to pay for the identity check, but $300 is a lot.
If they arn't checking, then the 300$ isn't going to do anything to keep non-professionals from just paying up.
So the 300$ is either a totally redundant or completely useless barrier to entry, one or the other. Perhaps both.
Everyone knows that "someexistingproduct.pro" addresses will exist, anyway ... pepsi.pro will point to pepsi's legal representitives, of course.
Or maybe pepsi's home page which has a link to thier legal representitives. Or maybe pepsi will just sue like mad untill they get "pepsi.pro" free and clear with no restrictions.
Somebody come up with something better than DNS and TLD registration, please...
They're obviously a cult. And since computer code can be munitions, and we never know what they're hiding in the depths of thier hard drives, it's time to send the BATF and FBI in to kill them all and burn the place to the ground, in whichever order they'd like.
2) Microsoft must release full API documentation detailing all APIs that non-OS tasks can call.
Heh. Big fat hole here. What defines an "API that non-OS tasks can call"? It's not you. It's not me. They're all technically callable - even if it's just a chunk of assembly code buried in a disused directory in a file called "Beware of the Lepord.dll", I can parse it or bring it into memory and far jump to it. So the only thing that decides what is and is not callable is ... you guessed it ... Microsoft. I'd have a feeling that we'd have a technical difference of opinion as to what is and is not callable, which means back to court!
I want a brand new stage for a bill going to Congress.
Here's the current first stage:
Any Member, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, or the Delegates in the House of Representatives may introduce a bill at any time while the House is in session by simply placing it in the "hopper," a wooden box provided for that purpose located on the side of the rostrum in the House Chamber. Permission is not required to introduce the measure.
(from) HOW OUR LAWS ARE MADE
I want the bill to go before the United States general population before it enters the bill process. All bills to be considered by Congress get posted on a government web site and sit there for a week before they proceed through Congress. Right now there's no requirement for them to tell us a single thing about the bill before it's passed and published. I want to see it in mint form, and I want it to sit there for a week so we can get some input in on the damn thing.
Hmmm. What's MusicNet cost? 10 dollars a month? That means that if you download, uh, over 40000 songs in a month, you're costing them money. That's only one song a minute all month long! Anyone got a T1, a *large* hard drive, and a grudge?
But all the invisible hands do about the same thing... cover up the hole in your financial theory. Invisible hands are the dark matter of the financial universe.
I was explaining this to a bank teller and her eyes were bugging out. "You're having a 50$ gift certificate promotion to get me to deposit 5,000 dollars. When I give you 5,000 dollars, you get to make 50,000 or more in new loans, which will make you at least 5,000 a year in interest payments . . . your generosity does not impress me. Give me a real cut. That impresses me." (all numbers approximates, of course.) She *works* in a bank, you think she'd at least have casual knowledge of the principles involved.
All companies have to pay out dividends eventually, otherwise the price of the share would be zero (since the price of the share is basically the net present value of the the stream of expected dividends).
Huh? Real estate deals in trading shares of things (land) that produce no dividends. (Your 100 acre lot never sends you a cheque.) Things do not have to produce dividends to have value, and anything that has value has a market.
You want to see hard to advance - try playing a HumorSpecialistMage:Beowulf. Now that's one attack.
Anyone got any recent information?
until someone releases a new compression algorythm that saves at least 10x more space.
An order of magnitude more space? Take an mp3 file, and turn it into one tenth as many bits at the same quality level? I doubt that's even possible.
No, I just don't live in front of a computer. What were we talking about again?
Their company cultrue seems to foster turning employees into assholes.
You'd be an asshole too if you worked register there. I have never been in a best buy where each register didn't have at least two people waiting in line. I've stopped shopping there since twice they've had register wait times of over 15 minutes or more.
You'd think that they'd know how bad that is for thier buisness - half of what I bought in Best Buy was impulse buys. You make me wait that long and the impulse fades - I set my 'best buy' on the counter and go see a movie instead.
yawn.
no.
At the moment, we wern't even talking about record labels. Someone said they were willing to give out thier writing for free. I was just pointing out that giving out free stuff doesn't work for everybody.
Maybe you should try threaded mode - it really does help you attach your flame to the appropriate post.