I think it's more accurate to say that both the Republican and Democratic parties have a wide range of groups whose interests they tend to represent. Some of those groups are more represented by one party than the other, but corporations typically play both sides of the aisle. Of course, it's a misconception to think that there is only one Corporate America. Different corporations have different interests. Corporate America, as such, doesn't feel one way or the other---at the corporate level, net neutrality is a conflict between a number of Internet content providers and a number of ISPs. Oh, and there are users, but I'm not sure where they fit in.
I like fairness in my drinking games.Self-balancing. My freshman year in college, I decided to play a game called Super Smashed Bros with a friend of mine. I suck at it. He was very good. We played without a handicap. Every time he knocked me out, he had to take a drink. The rules were the same for me, but I didn't get much drinking done.
About an hour later, I was sitting stone-cold sober on the floor of his apartment, while he tried to get to his feet to use the bathroom. He couldn't do it. We had to help him up, and he staggered wildly to relieve himself. When he got back, he plopped down like a wet rag and continued to kick my ass at that game. I wasn't very good, but I wasn't a complete n00b, either. He must have been seeing double, I'm not sure how he managed to beat both of me.
We had to cut him off, of course. He probably would have poisoned himself if we'd kept going. He was still winning consistently. He passed out not too long afterward.
It does, but on the other hand, Cisco has a pretty strong incentive to make accurate predictions here, for its own benefit. It's better for them to know what the actual market trends are so they can plan for them, than it is to make up wishful numbers. If publishing the white paper helps drum up sales, so be it.
I don't understand why there's a want or a need for a national ID system. If you're a citizen, you already have Social Security documentation, and probably a passport/driver's license. If you're a legal resident, you have a visa of some sort. If you're not a legal resident, you're not going to get an ID anyway.
I don't understand why people panic over a national ID system. They already have Social Security documentation, driver's licenses, and passports. It's not like nobody knows you exist, or you can't be tracked in the same way from some government database. I mean, I don't really need another card in my wallet, and it seems like a lot of bureaucratic hoopla with nontrivial administrative costs, but it doesn't make me afraid for my civil liberties.
I'm really, truly apathetic on this, and I don't understand why anyone cares at all.
The problem is that the ratings system is a legal institution. In the US, we have industry ratings systems that businesses use voluntarily. There's no law that says you can't sell "Duke Nukem" to a 6-year-old. It's just that the retailers have a policy not to.
It works pretty well. There are probably some ways in which it could work better, but it's a hell of a lot better than what Australia and Germany are doing. When it comes to ratings, our corporate overlords know their markets and, in this narrow case, seem to be perfectly capable of voluntary self-regulation.
I think if you're behind your keyboard, and I'm behind you with a baseball bat, it still counts as a crime. It would be a pretty big loophole otherwise.
Will anyone at least do something now that he's jamming regional TV and phone?
If this really does turn into a civil war, I would assume that the US would pick a side and then start training/arming them like the good old Cold War days.
And prohibiting self-modifying code. And probably some other stuff that I haven't even considered yet (and they probably haven't, either).
There are enough security vulnerabilities on the Internet already. Java is fast enough for anything you'd conceivably need to do on the Web, and more importantly it's had 15 years of real-world testing in exactly this environment. If you really need to juice out those extra cycles (and I'm not saying that you don't), then you don't need to use a browser.
I have good memories of that book. One night, as a kid, I mysteriously found it on my pillow. I had never even heard of Heinlein before. But I started reading it that night, must have been captivated into the wee hours of the morning. Would Kip make it off Pluto? Was the Mother Thing actually kind of creepy? What the hell was up with Madame Pompadour?
Sometime later, my dad came up to me, grinning, and asked me how I liked it.
And that's probably the reason Google thinks it's a great idea. If you just search instead of using the URL bar, you're feeding their core business.
Hell, I can imagine them going through all the trouble of maintaining the Chrome browser *just for that*. Nobody should use the URL bar again! In 10 years nobody will even remember what it was.
As far as I'm concerned, the issue with Westboro's protests is a matter of proximity. Of course they have a "right" to carry their signs and spout their bullshit, and of course a grieving family should have their privacy and be able to avoid that at their son or daughter's funeral. The question is where do you draw the line---and in this case, not just a metaphorical line, but a physical line between protesting *at* a funeral and protesting *about* a funeral.
For instance, if they're carrying "God Hates Fags" signs around the San Francisco area (and I'd like to see what would happen if they did), and there's a soldier being buried in Virginia, nobody would say that their protest interrupted the funeral. If they're dancing on the coffin, it's a different matter altogether.
In the recent Supreme Court case, the police had (I believe) known beforehand that Westboro was coming, and set up a perimeter around the cemetery. Westboro's signs or chants were not visible/audible from the grave site. It was, effectively, a "free speech zone" that began just far enough away from the funeral to not actually disturb it. Is that far enough? Would they need to be in a different state?
I think the more apropos metaphor is that you decided not to take the biology course because you didn't want to hear about evolution. "La la la la la, six days!"
And it seems like the true nerd would know how to filter out Idle if they didn't want to read it. Or if they really didn't like Slashdot's editing, go to a different aggregator more narrowly focused on their particular interests. They exist. A nerd can use Google.
Unless they just really want to be bitchy and pedantic. Which, I suppose, is a valid motivation for a nerd.
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I think it's more accurate to say that both the Republican and Democratic parties have a wide range of groups whose interests they tend to represent. Some of those groups are more represented by one party than the other, but corporations typically play both sides of the aisle. Of course, it's a misconception to think that there is only one Corporate America. Different corporations have different interests. Corporate America, as such, doesn't feel one way or the other---at the corporate level, net neutrality is a conflict between a number of Internet content providers and a number of ISPs. Oh, and there are users, but I'm not sure where they fit in.
The NYT review mentions that most of the recipes require exotic and expensive equipment.
I think most of the people pirating this thing aren't going to get much use out of it, you can't pirate hardware.
Some characters that you hate early you will love later, (haven't really seen the converse)
Catelyn.
I like fairness in my drinking games.Self-balancing. My freshman year in college, I decided to play a game called Super Smashed Bros with a friend of mine. I suck at it. He was very good. We played without a handicap. Every time he knocked me out, he had to take a drink. The rules were the same for me, but I didn't get much drinking done.
About an hour later, I was sitting stone-cold sober on the floor of his apartment, while he tried to get to his feet to use the bathroom. He couldn't do it. We had to help him up, and he staggered wildly to relieve himself. When he got back, he plopped down like a wet rag and continued to kick my ass at that game. I wasn't very good, but I wasn't a complete n00b, either. He must have been seeing double, I'm not sure how he managed to beat both of me.
We had to cut him off, of course. He probably would have poisoned himself if we'd kept going. He was still winning consistently. He passed out not too long afterward.
*That* is drunk Nintendo.
How the fuck does this get modded insightful?
Step 1: Government hands you a plastic card
Step 2: ???
Step 3: 1984!
It does, but on the other hand, Cisco has a pretty strong incentive to make accurate predictions here, for its own benefit. It's better for them to know what the actual market trends are so they can plan for them, than it is to make up wishful numbers. If publishing the white paper helps drum up sales, so be it.
I don't understand why there's a want or a need for a national ID system. If you're a citizen, you already have Social Security documentation, and probably a passport/driver's license. If you're a legal resident, you have a visa of some sort. If you're not a legal resident, you're not going to get an ID anyway.
I don't understand why people panic over a national ID system. They already have Social Security documentation, driver's licenses, and passports. It's not like nobody knows you exist, or you can't be tracked in the same way from some government database. I mean, I don't really need another card in my wallet, and it seems like a lot of bureaucratic hoopla with nontrivial administrative costs, but it doesn't make me afraid for my civil liberties.
I'm really, truly apathetic on this, and I don't understand why anyone cares at all.
No. You do not get to whoosh that.
The problem is that the ratings system is a legal institution. In the US, we have industry ratings systems that businesses use voluntarily. There's no law that says you can't sell "Duke Nukem" to a 6-year-old. It's just that the retailers have a policy not to.
It works pretty well. There are probably some ways in which it could work better, but it's a hell of a lot better than what Australia and Germany are doing. When it comes to ratings, our corporate overlords know their markets and, in this narrow case, seem to be perfectly capable of voluntary self-regulation.
I think if you're behind your keyboard, and I'm behind you with a baseball bat, it still counts as a crime. It would be a pretty big loophole otherwise.
Will anyone at least do something now that he's jamming regional TV and phone?
If this really does turn into a civil war, I would assume that the US would pick a side and then start training/arming them like the good old Cold War days.
And prohibiting self-modifying code. And probably some other stuff that I haven't even considered yet (and they probably haven't, either).
There are enough security vulnerabilities on the Internet already. Java is fast enough for anything you'd conceivably need to do on the Web, and more importantly it's had 15 years of real-world testing in exactly this environment. If you really need to juice out those extra cycles (and I'm not saying that you don't), then you don't need to use a browser.
See, the fact that they call it "Psy-Ops" instead of "Public Relations" is a pretty good argument that they're not very good at it.
Better scrub it up with some Skyway soap.
I have good memories of that book. One night, as a kid, I mysteriously found it on my pillow. I had never even heard of Heinlein before. But I started reading it that night, must have been captivated into the wee hours of the morning. Would Kip make it off Pluto? Was the Mother Thing actually kind of creepy? What the hell was up with Madame Pompadour?
Sometime later, my dad came up to me, grinning, and asked me how I liked it.
And that's probably the reason Google thinks it's a great idea. If you just search instead of using the URL bar, you're feeding their core business.
Hell, I can imagine them going through all the trouble of maintaining the Chrome browser *just for that*. Nobody should use the URL bar again! In 10 years nobody will even remember what it was.
...but that's going a little overboard. The one thing that you really shouldn't ever try to shuffle away on a browser is the URL bar.
I don't think that's something I could ever get used to.
No offense, bro, but have you been living under a rock? Westboro Baptist Church has been a mainstay of news stories for some time now.
As far as I'm concerned, the issue with Westboro's protests is a matter of proximity. Of course they have a "right" to carry their signs and spout their bullshit, and of course a grieving family should have their privacy and be able to avoid that at their son or daughter's funeral. The question is where do you draw the line---and in this case, not just a metaphorical line, but a physical line between protesting *at* a funeral and protesting *about* a funeral.
For instance, if they're carrying "God Hates Fags" signs around the San Francisco area (and I'd like to see what would happen if they did), and there's a soldier being buried in Virginia, nobody would say that their protest interrupted the funeral. If they're dancing on the coffin, it's a different matter altogether.
In the recent Supreme Court case, the police had (I believe) known beforehand that Westboro was coming, and set up a perimeter around the cemetery. Westboro's signs or chants were not visible/audible from the grave site. It was, effectively, a "free speech zone" that began just far enough away from the funeral to not actually disturb it. Is that far enough? Would they need to be in a different state?
The same way that an employer proves that you do have one.
Search for your name in Facebook, and if your profile doesn't show up, presumably you don't have one.
Of course there are ways to get around that. Which is one of the (many) reasons why this is a stupid idea to begin with.
It's really strange to talk about abuse and rights violations, and the prison guards are on the *receiving* end.
Doesn't the DMCA have some provision about subverting encryption (i.e., HDCP)?
Either HDFury has a license to use HDCP, or they can be sued out of existence at a whim, without changing any current laws.
Interesting theory, when for much of that history the Internet was a government research program.
Watchmen had:
- nudity
- frequent use of strong language
- graphic violence
- sexual/dark themes (the whole rape thing)
Any one of which would individually earn it an R rating in the United States. But yeah, the big blue penis was part of it.
I think the more apropos metaphor is that you decided not to take the biology course because you didn't want to hear about evolution. "La la la la la, six days!"
And it seems like the true nerd would know how to filter out Idle if they didn't want to read it. Or if they really didn't like Slashdot's editing, go to a different aggregator more narrowly focused on their particular interests. They exist. A nerd can use Google.
Unless they just really want to be bitchy and pedantic. Which, I suppose, is a valid motivation for a nerd.