Decades of B-rate Sci-fi and comics tell us that by this time next month he's going to transform into a humanoid horn lizard wanting to take over the world, but will be stopped by the Amazing Daddy-Long-Legs. The "idle" is just the gov being genre savy to pre-emptively begin disavowing all knowledge.
Distiller grains, often overlooked, but is a byproduct of ethanol production.
The corn used for ethanol production is feed corn for animals. Not all of the corn is used to produce ethanol either, just the starch. The distiller grains can be used to feed livestock much like the used corn can. It can't completely fill all the dietary needs of the animals (how much depends on the species), but it isn't a zero sum choice between feeding the animals used to feed humans and having ethanol.
Unless you are a vegetarian and/or animal rights supporter who wants the ending of animal consumption. Then, I dunno, you could use it for compost? *shrugs*
He was an early adopter. When bitcoin value exploded what was little more than $20 worth of digital money exploded to $500,000. Effectively, he was exactly the type of person many expressed concerns about bring the real people who would benefit from bitcoins.
More and more I keep hearing "unfunded mandate" or "harsh deadline", but experience is translating it as "I waited till the last minute and now I'm screwed."
People buying nooks, over their kindle because then they can use B&Ns service and the Kindle service as well.
You need to look at it another way. The people doing these hacks are doing it for the lolz and a cheap tablet. All tablets I know of (IOS, Android, but I am not sure about the Windows and Blackberry tablets) already have the Kindle and BNB apps available. Little to no loss there.
Second, the Kindles are a loss leader from what I keep hearing from people I am going to assume did more research than I have into the matter. Amazon loses money from Kindles, but in selling a Kindle they know you are going to be giving them profit from books that should in time cancel out. At least in the free shipping they offer from time to time if nothing else.
These are people who are apparently hacking a rival's product to read Kindle books. Why should Amazon be mad at people who obviously like Kindle books enough to hack the Kindle App into something instead of buying a product designed to lock you into buying Kindle books?
This is actually pretty darn clever. Maybe I don't know of the prior art everyone and their brother knows, but colored me impressed by a company I no longer expected this from. Not just in realizing this could be done, but in the executives allowing it to reach market.
At this point Sony is a beached whale. Maybe there is some merit to security through obscurity, but now everyone knows Sony is wounded and has lack luster defenses. Heck, I'm wouldn't be surprised at this point if the vending machines at Sony buildings didn't give out free food/drinks when prompted.
At what point now does Sony get forcibly shut down? They are nearing the point they might as well hand out a random customer's identification, credit card number, address and phone number with every purchase from them. The information would still be leaking out slower if they TRIED to be intentionally malicious at this point.
I thought the rights were technically paid for, but they were licensed under a "Watchmen" like agreement that meant the rights did not revert back (requiring further payment and/or tweaks to the agreement) until the Daleks weren't used for one season. Whence why the Daleks appeared every season in the new series in at least on episode.
This isn't quite equatable to prohibition. Prohibition outlawed alcohol for consumption based on an ideological battle that left no legal alternatives for acquiring alcoholic drinks.
This is a move to censor and remove access to certain websites based on an ideological battle that attempts to crack down and censoring activities already perceived, or already are, by the law makers as being illegal.
This is not prohibition. Its increased enforcement of existing policy and law mixed with openings for potential abuse, a frightening precedent setting event thrown in a toboggan on a slippery slope.
If you were a true member of the FNCism you would know that John Stossel is the Patron bloody Saint of Investigative Journalism with James O'Keefe as High Bishop! You, sir, are a liberal commie spy sent by those wacky left wing internet loons to pollute our polls! You can't explain that!
Lord Neuberger has a case of "Think of the kids I want off my lawn!". It is a culture/generation war thing. If the UK wants to keep this super injunction law and impose it on their own domain, let them. I disagree with it, but it is their country and it is up to UK residents if this is a battle they want to fight or even feel needs to be fought.
I am beginning to take interest in this because these Super Injunctions are failing to take into account we live in a global world now. Pot calling the kettle black moment coming up, but this is a bunch of Brits trying to impose their law world wide because some sport stars misbehaved behind their wives' backs.
I'm dumbfounded how fast the threshold for attempting censorship on the International information flow* has gone from "National Security" > "Piracy" > "Some blokes embarrassed about what they did"
*By governments, and companies like Twitter seemingly complying.
I had over a thousands books in a personal library. Between moving to college, moving out, moving again, they were getting destroyed or left in my basement in totes all around the house where they once were proudly on my personal book shelf. I have some in the garage sitting for about two years now.
Kindle was the first time the medium felt satisfactory. I have a kindle and an iPad to get around the Matrix, but combined I am set for my book needs. No more replacing worn out books. No more complaints about having a house filled with heavy paper. Almost all my books donated to a fundraiser book sale for disabled people through arm twisting. Now I have two devices I can fit in my coat pocket that hold what once filled entire rooms.
I'll miss my books, but there is a time for practicality. My personal library was only created because my local one was a small rural thing that had to cater to the main s tream tastes of the area. The inter-library loan system, last I used it, took over a year to get the book I wanted to read.
As a non-programmer, which the test creators and proctors likely are as well, here is my train of thought:
1) Cool. Good solution. 2) Wait, that means we have to check every calculator. 3) There were ~100 students taking the SAT/ACT tests when I took them. About 20-30 students in my low level math courses in college. Decent time sink to have each student turn on the calculator, wait for the checksum, verify it, move to the next student. Waiting for students to turn off their calculators because there will always be some who jump the gun.
I had a TI, I loved the customization some could pull off. I just can't blame TI for wanting to perfect their device for their marketing niche. Still, couldn't TI just make a "Academia Certified" version with extra protection and their normal model for those who don't need it?
I have to be honest here. I've been monitoring my data use and I barely go above.269 gigs, or 275.13 mb, according to Verizon's tracking of my data. This is a heavy months so I might break.5 gigs. And you know what? Because I have a smartphone now Verizon is FORCING me to pay the $30 a month for unlimited data. With tiered pricing, *goes to read the article to see how much he'll save*... for frack's sake.
I'm tempted now to upgrade to a tethered plan while I am grandfathered in and downloading the entire net twice.
I went to Penn State. According to a few professors I attended claimed the school had, while I was there, ~2003-2007, had a policy where the plagiarism rules applied to plagiarizing yourself.
This reminds me of a decade or so ago when I still saw Mac software at my local Wal-mart. There was a news story back then about someone who picked up the Mac word processing suite of the day and was unable to return it as it was opened.
She, sadly it was a she, thought it contained a physical word processor, which is basically a typewriter with an LCD screen.
In a follow up she decided to join the digital age, and bought a windows based computer.
I've worked "tech support" while at college. What I am about to say may likely get me tared and feathered here on Slashdot, but I've seen the poor abuse Macs took from the average student.
God blessed the poor linux machines that sat useless because the login screens in the labs confused the non-geeks too much to use.
Windows is going to be around for quite some time.
In a science book I had as a kid, back in those all so distant mid-nineties, tried to reassure the reader that there was no need to wear helmets 24/7 because no human had ever been recorded to have been hit by a meteorite.
Keep in mind, this was after a doom, gloom and near "look at all the ways the world could end from an impact alone!" chapter, and even then I hoped the helmet part was bad attempt at a joke.
Of course, if this alleged meteorite fire is real this guy did technically die from the fire, not being hit by a meteorite.
Why do I get sudden flashes of anyone smiling at airports being given strip searches for security?
Well, if you are smiling or showing any other signs at an US airport with all the headaches that goes on there you probably do need a mental exam, but that is besides the point.
Yeah, I mean I never thought I would see the day that Rugrats could be considered child porn (naked Tommy episode), though I always knew Calvin and Hobbes would be banned somewhere.
Still, is even diapers just enough? I mean Baby Herman, is he child porn or just a dwarf in a diaper in that case?
This even now brings very disturbing implications to the Scourge/Donald family as pants are definitely seen in the Duck Tales universe.
It isn't about the editing. I'm a photojournalist, and there are ways around it.
It is that it was passed off, seemingly, of it being unedited.
Adding and removing stuff is a really finnicky subject in news circles that try to remain trustworthy. Heck, for setup shots I was taught back in school that it is sometimes best just to go for obviously staged.
The problem is we are now in an age where anyone can edit photos at a quality only the experts could back in the dark room days, and the experts of today can practically artificially create a "photo" from scratch.
Journalism is about trust. News only works if you trust it. Passing off photos like this and now telling the AP begs the question, can the Department of Defense be trusted to not edit the major photos?
'Cause if they do edit the major photos, then your readers aren't going to trust you. If you aren't trusted then you aren't being read/viewed.
Unless the DoD told the AP that this was edited, then the AP has every right to suspect the worst of the DoD. If they had, it could have been mentioned in the caption or the AP could have asked either for an original or reshot photo.
Sure, I'll likely get some "Fox Noise" sub-comments, but that only goes to highlight my point.
Those who watch FNC trust it or are in the field, and want/need to see what they are doing regardless because of their viewership.
How many non-journalists who call it "Fox Noise" actually watch it consistently?
How many die-hard, right wingers actually watch MSNBC?
Slashdot Mirror
I wrote it off as a tech pun on the Cloud.
Just write it off as a cover-up.
Decades of B-rate Sci-fi and comics tell us that by this time next month he's going to transform into a humanoid horn lizard wanting to take over the world, but will be stopped by the Amazing Daddy-Long-Legs. The "idle" is just the gov being genre savy to pre-emptively begin disavowing all knowledge.
Distiller grains, often overlooked, but is a byproduct of ethanol production.
The corn used for ethanol production is feed corn for animals. Not all of the corn is used to produce ethanol either, just the starch. The distiller grains can be used to feed livestock much like the used corn can. It can't completely fill all the dietary needs of the animals (how much depends on the species), but it isn't a zero sum choice between feeding the animals used to feed humans and having ethanol.
Unless you are a vegetarian and/or animal rights supporter who wants the ending of animal consumption. Then, I dunno, you could use it for compost? *shrugs*
He was an early adopter. When bitcoin value exploded what was little more than $20 worth of digital money exploded to $500,000. Effectively, he was exactly the type of person many expressed concerns about bring the real people who would benefit from bitcoins.
More and more I keep hearing "unfunded mandate" or "harsh deadline", but experience is translating it as "I waited till the last minute and now I'm screwed."
People buying nooks, over their kindle because then they can use B&Ns service and the Kindle service as well.
You need to look at it another way. The people doing these hacks are doing it for the lolz and a cheap tablet. All tablets I know of (IOS, Android, but I am not sure about the Windows and Blackberry tablets) already have the Kindle and BNB apps available. Little to no loss there.
Second, the Kindles are a loss leader from what I keep hearing from people I am going to assume did more research than I have into the matter. Amazon loses money from Kindles, but in selling a Kindle they know you are going to be giving them profit from books that should in time cancel out. At least in the free shipping they offer from time to time if nothing else.
These are people who are apparently hacking a rival's product to read Kindle books. Why should Amazon be mad at people who obviously like Kindle books enough to hack the Kindle App into something instead of buying a product designed to lock you into buying Kindle books?
This is actually pretty darn clever. Maybe I don't know of the prior art everyone and their brother knows, but colored me impressed by a company I no longer expected this from. Not just in realizing this could be done, but in the executives allowing it to reach market.
At this point Sony is a beached whale. Maybe there is some merit to security through obscurity, but now everyone knows Sony is wounded and has lack luster defenses. Heck, I'm wouldn't be surprised at this point if the vending machines at Sony buildings didn't give out free food/drinks when prompted.
At what point now does Sony get forcibly shut down? They are nearing the point they might as well hand out a random customer's identification, credit card number, address and phone number with every purchase from them. The information would still be leaking out slower if they TRIED to be intentionally malicious at this point.
I never thought I'd feel the need to link to this.... today Netflix, tomorrow everything?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I thought the rights were technically paid for, but they were licensed under a "Watchmen" like agreement that meant the rights did not revert back (requiring further payment and/or tweaks to the agreement) until the Daleks weren't used for one season. Whence why the Daleks appeared every season in the new series in at least on episode.
This isn't quite equatable to prohibition. Prohibition outlawed alcohol for consumption based on an ideological battle that left no legal alternatives for acquiring alcoholic drinks.
This is a move to censor and remove access to certain websites based on an ideological battle that attempts to crack down and censoring activities already perceived, or already are, by the law makers as being illegal.
This is not prohibition. Its increased enforcement of existing policy and law mixed with openings for potential abuse, a frightening precedent setting event thrown in a toboggan on a slippery slope.
Blasphemer!
If you were a true member of the FNCism you would know that John Stossel is the Patron bloody Saint of Investigative Journalism with James O'Keefe as High Bishop! You, sir, are a liberal commie spy sent by those wacky left wing internet loons to pollute our polls! You can't explain that!
Lord Neuberger has a case of "Think of the kids I want off my lawn!". It is a culture/generation war thing. If the UK wants to keep this super injunction law and impose it on their own domain, let them. I disagree with it, but it is their country and it is up to UK residents if this is a battle they want to fight or even feel needs to be fought.
I am beginning to take interest in this because these Super Injunctions are failing to take into account we live in a global world now. Pot calling the kettle black moment coming up, but this is a bunch of Brits trying to impose their law world wide because some sport stars misbehaved behind their wives' backs.
I'm dumbfounded how fast the threshold for attempting censorship on the International information flow* has gone from "National Security" > "Piracy" > "Some blokes embarrassed about what they did"
*By governments, and companies like Twitter seemingly complying.
Not about glowing screens.
I had over a thousands books in a personal library. Between moving to college, moving out, moving again, they were getting destroyed or left in my basement in totes all around the house where they once were proudly on my personal book shelf. I have some in the garage sitting for about two years now.
Kindle was the first time the medium felt satisfactory. I have a kindle and an iPad to get around the Matrix, but combined I am set for my book needs. No more replacing worn out books. No more complaints about having a house filled with heavy paper. Almost all my books donated to a fundraiser book sale for disabled people through arm twisting. Now I have two devices I can fit in my coat pocket that hold what once filled entire rooms.
I'll miss my books, but there is a time for practicality. My personal library was only created because my local one was a small rural thing that had to cater to the main s tream tastes of the area. The inter-library loan system, last I used it, took over a year to get the book I wanted to read.
As a non-programmer, which the test creators and proctors likely are as well, here is my train of thought:
1) Cool. Good solution.
2) Wait, that means we have to check every calculator.
3) There were ~100 students taking the SAT/ACT tests when I took them. About 20-30 students in my low level math courses in college. Decent time sink to have each student turn on the calculator, wait for the checksum, verify it, move to the next student. Waiting for students to turn off their calculators because there will always be some who jump the gun.
I had a TI, I loved the customization some could pull off. I just can't blame TI for wanting to perfect their device for their marketing niche. Still, couldn't TI just make a "Academia Certified" version with extra protection and their normal model for those who don't need it?
Many apps on the iPhone do so as well. The phone itself, no.
For some, yes, maybe, I don't know?
I have to be honest here. I've been monitoring my data use and I barely go above .269 gigs, or 275.13 mb, according to Verizon's tracking of my data. This is a heavy months so I might break .5 gigs. And you know what? Because I have a smartphone now Verizon is FORCING me to pay the $30 a month for unlimited data. With tiered pricing, *goes to read the article to see how much he'll save* ... for frack's sake.
I'm tempted now to upgrade to a tethered plan while I am grandfathered in and downloading the entire net twice.
I went to Penn State. According to a few professors I attended claimed the school had, while I was there, ~2003-2007, had a policy where the plagiarism rules applied to plagiarizing yourself.
This reminds me of a decade or so ago when I still saw Mac software at my local Wal-mart. There was a news story back then about someone who picked up the Mac word processing suite of the day and was unable to return it as it was opened.
She, sadly it was a she, thought it contained a physical word processor, which is basically a typewriter with an LCD screen.
In a follow up she decided to join the digital age, and bought a windows based computer.
I've worked "tech support" while at college. What I am about to say may likely get me tared and feathered here on Slashdot, but I've seen the poor abuse Macs took from the average student.
God blessed the poor linux machines that sat useless because the login screens in the labs confused the non-geeks too much to use.
Windows is going to be around for quite some time.
In a science book I had as a kid, back in those all so distant mid-nineties, tried to reassure the reader that there was no need to wear helmets 24/7 because no human had ever been recorded to have been hit by a meteorite.
Keep in mind, this was after a doom, gloom and near "look at all the ways the world could end from an impact alone!" chapter, and even then I hoped the helmet part was bad attempt at a joke.
Of course, if this alleged meteorite fire is real this guy did technically die from the fire, not being hit by a meteorite.
The precise angle rebuttal almost sounds like an Intelligence Design rebuttal to me.
It doesn't matter how unlikely "Orpheous" hitting the right angle was. It had to have happened to get the moon.
Though I see their motive in bringing it up if they can prove their hypothesis is much less reliant on the odds with equal evidence.
Be honest, raise your hand if the first thing you thought of when seeing that title was:
+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
Why do I get sudden flashes of anyone smiling at airports being given strip searches for security?
Well, if you are smiling or showing any other signs at an US airport with all the headaches that goes on there you probably do need a mental exam, but that is besides the point.
Yeah, I mean I never thought I would see the day that Rugrats could be considered child porn (naked Tommy episode), though I always knew Calvin and Hobbes would be banned somewhere.
Still, is even diapers just enough? I mean Baby Herman, is he child porn or just a dwarf in a diaper in that case?
This even now brings very disturbing implications to the Scourge/Donald family as pants are definitely seen in the Duck Tales universe.
It isn't about the editing. I'm a photojournalist, and there are ways around it. It is that it was passed off, seemingly, of it being unedited. Adding and removing stuff is a really finnicky subject in news circles that try to remain trustworthy. Heck, for setup shots I was taught back in school that it is sometimes best just to go for obviously staged. The problem is we are now in an age where anyone can edit photos at a quality only the experts could back in the dark room days, and the experts of today can practically artificially create a "photo" from scratch. Journalism is about trust. News only works if you trust it. Passing off photos like this and now telling the AP begs the question, can the Department of Defense be trusted to not edit the major photos? 'Cause if they do edit the major photos, then your readers aren't going to trust you. If you aren't trusted then you aren't being read/viewed. Unless the DoD told the AP that this was edited, then the AP has every right to suspect the worst of the DoD. If they had, it could have been mentioned in the caption or the AP could have asked either for an original or reshot photo. Sure, I'll likely get some "Fox Noise" sub-comments, but that only goes to highlight my point. Those who watch FNC trust it or are in the field, and want/need to see what they are doing regardless because of their viewership. How many non-journalists who call it "Fox Noise" actually watch it consistently? How many die-hard, right wingers actually watch MSNBC?