First off, really? Nazis are what your brain goes to immediately when hearing about a medical breakthrough?
Moreover, in case there was a kernel of real concern behind your trolling, please, name for me a single powerful technology which could NOT be abused at the hands of boogie men?
"Computers! A NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME might use them to SORT PEOPLE based on racial profiling algorithms!!!!"
"Cheap clean energy might be used by A NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME to exterminate people!"
"Ink and parchment might be used by A NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME to write mean stuff against me!!!
Grow up and stop being paranoid. If we allow -nazis- of all things to gain power again, then we've monumentally fucked up in maintaining our democracy. The price tag on DNA sequencing someone's genome is not going to affect that.
After he basically said "Yeah LOL go fuck yourself" over the pot petition all should know you'd get more results by writing it on a piece of paper and promptly burning it
Why did Obama not legalize pot? Better question: with 74% of the nation having smoked at one point, and a majority saying pot should be legalized, why hasn't EVERY politician jumped on board with legalization? Answer: because people saying it should be legalized don't translate that into voting. Don't blame Obama, blame yourselves.
In this specific case it is: it's a photo sharing service. I seem to recall that you COULDN'T upload through safari from your iphone or ipad's photo library. I'm not sure about the app.
Displaying photos is where flickr really falls down. Last time I checked, there was an iphone app but no ipad app. This means that for un-jailbroken ipads, the thing is showing 3GS resolution just bigger. It looks terrible. Flickr in safari on ipad displays alright, but there seems to be no queuing of the next pictures, so you swipe forward and then wait for the next one to load. Even with safari, it didn't seem to be displaying the full resolution of the new ipad. And flickr's web interface on safari or app didn't seem to be set up to allow cloud syncing. You could download individual photos by clicking a few options under the menu, but you can't say "Download this set or these photos I tapped." They seem to be completely ignoring the mobile segment.
Putting photos on the ipad via itunes is so annoying. It constantly seems to want to erase any photos that aren't also on my computer. Flickr could easily be the best way to do it for me (paid subscriber), but it's not, to the point that I'm thinking about jumping ship.
How is one supposed to shop for a graphics card in a laptop? From my experience 2 years ago, it seems that if you don't make your own desktop, pick out a graphics card from a spreadsheet, and order it from newegg, it could be a real lemon. The other suggestion I've heard is price: spend enough and you'll get a decent laptop. Is one supposed to look at a benchmark list to see what graphics cards are decent?
Every feature I've grown to love in opera has been an add on in firefox. It's not the same and feels wrong, but it's there. Conversely, there is nothing analagous to noscript last time I checked, and random web pages don't work in opera that work in firefox. The latter is probably something I could fix if I felt so inclined, but I don't. Being able to easily enable specific javascripts while disabling them by default however, how on earth hasn't that been an option for opera already? They do everything else so smoothly.
I object to the notion that pointless identification by the state like iris prints for immigration only fucks over a tiny percentage of the population. The loss of privacy is a bigger concern for me, and I've never had iris scans, to my knowledge.
I wonder if government splitting up the companies that make the duopoly would improve things for the consumers. Seems to me that government intervention in economics is only worse than the free market when there actually IS true competition.
Thank you for explaining in unnecessary detail the moderation system I've been using for several years now. My question had nothing to do with hiding, I'm talking about reordering THREADS. Chronological only, rather than threads moved up and down by scores of the children comments, makes the "frist post" and shills like "Mr. Kalz" disruptive to the discussion. Instead, threads with more +5 comments in the responses should be moved to the top.
"Yes, your honor, I killed that guy BUT there were like 30 other people who were trying to kill him! You think it would have been any different had I not been the one to pull the trigger? Ha ha, u mad bro? Okay, so I'm free to go now, right?"
Whether Obama acted differently from McCain, Bush, or anyone else doesn't matter. I voted for the guy and still like him enough to vote for him again. But he DID sell us out. Doesn't matter that a bunch of other people would have too.
But the current average lifespan is not reflective of future medical breakthroughs. If we make replacement hearts, livers, and kidneys in the next 10 years from induced pluripotent stem cells, that will really boost that number up quite significantly. Possibly it will extend our lives until we learn how to replace neurons with circuitry. Maybe we'll live that long naturally anyway.
The far future is wide open with possibilities, who is to say we can't achieve virtual immortality in our lifetimes? I mean, I'm not betting on it, but ruling it out entirely?
I too was wondering what it's for. From the link: "Yahoo! Axis offers a faster, smarter search with instant answers and visual search previews."
... why do I need a new BROWSER for that? Google image search takes one extra tap. And the search engine in question is of course yahoo. I made the switch away from Yahoo a long time ago for better search engines. Don't really see a reason to go back: google is working fine. Is Yahoo going to respect my privacy more than google is? Because that's the one reason I could see for switching, but if they're not saying that to begin with...
There is nothing else on the site save two ads. Anyone have a list of features this thing is supposed to have?
Is there a reason slashdot is sticking with the "first comment made is the one at the top" still? They can't figure out how to sort threads by top rated contents?
Seriously, blaming this on one administration, one congress, or one party is utterly ignorant
I don't think he was saying democrats or Obama are worse than the other possible candidates. I voted for Obama last time, in the primaries too, and I'm voting for him again this time in all likelihood, but he DID do the things GP described. He WAS pretty clearly going along with the MAFIAA. He's not a saint, obviously, he is still a politician, and most of the time will go with what's going to keep him in power. That looked like not picking a fight with the MAFIAA. The type of people who fight the good fight no matter what, whether money and voter apathy is against them or not, they tend to get burned out far before they make it to the presidency.
I think the point mozumder was trying to make is that a lot of basic research is funded by government grants. Corporations are very happy to throw money at a discovery that seems likely to produce more money immediately, but are generally loath to spend money on discoveries that are not directly something they can sell.
An example Carl Sagan brought up is Maxwell's equations on electromagnetic fields. Extremely important to radar, television, cell phones, and a million other major technologies today. His equations are fundamental to trillions and trillions of dollars in profits today. But the equations themselves are just knowledge and wouldn't turn a profit directly. In today's climate, Maxwell would be funded by grants from the government, corporations would be unlikely to fund him.
This is my major problem with people championing state's rights: every state legislature I've lived under has done its best to make the national legislature look like brilliant geniuses.
This might change if power were restored to states, local elections took on more significance, and people actually started voting in them, but in the meantime, we'd get TERRIBLE people making even bigger fuckups than they are now.
I thoight it was clear that I meant the MPAA doing silly stunts like this doesnt bother me. The fouryh amendment of course does not protect against private organzations who may gather information on you. And, they invited the agent in. Would this be a violation even if it were the government?
Can't prove a negative like that. Will this corn cause cancer? We have no reason to think so. There's no massive increqse in any known carcinogen. Scientists are the first ones to admit we dont know for sure, and initially we had no reason to think that smoking did either (long, LONG ago anyway), so you do tests. Do you drop dead immediately? No. What about develop cancer a yeqr out? Well, eat it for a year and test. No, that doesnt increase the cancer risks. 5 years? At this point, the corn has probably had 5 years of testing. Unless there's a big cover up, and we have no indication there is, it seems not. 90 years out? Don't know. Do you stop the sale of all new foods for 90 years? Where is the cutoff?
I'd argue that were it merely a delay, that would be okay. The MPAA buying laws to enact censorship, THAT's what I object to. Stop trying to erode my rights and I'll stop sharing their goods. Until then I have no qualms about doing my small part to hurt them.
They're also re-writing the laws with their checkbooks, implementing censorship to protect an obsolete business model. Whacky spy shit does not trouble me. Taking away our rights is, morally, rock bottom.
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First off, really? Nazis are what your brain goes to immediately when hearing about a medical breakthrough?
Moreover, in case there was a kernel of real concern behind your trolling, please, name for me a single powerful technology which could NOT be abused at the hands of boogie men?
"Computers! A NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME might use them to SORT PEOPLE based on racial profiling algorithms!!!!"
"Cheap clean energy might be used by A NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME to exterminate people!"
"Ink and parchment might be used by A NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME to write mean stuff against me!!!
Grow up and stop being paranoid. If we allow -nazis- of all things to gain power again, then we've monumentally fucked up in maintaining our democracy. The price tag on DNA sequencing someone's genome is not going to affect that.
After he basically said "Yeah LOL go fuck yourself" over the pot petition all should know you'd get more results by writing it on a piece of paper and promptly burning it
That's simplistic. The petition was clearly never going to get wedge issues passed, the petition system was first and foremost an attempt to get the internet generation to ACTUALLY FUCKING VOTE. A distant second goal was maybe to bring new ideas to light.
Why did Obama not legalize pot? Better question: with 74% of the nation having smoked at one point, and a majority saying pot should be legalized, why hasn't EVERY politician jumped on board with legalization? Answer: because people saying it should be legalized don't translate that into voting. Don't blame Obama, blame yourselves.
In this specific case it is: it's a photo sharing service. I seem to recall that you COULDN'T upload through safari from your iphone or ipad's photo library. I'm not sure about the app.
Displaying photos is where flickr really falls down. Last time I checked, there was an iphone app but no ipad app. This means that for un-jailbroken ipads, the thing is showing 3GS resolution just bigger. It looks terrible. Flickr in safari on ipad displays alright, but there seems to be no queuing of the next pictures, so you swipe forward and then wait for the next one to load. Even with safari, it didn't seem to be displaying the full resolution of the new ipad. And flickr's web interface on safari or app didn't seem to be set up to allow cloud syncing. You could download individual photos by clicking a few options under the menu, but you can't say "Download this set or these photos I tapped." They seem to be completely ignoring the mobile segment.
Putting photos on the ipad via itunes is so annoying. It constantly seems to want to erase any photos that aren't also on my computer. Flickr could easily be the best way to do it for me (paid subscriber), but it's not, to the point that I'm thinking about jumping ship.
How is one supposed to shop for a graphics card in a laptop? From my experience 2 years ago, it seems that if you don't make your own desktop, pick out a graphics card from a spreadsheet, and order it from newegg, it could be a real lemon. The other suggestion I've heard is price: spend enough and you'll get a decent laptop. Is one supposed to look at a benchmark list to see what graphics cards are decent?
Every feature I've grown to love in opera has been an add on in firefox. It's not the same and feels wrong, but it's there. Conversely, there is nothing analagous to noscript last time I checked, and random web pages don't work in opera that work in firefox. The latter is probably something I could fix if I felt so inclined, but I don't. Being able to easily enable specific javascripts while disabling them by default however, how on earth hasn't that been an option for opera already? They do everything else so smoothly.
NOOOO! My internet browser hipster cred! I won't be able to tell people I use a browser they've probably never heard of!
I object to the notion that pointless identification by the state like iris prints for immigration only fucks over a tiny percentage of the population. The loss of privacy is a bigger concern for me, and I've never had iris scans, to my knowledge.
Oddly enough, Onan wasn't even masturbating. He just did the pull-and-pray method with his brother's wife, which was bad apparently.
If GM food is awesome, then why aren't they proud enough to slap a big 'ol label on it and say so?
To play devil's advocate, something being better and consumers recognizing it as better are two different things.
I wonder if government splitting up the companies that make the duopoly would improve things for the consumers. Seems to me that government intervention in economics is only worse than the free market when there actually IS true competition.
Thank you for explaining in unnecessary detail the moderation system I've been using for several years now. My question had nothing to do with hiding, I'm talking about reordering THREADS. Chronological only, rather than threads moved up and down by scores of the children comments, makes the "frist post" and shills like "Mr. Kalz" disruptive to the discussion. Instead, threads with more +5 comments in the responses should be moved to the top.
"Yes, your honor, I killed that guy BUT there were like 30 other people who were trying to kill him! You think it would have been any different had I not been the one to pull the trigger? Ha ha, u mad bro? Okay, so I'm free to go now, right?"
Whether Obama acted differently from McCain, Bush, or anyone else doesn't matter. I voted for the guy and still like him enough to vote for him again. But he DID sell us out. Doesn't matter that a bunch of other people would have too.
But the current average lifespan is not reflective of future medical breakthroughs. If we make replacement hearts, livers, and kidneys in the next 10 years from induced pluripotent stem cells, that will really boost that number up quite significantly. Possibly it will extend our lives until we learn how to replace neurons with circuitry. Maybe we'll live that long naturally anyway.
The far future is wide open with possibilities, who is to say we can't achieve virtual immortality in our lifetimes? I mean, I'm not betting on it, but ruling it out entirely?
Wrong forum: write to your legislators that you want the NIH to receive more funding for research.
I too was wondering what it's for. From the link: "Yahoo! Axis offers a faster, smarter search with instant answers and visual search previews."
... why do I need a new BROWSER for that? Google image search takes one extra tap. And the search engine in question is of course yahoo. I made the switch away from Yahoo a long time ago for better search engines. Don't really see a reason to go back: google is working fine. Is Yahoo going to respect my privacy more than google is? Because that's the one reason I could see for switching, but if they're not saying that to begin with...
There is nothing else on the site save two ads. Anyone have a list of features this thing is supposed to have?
Is there a reason slashdot is sticking with the "first comment made is the one at the top" still? They can't figure out how to sort threads by top rated contents?
Negative commission? So you would have had to pay to sell those items? How in the holy hell did that happen?
Retail management is no one's first choice.
Seriously, blaming this on one administration, one congress, or one party is utterly ignorant
I don't think he was saying democrats or Obama are worse than the other possible candidates. I voted for Obama last time, in the primaries too, and I'm voting for him again this time in all likelihood, but he DID do the things GP described. He WAS pretty clearly going along with the MAFIAA. He's not a saint, obviously, he is still a politician, and most of the time will go with what's going to keep him in power. That looked like not picking a fight with the MAFIAA. The type of people who fight the good fight no matter what, whether money and voter apathy is against them or not, they tend to get burned out far before they make it to the presidency.
I think the point mozumder was trying to make is that a lot of basic research is funded by government grants. Corporations are very happy to throw money at a discovery that seems likely to produce more money immediately, but are generally loath to spend money on discoveries that are not directly something they can sell.
An example Carl Sagan brought up is Maxwell's equations on electromagnetic fields. Extremely important to radar, television, cell phones, and a million other major technologies today. His equations are fundamental to trillions and trillions of dollars in profits today. But the equations themselves are just knowledge and wouldn't turn a profit directly. In today's climate, Maxwell would be funded by grants from the government, corporations would be unlikely to fund him.
This is my major problem with people championing state's rights: every state legislature I've lived under has done its best to make the national legislature look like brilliant geniuses.
This might change if power were restored to states, local elections took on more significance, and people actually started voting in them, but in the meantime, we'd get TERRIBLE people making even bigger fuckups than they are now.
I thoight it was clear that I meant the MPAA doing silly stunts like this doesnt bother me. The fouryh amendment of course does not protect against private organzations who may gather information on you. And, they invited the agent in. Would this be a violation even if it were the government?
Can't prove a negative like that. Will this corn cause cancer? We have no reason to think so. There's no massive increqse in any known carcinogen. Scientists are the first ones to admit we dont know for sure, and initially we had no reason to think that smoking did either (long, LONG ago anyway), so you do tests. Do you drop dead immediately? No. What about develop cancer a yeqr out? Well, eat it for a year and test. No, that doesnt increase the cancer risks. 5 years? At this point, the corn has probably had 5 years of testing. Unless there's a big cover up, and we have no indication there is, it seems not. 90 years out? Don't know. Do you stop the sale of all new foods for 90 years? Where is the cutoff?
I'd argue that were it merely a delay, that would be okay. The MPAA buying laws to enact censorship, THAT's what I object to. Stop trying to erode my rights and I'll stop sharing their goods. Until then I have no qualms about doing my small part to hurt them.
They're also re-writing the laws with their checkbooks, implementing censorship to protect an obsolete business model. Whacky spy shit does not trouble me. Taking away our rights is, morally, rock bottom.