Idiomatic expressions like "First Base" are unfortunate for international readers. Oh, wait, I forgot we don't actually have editors. I'll retract my criticism.
Wait a second.. Summary says: "The Dutch Pirate Party (PPNL) just won a court-case against BREIN" Article says: ".. a temporary court order has been issued. As of now, with the trial pending, the Pirate Party can continue to operate the proxy site."
So the court-case is not won at all and the summary is wrong?
"Democracy is 51% telling the other 49% what to do." You are among the many who have not understood what democracy is. It's not the power of the majority, a democratic organization tries to determine how the distribution of opinions is amongst voters. If 30% are not supporting the issue, steps are being taken to try to make these 30% also "a bit" happy.
I've actually spent quite some money recently on games produced by EA and Ubisoft. When I learnt about the bad behaviour of the Ubisoft activation scheme, I stopped playing the game immediately and reinstalled my workstation to clean up. Shortly afterwards I wanted to sell an EA game and got told on the hotline that there is no way I can transfer the activation key to another Origin account (Steam à la EA, with lots of privacy issues). I told them they have just lost a customer who paid lots and lots of money for their games. Because of the privacy issues I again reinstalled my system and I will not buy games from large producers anymore. I will either choose DRM free indie games, or... well you know what the other option is. Video game industry, you can thank EA and Ubisoft for not getting any money from me anymore.
Watching planet earth from outer space will be fascinating for an hour and the fascination will be renewed whenever lighting chances or any other circumstances lead to a new view. However, staring 8 hours at a blue ball will not be fascinating enough. Maybe for a Zen buddhist, yes, but not for scientists/astronaut hybrids.
How on earth should an algorithm know how to infer the symbolic value of the flag rising image?! As far as I understand the Pulitzer Prize is not about artistic and aesthetic value, but rather about journalistic impact, isn't it?
Wow, I'm impressed: Clicking the link to this mighty "Stupid Fun Club" results in a "This page needs Flash 10" popup and I get redirected to the Adobe website. Wow, just wow...
You forget that the human brain would need to evolve or be changed radically to adapt to this vast travel durations. We're programmed to think in terms of seconds, minutes and hours. We stop having clear concepts of time already at days..
Congratulations to the Easy Peasy project (http://www.geteasypeasy.com/).:-/
The distro has been called Ubuntu EEE before they were contacted by Canonical requesting them to change the name. Their suggestion was "Ubuntu for EEE" or something along the lines. But the maintainer of Ubuntu EEE thought it would be nice to call the distro "Easy Peasy" a completely unrelated, silly name that noone will ever recognize as an operating system. This Slashdot question is a symptom of this very bad choice of project name.
I am a young male unmarried software engineer who likes to explore other countries and cultures and is willing to pay good money for it, but I have removed the US from my list of "countries to visit" a few years ago and this probably won't change so soon.
Actually you have to switch off the "Use Beta" checkbox that is in the "Index" preferences. I did not find it quickly, but it certainly pays off. The old school Slashdot homepage will greet you in the morning!
Slashdot folks, what the fuck do you think you are doing?! If you will ever remove classic mode I will personally travel to the states and punch you in the nuts!
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Idiomatic expressions like "First Base" are unfortunate for international readers. Oh, wait, I forgot we don't actually have editors. I'll retract my criticism.
No, not at all. It was 97 km. The article is titled "Teleporting independent qubits through a 97 km free-space channel".
Wait a second..
Summary says: "The Dutch Pirate Party (PPNL) just won a court-case against BREIN"
Article says: ".. a temporary court order has been issued. As of now, with the trial pending, the Pirate Party can continue to operate the proxy site."
So the court-case is not won at all and the summary is wrong?
"Democracy is 51% telling the other 49% what to do."
You are among the many who have not understood what democracy is. It's not the power of the majority, a democratic organization tries to determine how the distribution of opinions is amongst voters. If 30% are not supporting the issue, steps are being taken to try to make these 30% also "a bit" happy.
Cool, now we are all waiting for the first Black Female Linux Team Leader?
What is also quite impressive are the protests planned by Pirate Parties and others in numerous cities all over Europe (+ some other continents). Many events are to be held this Saturday, February 11st. The map looks absolutely breath-taking:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212120558776447282985.0004b7b33e16f13c710c7&msa=0
Wow..
1) Install a Quake-like terminal like Yakuake, Guake or Tilda
2) Press the configured hot-key
3) Type in cat file.txt | mail "user@host.tld"
I've actually spent quite some money recently on games produced by EA and Ubisoft. When I learnt about the bad behaviour of the Ubisoft activation scheme, I stopped playing the game immediately and reinstalled my workstation to clean up. Shortly afterwards I wanted to sell an EA game and got told on the hotline that there is no way I can transfer the activation key to another Origin account (Steam à la EA, with lots of privacy issues). I told them they have just lost a customer who paid lots and lots of money for their games. Because of the privacy issues I again reinstalled my system and I will not buy games from large producers anymore. I will either choose DRM free indie games, or ... well you know what the other option is.
Video game industry, you can thank EA and Ubisoft for not getting any money from me anymore.
:-)
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=nerd
Watching planet earth from outer space will be fascinating for an hour and the fascination will be renewed whenever lighting chances or any other circumstances lead to a new view. However, staring 8 hours at a blue ball will not be fascinating enough.
Maybe for a Zen buddhist, yes, but not for scientists/astronaut hybrids.
How on earth should an algorithm know how to infer the symbolic value of the flag rising image?! As far as I understand the Pulitzer Prize is not about artistic and aesthetic value, but rather about journalistic impact, isn't it?
This is at least a start:
http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/sites.html
A list of sites using NetBSD...
Hip implants, pacemakers, piercings, screws, RFID chips (pets), etc. :-)
It's not like objects have never ever been placed underneath the skin
Wow, I'm impressed: Clicking the link to this mighty "Stupid Fun Club" results in a "This page needs Flash 10" popup and I get redirected to the Adobe website. Wow, just wow...
You forget that the human brain would need to evolve or be changed radically to adapt to this vast travel durations. We're programmed to think in terms of seconds, minutes and hours. We stop having clear concepts of time already at days..
Congratulations to the Easy Peasy project (http://www.geteasypeasy.com/). :-/
The distro has been called Ubuntu EEE before they were contacted by Canonical requesting them to change the name. Their suggestion was "Ubuntu for EEE" or something along the lines. But the maintainer of Ubuntu EEE thought it would be nice to call the distro "Easy Peasy" a completely unrelated, silly name that noone will ever recognize as an operating system.
This Slashdot question is a symptom of this very bad choice of project name.
Jesus, who the fuck cares? I do not live in the USA and I don't give a fucking shit! I'm not trolling, but this is just not news!
I am a young male unmarried software engineer who likes to explore other countries and cultures and is willing to pay good money for it, but I have removed the US from my list of "countries to visit" a few years ago and this probably won't change so soon.
Wow, a link to the print-version of the Times article! For a change, I'd like to thank the submitter or editor for their effort!
You might want to help extending this question Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371463/is-there-an-alternative-to-the-slashdot-news-site
Actually you have to switch off the "Use Beta" checkbox that is in the "Index" preferences. I did not find it quickly, but it certainly pays off. The old school Slashdot homepage will greet you in the morning!
Slashdot folks, what the fuck do you think you are doing?! If you will ever remove classic mode I will personally travel to the states and punch you in the nuts!
Looks like Australia will soon found the AFSA, the Australian Fucking Space Agency!
This has been known for a long time now and is certainly not newsworthy. Wasting my time has never been more wasteful, thanks Slashdot!
I wonder why such FAQs are still posted on a site like Slashdot. We now have a great repository for exactly this kind of questions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=regex&sort=votes&pagesize=15
What the bloody hell? If such trolls are voted "Interesting" on Slashdot, one really loses hope for America...