Also what happens if you have roommates that are roughly the same weight as you?
Just a thought (as a good slashdotter, I didn't actually read the article, so I'm just assuming they don't say anything about it), but I would suspect that different people sit differently. Some people sit up straight, some sprawl back, etc. I wonder if people's sitting positions could be tracked as well, in order to make a determination if weight is ambiguous.
I was expecting a lot of fat jokes and knee-jerk "this won't work" trolls on this story, but even I didn't expect anyone to work in "The Orwellian Connection." Congrats.
In 47 years, the robot overlords will be forever breeding young, strong human slaves. Methodical disposal of worn-out workers will happen far earlier than the age of 70.
The "Atkins Diet" is quite dangerous, in fact, as proven by no less than a hundred studies out there on the web.
Not to say that you're wrong, but I don't think that pointing out info "on the web" is exactly equivalent to proof. After all, the web is home to Slashdot.
If the average Slashdotter sat down with the average politician, and each spoke about political issues, the Slashdotter would educate the politician on computer issues,
Yeah, right. The average slashdotter would claim superior knowledge of every aspect of politics, and then call the politician a right-wing Bush-loving freedom-hating corporate whore if the politician disagreed on any point.
That's sort of bizarre. (On the flip side, my bittorrent download speeds usually max out my cable connection the whole time.) Have you tried capping your upstream to something reasonable?
You grab a MD5 sum from a trusted source, so you can verify that the file hasn't been tampered with.
But like another poster said, P2P isn't great for low-demand things like most software. Right after release, it works well (and we've already got that covered with Bittorrent), but I can't see it being useful after that first window.
If it's obvious, why moderate it up? We get enough +5 slashdrones (Just look at the number of "RIAA SUCKS!" "MICROSOFT SUCKS!" "AMERICA SUCKS!" posts that go instantly to +5 in most stories. How is repeating something over and over informative or insightful?) We don't need a way to have more useless crap at high moderation levels.
A little more difficult, yes, although not too much so (with the exception of the final battle; if I remember correctly, that took me several tries.) I've pretty much played all of the FF games straight through, without fighting anything I didn't have to, and only occasionally does that cause any problems.
As I see it, none of the FF games have particularly good gameplay, but a halfway decent storyline makes them fun to play. FF8, however, had worse-than-average gameplay and an uninspired plotline.
Of course, maybe it says something about me that I found a free thirty hours to actually play the thing through anyway.
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For this, subscribing to slashdot might almost be worthwhile.
This is th equivalent of saying. If your house gets robbed and you didn't have an alarm system, it's your fault.
No, it's not. That's a completely irrelevant metaphor. A poor metaphor is the crutch of a weak argument.
The reason why your argument falls apart is because people are not being punished for uninformed behaviour, just irresponsible behavior. Someone who's not aware of the need to patch should not be held accountable. Someone who blatantly ignores policies on patching their system will be held responsible. This is well-established legally, and is not specific to computer security; if you knowingly endanger other people's health or property, even if your actions would otherwise be legal, you will bear some or all of the blame.
There's plenty of blame to go around; claiming that the users aren't at least partially at fault is nonsense.
No; due to the confusion, some people have proposed new prefixes for base 2. We won't know "that's how it is" unless it sees widespread adoption (which it certainly hasn't yet.)
BTW, I agree with your analysis. The only thing that made it tolerable was the ability to get rid of random battles completely after about the first 1/4 of the game. I would have quit long before the end if I actually had to fight anything more than the bosses.
You just download a copy of pi with your "filesharing" program.
The cool part about this is that you will then have a copy of every song ever written already available on your computer. All you need is somebody to tell you where it is...
Not me. What do you people see in Ender's Game? All I see is paper-thin, cliched characters; predictable story ideas recycled throughout the history of SF; and plot "twists" without any believability.
I'm convinced that the sole reason why so many people seem to like his work is because they have fond memories of reading it in junior high. To a kid, this stuff is fun, but it's hardly good literature.
Spider Robinson's article was about science fiction, not specifically about books or writing (although that was the point he focused on.) TV and movies are completely relevant; he was addressing science fiction in all its forms.
I will admit, though, that Enterprise isn't really science fiction. Some of the other Star Trek series/movies were, but Enterprise is a completely lost cause.
It's not like any of us are going to be able to see these videos. Maybe slashdot should have an option to block stories that link to useless multimedia (until Taco extracts his head from his rear and sets up a/. bittorrent server.)
Flash itself isn't evil, but because of its usage, it makes dozens of sites useless. It's certainly fair to say that the web becomes less useful because of the use of Flash.
I simply refuse to install the plugin. The few sites where it might be appropriate are completely outweighed by the hundreds that use it inappropriately.
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"Honey, I'm sorry but I'm leaving you for Mandingo. I hope you and your couch have a happy life together YOU LAZY SONOFABITCH!!"
Who cares? What with providing entertainment and getting food for you, it seems that a wife would be redundant.
Also what happens if you have roommates that are roughly the same weight as you?
Just a thought (as a good slashdotter, I didn't actually read the article, so I'm just assuming they don't say anything about it), but I would suspect that different people sit differently. Some people sit up straight, some sprawl back, etc. I wonder if people's sitting positions could be tracked as well, in order to make a determination if weight is ambiguous.
I was expecting a lot of fat jokes and knee-jerk "this won't work" trolls on this story, but even I didn't expect anyone to work in "The Orwellian Connection." Congrats.
...and a script apparently adapted from a group of six-year-old boys playing Jedi Knights in their back yard.
Not only that; Lucas cut out all the interesting parts.
In 47 years, the robot overlords will be forever breeding young, strong human slaves. Methodical disposal of worn-out workers will happen far earlier than the age of 70.
The "Atkins Diet" is quite dangerous, in fact, as proven by no less than a hundred studies out there on the web.
Not to say that you're wrong, but I don't think that pointing out info "on the web" is exactly equivalent to proof. After all, the web is home to Slashdot.
If the average Slashdotter sat down with the average politician, and each spoke about political issues, the Slashdotter would educate the politician on computer issues,
Yeah, right. The average slashdotter would claim superior knowledge of every aspect of politics, and then call the politician a right-wing Bush-loving freedom-hating corporate whore if the politician disagreed on any point.
That's sort of bizarre. (On the flip side, my bittorrent download speeds usually max out my cable connection the whole time.) Have you tried capping your upstream to something reasonable?
You grab a MD5 sum from a trusted source, so you can verify that the file hasn't been tampered with.
But like another poster said, P2P isn't great for low-demand things like most software. Right after release, it works well (and we've already got that covered with Bittorrent), but I can't see it being useful after that first window.
If it's obvious, why moderate it up? We get enough +5 slashdrones (Just look at the number of "RIAA SUCKS!" "MICROSOFT SUCKS!" "AMERICA SUCKS!" posts that go instantly to +5 in most stories. How is repeating something over and over informative or insightful?) We don't need a way to have more useless crap at high moderation levels.
A little more difficult, yes, although not too much so (with the exception of the final battle; if I remember correctly, that took me several tries.) I've pretty much played all of the FF games straight through, without fighting anything I didn't have to, and only occasionally does that cause any problems.
As I see it, none of the FF games have particularly good gameplay, but a halfway decent storyline makes them fun to play. FF8, however, had worse-than-average gameplay and an uninspired plotline.
Of course, maybe it says something about me that I found a free thirty hours to actually play the thing through anyway.
For this, subscribing to slashdot might almost be worthwhile.
This is th equivalent of saying. If your house gets robbed and you didn't have an alarm system, it's your fault.
No, it's not. That's a completely irrelevant metaphor. A poor metaphor is the crutch of a weak argument.
The reason why your argument falls apart is because people are not being punished for uninformed behaviour, just irresponsible behavior. Someone who's not aware of the need to patch should not be held accountable. Someone who blatantly ignores policies on patching their system will be held responsible. This is well-established legally, and is not specific to computer security; if you knowingly endanger other people's health or property, even if your actions would otherwise be legal, you will bear some or all of the blame.
There's plenty of blame to go around; claiming that the users aren't at least partially at fault is nonsense.
No; due to the confusion, some people have proposed new prefixes for base 2. We won't know "that's how it is" unless it sees widespread adoption (which it certainly hasn't yet.)
Don't be silly. It's only racism if you do it to colored people. Otherwise, we call it "diversity."
FF 13? Great, where can I get a copy?
BTW, I agree with your analysis. The only thing that made it tolerable was the ability to get rid of random battles completely after about the first 1/4 of the game. I would have quit long before the end if I actually had to fight anything more than the bosses.
You just download a copy of pi with your "filesharing" program.
The cool part about this is that you will then have a copy of every song ever written already available on your computer. All you need is somebody to tell you where it is...
Nah; everybody knows that moderators don't bother reading an entire post before moderating it.
Not me. What do you people see in Ender's Game? All I see is paper-thin, cliched characters; predictable story ideas recycled throughout the history of SF; and plot "twists" without any believability.
I'm convinced that the sole reason why so many people seem to like his work is because they have fond memories of reading it in junior high. To a kid, this stuff is fun, but it's hardly good literature.
Right, 'cause all the bad spellers on /. are Microsoft junkies.
Spider Robinson's article was about science fiction, not specifically about books or writing (although that was the point he focused on.) TV and movies are completely relevant; he was addressing science fiction in all its forms.
I will admit, though, that Enterprise isn't really science fiction. Some of the other Star Trek series/movies were, but Enterprise is a completely lost cause.
No, it's just that this article was more interesting than the original.
They're not getting fined for deficiencies in software. They're getting fined for irresponsible behavior. What's wrong with that?
It's not like any of us are going to be able to see these videos. Maybe slashdot should have an option to block stories that link to useless multimedia (until Taco extracts his head from his rear and sets up a /. bittorrent server.)
Flash itself isn't evil, but because of its usage, it makes dozens of sites useless. It's certainly fair to say that the web becomes less useful because of the use of Flash.
I simply refuse to install the plugin. The few sites where it might be appropriate are completely outweighed by the hundreds that use it inappropriately.