> You'd think there would be some kind of a filter to prevent stuff like this from happening.
That's a pretty good idea, actually. I mean, we're never going to get something like actual human editors who could actually inspect the articles before they were posted, so some sort of automated solution to cull out the obvious crap would be a good first step.
I am not talking about 18 year olds that have sex with their 17 year old girlfriends, I am talking the 30 year olds having sex with 13 year olds, 40 year olds that rape 8 year olds, and so on.
The main problem with the currently-fashionable "sex offender registries" is that they do not discriminate. As you have shown, we realize there is a continuum: 18 vs. 17 yro statutory cases are at one end, and serial pedophiles are on the other end. But laws like the one just passed here in California this November stamp them all with the big "Pervert" stamp.
It is ridiculous to make a law saying that a 45 year old man, for instance, who was convicted more than two decades ago of having consensual sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, cannot live within a half-mile of an elementary school. And if that man doesn't re-register EVERY YEAR within one week of his birthday, or within one week of a move, a WARRANT goes out for his arrest, and it's a FELONY!
No, I'm not a 45 year old sex offender. I just think we need to be a bit more granular. If he's a serial pedophile, lock him in a treatment program. If he had the wrong kind of sex as a teenager 20 years ago, and has paid his restitution to society, let him go. And don't keep hassling him with punitive registries and requirements that weren't even laws when the crime was committed!
I don't know how much this legal action has cost them, but it's gotten Kinderstart more recognition their Google PageRank ever did, even when it was healty. There's no such thing as bad publicity, which this whole debacle has gotten them in spades.
But, of course, if you don't offer a quality good or service, mere publicity won't result in lasting traffic and revenue. And since Kinderstart is nothing but a linkfarm, I don't think they'll benefit much in the long run. A Slashmob isn't really their demographic, anyway.
That's an open question. If you're broadcasting signals, what right do you have to tell me that I can't receive them?
That is the most interesting question. The position I like the best is articulated as follows:
"If it passes through my body, I have the right to listen to it"
True, Wi-Fi use involved both listening and replying. But the public airwaves are just that, public! The FCC is supposed to regulate them for the common good. Anytime electromagnetic waves are passing through my body, and I am told I can neither stop them or listen to them, it seems to me there is a breach of natural rights.
The first thing that sprang to mind when I saw that picture is what it will look like on the front page of the newspaper when the Columbia floods one of these years.
I know there are benefits of being close (hydroelectric power) or even very close (water cooling) to the river, but do those outweight the risk of said river overflowing into your main server farm?
The Columbia is one of the most dammed rivers in the West, so I'm sure there will be those of you who reply that "It would never overflow there." But what are the worst-case scenarios that are being considered? Do they get as crazy as Bruce Sterling's "Heavy Weather?" (Though I guess if that comes about, you've got bigger problems than not being able to search Google...)
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In mentioning the attractiveness of Ms. Newitz, Slashdot isn't really breaking any ground here. She was named one of the top ten sexiest geeks of 2005 by multimediatrix and sex educator Violet Blue.
I'm sure she is lurking here and taking it all in stride. An accomplished journalist, she writes about techno-sexuality herself all the time--just take a look at some of her published pieces:
There is more info on Marriot's "synfuel program" in James Howard Kunstler's book The Long Emergency.
They bought four "synfuel" plants in Oct 2001 for $46 million in cash. The next year, those plants generated $159 million in tax credits. So instead of paying an annual income tax of around 36.1%, like they did in 2001, they only paid 6.8% in 2002, "due primarily to the impact of our synthetic-fuel business."
Not bad for "a few pole barns and conveyor belts where coal was sprayed...with small amounts of diesel oil, pine tar resin, and other substances."
After making $370 million in five years, I'd be ready to bail out too. That's just over 800% ROI. Buy low, sell high!
"I, for one, welcome our new open source overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted political leader I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground coding caves."
From TFA: The Google search was the latest in recently discovered evidence found in the 100 million pages of content removed from computers.
Are they printing on post-it notes or what?
Or did some reporter just Google a Kb to printed-page-equivalent conversion? 'Cause I doubt they're going to find much useful information in the.dll libraries and executables...
Why? Because code that the Soviets stole from the US turned out to be (from their perspective) defective? I don't think it's terrorism if my car blows up while you, having stolen it, are driving it around.
Actually, they didn't steal it--they bought it. From the Canadians. After we refused to sell it ourselves.
These days, the Soviets could probably just have filed an unfair restraint of trade complaint with the WTO!
Seriously, though, culpability here is convoluted. The Soviets had a legitimate need for this technology, and we said, "No, you can't have it." So they went to someone else to buy it, and we sabatoged it. And the only justification is that the Soviet Union was the "evil empire," which had to be destroyed no matter what.
Yeah, yeah, it was a "tense time," and "they wanted to bury us, too." But everytime we talk about how capitalism beat communism because it is inherently better, we should remember all of these incidents which were expressly designed to choke out the Soviet State. Did it wither away because it was inefficient and inferior? Or because we had the strength at the time to hound it into oblivion?
You can remap so that the center button (not the scroll button) acts as right-click
That's exactly what I did. It feels a lot more natural. I mapped the third (bottom-most) button to be a CTRL-click, which makes links in Firefox automatically open into a background tab (and does auto-scroll in lots of other apps).
It did not take very long to get accustomed to the button action, IMO. It's really the same motion for everything, just rotated 90 degrees. So the brain catches on fairly quickly.
My biggest problem was getting used to its vertical profile. I was knocking it on the floor several times a day at first, trying to move my hand back from the keyboard. It took a while to change the instinctive hover height of my hand so that I would actually clear it when going to grab it.
I've used the VerticalMouse2 for over a year and I like it. I used to experience numbness in my ring and pinkie fingers using a regular mouse, and I think this has helped that. Actually, the optics in my VerticalMouse just went out this week, and I'm getting a warranty replacemnt from Evoluent. In the mean time I'm using a normal flat mouse, and the numbness is starting to return.
The clincher for me was the faux-IMAP functionality I can get by using Google's SMTP servers.
Even when I compose and send email through my standalone POP client, they show up on the web in Gmail. And when I compose and send email on the web through Gmail, they all get downloaded at the end of the day into said standalone POP client, and immediately filtered into my Sent Mail folder.
Before Gmail I used Yahoo! Mail, and my Sent Mail was always out of sync. Messages composed at home weren't available at work, and messages composed through webmail had to be moved into my Inbox periodically just to be downloaded and archived at home.
Without a feature like this, I wouldn't switch to Yahoo!, no matter what the interface looked like.
The CD Forum has screenshots from various folks' BartPE builds.
Some people are way too into this. But when you see M$ Virtual PC running from a RAMDrive, that's just pretty cool.
We use a custom BartPE CD at work for data recovery and malware removal. Makes it easy to run SMART checks and copy off critical data from unbootable HDDs.
And you can run Adaware, McAfee Stinger, HijackThis and other tools on a drive without waking up TSR malware.
Lots of cities did this to avoid seasonal flooding.
Sacramento raised its streets 12 feet between 1864 and 1873 by dredging the Sacramento River and depositing the silt in the streets. The ground floor level became a basement level.
Seattle raised their streets between eight and 36 feet in the 1890's by hydroblasting hills and carrying the dirt down toward the seafront.
I believe New Orleans did actually take similar anti-flooding measures, but they were aimed more at the Mississippi River, which was a much more regular threat. All of their levees are designed to stave off the seasonal river floodwaters. But now they are acting more to prevent the ocean floodwaters from escaping.
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Button-pushing is for weenies. Glasses that go black all by themselves at the first sign of danger--that's where it's at!
> You'd think there would be some kind of a filter to prevent stuff like this from happening.
That's a pretty good idea, actually. I mean, we're never going to get something like actual human editors who could actually inspect the articles before they were posted, so some sort of automated solution to cull out the obvious crap would be a good first step.
You mean like FireHose?I am not talking about 18 year olds that have sex with their 17 year old girlfriends, I am talking the 30 year olds having sex with 13 year olds, 40 year olds that rape 8 year olds, and so on.
The main problem with the currently-fashionable "sex offender registries" is that they do not discriminate. As you have shown, we realize there is a continuum: 18 vs. 17 yro statutory cases are at one end, and serial pedophiles are on the other end. But laws like the one just passed here in California this November stamp them all with the big "Pervert" stamp.
It is ridiculous to make a law saying that a 45 year old man, for instance, who was convicted more than two decades ago of having consensual sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, cannot live within a half-mile of an elementary school. And if that man doesn't re-register EVERY YEAR within one week of his birthday, or within one week of a move, a WARRANT goes out for his arrest, and it's a FELONY!
No, I'm not a 45 year old sex offender. I just think we need to be a bit more granular. If he's a serial pedophile, lock him in a treatment program. If he had the wrong kind of sex as a teenager 20 years ago, and has paid his restitution to society, let him go. And don't keep hassling him with punitive registries and requirements that weren't even laws when the crime was committed!
Ahoy! Did you sit on a belaying pin?
I think I need a bigger font on my RSS reader...
I don't know how much this legal action has cost them, but it's gotten Kinderstart more recognition their Google PageRank ever did, even when it was healty. There's no such thing as bad publicity, which this whole debacle has gotten them in spades.
But, of course, if you don't offer a quality good or service, mere publicity won't result in lasting traffic and revenue. And since Kinderstart is nothing but a linkfarm, I don't think they'll benefit much in the long run. A Slashmob isn't really their demographic, anyway.
That's an open question. If you're broadcasting signals, what right do you have to tell me that I can't receive them?
That is the most interesting question. The position I like the best is articulated as follows:
"If it passes through my body, I have the right to listen to it"
True, Wi-Fi use involved both listening and replying. But the public airwaves are just that, public! The FCC is supposed to regulate them for the common good. Anytime electromagnetic waves are passing through my body, and I am told I can neither stop them or listen to them, it seems to me there is a breach of natural rights.
The first thing that sprang to mind when I saw that picture is what it will look like on the front page of the newspaper when the Columbia floods one of these years.
I know there are benefits of being close (hydroelectric power) or even very close (water cooling) to the river, but do those outweight the risk of said river overflowing into your main server farm?
The Columbia is one of the most dammed rivers in the West, so I'm sure there will be those of you who reply that "It would never overflow there." But what are the worst-case scenarios that are being considered? Do they get as crazy as Bruce Sterling's "Heavy Weather?" (Though I guess if that comes about, you've got bigger problems than not being able to search Google...)
The first story was rushed out so fast it hasn't gotten here yet.
See, I told you.
I'm sure she is lurking here and taking it all in stride. An accomplished journalist, she writes about techno-sexuality herself all the time--just take a look at some of her published pieces:
They bought four "synfuel" plants in Oct 2001 for $46 million in cash. The next year, those plants generated $159 million in tax credits. So instead of paying an annual income tax of around 36.1%, like they did in 2001, they only paid 6.8% in 2002, "due primarily to the impact of our synthetic-fuel business."
Not bad for "a few pole barns and conveyor belts where coal was sprayed...with small amounts of diesel oil, pine tar resin, and other substances."
After making $370 million in five years, I'd be ready to bail out too. That's just over 800% ROI. Buy low, sell high!
"I, for one, welcome our new open source overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted political leader I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground coding caves."
Are they printing on post-it notes or what?
Or did some reporter just Google a Kb to printed-page-equivalent conversion? 'Cause I doubt they're going to find much useful information in the .dll libraries and executables...
Actually, they didn't steal it--they bought it. From the Canadians. After we refused to sell it ourselves.
These days, the Soviets could probably just have filed an unfair restraint of trade complaint with the WTO!
Seriously, though, culpability here is convoluted. The Soviets had a legitimate need for this technology, and we said, "No, you can't have it." So they went to someone else to buy it, and we sabatoged it. And the only justification is that the Soviet Union was the "evil empire," which had to be destroyed no matter what.
Yeah, yeah, it was a "tense time," and "they wanted to bury us, too." But everytime we talk about how capitalism beat communism because it is inherently better, we should remember all of these incidents which were expressly designed to choke out the Soviet State. Did it wither away because it was inefficient and inferior? Or because we had the strength at the time to hound it into oblivion?
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Which one doesn't belong?
That's exactly what I did. It feels a lot more natural. I mapped the third (bottom-most) button to be a CTRL-click, which makes links in Firefox automatically open into a background tab (and does auto-scroll in lots of other apps).
It did not take very long to get accustomed to the button action, IMO. It's really the same motion for everything, just rotated 90 degrees. So the brain catches on fairly quickly.
My biggest problem was getting used to its vertical profile. I was knocking it on the floor several times a day at first, trying to move my hand back from the keyboard. It took a while to change the instinctive hover height of my hand so that I would actually clear it when going to grab it.
I've used the VerticalMouse2 for over a year and I like it. I used to experience numbness in my ring and pinkie fingers using a regular mouse, and I think this has helped that. Actually, the optics in my VerticalMouse just went out this week, and I'm getting a warranty replacemnt from Evoluent. In the mean time I'm using a normal flat mouse, and the numbness is starting to return.
The Evoluent VerticalMouse2 comes in left-hand and right-hand models.
Even when I compose and send email through my standalone POP client, they show up on the web in Gmail. And when I compose and send email on the web through Gmail, they all get downloaded at the end of the day into said standalone POP client, and immediately filtered into my Sent Mail folder.
Before Gmail I used Yahoo! Mail, and my Sent Mail was always out of sync. Messages composed at home weren't available at work, and messages composed through webmail had to be moved into my Inbox periodically just to be downloaded and archived at home.
Without a feature like this, I wouldn't switch to Yahoo!, no matter what the interface looked like.
Doesn't Anonymous Coward work for Blizzard? I don't see why he can't speak up...
Some people are way too into this. But when you see M$ Virtual PC running from a RAMDrive, that's just pretty cool.
We use a custom BartPE CD at work for data recovery and malware removal. Makes it easy to run SMART checks and copy off critical data from unbootable HDDs.
And you can run Adaware, McAfee Stinger, HijackThis and other tools on a drive without waking up TSR malware.
Sacramento raised its streets 12 feet between 1864 and 1873 by dredging the Sacramento River and depositing the silt in the streets. The ground floor level became a basement level.
Seattle raised their streets between eight and 36 feet in the 1890's by hydroblasting hills and carrying the dirt down toward the seafront.
I believe New Orleans did actually take similar anti-flooding measures, but they were aimed more at the Mississippi River, which was a much more regular threat. All of their levees are designed to stave off the seasonal river floodwaters. But now they are acting more to prevent the ocean floodwaters from escaping.
He meant it was his grandfather's jeep! Pretty hip for an old guy!
I see you are one of us! Bwa-ha-ha! 0-