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This is a key point, and one that has been completely ignored by the torch-wielding mobs in this thread. When I checked my preferences, all of those relating to Yahoo's services were "yes", but the one about getting messages from Yahoo's "trusted partners" were still "no". I'm not exactly pleased that they changed the other ones, but it's amazing how many people here have gotten in a major froth that Yahoo is getting paid for this. Well, OK, I'm not all that surpised, this is Slashdot, not exactly the home of rational thought.
Yahoo states that this is so it can 'improve' service quality
Hahaha, wotta joke. Everyone knows that charging money couldn't possibly 'improve' service quality! This is the Internet, running mail servers is free!
Oh, wait, that was last year.
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You dropped the Economist because it's tech reporting wasn't up to snuff? Next you'll give up watching Baywatch because the plots are weak.
Marco Polo brought China into the popular culture through his writings, but he wasn't the first there by a long long long shot. Europe had been trading with the far east since at least the Roman times. The lands between the Med and China aren't exactly barren wastelands, there were Persians and Indians in between. For a while the Mongols had an empire which included China and Moscow, and everything in between.
Anyone else out there think pumping large numbers of mutant insects into the environment might be a bad idea?
Comic books and technophobic hysteria notwithstanding, exposing something to radiation doesn't make it a mutant. If it reproduces and produces weird offspring, that's mutation. If the radiation sterilizes the flies, there's not much to worry about.
Probably the reason bands like Phish and the Dead are/were bigger on tour than the radio is that they are much more oriented towards live performance than studio production. They're jam bands, dedicated to excellent live performance. Pop groups are carefully produced for consumption by radio and video, and their live performances tend to recreate the same experience.
Britney fans would be confused and angry if she explored new variations of her songs on stage ("that's not the way the song goes!"), whereas Phish fans don't want to hear a perfect recreation of a CD track.
I have never had an airport security or customs official check my laptop for anything other than explosives, nor look at my CDR's labeled with things like "backups Oct 2001" to see whether they have "munitions" on them. Fortunately.
All it takes is one computer savvy member of al-Qaeda to compile a decent encryption package and make sure their operatives know how to use it. That's the whole point of al-Qaeda, training their guys and equipping them with the best tools.
Actually, I prefer a longer copyright term to help protect the families of artists. ...
If I write the great American Novel, or the great American Song, or the great American Software package,
The current long copyright period for literature and art seems fine to me, but software is fundamentally different. I really like the idea of a much shorter copyright period for software, 5 years extendable to 10. How many commercial software companies would suffer from having 10 years-old versions of their software put in the public domain? Would Microsoft go under if anybody could use the Windows 3.0 source?
The big difference between literature and software is that software is functional. If somebody refuses to issue new editions of a good book, that's a drag but not really harmful. If someone refuses to release a new version of software, its users may be financially harmed, and anything innovative in the code is lost: writers can learn from a book regardless, but software needs the source opened to foster new knowledge.
The bombing did damage. But the Taliban would still be there if there really had been "no ground troops". Afghanistan was easy because we got someone else to supply the ground troops: the Northern Alliance. The idea that Afghanistan was won purely by air power is sheer fantasy.
Actually, the lurkers aren't freeloaders since they aren't consuming resources. Freeloaders are people who post irrelevant comments, which consume page space, and therefore reader time. Moderation is a decent system to punish these people. And like the study, inflicting punishment has a cost.
Like for instance, if the majority of the members of those branches formed an organization which had the authority to reward and punish its members outside of the Constitutional system? For example, this organization could control fund raising for its members. It could get itself into a position where it dominates the electoral process, using its control of the political system to ensure it got the vast majority of financial contributions and media coverage, preventing any non-members from being serious contenders for elected office.
Of course, the American public would never accept a government dominated by a single organization. So two organizations could be formed, these would cooperate to ensure their power is unchallenged by outsiders. They could take slightly different positions on political issues and play them up to create the illusion of political diversity and debate.
Anybody who seriously wanted to participate in the political process would have to join one or the other of these organizations or be irrelevant to the process. Having the "enemy" organization encourages this, since failing to join up with the organization closest to one's ideals is in effect supporting the less desirable organization.
What an imagination I have! As if anyone would dream of bypassing the Constitution like that!
I'm in Turkey, where it isn't a holiday, so I'm working. Actually, they would've given me the day off, but since my family isn't here, there wasn't much point.
A few weeks ago was Ramadan, where observant folks fast during daylight hours. At the end of that was 3 days of Bayram, which is when people go around visiting family and friends. Bayram is a non-work holiday, but I work in a data center, so it was work as usual.
As a note, Muslim holidays are based on a lunar calendar, so they don't come at the same time every year - sometimes Ramadan is during the summer. So you can't really assume that December is a holiday pretty much everywhere.
If you think this 61 cm is something, I wouldn't be surprised if the military resolution is at least half of 61 cm or even less. Probably be able to get the Expiration date from his drivers license, or what brand of cigarettes he smokes.
Um, 30 cm resolution *might* be good enough to tell that he was holding something about the size of a driver's license, but is not going to be good enough to make out what it is he's holding, much less what's written on it.
Fer f@ck's sake, anybody who blathers on about satellites being able to read a newspaper and that kind of crap needs to actually look at one of these images. At 1 meter resolution you can make out a car. Not what kind it is, just the fact that there is an object which, given that it's basically rectangular and located on a road or parking lot, is most likely a car.
It's going to need at least 100-1000x more detail than that to be able to read things. I'm sure the militar has got much better than the private sector, but are they *that* far ahead? Maybe. And maybe they really are test flying alien UFOs.
Anyway I think there should be a standard place for stuff which will be shared between users (everything from documentation to icons to MP3s to programs which users have compiled themselves)
I believe this was the original purpose of/usr/local:/usr was for stuff that came from the vendor,/usr/local/ for stuff that the local site added to it. At the site I learned Unix/usr/local was often a separate partition from/usr to make it easier to share/duplicate/backup.
And I don't have much confidence in the government keeping banks fair for consumers. If you make a mistake with your account, you pay penalty fees. If the bank makes a mistake with your account, you spend hours arguing to get it corrected, and you don't get a penalty fee. The regulations are tilted heavily in favor of banks. Maybe it has something to do with the amount of money banks spend on election campaigns, or politicians' hopes of cushy positions after they get tired of running for office.
Hmm, yeah, but can you imagine a nominee for Attorney General promising the Senate they will not be too hard on criminal suspects, and give them a chance to police themselves? Funnily enough, this is what the head of the EPA promised with regards to companies which break environmental laws. Why is it corporations that commit crimes need to be treated with compassion, but human beings are not? Oh, yeah, because this is a democracy of the People, and we all know corporations are People, and we are just resources and consumers.
Most dot-coms failed because of a bad business plan. Why? Cause the management were a bunch of nerds that had no experience with business plans.
Really? Most of the dot.coms I personally dealt with were run by MBA's who spent a great deal of time on spiffy business plans, backed with spreadsheets with hockey-stick shaped revenue projections, and glossy power point presentations.
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This is a key point, and one that has been completely ignored by the torch-wielding mobs in this thread. When I checked my preferences, all of those relating to Yahoo's services were "yes", but the one about getting messages from Yahoo's "trusted partners" were still "no". I'm not exactly pleased that they changed the other ones, but it's amazing how many people here have gotten in a major froth that Yahoo is getting paid for this. Well, OK, I'm not all that surpised, this is Slashdot, not exactly the home of rational thought.
Yahoo states that this is so it can 'improve' service quality
Hahaha, wotta joke. Everyone knows that charging money couldn't possibly 'improve' service quality! This is the Internet, running mail servers is free!
Oh, wait, that was last year.
You dropped the Economist because it's tech reporting wasn't up to snuff? Next you'll give up watching Baywatch because the plots are weak.
Marco Polo brought China into the popular culture through his writings, but he wasn't the first there by a long long long shot. Europe had been trading with the far east since at least the Roman times. The lands between the Med and China aren't exactly barren wastelands, there were Persians and Indians in between. For a while the Mongols had an empire which included China and Moscow, and everything in between.
Anyone else out there think pumping large numbers of mutant insects into the environment might be a bad idea?
Comic books and technophobic hysteria notwithstanding, exposing something to radiation doesn't make it a mutant. If it reproduces and produces weird offspring, that's mutation. If the radiation sterilizes the flies, there's not much to worry about.
this technology can be used with the paralyzed or those with Lou Gehrig's Disease to allow them to use their computers.
That's nice and all, but better yet, it can be used by lazy bastards like me who don't want to burn the calories it takes to work the mouse.
Now if you guys would stop going outside to have a fag, we'd be even.
Probably the reason bands like Phish and the Dead are/were bigger on tour than the radio is that they are much more oriented towards live performance than studio production. They're jam bands, dedicated to excellent live performance. Pop groups are carefully produced for consumption by radio and video, and their live performances tend to recreate the same experience.
Britney fans would be confused and angry if she explored new variations of her songs on stage ("that's not the way the song goes!"), whereas Phish fans don't want to hear a perfect recreation of a CD track.
| the ability to enter and leave the US.
I have never had an airport security or customs official check my laptop for anything other than explosives, nor look at my CDR's labeled with things like "backups Oct 2001" to see whether they have "munitions" on them. Fortunately.
All it takes is one computer savvy member of al-Qaeda to compile a decent encryption package and make sure their operatives know how to use it. That's the whole point of al-Qaeda, training their guys and equipping them with the best tools.
Actually, I prefer a longer copyright term to help protect the families of artists.
...
If I write the great American Novel, or the great American Song, or the great American Software package,
The current long copyright period for literature and art seems fine to me, but software is fundamentally different. I really like the idea of a much shorter copyright period for software, 5 years extendable to 10. How many commercial software companies would suffer from having 10 years-old versions of their software put in the public domain? Would Microsoft go under if anybody could use the Windows 3.0 source?
The big difference between literature and software is that software is functional. If somebody refuses to issue new editions of a good book, that's a drag but not really harmful. If someone refuses to release a new version of software, its users may be financially harmed, and anything innovative in the code is lost: writers can learn from a book regardless, but software needs the source opened to foster new knowledge.
The bombing did damage. But the Taliban would still be there if there really had been "no ground troops". Afghanistan was easy because we got someone else to supply the ground troops: the Northern Alliance. The idea that Afghanistan was won purely by air power is sheer fantasy.
Actually, the lurkers aren't freeloaders since they aren't consuming resources. Freeloaders are people who post irrelevant comments, which consume page space, and therefore reader time. Moderation is a decent system to punish these people. And like the study, inflicting punishment has a cost.
But what stops the 3 branches from cooperating?
Like for instance, if the majority of the members of those branches formed an organization which had the authority to reward and punish its members outside of the Constitutional system? For example, this organization could control fund raising for its members. It could get itself into a position where it dominates the electoral process, using its control of the political system to ensure it got the vast majority of financial contributions and media coverage, preventing any non-members from being serious contenders for elected office.
Of course, the American public would never accept a government dominated by a single organization. So two organizations could be formed, these would cooperate to ensure their power is unchallenged by outsiders. They could take slightly different positions on political issues and play them up to create the illusion of political diversity and debate.
Anybody who seriously wanted to participate in the political process would have to join one or the other of these organizations or be irrelevant to the process. Having the "enemy" organization encourages this, since failing to join up with the organization closest to one's ideals is in effect supporting the less desirable organization.
What an imagination I have! As if anyone would dream of bypassing the Constitution like that!
Why is this filed under "Apache"? It's not mentioned in the story that I can find.
I'm in Turkey, where it isn't a holiday, so I'm working. Actually, they would've given me the day off, but since my family isn't here, there wasn't much point.
A few weeks ago was Ramadan, where observant folks fast during daylight hours. At the end of that was 3 days of Bayram, which is when people go around visiting family and friends. Bayram is a non-work holiday, but I work in a data center, so it was work as usual.
As a note, Muslim holidays are based on a lunar calendar, so they don't come at the same time every year - sometimes Ramadan is during the summer. So you can't really assume that December is a holiday pretty much everywhere.
If you think this 61 cm is something, I wouldn't be surprised if the military resolution is at least half of 61 cm or even less. Probably be able to get the Expiration date from his drivers license, or what brand of cigarettes he smokes.
Um, 30 cm resolution *might* be good enough to tell that he was holding something about the size of a driver's license, but is not going to be good enough to make out what it is he's holding, much less what's written on it.
Fer f@ck's sake, anybody who blathers on about satellites being able to read a newspaper and that kind of crap needs to actually look at one of these images. At 1 meter resolution you can make out a car. Not what kind it is, just the fact that there is an object which, given that it's basically rectangular and located on a road or parking lot, is most likely a car.
It's going to need at least 100-1000x more detail than that to be able to read things. I'm sure the militar has got much better than the private sector, but are they *that* far ahead? Maybe. And maybe they really are test flying alien UFOs.
Anyway I think there should be a standard place for stuff which will be shared between users (everything from documentation to icons to MP3s to programs which users have compiled themselves)
/usr/local: /usr was for stuff that came from the vendor, /usr/local/ for stuff that the local site added to it. At the site I learned Unix /usr/local was often a separate partition from /usr to make it easier to share/duplicate/backup.
I believe this was the original purpose of
Fuck prior art, recording video onto a hard drive is hardly "non-obvious".
Since when are banks federally run???
And I don't have much confidence in the government keeping banks fair for consumers. If you make a mistake with your account, you pay penalty fees. If the bank makes a mistake with your account, you spend hours arguing to get it corrected, and you don't get a penalty fee. The regulations are tilted heavily in favor of banks. Maybe it has something to do with the amount of money banks spend on election campaigns, or politicians' hopes of cushy positions after they get tired of running for office.
Hmm, yeah, but can you imagine a nominee for Attorney General promising the Senate they will not be too hard on criminal suspects, and give them a chance to police themselves? Funnily enough, this is what the head of the EPA promised with regards to companies which break environmental laws. Why is it corporations that commit crimes need to be treated with compassion, but human beings are not? Oh, yeah, because this is a democracy of the People, and we all know corporations are People, and we are just resources and consumers.
Most dot-coms failed because of a bad business plan. Why? Cause the management were a bunch of nerds that had no experience with business plans.
Really? Most of the dot.coms I personally dealt with were run by MBA's who spent a great deal of time on spiffy business plans, backed with spreadsheets with hockey-stick shaped revenue projections, and glossy power point presentations.
Yeah, I'm much more impressed with companies that stick with unprofitable strategies no matter what. Adaptability is for losers!
Not that I think selling enterprise sourceforge software will support a company larger than 5-10 people. But at least they're trying.
Marine Biologist.
My job nowadays is as much marketing/product management as it is engineering
So you do marketing work?
I can do more good for the company as a whole architecting solutions in the holistic space rather than as a disjoint entity.
Evidently so!