Why is it deemed easier to turn to lawyers than the Webmaster?
Sites that want to be obnoxious about deep linking should just make off-site referrers bounce to the main page. Nobody gets sued, and linkers get the message.
Yes, a crafty person could work around a simple variable check, but it would discourage your average site.
Wrong, silly. Read those google results a little more closely.
See all those commas and colons separationg "Fellowship" from "University"?
A moment's inspection reveals: You found a list of resumes of people who did research fellowships at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, or medical fellowships at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
(i read the parent post as a soft and gentle troll, proposing a ludicrous position quietly and hoping for overexcited responses. Check his history to confirm his track record. "Dr. Mel Thusian"? - come on, kids.
Nonetheless I'll address the real issues tangentially mentioned)
Investigating alternative medicine is a good idea: it could lead to the discovery and refinement of useful compounds and techniques. Furthermore, "humanizing" medical care in general is a good idea.
For the curious, the ideas underlying homeopathic medicine run contrary to very basic scientific principles.
This is homeopathic medicine: They take substances with real (usually harmful) effects, then dilute them millionfold. The resulting "medicine" is of course just water, to which they add a bit of sugar - a placebo by any definition.
They claim that the water "remembers" the impression of the substance, an idea straight out of medieval alchemy.
In other words, alternative medicine yes, homeopathy, no.
63.Bottling the Stench of Death and Calling It Perfume: Philip Morris also attempts to counter antismoking measures in the Czech Republic by commissioning an economic analysis of the "indirect positive effects" of early deaths -- savings on health care, pensions, welfare, and housing for the elderly. The company later apologizes.
This one puts all the others to shame, if you ask me. Unless there's a separate category for downright evil, rather than merely dumb.
Just dropping the mp3s onto the iPod hard disk doesn't allow you to play them.
The iPod keeps track of everything in a song database; you need to figure out how to create and modify this database in order for the iPod to recognize and play songs.
When you pirate Microsoft and Adobe software, obviously you aren't bringing Microsoft and Adobe to their knees.
Who you're hurting are the guys trying to write reasonably priced, moderately featured software that will sell for $50-$200, instead of the $500+ price of the Microsoft/Adobe/BigName software.
In a non-warez world, people look at the very expensive apps and think, no way! Then they see the moderately-priced alternatives and think, yeah, this will meet my needs.
In a warez world, people look at the very expensive apps and think, no way! Then they see the moderately-priced alternatives and think, maybe. Then they see the $free, full-featured warez apps, and choose that.
User interface, that's why. Clicking an onscreen button or rolling a jog-wheel is not the same as turning a page. Turning the page is physically easy to do, has great tactile feedback, and is very familiar.
It's been noted before, but bears repeating: The book is an incredible device. Compact, durable, cheap, easy-to-use interface. It'll be hard one to surpass.
If you want a clean 10.1, you can point the installer to an existing 10.0 disk, and select "Erase this disk before installing." That way, you've done an "upgrade", but your system is guaranteed clean. A Very Nice Option for Apple to have included, no?
Insert totally inappropriate reference to "security through obscurity" here...
Seriously, folks, sometimes security through obscurity is exactly what you want. You don't chmod a+r your password file, do you?
The point is not that denying world-read to an encrypted password file makes it *impossible* to crack a server. The point is, it makes it quite a bit tougher than it otherwise would be.
Likewise, making information tougher to come by is not being advertised as a guarantee. But, it can make an attack harder to do, which is a good thing.
Moderate this **** down. It isn't funny, it's disgusting. Yes, we accept a certain cost for scientific advance -- but we draw the line at forcing death or suffering onto unwilling humans.
I am a research scientist, and I think that human (and animal) testing is a wonderful gift and absolutely necessary to help the ailing.
But I am also a human being. "Lowest bidder" doesn't mean "unwilling." We don't say that the Jews and Gypsies that were mutilated at the hands of Dr. Mengele deserved their fate. Nor did the men of Tuskegee, going blind, paralyzed, and dying young at the hands of their doctors. Real scientific advances came as a result of these studies, but we do not accept this as reason to conduct such studies, or (in the case of Nazi and Imperial Japanese wartime doctors) even allowing ourselves to learn from the studies.
I hope some moderator will preserve the decency of slashdot by marking down the above post. It is flamebait and cruel, and shows callous disregard for human life.
Almost certainly not. Remember, that effect with heat shock protein is possible in yeast because they are *single celled organisms.*
We, of course, are not. So it's very unlikely that we can significantly alter the genetic structure of a gene in a gamete cell according to a change in a somatic cell elsewhere. That smacks of plain old Lamarckism.
Some variations on this idea do happen, such as imprinting (dependence on whether the gene came maternally or paternally), but it's unlikely to play a significant role.
You seem to have cut out and renumbered the clauses, skipping the first (and quite relevant) clause: As a condition to your use of the Napster service and browser you agree that you will not: (i) use the Napster service to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way; (ii) use the Napster browser... It's that #1 that people copying Metallica songs are in trouble for...
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Read the article again. They didn't just steal the personal financial information of Ford owners.
They just pretended to be Ford so that they could access the credit reports of thousands of people. Subway-riders included.
Why is it deemed easier to turn to lawyers than the Webmaster?
Sites that want to be obnoxious about deep linking should just make off-site referrers bounce to the main page. Nobody gets sued, and linkers get the message.
Yes, a crafty person could work around a simple variable check, but it would discourage your average site.
That's a very tough problem. I wonder what you can do about it?
One idea would be to use the included DVI->VGA adaptor.
Wrong, silly. Read those google results a little more closely.
See all those commas and colons separationg "Fellowship" from "University"?
A moment's inspection reveals: You found a list of resumes of people who did research fellowships at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, or medical fellowships at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
The article also has a very dramatic Quicktime movie of it in action.
Nonetheless I'll address the real issues tangentially mentioned)
Investigating alternative medicine is a good idea: it could lead to the discovery and refinement of useful compounds and techniques. Furthermore, "humanizing" medical care in general is a good idea.
For the curious, the ideas underlying homeopathic medicine run contrary to very basic scientific principles.
This is homeopathic medicine: They take substances with real (usually harmful) effects, then dilute them millionfold. The resulting "medicine" is of course just water, to which they add a bit of sugar - a placebo by any definition.
They claim that the water "remembers" the impression of the substance, an idea straight out of medieval alchemy.
In other words, alternative medicine yes, homeopathy, no.
Otherwise we would all know your exact IP address, and be able to log in to your box!
--but I'm crafty, so I'm just pinging each of the IPs within your subnet.... ooh! I'm getting a hit!
It's viewing a PNG directly that causes that problem, which is simply a configuration issue. Read this hint to fix it.
This one puts all the others to shame, if you ask me. Unless there's a separate category for downright evil, rather than merely dumb.
I'd wager money whether that the site didn't change a single word from the press release at all.
Actually, here's the press release from HP directly. Yep, exactly the same as the article.
From http://www.mcwhortle.com/robots.txt
/stats/>
/financials.htm
/onlinebid.htm
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
which means that we can't just search for other web sites with a "don't be a fool" page like the onlinebid.htm page at mcwhortle.
Incidentally, India's per-capita income is $460.
Kinda makes you stop and think, huh?
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Just dropping the mp3s onto the iPod hard disk doesn't allow you to play them.
The iPod keeps track of everything in a song database; you need to figure out how to create and modify this database in order for the iPod to recognize and play songs.
When you pirate Microsoft and Adobe software, obviously you aren't bringing Microsoft and Adobe to their knees.
Who you're hurting are the guys trying to write reasonably priced, moderately featured software that will sell for $50-$200, instead of the $500+ price of the Microsoft/Adobe/BigName software.
In a non-warez world, people look at the very expensive apps and think, no way! Then they see the moderately-priced alternatives and think, yeah, this will meet my needs.
In a warez world, people look at the very expensive apps and think, no way! Then they see the moderately-priced alternatives and think, maybe. Then they see the $free, full-featured warez apps, and choose that.
The little guys are hurt.
User interface, that's why. Clicking an onscreen button or rolling a jog-wheel is not the same as turning a page. Turning the page is physically easy to do, has great tactile feedback, and is very familiar.
It's been noted before, but bears repeating: The book is an incredible device. Compact, durable, cheap, easy-to-use interface. It'll be hard one to surpass.
If you want a clean 10.1, you can point the installer to an existing 10.0 disk, and select "Erase this disk before installing." That way, you've done an "upgrade", but your system is guaranteed clean. A Very Nice Option for Apple to have included, no?
Insert totally inappropriate reference to "security through obscurity" here...
Seriously, folks, sometimes security through obscurity is exactly what you want. You don't chmod a+r your password file, do you?
The point is not that denying world-read to an encrypted password file makes it *impossible* to crack a server. The point is, it makes it quite a bit tougher than it otherwise would be.
Likewise, making information tougher to come by is not being advertised as a guarantee. But, it can make an attack harder to do, which is a good thing.
Moderate this **** down. It isn't funny, it's disgusting. Yes, we accept a certain cost for scientific advance -- but we draw the line at forcing death or suffering onto unwilling humans.
I am a research scientist, and I think that human (and animal) testing is a wonderful gift and absolutely necessary to help the ailing.
But I am also a human being. "Lowest bidder" doesn't mean "unwilling." We don't say that the Jews and Gypsies that were mutilated at the hands of Dr. Mengele deserved their fate. Nor did the men of Tuskegee, going blind, paralyzed, and dying young at the hands of their doctors. Real scientific advances came as a result of these studies, but we do not accept this as reason to conduct such studies, or (in the case of Nazi and Imperial Japanese wartime doctors) even allowing ourselves to learn from the studies.
I hope some moderator will preserve the decency of slashdot by marking down the above post. It is flamebait and cruel, and shows callous disregard for human life.
Almost certainly not. Remember, that effect with heat shock protein is possible in yeast because they are *single celled organisms.*
We, of course, are not. So it's very unlikely that we can significantly alter the genetic structure of a gene in a gamete cell according to a change in a somatic cell elsewhere. That smacks of plain old Lamarckism.
Some variations on this idea do happen, such as imprinting (dependence on whether the gene came maternally or paternally), but it's unlikely to play a significant role.
You seem to have cut out and renumbered the clauses, skipping the first (and quite relevant) clause: As a condition to your use of the Napster service and browser you agree that you will not: (i) use the Napster service to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way; (ii) use the Napster browser... It's that #1 that people copying Metallica songs are in trouble for...