With good enough Karma you don't get ads here, frankly the ads on Slashdot are OK, targeted at the audience and not offensive. A model for online ads if you ask me.
I use a 3 point ir clip and a webcam to the same effect, I would be interested in the Arduino project with an accelerometer. Is it comaprible in accuracy?
Except that it's lots of lightyears away which means it would have been lots of years ago which means....OMG THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY HERE, RUN!
My first thought was Run? Where to? However it occurred to me that if we're observing them 1500 years ago we still maybe have plenty of time to find somewhere to hide. If they are travelling at 0.5 light speed they are still 750 years away, they are probably only coming around to borrow a cup of sugar in any case.
I'm not an physicist but it seems like building an object to trap the entirety of the energy escaping a star would significantly change the position of the Goldilocks zone.
Interesting point, could be a double whammy, you could build a partial sphere and then terraform Venus, getting lots of power and a new planet to fuck up at the same time.
Good points, but there then has to be a fourth option, something that hasn't been considered yet. With the prevalence of adblockers now online publications are going to have to come up with something. Whether that is sites managing there own ads and making them static and tasteful as has been suggested(after all noone gets cross at ads in the printed press),in other threads or something else, there has to be another solution that works for everyone.
If a site is up to make money then it has one of three options, 1 Ads,2 Selling your personal data, or 3 subscriptions. No-one really likes any of them but the trouble is that option 3 just sends people running in the opposite direction.
250 km of seabed, with 50 miles between islands...i suppose consistency of units would be a lot to ask for...
The Brits are confused about units. They can't decide whether to use SI, Imperial, or Ancient Hebrew measurements. Just be thankful they didn't measure the distance in palms or spans.
Agree, submitter is inconsistent with units, mixing them in the same sentence is pretty lax. As for confused, I'm not so sure. In everyday life we seem to be able to mix and match units fairly easily, weight is stones and pounds by default, height is in feet and inches, yet somehow I know my metric measures too.
None of it really matters as long as we consistantly use metric for science and engineering.
Come on, not an invisible cloak, if they suspect someone is a terrorist then they already have reason enough, and protection under the law to surveil them lawyer or not. This is not that.
I have a similar policy with my 5 yr old boy, apart from the password. I let him choose his own password , of course I know what he typed, but he thinks he has a secret which he thinks is great, and he has his introduction to computer security.
The fallacy is that we are debating democracy as the reason our system of government doesn't work, the truth is our system of government is unfettered capitalism. The two things are not the same.
Harmys despecialized editions can be found here http://originaltrilogy.com/for... This site invites you to create an account to get access to the torrent link, but the torrents for all three movies should be quite easy to find on the usual torrent trackers. They are all great quality hd versions with the original soundtracks. Happy hunting, with no need for Disney to intervene.
The 85% who thought it wasn't illegal to make a backup were correct as it isn't illegal to do so. However, it was a copyright infringement to do so. So you have something you are entitled to do that is also illegal. Since your consumer rights trump a civil misdemeanour (never tested, but your rights are inviolable) no one wanted the hassle of upholdng that law.
I'm sure no one has been stopped at copying media for personal use for a long time, but there's also this part in the end of the summary:
Besides the new private copying rights, the upcoming amendments will also broaden people’s fair use rights. For example, people no longer have to ask permission to quote from or parody the work of others, such as a news report or a book, as long as it’s “fair dealing” and the source is recognized.
That actually is good news, haven't read the details yet, but on the face of it a really positive move. Must check to see what this is designed to distract us from...
a) Baddie uniform. b) goodie uniform. c) Star Trek uniform. If this is the attempt to envage the public in space missions, I hate to say it but it's probably pitched about right. Think X factor in space. I shudder to think about it.
I remember having this conversation in Physics class many years ago, would be fantastic if it goes ahead but I honestly don't think that anyone would invest the huge amount of money needed to even attempt this, at least not until the oil has run out.
I agree completely, hopefully it works and we can all carry on as normal, unfortunately I think Dice have spent too much money on this to let it go. We will be sold out to the advertisers like every other free site on the web. The monetization of everything eventually fucks everything. There will be no safe harbour anywhere for long until either the nature of humanity changes, or the nature of the economy does. I know which one of those is more likely, but even that is a long hard road that no-one wants to take the first steps down at the moment.
What's ironic for me is that the articles over the last couple of days have been a lot more interesting to me than in recent weeks, while I fully support the FUCK BETA protest, it's a real shame that we're missing out on some interesting discussion.
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With good enough Karma you don't get ads here, frankly the ads on Slashdot are OK, targeted at the audience and not offensive. A model for online ads if you ask me.
Between the wonderful explanations of evolution and DNA at the top of the comments and you guys making me laugh, I proclaim 'Slashdot not dead!'
I use a 3 point ir clip and a webcam to the same effect, I would be interested in the Arduino project with an accelerometer. Is it comaprible in accuracy?
Except that it's lots of lightyears away which means it would have been lots of years ago which means....OMG THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY HERE, RUN!
My first thought was Run? Where to? However it occurred to me that if we're observing them 1500 years ago we still maybe have plenty of time to find somewhere to hide. If they are travelling at 0.5 light speed they are still 750 years away, they are probably only coming around to borrow a cup of sugar in any case.
I'm not an physicist but it seems like building an object to trap the entirety of the energy escaping a star would significantly change the position of the Goldilocks zone.
Interesting point, could be a double whammy, you could build a partial sphere and then terraform Venus, getting lots of power and a new planet to fuck up at the same time.
Good points, but there then has to be a fourth option, something that hasn't been considered yet. With the prevalence of adblockers now online publications are going to have to come up with something. Whether that is sites managing there own ads and making them static and tasteful as has been suggested(after all noone gets cross at ads in the printed press) ,in other threads or something else, there has to be another solution that works for everyone.
If a site is up to make money then it has one of three options, 1 Ads,2 Selling your personal data, or 3 subscriptions. No-one really likes any of them but the trouble is that option 3 just sends people running in the opposite direction.
Only if you commented logged in :(
I hope this isn't just some boring suicide and is actually some kind of insane Illuminati cover up shit.
You hope that bad shit that happens is worse than it first appears so that you can be entertained? That's pretty fucked up.
True, but the distinction is almost impossible to detect when you are dead.
250 km of seabed, with 50 miles between islands...i suppose consistency of units would be a lot to ask for...
The Brits are confused about units. They can't decide whether to use SI, Imperial, or Ancient Hebrew measurements. Just be thankful they didn't measure the distance in palms or spans.
Agree, submitter is inconsistent with units, mixing them in the same sentence is pretty lax. As for confused, I'm not so sure. In everyday life we seem to be able to mix and match units fairly easily, weight is stones and pounds by default, height is in feet and inches, yet somehow I know my metric measures too. None of it really matters as long as we consistantly use metric for science and engineering.
Come on, not an invisible cloak, if they suspect someone is a terrorist then they already have reason enough, and protection under the law to surveil them lawyer or not. This is not that.
I have a similar policy with my 5 yr old boy, apart from the password. I let him choose his own password , of course I know what he typed, but he thinks he has a secret which he thinks is great, and he has his introduction to computer security.
Lol, ot slightly, but you shouldn't be modded down. +5 funny
The fallacy is that we are debating democracy as the reason our system of government doesn't work, the truth is our system of government is unfettered capitalism. The two things are not the same.
Thanks for that, I didn't realise that they were still works in progress, I'll check to see which version I have and compare it to 2.5.
Harmys despecialized editions can be found here http://originaltrilogy.com/for... This site invites you to create an account to get access to the torrent link, but the torrents for all three movies should be quite easy to find on the usual torrent trackers. They are all great quality hd versions with the original soundtracks. Happy hunting, with no need for Disney to intervene.
The 85% who thought it wasn't illegal to make a backup were correct as it isn't illegal to do so. However, it was a copyright infringement to do so. So you have something you are entitled to do that is also illegal. Since your consumer rights trump a civil misdemeanour (never tested, but your rights are inviolable) no one wanted the hassle of upholdng that law.
So you agree with me then?
I'm sure no one has been stopped at copying media for personal use for a long time, but there's also this part in the end of the summary:
Besides the new private copying rights, the upcoming amendments will also broaden people’s fair use rights. For example, people no longer have to ask permission to quote from or parody the work of others, such as a news report or a book, as long as it’s “fair dealing” and the source is recognized.
That actually is good news, haven't read the details yet, but on the face of it a really positive move. Must check to see what this is designed to distract us from...
It's finally legal to do something that no-one could be bothered to harass me for doing when it was illegal. I feel freer already.
a) Baddie uniform. b) goodie uniform. c) Star Trek uniform. If this is the attempt to envage the public in space missions, I hate to say it but it's probably pitched about right. Think X factor in space. I shudder to think about it.
A very wide no fly zone, strictly enforced by air to air missiles. And also employ the TSA to confiscate large scissors.
I remember having this conversation in Physics class many years ago, would be fantastic if it goes ahead but I honestly don't think that anyone would invest the huge amount of money needed to even attempt this, at least not until the oil has run out.
I agree completely, hopefully it works and we can all carry on as normal, unfortunately I think Dice have spent too much money on this to let it go. We will be sold out to the advertisers like every other free site on the web. The monetization of everything eventually fucks everything. There will be no safe harbour anywhere for long until either the nature of humanity changes, or the nature of the economy does. I know which one of those is more likely, but even that is a long hard road that no-one wants to take the first steps down at the moment.
What's ironic for me is that the articles over the last couple of days have been a lot more interesting to me than in recent weeks, while I fully support the FUCK BETA protest, it's a real shame that we're missing out on some interesting discussion.