It's fraud in the US if you do it for gain. Example: You go to Walmart, buy a TV and call your credit card company telling them the TV was broken and walmart wouldn't take it back. They would do a chargeback on Walmart and that would constitute fraud.
It's not quite that simple in this case. If you contribute 1 SEK towards TPB's fine and then have to ask for it back later when(if) a retrial finds them innocent, that's hardly fraud. Not sure if it will work the way they're expecting though.
I know in the US, my understanding(IANAL) is that retailers are only required to accept $50 in coins for any debt. Sweden may have similar laws precluding this law firm from being required to accept payments below a certain amount.
I'd be happy if Vista included virtualization technology for DOS6.2 on a 386. That would allow much smoother operation of very old programs that some of us still use, or want to use at least.
Fundamental science is good, but the LHC is a huge and expensive project. By my calculations, they have about $38 million annually to spend on projects of this nature. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cost of the LHC, so the international community is unlikely to really feel a large effect.
That $27 million they have to spend now could be put to much better use domestically or on smaller scale projects.
I lived in Oregon for a long time and definitely, even in rural places you can't make it 20 miles without seeing at least 1 farm house, even when you're in the desert of eastern oregon.
As for public transportation, Portland Oregon had it right. Light rails + very good bus system. This allows the speed of the train to be combined with the flexibility of useful bus routes.
Lightrail alone isn't useful, I wish more people would realise that.
I suppose I should have added a qualifier "predatorial species". While it is easy to attribute global atmospheric change to photosynthesizing organisms such as grasses, trees and phytoplankton, I believe I can say with authority that none of them are a dominant species.
During the archeozoic eon, the earth likely had much higher amounts of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides than it does now. It's easy to forget about the effect they had because for 3+ billion years, earth has had an atmosphere composed primarily of nitrogen, oxygen and trace gases.
Modern man is the first species on earth to have the ability to dramatically alter the ecological equilibrium established before it, on a global scale. This makes the modern man unique.
The self-correcting aspect of 'nature' is that in any ecosystem, predator and prey populations typically reach an equilibrium. With modern man, this is unlikely. No other species has such control and dominance over their prey or over the environment. We have the ability to grow food, which means our food supply under ideal conditions(geopolitical policy aside) is whatever our resources limit us to.
The reasonable conclusion is our population will grow until we have consumed all the resources that allow us to feed ourselves. Nature, or mother nature is just another term for the global ecosystem. It's not alive, it has no morals, no ethics, no concept of right and wrong - only balance or imbalance.
Before modern man, equilibrium in any environment was reached over time and was thus self sustaining. Humans are in a way self sustaining also, but the time period of our sustainability is going to be dramatically shorter than most species. Dinosaurs, as a collective survived for hundreds of millions of years. When measured against the time spans of previous dominant species, humans fall far short of any definition of sustainability.
I fail to see how yet another department is needed to fill in the gaps that NOAA and the National Weather Service doesn't provide. Seems easier and much cheaper to simply steer our existing resources into this increased scope and give them additional funding if needed.
It's hardly anthropomorphic to describe nature as self correcting. Life on earth survived for what, like a billion years without modern man fucking it up? Pretty much a model for sustainability if you ask me.
A balanced and closed ecosystem is naturally self correcting. Humans will prove no different. The available resources will be consumed, humans will die off in large numbers and a balance will be reached eventually where real sustainability can be achieved.
This of course assumes we don't discover a way to leave the planet in droves, aren't wiped out by a meteor and don't start a nuclear holocaust first.
but it would be nice if the ACLU stepped in. They have vastly greater influence and funding.
If ratified, a treaty such as this could have far reaching consequences for privacy and leave ISP customers beholden to 3rd parties under the guise of 'IP enforcement'.
After looking at my girlfriends taxes who got divorced during early 2008, bought a house, has itemized business expenses and has an extra property, I thought "no freaking way i'm doing those taxes". I tried to figure out eligibility for extra child tax credits but we gave up and ended up giving it to a tax accountant.
If anything can be gleamed from this very long thread, it should be that taxes overall are too fucking complicated. Everyone thinks they should get a handout and politicians were more than happy to oblige, giving us this conglomerate of shit we call the IRS code.
Just to clarify, the earth has a finite limit on the number of humans it can support, but that number is based on a multitude of factors.
The most important of which is the geopolitical policies we have in place that influence the efficiency of our food distribution systems. Right now, we're pretty piss poor as the US has to much food, as do a lot of areas in europe. Most of africa has too little food, or devotes a much higher percentage of their GDP to food production because of the difficulty in farming in their regions. I have no doubts the earth can support 6 billion people, but not very effectively given our current political climate of largely ignoring africa.
I have nothing against an economy that promotes growth, but at the same time I wish to see less social programs ensuring seniors can collect paychecks for doing nothing. If a person made it to 65 years old can't work and didn't have the foresight to save a retirement while he was working, I say let him starve.
Our current social security program is kind of like a pyramid scheme, with old people on top. We need a bigger and bigger pool of people contributing to social security for the pyramid to be solvent. If the young stop contributing, the pyramid collapses.
The only alternative then is to force people to provide their own retirement.
Not to throw another monkey wrench in this or anything, but a lot of corporate users are using Checkpoint VPN software which to my knowledge is all based on PKI.
I used to work in an office with about 220 employees. Approximately 40 of them were laptop users and I can say from experience that wireless just doesn't make any sense for a large group of users in a confined space.
Network congestion was a real problem with so many people trying to share the same AP. I'm sure there could have been more efficient ways to divvy up the bandwidth, such as assigning people into groups to use different AP's, but that would be a pain in the ass.
Ethernet still wins on most metrics that matter, including bandwidth, latency and security.
I gather Slashdot doesn't make a lot from us writing comments. They make money from the advertisements we see while browsing. Comments are just slashdot's way of fostering a community and increasing page counts.
The submitter neglected to mention how often this scenario is encountered though. If this happens frequently, buying a cable tester probably makes a lot of sense and will save a lot of money, time and headaches in the future.
However, if this happens very rarely, just buy the cable and be done with it.
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We don't live in a world where news organizations do follow-up.
There's the sound bite. The 2 minute outrage. Then everyone forgets about it.
Delivering the news is only profitable while the news is still new. Follow-up is just too boring to be profitable apparently.
It's fraud in the US if you do it for gain. Example: You go to Walmart, buy a TV and call your credit card company telling them the TV was broken and walmart wouldn't take it back. They would do a chargeback on Walmart and that would constitute fraud.
It's not quite that simple in this case. If you contribute 1 SEK towards TPB's fine and then have to ask for it back later when(if) a retrial finds them innocent, that's hardly fraud. Not sure if it will work the way they're expecting though.
I know in the US, my understanding(IANAL) is that retailers are only required to accept $50 in coins for any debt. Sweden may have similar laws precluding this law firm from being required to accept payments below a certain amount.
My understanding is that most functions in the .NET libraries are not reentrant.
Seems to me, .NET was developed without much concurrency in mind.
I'd be happy if Vista included virtualization technology for DOS6.2 on a 386. That would allow much smoother operation of very old programs that some of us still use, or want to use at least.
Fundamental science is good, but the LHC is a huge and expensive project. By my calculations, they have about $38 million annually to spend on projects of this nature. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cost of the LHC, so the international community is unlikely to really feel a large effect.
That $27 million they have to spend now could be put to much better use domestically or on smaller scale projects.
I lived in Oregon for a long time and definitely, even in rural places you can't make it 20 miles without seeing at least 1 farm house, even when you're in the desert of eastern oregon.
As for public transportation, Portland Oregon had it right. Light rails + very good bus system. This allows the speed of the train to be combined with the flexibility of useful bus routes.
Lightrail alone isn't useful, I wish more people would realise that.
Just out of curiosity, what broswer are you using?
I've noticed on both Windows and Linux that Firefox 3 renders /. perfectly, but IE has a lot of overlapping text and is just all fucked up.
I tried Opera and it renders just fine, although I can't get over what a piece of shit their UI is.
I suppose I should have added a qualifier "predatorial species". While it is easy to attribute global atmospheric change to photosynthesizing organisms such as grasses, trees and phytoplankton, I believe I can say with authority that none of them are a dominant species.
During the archeozoic eon, the earth likely had much higher amounts of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides than it does now. It's easy to forget about the effect they had because for 3+ billion years, earth has had an atmosphere composed primarily of nitrogen, oxygen and trace gases.
Modern man is the first species on earth to have the ability to dramatically alter the ecological equilibrium established before it, on a global scale. This makes the modern man unique.
The self-correcting aspect of 'nature' is that in any ecosystem, predator and prey populations typically reach an equilibrium. With modern man, this is unlikely. No other species has such control and dominance over their prey or over the environment. We have the ability to grow food, which means our food supply under ideal conditions(geopolitical policy aside) is whatever our resources limit us to.
The reasonable conclusion is our population will grow until we have consumed all the resources that allow us to feed ourselves. Nature, or mother nature is just another term for the global ecosystem. It's not alive, it has no morals, no ethics, no concept of right and wrong - only balance or imbalance.
Before modern man, equilibrium in any environment was reached over time and was thus self sustaining. Humans are in a way self sustaining also, but the time period of our sustainability is going to be dramatically shorter than most species. Dinosaurs, as a collective survived for hundreds of millions of years. When measured against the time spans of previous dominant species, humans fall far short of any definition of sustainability.
I fail to see how yet another department is needed to fill in the gaps that NOAA and the National Weather Service doesn't provide. Seems easier and much cheaper to simply steer our existing resources into this increased scope and give them additional funding if needed.
It's hardly anthropomorphic to describe nature as self correcting. Life on earth survived for what, like a billion years without modern man fucking it up? Pretty much a model for sustainability if you ask me.
A balanced and closed ecosystem is naturally self correcting. Humans will prove no different. The available resources will be consumed, humans will die off in large numbers and a balance will be reached eventually where real sustainability can be achieved.
This of course assumes we don't discover a way to leave the planet in droves, aren't wiped out by a meteor and don't start a nuclear holocaust first.
but it would be nice if the ACLU stepped in. They have vastly greater influence and funding.
If ratified, a treaty such as this could have far reaching consequences for privacy and leave ISP customers beholden to 3rd parties under the guise of 'IP enforcement'.
After looking at my girlfriends taxes who got divorced during early 2008, bought a house, has itemized business expenses and has an extra property, I thought "no freaking way i'm doing those taxes". I tried to figure out eligibility for extra child tax credits but we gave up and ended up giving it to a tax accountant.
If anything can be gleamed from this very long thread, it should be that taxes overall are too fucking complicated. Everyone thinks they should get a handout and politicians were more than happy to oblige, giving us this conglomerate of shit we call the IRS code.
I use an HP DV4 and after stripping out all the crapware that was preinstalled, its been a really great laptop for software development.
Battery life could be better, but I suppose running wifi & itunes all the time doesn't help.
Sure, it has a webcam but I know it can easily be obtained without the camera.
Sodium and potassium are both a lot more exciting.
Lithium kind of disappoints.
Just to clarify, the earth has a finite limit on the number of humans it can support, but that number is based on a multitude of factors.
The most important of which is the geopolitical policies we have in place that influence the efficiency of our food distribution systems. Right now, we're pretty piss poor as the US has to much food, as do a lot of areas in europe. Most of africa has too little food, or devotes a much higher percentage of their GDP to food production because of the difficulty in farming in their regions. I have no doubts the earth can support 6 billion people, but not very effectively given our current political climate of largely ignoring africa.
I have nothing against an economy that promotes growth, but at the same time I wish to see less social programs ensuring seniors can collect paychecks for doing nothing. If a person made it to 65 years old can't work and didn't have the foresight to save a retirement while he was working, I say let him starve.
Our current social security program is kind of like a pyramid scheme, with old people on top. We need a bigger and bigger pool of people contributing to social security for the pyramid to be solvent. If the young stop contributing, the pyramid collapses.
The only alternative then is to force people to provide their own retirement.
Not to throw another monkey wrench in this or anything, but a lot of corporate users are using Checkpoint VPN software which to my knowledge is all based on PKI.
I used to work in an office with about 220 employees. Approximately 40 of them were laptop users and I can say from experience that wireless just doesn't make any sense for a large group of users in a confined space.
Network congestion was a real problem with so many people trying to share the same AP. I'm sure there could have been more efficient ways to divvy up the bandwidth, such as assigning people into groups to use different AP's, but that would be a pain in the ass.
Ethernet still wins on most metrics that matter, including bandwidth, latency and security.
I'm still using a 21" Viewsonic CRT built like 15 or 20 years ago.
Still has great picture too.
I gather Slashdot doesn't make a lot from us writing comments. They make money from the advertisements we see while browsing. Comments are just slashdot's way of fostering a community and increasing page counts.
This is especially true with Youtube. Content is removed by the minute for various, sometimes superfluous reasons.
I'm assuming you checked pacer and there was nothing up there.
If I still lived in Vancouver I'd drive across the bridge for you and ask what new documents are available.
This is the most sensible response so far.
The submitter neglected to mention how often this scenario is encountered though. If this happens frequently, buying a cable tester probably makes a lot of sense and will save a lot of money, time and headaches in the future.
However, if this happens very rarely, just buy the cable and be done with it.
Hardly, I've been here longer than the most of the active slashdot readers.
It gets tiring sometimes when I see a majority of stories are simply repostings of digg stories.
Maybe the editors should do more editing instead of browsing digg all day looking for things to accept submissions on.
But there aren't enough sharks in seattle to attach the frickin lasers...
In other news, I saw this on digg a couple days ago. Grats to slashdot on shamelessly reposting digg content.