You can grind and dissolve stale bread in (lots of) water and drink the slurry (again, coke makes things interesting here, too!)
Obviously you're being funny, but I can't help but point out that there's lots of far better ways to make use of stale bread. Croutons for salad. Crushing into crumbs for breading stuff. Making a poultry stuffing etc.
For everything wonderful that the Internet is, it doesn't automatically replace everything that we had before it. Realizing such issues, court documents can still be made public without having them published on the Internet. Laws can be created to criminalize the re-publication of such documents before trials and hearings are concluded etc. while still allowing full access to those who request them in person.
I'm not involved with the project so I can't speak for them and give you an authoritative answer... but knowing that every single piece of software in the distro is GPL (or OSI approved or whatever... I'm not familiar with the specifics of the project) is beneficial when chosing a framework to build upon.
One example: a hardware manufacturer that wants to sell a machine pre-installed with Linux. With certain distros there may be proprietary software that you don't have the right to redistribute. With GNewSense you have 100% peace of mind and no hassle dealing with licenses etc.
I've always just taken this for granted and assumed that everywhere does it, but your suggestion of colour coding chemicals has me thinking that maybe not.
Where I live (Ontario, Canada) we have a system of signs, similar to road signs, that are on product packaging which tells you what potential dangers the product poses. There's a symbol that means the chemical is corrosive, a symbol that says it's flammable, a symbol that says it's toxic when consumed etc. Most chemicals also list their ingredients if it's a compound. We don't have a symbol for carcinogens (yet), but from the sound of things, it does pretty much what your colour-code suggestion would do.
I'll encrypt what I need to be private. And let them block all they want within the SLA, I'll pay for the level of service I need.
What happens when ISPs start to throttle (or block all together) encrypted or binary data ?
I can already imagine the justifications: "binary data consists largely of pirated software and media!", "only terrorists, pedophiles and other criminals have something to hide and use encryption!" "yap yap yap!"
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I believe that the Internet is one of the greatest assets for human advancement and achievement since the printing press. It is far too important to us to allow certain groups with special interests to ruin it for everyone. One last resort is to force ISPs who succumb to government pressure out of business. In the meantime we have to use every single democratic and diplomatic means at our disposal to force government to make the decisions that serve the larger population's wishes, and not the small special interest groups that want to shut the rest of the world up.
The GP said (paraphrasing) "the reason has to be fair". What about fairness to the company ?
What about the fact that if an employer wants to get rid of someone badly enough that it will set them up, plot and scheme so as to make it "legal" that that implies there is a good reason to want to fire the employee to begin with ?
I don't really like the idea that "because I don't like you" is not considered a "good" reason to fire someone. On the surface it may sound cold and I'll admit that there are times when someone may fire an individual for personal reasons rather than business reasons. However, in my view, work forces are (usually) teams and if an individual on the team is not liked by the others then that brings down the entire team. It causes productivity and profit to suffer. In this case firing the individual may be illegal in EU because his/her track record is good. The company loses because of employment laws.
Not only that, but having watched the video, talk about a flamebait remark. The whole process REQUIRES "real" actors. They perform, are recorded and then the software analyses the video and allows the "animators" to transform the performance in various ways (replacing the human with a character for example). It's similar to motion capture only it doesn't require the performer to wear a suit or markers etc.
IANAL but wouldn't a wrongful dismissal case be a civil suit ? In that case you don't need to "prove beyond a reasonable doubt". There is no jury. It's just your word against your opponents and the judge gets to decide who is telling the truth. Thus all this talk about stampers etc. is completely unnecessary. Just print the e-mail.
Also, you can be fired for any reason what-so-ever so long as there are no laws preventing the dismissal over that specific issue (race, gender, sexual orientation). I highly doubt that the guy would even stand a chance in a wrongful dismissal suit against his employer in this case.
Remember the goal is fear, panic and chaos. Dead people are just one way to create fear, not even the best one since (as they discovered) killing Americans has a nasty tendency to piss us off and cause us to break things.
One theory as to why Bin-Laden / Al-Qaeda attacked the US was because Bin-Laden wanted to wage a long drawn-out war against the US that would cripple their economy much the same way it did the Soviet Union. There's no way that Al-Qaeda could win a war on US soil so they attacked the US, knowing that they would opt for nothing less than war. Al-Qaeda lured the US into Afghanistan where they could slowly bleed them dry over a few years just like they did to the USSR in the 80's.
Of course they underestimated the US army who pretty much kicked ass in Afghanistan very quickly. It seemed that the US was not going to fall prey. That is, of course, until they invaded Iraq, gaving Bin-Laden everything he could have possibly dreamed of and then some.
Maybe I'm missing something and there's a loop-hole, but AFAIK In Canada selling this information is illegal, and I thought that medical records were confidential in the US as well (apparently not). In Canada patients and health care professionals have client/doctor confidentiality similar to client / lawyer confidentiality. A doctor's office would lose it's practice if it handed over information to anyone without the patient's consent.
Of course there's downsides to our system too. Since health care is public doctor's can only charge so much and thus the only way to increase their income is to get more and more patients so doctors are over-worked and the waiting rooms are always packed with huge waits. Plus more and more of our top doctors move to the US where they can earn more. There's gotta be some kind of happy medium where everyone wins.
This is a very valid point, but that doesn't mean everything goes down the tube. It's great marketing. Even if the users never boot into Linux the word still got to them. And I suspect that many who do format and install Windows will at least boot into Linux once or twice and give it a shot. A few may even stick with it when they see it does everything they wanted the cheap PC for anyway.
The iron fist of Ballmer crushing down? The face of evil? Hardly. The Microsoft reps were completely non-confrontational, and I, for one, was happy to hear what they had to say. I suppose I could have sat there and plugged my ear with one finger while singing "la la la la la" between bites of pizza, but then I'd kind of look like the closed-minded one, don't you think?
Do you honestly expect Satan will appear before you completely red with horns and a pitch-fork ?
Have we not learned ANYTHING from ultra-orthodox religious zealots ?
I'm going to have to give RMS a call. I've got my work cut out for me and need all the help I can get.
What amazes me is that there's any feelings what-so-ever, by anyone, about "giving up".
The record industries are showing a complete lack of understanding and creativity, and slashdotters are calling them dinosaurs who are partying at the boat house while the boat has sailed ship.
With the left-over resources that the big 5 have, they could easily prove that there is still a place for them. They just need to embrace new technologies and stop fighting media that can help them. I understand and realize all of the potential reasons that they have for not wanting to / being afraid of doing this. But honestly, I'm a webmaster who runs some pretty big sites (that will remain nameless) yet I failed when I tried to promote an album of mine online. Of course my album was shit, but the point is that even with new technology it's not exactly easy to go out there and make money with music. The real problem today is that there's so many indie bands trying to make it in the new frontier that the average listener has a very hard time filtering out all of the crap and finding bands they like. Even once you find a list of groups that you really like there's so bloody many of them that you have to pick and choose who to support and then you realize what it would actually cost to support all of your favourite bands and decide that the current system of only listening to the freebies works just fine for you and then maybe you'll just support your local bands by going to their shows etc.
It got that bad very fast. I remember around 2000/2001 I hung out on a fairly popular guitar forum. A few of us made some poor-quality home recordings and uploaded them. We just so happened to be the first few users on this forum to do that and they were hugely popular with that crowd. We would spend our free time listening to each others' music and offering suggestions etc. Helping our friends and newbies promote their stuff etc. A few years later and there were several hundred uploads / day and it became impossible to keep track of everything. It got to the point where we would tell our absolute closest friends "I'll listen to it tomorrow" and then never did.
The average music listener NEEDS some kind of medium. Internet radio is probably what I would place my money on. They need someone they like and share taste with to tell them "hey, this band is really good. Check them out". Broadcast radio stations and MTV filled that role in the past, but these days they're completely bought by a few select RIAA bands and the radio is pretty much 100% the same pop song played over and over. People are sick of that, but listening to artists on MySpace or CDBaby is impossible because there's just too damned many and most of them suck.
The point I'm trying to make is that someone with a lot of money, and a lot of experience in the "tell people what to listen to" department (*cough* the current music distribution cartel *cough*) could easily step in, listen to what people ACTUALLY WANT and, um... well, GIVE IT TO THEM. They can filter through all the indie bands online and find the ones that their experience tells them has a chance of selling well. They can market the hell out of the bands online and support their tours etc. They can still have their place. They're just not creative enough to embrace what technology can do for their business. They feel threatened rather than seeing new opportunities.
Nah. It's pretty obvious that William Shatner snuck in and stole them, then sabotaged the flight to cover his tracks. The poor guy. So broke he had to resort to doing crummy tv commercials and now this:(
So fucking what! If I pay money and walk into a clearly marked XXX movie theater, should I be able to sue them because I was offended by raunchy sex scenes?
While I think this suit is ridiculous, that's not a very good example. XXX Movie theaters clearly show X rated movies. San Andreas was rated M, not AO.
Further on that topic, and to play Devil's Advocate a little more, I can envision a scenario where a parent allows his/her teen to buy a game because it's rated 'M'. Then their teen goes on the Internet and downloads a patch, without the parent's knowledge or consent, that unlocks some stuff which in effect turns the 'M' rated game into an 'AO'. In this specific case we all feel it's absurd because the game contains pretty graphic material and the 'AO' stuff is sex. It's obvious that many slashdotters (myself included) feel that sex should warrant a milder rating than graphic violence. Yet that's kind of besides the point. The point is that the game was advertised as one thing and certain people were ok with that. At least, they knew what they were paying for. Then their kids or spouse or kids friends etc. go and download some free patch that turns it into something they didn't pay for. Should those people get money in court ? IMO no, but my opinion only really matters to me. This is an interesting case in that I can't think of any similar.
While I still think Comcast sucks, the close monitoring ofsocial networks, blogs, etc is a big step.
It's only a "step" in the sense that gathering customer feedback is a necessary "first step" in providing better service. If they fail to respond with meeting their customers demands then it's not a "big step" at all. It's nothing.
I'm not so sure about that. If that were true then how did he end up in federal prison in the first place ? Upon being arrested he could have posted bail and fled the country, putting his great "plan B" into play. Escaping the way that he did implies complete spur of the moment to me.
Absolutely. I was entirely self-taught but I spent much of teens looking for an experienced adult programmer who could mentor me. Learning on your own is something you do either way when studying most things. You can't be with your mentor 24/7, after all. And if your mentor does everything for you then you're not learning anything anyway. Point being that learning anything is a always personal endeavour, but it still never hurts to have someone give you suggestions, point you in new directions and tell you what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong etc.
Say what you will about Mr. Turok, but I think it's *really* cool that a bridge officer from Voyager went on to be a mathematical physicist. Imagine our loss if the ship was still stuck in the delta quadrant.
I know that you probably realize this, but the reason for the lack of upload progress is because it's a limitation of the HTTP protocol itself. In order to upload you have to send the data in one big POST request and there's no way, via HTTP, to poll the results on the server.
That's why, currently, upload progress bars are implemented in HTML/javascript/server-side scripting. It requires a server side script to dump the current file size on the server and some javascript to poll the server-side script. In order to get upload progress bars standard in all browsers there would be have to be a standard way, via HTTP, to poll the status of the upload on the server.
So don't blame the browsers solely. To get this feature implemented would require modifications to the servers too. So the best way to get this feature implemented in all browsers (in a widely-accepted, standard fashion) is to call for an addition to the HTTP protocol.
Maybe they should just stick to the controlled substances being dispensed over the counter from say, a liquor store? Very difficult to beat the eye to eye sales method.
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You can grind and dissolve stale bread in (lots of) water and drink the slurry (again, coke makes things interesting here, too!)
Obviously you're being funny, but I can't help but point out that there's lots of far better ways to make use of stale bread. Croutons for salad. Crushing into crumbs for breading stuff. Making a poultry stuffing etc.
For everything wonderful that the Internet is, it doesn't automatically replace everything that we had before it. Realizing such issues, court documents can still be made public without having them published on the Internet. Laws can be created to criminalize the re-publication of such documents before trials and hearings are concluded etc. while still allowing full access to those who request them in person.
I'm not involved with the project so I can't speak for them and give you an authoritative answer ... but knowing that every single piece of software in the distro is GPL (or OSI approved or whatever ... I'm not familiar with the specifics of the project) is beneficial when chosing a framework to build upon.
One example: a hardware manufacturer that wants to sell a machine pre-installed with Linux. With certain distros there may be proprietary software that you don't have the right to redistribute. With GNewSense you have 100% peace of mind and no hassle dealing with licenses etc.
I've always just taken this for granted and assumed that everywhere does it, but your suggestion of colour coding chemicals has me thinking that maybe not.
Where I live (Ontario, Canada) we have a system of signs, similar to road signs, that are on product packaging which tells you what potential dangers the product poses. There's a symbol that means the chemical is corrosive, a symbol that says it's flammable, a symbol that says it's toxic when consumed etc. Most chemicals also list their ingredients if it's a compound. We don't have a symbol for carcinogens (yet), but from the sound of things, it does pretty much what your colour-code suggestion would do.
I'll encrypt what I need to be private. And let them block all they want within the SLA, I'll pay for the level of service I need.
What happens when ISPs start to throttle (or block all together) encrypted or binary data ?
I can already imagine the justifications: "binary data consists largely of pirated software and media!", "only terrorists, pedophiles and other criminals have something to hide and use encryption!" "yap yap yap!"
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I believe that the Internet is one of the greatest assets for human advancement and achievement since the printing press. It is far too important to us to allow certain groups with special interests to ruin it for everyone. One last resort is to force ISPs who succumb to government pressure out of business. In the meantime we have to use every single democratic and diplomatic means at our disposal to force government to make the decisions that serve the larger population's wishes, and not the small special interest groups that want to shut the rest of the world up.
This whole concept bothers me greatly.
The GP said (paraphrasing) "the reason has to be fair". What about fairness to the company ?
What about the fact that if an employer wants to get rid of someone badly enough that it will set them up, plot and scheme so as to make it "legal" that that implies there is a good reason to want to fire the employee to begin with ?
I don't really like the idea that "because I don't like you" is not considered a "good" reason to fire someone. On the surface it may sound cold and I'll admit that there are times when someone may fire an individual for personal reasons rather than business reasons. However, in my view, work forces are (usually) teams and if an individual on the team is not liked by the others then that brings down the entire team. It causes productivity and profit to suffer. In this case firing the individual may be illegal in EU because his/her track record is good. The company loses because of employment laws.
Just doesn't sit right with me.
I believe the word you are looking for is "Tax".
Not only that, but having watched the video, talk about a flamebait remark. The whole process REQUIRES "real" actors. They perform, are recorded and then the software analyses the video and allows the "animators" to transform the performance in various ways (replacing the human with a character for example). It's similar to motion capture only it doesn't require the performer to wear a suit or markers etc.
IANAL but wouldn't a wrongful dismissal case be a civil suit ? In that case you don't need to "prove beyond a reasonable doubt". There is no jury. It's just your word against your opponents and the judge gets to decide who is telling the truth. Thus all this talk about stampers etc. is completely unnecessary. Just print the e-mail.
Also, you can be fired for any reason what-so-ever so long as there are no laws preventing the dismissal over that specific issue (race, gender, sexual orientation). I highly doubt that the guy would even stand a chance in a wrongful dismissal suit against his employer in this case.
Remember the goal is fear, panic and chaos. Dead people are just one way to create fear, not even the best one since (as they discovered) killing Americans has a nasty tendency to piss us off and cause us to break things.
One theory as to why Bin-Laden / Al-Qaeda attacked the US was because Bin-Laden wanted to wage a long drawn-out war against the US that would cripple their economy much the same way it did the Soviet Union. There's no way that Al-Qaeda could win a war on US soil so they attacked the US, knowing that they would opt for nothing less than war. Al-Qaeda lured the US into Afghanistan where they could slowly bleed them dry over a few years just like they did to the USSR in the 80's.
Of course they underestimated the US army who pretty much kicked ass in Afghanistan very quickly. It seemed that the US was not going to fall prey. That is, of course, until they invaded Iraq, gaving Bin-Laden everything he could have possibly dreamed of and then some.
Maybe I'm missing something and there's a loop-hole, but AFAIK In Canada selling this information is illegal, and I thought that medical records were confidential in the US as well (apparently not). In Canada patients and health care professionals have client/doctor confidentiality similar to client / lawyer confidentiality. A doctor's office would lose it's practice if it handed over information to anyone without the patient's consent.
Of course there's downsides to our system too. Since health care is public doctor's can only charge so much and thus the only way to increase their income is to get more and more patients so doctors are over-worked and the waiting rooms are always packed with huge waits. Plus more and more of our top doctors move to the US where they can earn more. There's gotta be some kind of happy medium where everyone wins.
This is a very valid point, but that doesn't mean everything goes down the tube. It's great marketing. Even if the users never boot into Linux the word still got to them. And I suspect that many who do format and install Windows will at least boot into Linux once or twice and give it a shot. A few may even stick with it when they see it does everything they wanted the cheap PC for anyway.
The iron fist of Ballmer crushing down? The face of evil? Hardly. The Microsoft reps were completely non-confrontational, and I, for one, was happy to hear what they had to say. I suppose I could have sat there and plugged my ear with one finger while singing "la la la la la" between bites of pizza, but then I'd kind of look like the closed-minded one, don't you think?
Do you honestly expect Satan will appear before you completely red with horns and a pitch-fork ?
Have we not learned ANYTHING from ultra-orthodox religious zealots ?
I'm going to have to give RMS a call. I've got my work cut out for me and need all the help I can get.
What amazes me is that there's any feelings what-so-ever, by anyone, about "giving up".
The record industries are showing a complete lack of understanding and creativity, and slashdotters are calling them dinosaurs who are partying at the boat house while the boat has sailed ship.
With the left-over resources that the big 5 have, they could easily prove that there is still a place for them. They just need to embrace new technologies and stop fighting media that can help them. I understand and realize all of the potential reasons that they have for not wanting to / being afraid of doing this. But honestly, I'm a webmaster who runs some pretty big sites (that will remain nameless) yet I failed when I tried to promote an album of mine online. Of course my album was shit, but the point is that even with new technology it's not exactly easy to go out there and make money with music. The real problem today is that there's so many indie bands trying to make it in the new frontier that the average listener has a very hard time filtering out all of the crap and finding bands they like. Even once you find a list of groups that you really like there's so bloody many of them that you have to pick and choose who to support and then you realize what it would actually cost to support all of your favourite bands and decide that the current system of only listening to the freebies works just fine for you and then maybe you'll just support your local bands by going to their shows etc.
It got that bad very fast. I remember around 2000/2001 I hung out on a fairly popular guitar forum. A few of us made some poor-quality home recordings and uploaded them. We just so happened to be the first few users on this forum to do that and they were hugely popular with that crowd. We would spend our free time listening to each others' music and offering suggestions etc. Helping our friends and newbies promote their stuff etc. A few years later and there were several hundred uploads / day and it became impossible to keep track of everything. It got to the point where we would tell our absolute closest friends "I'll listen to it tomorrow" and then never did.
The average music listener NEEDS some kind of medium. Internet radio is probably what I would place my money on. They need someone they like and share taste with to tell them "hey, this band is really good. Check them out". Broadcast radio stations and MTV filled that role in the past, but these days they're completely bought by a few select RIAA bands and the radio is pretty much 100% the same pop song played over and over. People are sick of that, but listening to artists on MySpace or CDBaby is impossible because there's just too damned many and most of them suck.
The point I'm trying to make is that someone with a lot of money, and a lot of experience in the "tell people what to listen to" department (*cough* the current music distribution cartel *cough*) could easily step in, listen to what people ACTUALLY WANT and, um ... well, GIVE IT TO THEM. They can filter through all the indie bands online and find the ones that their experience tells them has a chance of selling well. They can market the hell out of the bands online and support their tours etc. They can still have their place. They're just not creative enough to embrace what technology can do for their business. They feel threatened rather than seeing new opportunities.
Nah. It's pretty obvious that William Shatner snuck in and stole them, then sabotaged the flight to cover his tracks. The poor guy. So broke he had to resort to doing crummy tv commercials and now this :(
So fucking what! If I pay money and walk into a clearly marked XXX movie theater, should I be able to sue them because I was offended by raunchy sex scenes?
While I think this suit is ridiculous, that's not a very good example. XXX Movie theaters clearly show X rated movies. San Andreas was rated M, not AO.
Further on that topic, and to play Devil's Advocate a little more, I can envision a scenario where a parent allows his/her teen to buy a game because it's rated 'M'. Then their teen goes on the Internet and downloads a patch, without the parent's knowledge or consent, that unlocks some stuff which in effect turns the 'M' rated game into an 'AO'. In this specific case we all feel it's absurd because the game contains pretty graphic material and the 'AO' stuff is sex. It's obvious that many slashdotters (myself included) feel that sex should warrant a milder rating than graphic violence. Yet that's kind of besides the point. The point is that the game was advertised as one thing and certain people were ok with that. At least, they knew what they were paying for. Then their kids or spouse or kids friends etc. go and download some free patch that turns it into something they didn't pay for. Should those people get money in court ? IMO no, but my opinion only really matters to me. This is an interesting case in that I can't think of any similar.
Um, hate to inform you ... you just did!
While I still think Comcast sucks, the close monitoring ofsocial networks, blogs, etc is a big step.
It's only a "step" in the sense that gathering customer feedback is a necessary "first step" in providing better service. If they fail to respond with meeting their customers demands then it's not a "big step" at all. It's nothing.
I'm not so sure about that. If that were true then how did he end up in federal prison in the first place ? Upon being arrested he could have posted bail and fled the country, putting his great "plan B" into play. Escaping the way that he did implies complete spur of the moment to me.
Absolutely. I was entirely self-taught but I spent much of teens looking for an experienced adult programmer who could mentor me. Learning on your own is something you do either way when studying most things. You can't be with your mentor 24/7, after all. And if your mentor does everything for you then you're not learning anything anyway. Point being that learning anything is a always personal endeavour, but it still never hurts to have someone give you suggestions, point you in new directions and tell you what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong etc.
So, to increase accuracy, I'm supposed to slap at the screen with my pizza-slopped fingers?
Is getting pizza sauce all over your mouse really any better ?
Though I do admit that finger prints would be my primary concern. However, I wouldn't touch any input device with pizza-slopped fingers.
Say what you will about Mr. Turok, but I think it's *really* cool that a bridge officer from Voyager went on to be a mathematical physicist. Imagine our loss if the ship was still stuck in the delta quadrant.
I know that you probably realize this, but the reason for the lack of upload progress is because it's a limitation of the HTTP protocol itself. In order to upload you have to send the data in one big POST request and there's no way, via HTTP, to poll the results on the server.
That's why, currently, upload progress bars are implemented in HTML/javascript/server-side scripting. It requires a server side script to dump the current file size on the server and some javascript to poll the server-side script. In order to get upload progress bars standard in all browsers there would be have to be a standard way, via HTTP, to poll the status of the upload on the server.
So don't blame the browsers solely. To get this feature implemented would require modifications to the servers too. So the best way to get this feature implemented in all browsers (in a widely-accepted, standard fashion) is to call for an addition to the HTTP protocol.
Maybe they should just stick to the controlled substances being dispensed over the counter from say, a liquor store?
Very difficult to beat the eye to eye sales method.
But then we'd have to pay them a salary. :(
"We also tacitly accept a few wrongful convictions..."
Speak for yourself.