However, a claim of certain acts -- including pedophilia (and domestic abuse, etc) -- instantly initiates criminal proceedings, starting out with separation and investigation. They are engaging in acts that do have very serious immediate consequences that involve law enforcement and the courts. These procedures are increasingly mandatory in many locales, with an assertion of "I made it up" being insufficient to stop investigation and/or prosecution. For example, had they made these claims against their parents, they might well have been removed from the home by the courts (and almost certainly would have been in California, according to a child care worker I just IMed this link to; she notes that forwarded communication is a fairly common reason to start investigations, and removal is a precautionary measure).
These are serious accusations that typically *do* initiate law enforcement and both family and criminal court involvement (and that investigation and court involvement will encompass the children). Brushing it off as "at most a civil tort of libel" is not quite a complete picture.
You're really saying that you can't write about people without getting their permission? Really? No historical figures can be written about without their prior approval in any newspaper or book for sale? You can't open a New York Times article with "I was considering the relevance and legacy of Hugh Hefner" without violating his right to his name? A person can't sell "Glenn Beck Sucks" buttons (or "Nobama" buttons)?
Writing about a public (or private) figure does not require their approval, commercial or not. From a novel to a film documentary to a button or bumpersticker, you can reference people all you want. He didn't stick an image of a Balrog, Ent or other creation of Tolkien on there. He referred to Tolkien as an author. Which he is. I have no idea how you're interpreting this as "protecting trademarks".
Journalists for smaller publications also use it. Videos and large image archives (of an event, for example) that are difficult to send as email attachments tend to be on RapidShare and Box.net.
I loathe both as a result, as there is a tendency for the people who use it to be rather non-technical, so when I get a link from RapidShare forwarded to me from a publisher saying "I can't get this to work", it's usually some kind of oddball strange error in filetype or zero byte files all neatly named in a zip. I'm not sure how they manage to do the latter, but I've seen it from more than a few people sending in stories with photos. Then again, they get paid to write, not be internet savvy.
So *I* associate it with writers with limited tech skills rather than piracy. And that would be another legal use... and those unedited videos being tossed back and forth can be pretty large.
The idea of "lives" may be rather short anyways. How many of us are hunter/gatherers and farmers? Not enough to start from scratch.
If you're talking about humans in general, plenty. Alas, the hunter/gatherer population of the world don't have many specialized roles such as engineers or mechanics. They tend to be really busy hunting and gathering in their forest or on their island.
Well, you'd also have Ted Nugent with a bow running naked through the woods, so that's a plus.
I believe you're both at each other's throats due to your differing definitions of what is being seen as "better".
She's better equipped through personal wealth to explore treatments for her child.
She's poorly equipped through lack of test subjects (she's only got the one, and no control group) to draw medical conclusions from any of the treatments she gives.
He does advocate people reading the forums. Just not the developers themselves.
Are you also advocating that the developers should answer the phones, and if they aren't doing it themselves, then the company should not have phones?
I have layers of trusted people between myself and my developers and the clients who use our software. They watch for things that people mistakenly do, even if it isn't a bug, and they filter out erroneous bug reports (issues with the client's internet, etc). We have a core group of clients that we've worked with for years who have direct access to developers and visa versa. We've forged a productive relationship with them. I don't think that's much different than anything stated in this essay.
In Marin? Probably more than a few. Marin is an odd mix of wealth, technology and near superstitious respect for "natural" as they define it. I'm not saying it's bad, but it is a culture where there are probably a decent number of people who are diagnosed with EMF sensitivity and whose friends and coworkers make allowances for that.
It's that respect for oddball beliefs that is at work here.
Can they open a sealed package or the mail in envelopes you haven't yet opened? If so, then it sounds like arrest allows a search of your person. I am not sure that is the case, however.
I was under the impression that the only reason they could look at what you have on you is because they inventory your personal items during arrest, which places them in plain sight. A sealed envelope could not be opened. In the case of your smart phone, it is a mailbox with personal correspondence that is not in plain sight.
To really put it out there, I'm not terribly concerned if your phone is set to show callers or display text messages, and as you're sitting in a cell, they happen to read an inbound text or see somebody calling in. Again, plain sight, and your cell phone is in the possession of the police. It's the same as if they glanced into the side window of your impounded car and read a note.
To keep these things fair, however, the *internal* content of your phone is like the inside of your car's trunk... they should only be able to search your phone without consent in the same kinds of situations that they can search the trunk of your car without consent.
I'd take up your new challenge, but I already failed your first.
What *does* it mean? That there are more custom abilities of the phone, or that the phone can be customized, or that there is a wider variety of custom phones (different brands)?
Your point is often valid, and there are many legitimate reasons to synthesize new words (including for purely aesthetic reasons). In this case, however, there is a fairly large amount of ambiguity as to what the lexicomposer* is actually trying to convey.
* Yes, I made that term up just to make you feel warm and fuzzy. The original term is uncertain in meaning.
Actually, I think you just pinned the earliest and easiest format to use.
Go grab a copy of Creative Computing from the mid 1970s, or one of David Ahl's compilation books and sit down at an emulator. Type in the program. Run it.
Dead trees are still surprisingly good at being read many many decades after they were "saved". In addition, making a copy is pretty easy as well. Putting it onto long term media (aka acid free paper) will ensure you can type your nuclear reactor simulator or non-real-time lunar lander game into whatever we're using in 2100. That way, your descendants can solve the Towers of Hanoi in a clunky text mode interface over a neural interface.
I just use ion3 under KDE. No floating windows at all, and certainly no rounded corners. It's as easy as setting KDEWM=/usr/bin/ion3 (I add it in $HOME/.kde/env).
I am moving to a new laptop, and I'm setting it up with i3, which is a nice replacement for ex-ion3 folk who like static tiling window managers with tabs in the frames. Both work fine with KDE, nice and easy, plasmoids run in tiles (if you like them; I personally don't), and everything is fine.
rekonq is, and that's the latest web browser based on the KHTML derived code from KDE. It's basically Chrome with a KDE interface. There are others, like Arora (which is a simple Qt based browser).
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And you're ignoring Senator Lloyd Bentsen as well... they don't cite him for his coined term "astroturf". And Congress of the 1760s is getting ignored for their contribution of the coined term "Indiana" for the Land of the Indians. Gah! And they missed explaining Jeff Howe's contribution of "crowdsourcing", Richard Dawkins' term "meme", and... wait... YOU! You are ABSOLUTELY REVOLTING for not having explained that your own nom de web is thanks to the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures and the essays of William Thomson, the first Baron Kelvin! Why aren't you giving the good folk of the 13th GCWM any acknowledgement? Hunh? HUNH?...either that, or coined words simply enter the popular vocabulary and become used as a regular part of the language.
I scored a 71 (near top 10%). Which may explain why I am happy and content with my life and family.
It also may explain why I feel genuine concern for your well being if you have such trouble creating meaningful connections to the people around you.
Same here. In fact, that's one of the next skills I'm planning on writing up for the original wiki the content of this one was lifted from. Somehow it seems slightly perverse to think about posting photos of my nibs online.
As the linked to wiki indicates on the home page, they took a chunk of content from the more complete Wiki Spot Wiki of the same title. In fact, the owner of this wiki wanted to take the Wiki Spot Wiki's logo and everything. It would be nice if the Slashdot editors could give obsoleteskills.wikispot.org a little linkage love too, since I and several other wiki editors spent time writing the entries there, setting up photo shoots (note my 8 track of Monty Python) and basically creating content which was basically lifted for this wiki.
Ah, well.
To both of you: that was a damn fine example of two people with differing experience, knowledge and resulting conclusions laying out their views in a polite, well written and open minded manner. Maybe I need to start coming back to Slashdot.
I use a 17" "big" laptop on my desktop, and carry a Libretto 110ct (which is smaller than these machines). The Libretto has a 60 gig drive with all my files and syncs; it's a fantastic solution, but maxed out at 64 megs of memory, it is sorely limited. There's not been much activity in the ultraportable space for many years... not in the US at any rate. These are great, but the "big" laptops merely become the home machines.
Hopefully darn unlikely. Otherwise it wouldn't be a person who reflects the beliefs of the voters. It's that whole pesky democracy thing, you know. I'm sure you could pick better people... just like everybody else.
Yep, I figured I might be corrected. I was under the mild impression that the fuel combusting behind the engine was the additional thrust generated by the afterburner (hence the name). I'm not terribly surprised to be wrong, since it's something I merely picked up at air shows. So the visual effect is wasted energy and a side effect, not the actual propulsion. Thanks for the clear explanation.
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However, a claim of certain acts -- including pedophilia (and domestic abuse, etc) -- instantly initiates criminal proceedings, starting out with separation and investigation. They are engaging in acts that do have very serious immediate consequences that involve law enforcement and the courts. These procedures are increasingly mandatory in many locales, with an assertion of "I made it up" being insufficient to stop investigation and/or prosecution. For example, had they made these claims against their parents, they might well have been removed from the home by the courts (and almost certainly would have been in California, according to a child care worker I just IMed this link to; she notes that forwarded communication is a fairly common reason to start investigations, and removal is a precautionary measure).
These are serious accusations that typically *do* initiate law enforcement and both family and criminal court involvement (and that investigation and court involvement will encompass the children). Brushing it off as "at most a civil tort of libel" is not quite a complete picture.
Better idea - they can kiss my ass. Why should I have to pay a royalty when I purchased all the music I possess?
Because they have turned into terrorists -- they've threatened to wreck the Edmund Fitzgerald!
I see your Gerrold and raise you Tales of the Continuing Time, which I'm still hoping to see completed, dammit.
Wait... WHAT?
You're really saying that you can't write about people without getting their permission? Really? No historical figures can be written about without their prior approval in any newspaper or book for sale? You can't open a New York Times article with "I was considering the relevance and legacy of Hugh Hefner" without violating his right to his name? A person can't sell "Glenn Beck Sucks" buttons (or "Nobama" buttons)?
Writing about a public (or private) figure does not require their approval, commercial or not. From a novel to a film documentary to a button or bumpersticker, you can reference people all you want. He didn't stick an image of a Balrog, Ent or other creation of Tolkien on there. He referred to Tolkien as an author. Which he is. I have no idea how you're interpreting this as "protecting trademarks".
Wait, are you talking about Palm or RIM?
(wait for it... wait for it... *rimshot*!)
Journalists for smaller publications also use it. Videos and large image archives (of an event, for example) that are difficult to send as email attachments tend to be on RapidShare and Box.net.
I loathe both as a result, as there is a tendency for the people who use it to be rather non-technical, so when I get a link from RapidShare forwarded to me from a publisher saying "I can't get this to work", it's usually some kind of oddball strange error in filetype or zero byte files all neatly named in a zip. I'm not sure how they manage to do the latter, but I've seen it from more than a few people sending in stories with photos. Then again, they get paid to write, not be internet savvy.
So *I* associate it with writers with limited tech skills rather than piracy. And that would be another legal use... and those unedited videos being tossed back and forth can be pretty large.
The idea of "lives" may be rather short anyways. How many of us are hunter/gatherers and farmers? Not enough to start from scratch.
If you're talking about humans in general, plenty. Alas, the hunter/gatherer population of the world don't have many specialized roles such as engineers or mechanics. They tend to be really busy hunting and gathering in their forest or on their island.
Well, you'd also have Ted Nugent with a bow running naked through the woods, so that's a plus.
I believe you're both at each other's throats due to your differing definitions of what is being seen as "better".
She's better equipped through personal wealth to explore treatments for her child.
She's poorly equipped through lack of test subjects (she's only got the one, and no control group) to draw medical conclusions from any of the treatments she gives.
He does advocate people reading the forums. Just not the developers themselves.
Are you also advocating that the developers should answer the phones, and if they aren't doing it themselves, then the company should not have phones?
I have layers of trusted people between myself and my developers and the clients who use our software. They watch for things that people mistakenly do, even if it isn't a bug, and they filter out erroneous bug reports (issues with the client's internet, etc). We have a core group of clients that we've worked with for years who have direct access to developers and visa versa. We've forged a productive relationship with them. I don't think that's much different than anything stated in this essay.
In Marin? Probably more than a few. Marin is an odd mix of wealth, technology and near superstitious respect for "natural" as they define it. I'm not saying it's bad, but it is a culture where there are probably a decent number of people who are diagnosed with EMF sensitivity and whose friends and coworkers make allowances for that.
It's that respect for oddball beliefs that is at work here.
Can they open a sealed package or the mail in envelopes you haven't yet opened? If so, then it sounds like arrest allows a search of your person. I am not sure that is the case, however.
I was under the impression that the only reason they could look at what you have on you is because they inventory your personal items during arrest, which places them in plain sight. A sealed envelope could not be opened. In the case of your smart phone, it is a mailbox with personal correspondence that is not in plain sight.
To really put it out there, I'm not terribly concerned if your phone is set to show callers or display text messages, and as you're sitting in a cell, they happen to read an inbound text or see somebody calling in. Again, plain sight, and your cell phone is in the possession of the police. It's the same as if they glanced into the side window of your impounded car and read a note.
To keep these things fair, however, the *internal* content of your phone is like the inside of your car's trunk... they should only be able to search your phone without consent in the same kinds of situations that they can search the trunk of your car without consent.
I'd take up your new challenge, but I already failed your first.
What *does* it mean? That there are more custom abilities of the phone, or that the phone can be customized, or that there is a wider variety of custom phones (different brands)?
Your point is often valid, and there are many legitimate reasons to synthesize new words (including for purely aesthetic reasons). In this case, however, there is a fairly large amount of ambiguity as to what the lexicomposer* is actually trying to convey.
* Yes, I made that term up just to make you feel warm and fuzzy. The original term is uncertain in meaning.
Actually, I think you just pinned the earliest and easiest format to use.
Go grab a copy of Creative Computing from the mid 1970s, or one of David Ahl's compilation books and sit down at an emulator. Type in the program. Run it.
Dead trees are still surprisingly good at being read many many decades after they were "saved". In addition, making a copy is pretty easy as well. Putting it onto long term media (aka acid free paper) will ensure you can type your nuclear reactor simulator or non-real-time lunar lander game into whatever we're using in 2100. That way, your descendants can solve the Towers of Hanoi in a clunky text mode interface over a neural interface.
I just use ion3 under KDE. No floating windows at all, and certainly no rounded corners. It's as easy as setting KDEWM=/usr/bin/ion3 (I add it in $HOME/.kde/env).
I am moving to a new laptop, and I'm setting it up with i3, which is a nice replacement for ex-ion3 folk who like static tiling window managers with tabs in the frames. Both work fine with KDE, nice and easy, plasmoids run in tiles (if you like them; I personally don't), and everything is fine.
KHTML isn't a browser.
rekonq is, and that's the latest web browser based on the KHTML derived code from KDE. It's basically Chrome with a KDE interface. There are others, like Arora (which is a simple Qt based browser).
And you're ignoring Senator Lloyd Bentsen as well... they don't cite him for his coined term "astroturf". And Congress of the 1760s is getting ignored for their contribution of the coined term "Indiana" for the Land of the Indians. Gah! And they missed explaining Jeff Howe's contribution of "crowdsourcing", Richard Dawkins' term "meme", and... wait... YOU! You are ABSOLUTELY REVOLTING for not having explained that your own nom de web is thanks to the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures and the essays of William Thomson, the first Baron Kelvin! Why aren't you giving the good folk of the 13th GCWM any acknowledgement? Hunh? HUNH? ...either that, or coined words simply enter the popular vocabulary and become used as a regular part of the language.
(61, rather... 71 would be one above the maximum score).
I scored a 71 (near top 10%). Which may explain why I am happy and content with my life and family. It also may explain why I feel genuine concern for your well being if you have such trouble creating meaningful connections to the people around you.
I believe they mean Churn Butter by hand, which is what it is listed as on the original wiki that this one was lifted from.
Same here. In fact, that's one of the next skills I'm planning on writing up for the original wiki the content of this one was lifted from. Somehow it seems slightly perverse to think about posting photos of my nibs online.
As the linked to wiki indicates on the home page, they took a chunk of content from the more complete Wiki Spot Wiki of the same title. In fact, the owner of this wiki wanted to take the Wiki Spot Wiki's logo and everything. It would be nice if the Slashdot editors could give obsoleteskills.wikispot.org a little linkage love too, since I and several other wiki editors spent time writing the entries there, setting up photo shoots (note my 8 track of Monty Python) and basically creating content which was basically lifted for this wiki. Ah, well.
To both of you: that was a damn fine example of two people with differing experience, knowledge and resulting conclusions laying out their views in a polite, well written and open minded manner. Maybe I need to start coming back to Slashdot.
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