"this court doesn't recognise a roundabout as a valid traffic item'
Sounds like a good excuse to sue the city for installing "non-recognized traffic items" then (or whatever the hell they want to call them).
Roundabouts suck. They especially suck for large intersections or heavy traffic because they entirely don't work in those situations, and they especially suck for medium or light traffic because they're entirely unnecessary in those situations. They're deliberately slow and inefficient, and to top it all off they're extremely dangerous unless everyone knows how to properly enter and leave them.
Context, you fail it. Comprehension, you fail it too.
Context is everything: in a "falling at terminal velocity simulator", you are falling through air. In a zero-gravity simulator, you are not, because the air immediately surrounding you is moving at the same speed as yourself. That's the context. Comprehend?
Whoever loses is permitted to appeal. But they can easily prevent a case like this from creating too much precedence and keep it out of the higher courts by simply giving a token settlement to Glik. He won't be able to appeal, the city will opt not to appeal, and that will be the end of it.
Interesting. Thanks for stopping by and inviting conversation.
I do have a few questions though. What does the filter do? Does it block the words, or flag them for review? Does it search for exact words, or would it ban words-in-words such as "multithreaded" and "cumlative"? Are you going to have to come up with an exception list to un-ban those words?
Personally I disagree with censorship, because it's always going to be a losing battle: too little benefit, too much cost.
So this one time, I read a book about this kid in Holland who stuck his finger into a queer hole in a dike and probably saved the entire country. Then I went to shop class and screwed a few faggots together (managed to prick my finger in the process). But what do I know, I'm just a stupid homo sapiens. Blue-footed boobies are, of course, naughty, as well as tits, as well as cocks. Wouldn't want anyone seeing a male chicken, for christ's sakes! Ask Dick Cheney, I'm sure he'd agree.
The list is "perfectly appropriate" and "reasonable", and anyone using those words has "committed a mistake" and probably shouldn't ever get a job, anywhere, ever.
(ten. if you found them all, you win a fucking prize.)
You either are very stupid or very naive. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume naive.
Actually... no. You're right. No stalker will ever manage to take advantage of the backdoor that we intentionally design into a system for the sole use of law enforcement.
Assuming you're only naive and not stupid, you should probably figure out that was sarcasm.
You hope, anyway. Cause it's not like any one has ever "crack/socially engineer"-ed his way into massively logged and controlled police-only access areas before. Especially not anyone with autobiograpies that have recently been reviewed on sites like Slashdot.
No, just stalker that manages to crack/socially engineer his way in to the "create your profile's past history" back-door that only LEO are supposed to be able to use.
When the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was formalized in 1996, the United States was among nine nations that did not ratify it. In part, US officials objected that technologies of the time were not reliable enough to ensure accurate detection of secret nuclear tests.
Can somebody figure out what happened to the old preferences page that let you set the score adjustments for karma bonus and moderation types? I can't find it anywhere in the D2 system, nor any other page to adjust those settings. I used to be able to access it directly via URL. Now even that has been removed. I don't remember what the URL was, but I think I have it saved at home in my e-mail somewhere. It also has a "reset account" button that reverted all settings to their defaults.
My score adjustment for karma bonus is 0, for some reason, so posts by users with excellent karma have a base score of 1 when I'm logged in (but 2 if I'm logged out). I can't change it because I can't find the setting.
It's "Real Alternative". I.e. obviously and explicitly not Real. It's like the store-brand cereals that say "If you like Name Brand® Cereal(TM), try this!"
They're only allowed to claim that it infringes if the name is, (1) similar to RealNetwork's trademark (which "Real Alternative" is), (2) in the same field (which it is, but for instance the United Dairy Industry Association's "REAL" trademark isn't), and (3) could be confused with RealNetwork by consumers.
It can't possibly be confused for RealNetwork, since it's obviously an alternative to RealNetwork.
Not really. There's infinitely much of the universe that the photon can never reach, because from its frame of reference it only travels in a perfectly straight line.
Slashdot Mirror
it's an advert for views from toms hw, so the article is laid over 17 pages
No shit. And then it pissed me off even more when I discovered that you have to register to get the printer version.
You're both right.
"this court doesn't recognise a roundabout as a valid traffic item'
Sounds like a good excuse to sue the city for installing "non-recognized traffic items" then (or whatever the hell they want to call them).
Roundabouts suck. They especially suck for large intersections or heavy traffic because they entirely don't work in those situations, and they especially suck for medium or light traffic because they're entirely unnecessary in those situations. They're deliberately slow and inefficient, and to top it all off they're extremely dangerous unless everyone knows how to properly enter and leave them.
You're supposed to put the car into neutral when you're stopped, e.g. at a light. Holding the clutch in the whole time is bad for the clutch assembly.
Context, you fail it. Comprehension, you fail it too.
Context is everything: in a "falling at terminal velocity simulator", you are falling through air. In a zero-gravity simulator, you are not, because the air immediately surrounding you is moving at the same speed as yourself. That's the context. Comprehend?
Whoever loses is permitted to appeal. But they can easily prevent a case like this from creating too much precedence and keep it out of the higher courts by simply giving a token settlement to Glik. He won't be able to appeal, the city will opt not to appeal, and that will be the end of it.
They'll never permit that to happen. No, it'll get settled with a victory in some lower level court that won't matter. You can't appeal if you win.
Interesting. Thanks for stopping by and inviting conversation.
I do have a few questions though. What does the filter do? Does it block the words, or flag them for review? Does it search for exact words, or would it ban words-in-words such as "multithreaded" and "cumlative"? Are you going to have to come up with an exception list to un-ban those words?
Personally I disagree with censorship, because it's always going to be a losing battle: too little benefit, too much cost.
So this one time, I read a book about this kid in Holland who stuck his finger into a queer hole in a dike and probably saved the entire country. Then I went to shop class and screwed a few faggots together (managed to prick my finger in the process). But what do I know, I'm just a stupid homo sapiens. Blue-footed boobies are, of course, naughty, as well as tits, as well as cocks. Wouldn't want anyone seeing a male chicken, for christ's sakes! Ask Dick Cheney, I'm sure he'd agree.
The list is "perfectly appropriate" and "reasonable", and anyone using those words has "committed a mistake" and probably shouldn't ever get a job, anywhere, ever.
(ten. if you found them all, you win a fucking prize.)
You either are very stupid or very naive. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume naive.
Actually... no. You're right. No stalker will ever manage to take advantage of the backdoor that we intentionally design into a system for the sole use of law enforcement.
Assuming you're only naive and not stupid, you should probably figure out that was sarcasm.
There are exceptions to every rule of course. But in general
...it's not always the greatest idea to build those exceptions into the rule on purpose.
You hope, anyway. Cause it's not like any one has ever "crack/socially engineer"-ed his way into massively logged and controlled police-only access areas before. Especially not anyone with autobiograpies that have recently been reviewed on sites like Slashdot.
No, just stalker that manages to crack/socially engineer his way in to the "create your profile's past history" back-door that only LEO are supposed to be able to use.
There are only 10,000 possible PINs. Hashing isn't going to help much.
When the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was formalized in 1996, the United States was among nine nations that did not ratify it. In part, US officials objected that technologies of the time were not reliable enough to ensure accurate detection of secret nuclear tests.
I prefer SMPlayer's interface and hotkeys. But every now and then I'll fire up VLC to play something that for some reason SMPlayer doesn't like.
Can somebody figure out what happened to the old preferences page that let you set the score adjustments for karma bonus and moderation types? I can't find it anywhere in the D2 system, nor any other page to adjust those settings. I used to be able to access it directly via URL. Now even that has been removed. I don't remember what the URL was, but I think I have it saved at home in my e-mail somewhere. It also has a "reset account" button that reverted all settings to their defaults.
My score adjustment for karma bonus is 0, for some reason, so posts by users with excellent karma have a base score of 1 when I'm logged in (but 2 if I'm logged out). I can't change it because I can't find the setting.
Maybe the lowest I have seen is 5 or 9
2 and 5 have posted this year, 7 and 9 posted in 2010.
And CmdrTaco is, of course, UID 1.
April 1st.
It's "Real Alternative". I.e. obviously and explicitly not Real. It's like the store-brand cereals that say "If you like Name Brand® Cereal(TM), try this!"
They're only allowed to claim that it infringes if the name is,
(1) similar to RealNetwork's trademark (which "Real Alternative" is),
(2) in the same field (which it is, but for instance the United Dairy Industry Association's "REAL" trademark isn't), and
(3) could be confused with RealNetwork by consumers.
It can't possibly be confused for RealNetwork, since it's obviously an alternative to RealNetwork.
I'm drawing a total blank on what these purposes could even hypothetically be
Replace "undercover cop" with "stalker" and apply all the same ways of detecting their fake account.
That sounds boring.
21 million years ago called, it wants its photons back.
Not really. There's infinitely much of the universe that the photon can never reach, because from its frame of reference it only travels in a perfectly straight line.
Yes, Win 7. I know I've done it before. I'll try to post screenshots when I get a chance.