Have you ever tried to use HTML content from a phone-sized browser? I have, via phone.com's HTML->HDML transcoder. "Inconvenient" doesn't begin to describe it - the time it would take you to do anything useful is sufficiently great that you'd probably be better off waiting till you could get to a real browser. Or using a non-Internet means of getting the information - there is a world outside the Web, you know.
The UP.Link 4.0, however, does support transcoding HDML sites to WML, so any carrier using a UP.Link 4.0 can present HDML sites to UP.Browser 4.0 phones. I think the UP.Link 4.1 (which isn't out anywhere yet, and won't be for a while, but when it is) will support other WAP browsers besides phone.com's.
phone.com is pushing HDML for the sake of allowing sites to be usable with their old phone browser; they're encouraging developers to, if possible, develop for both WML and HDML. Which isn't quite as hard as it sounds, if you separate content from presentation.
Once all the carriers in the US are using UP.Link 4.0 or better, one can probably use WML and reach most phones, provided one uses only the common subset of functionality between WML and HDML (mostly this means no timers).
An interesting (and IMHO closer) analogy is that the judge is saying that it's illegal for you to dub a copy of your videotape of a movie, and give it to someone who already owns his own copy of the videotape.
The freaky thing is that this may actually be the case, under copyright law. Even though it certainly doesn't violate the spirit of copyright law, it's conceivable that it violates the letter. Bleah.
The emulation of other older systems is a good thing. (Any word if Sega plans to have the DC emulate the Saturn? It may have been a bust in the US, but there are some pretty cool Japanese games, if you can understand Japanese or fake it.)
But the idea of the Dreamcast running Bleem! had me laughing out loud. I can hear Sony's people gnashing their teeth from here...
I believe he's referring to UK's Demon Settles Usenet Libel Case, where Demon Internet settled with a Usenet loon about defamatory postings that were carried on Demon's servers.
This looks like it's by design, actually. Note that there's no moderations attached to it. This account is obviously posting at a default of -2.
You can set your threshold to read -2 postings. Use the controls at the top of the comments listing to set your threshold to -1 and check the Save box, then click "Change". Then manually edit the Threshold field in the URL that gets returned so that it says "threshold=-2", then hit Enter. Voila!
Funny you should mention anime, a form of violent entertainment from a nation with one of the lowest violence rates in the civilized world...
Rather lends support to the idea that violent entertainment lets us sublimate our violent urges rather than act them out, doesn't it?
Of course, Japan's suicide rate is astronomical. Does violent entertainment make you suicidal?:)
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You're thinking of kuro5hin.org. I just discovered it last week, and it's okay. Fewer comments, but the story set doesn't look much worse than Slashdot's; and the gritsboys haven't found it yet, so the comments are pretty good.
I doubt L. Ron is doing any canine copulation right now.:) Also, Ronnie was pretty dead-set against most "deviant" sexual behavior - he was pretty hard-line against gays, and I fully expect he was, if anything, even more opposed to bestiality. So I expect most dogs would've been safe from being "fucked". Drowned, maybe.
But yes, he was an egomaniac, and he certainly seems to have suffered from rather extreme paranoid delusions. Perhaps even "evil", though I would personally tend to reserve such a word for people more able to make moral choices.
But I will say this: your extreme emotionalism isn't going to impress anyone who isn't already a die-hard anti-Scieno. It's so clearly a non-rational reaction. Heck, to a Scientologist, your behavior would probably confirm everything they've been taught about Suppressive Persons. But hey, First Amendment, you can say what you like however you like (more or less).
That's not really fair. There's still a good correlation between mean distance from the nucleus and energy levels. The probability distribution "cloud" of an electron surrounding the nucleus gets bigger as the energy increases.
And in any case, it's certainly not fair to say "there isn't really very much hope for" your respondent - it just means they haven't advanced beyond high-school chem. No reason to disparage someone for that.
I lost a lot of respect for FACTnet when they started hysterically whinging about supposed "subliminal messages" in this movie. And I have no respect at all for that 'yosemite' fellow who's posting anti-Scieno messages on this Slashdot topic. I'd suspect him of being a plant to discredit the anti-Scienos, if I thought Scientology were capable of being that subtle.:)
That said, the xenu.net "heckler" website is a bit more balanced than you give it credit for (of course, it is fundamentally anti-CoS, but it does try to avoid some of the most hysterical stuff), and it does link to www.scientology.org. Albeit way down the page, and amidst a forest of critical links, so don't give it that much credit. Some of the other "heckler" sites are a little more uncritically critical -- if that makes any sense.:)
Oh, is that what polesmoker is supposed to mean. Huh.
Well, that's terribly ironic, since in Scientology homosexuality is a biiiiiiig no-no. Of course, there are rumors that Scientology is blackmailing the guy with stories of past homosexual dalliances, but I don't know if it's true. I personally wouldn't care if he had fooled around with some guy, but I would object to the blackmailing, if it were the case.
I read in some of Martin Gardner's works (specifically, a collection of his Irving Joshua Matrix columns) that "straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel" was a pun inasmuch as the word for gnat in Aramaic was "gamla". So, perhaps this is the intended pun - whereas a gnat (gamla) would be able to pass through the eye of a needle, you'd have more trouble with a camel (galma).
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
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Excuse me, yosemite, but are you trying to be an anti-anti-CoS troll, and thereby discredit the genuine complaints about Scientology?
Actually, no, I take that back. Such a subtle technique is beyond the intellectual reach of the clams.
My mom found the Mission Earth series at a garage sale when I was in high school. I got through about two of the books before I decided the author had some serious issues and that I didn't really need or want to go through the rest. Or maybe it was just "Ewwwww."
And that was before I'd even heard of Scientology.
Or more likely they don't know whether this is real or not. You don't think They tell us everything, do you?
Seriously, it looks like there's enough confusion about the issue for more sensible type people of either side to sit back and say, "Okay, let's see what's really going on before we spout off."
This probably refers to email bombs -- massive volumes of email sent with the intention of crashing their email servers or filling the mail queue. Not nearly as nasty as sending actual explosives via parcel post, but still an act of vandalism that we should condemn.
Except the post you're replying to was a troll. It didn't present any real arguments against religion, it just slammed religious belief. It's hardly any better than Shrub's dad saying publically that atheists shouldn't be considered US citizens.
Congratulations, AC, you've just proven yourself to be even worse than Ralph Reed. And that's saying something. Bigot.
I don't want to see Ralph Reed dead. I want to see him discredited, exposed as the bigot he is. Or else for him to renounce his past bigotry. But unfortunately, as long as there's that miniscule but vocal group of people as bigoted as him, neither is particularly likely.
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What protected environment exists in any other operating system? The only such thing I know of that's in wide use is the Java applet sandbox.
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The reason it isn't a user option is that if it were, malicious code could disable it.
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Have you ever tried to use HTML content from a phone-sized browser? I have, via phone.com's HTML->HDML transcoder. "Inconvenient" doesn't begin to describe it - the time it would take you to do anything useful is sufficiently great that you'd probably be better off waiting till you could get to a real browser. Or using a non-Internet means of getting the information - there is a world outside the Web, you know.
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phone.com is pushing HDML for the sake of allowing sites to be usable with their old phone browser; they're encouraging developers to, if possible, develop for both WML and HDML. Which isn't quite as hard as it sounds, if you separate content from presentation.
Once all the carriers in the US are using UP.Link 4.0 or better, one can probably use WML and reach most phones, provided one uses only the common subset of functionality between WML and HDML (mostly this means no timers).
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How should it be improved? Be specific.
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The freaky thing is that this may actually be the case, under copyright law. Even though it certainly doesn't violate the spirit of copyright law, it's conceivable that it violates the letter. Bleah.
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But the idea of the Dreamcast running Bleem! had me laughing out loud. I can hear Sony's people gnashing their teeth from here...
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Nice gun-control troll, by the way.
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You can set your threshold to read -2 postings. Use the controls at the top of the comments listing to set your threshold to -1 and check the Save box, then click "Change". Then manually edit the Threshold field in the URL that gets returned so that it says "threshold=-2", then hit Enter. Voila!
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Rather lends support to the idea that violent entertainment lets us sublimate our violent urges rather than act them out, doesn't it?
Of course, Japan's suicide rate is astronomical. Does violent entertainment make you suicidal? :)
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You're thinking of kuro5hin.org. I just discovered it last week, and it's okay. Fewer comments, but the story set doesn't look much worse than Slashdot's; and the gritsboys haven't found it yet, so the comments are pretty good.
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But yes, he was an egomaniac, and he certainly seems to have suffered from rather extreme paranoid delusions. Perhaps even "evil", though I would personally tend to reserve such a word for people more able to make moral choices.
But I will say this: your extreme emotionalism isn't going to impress anyone who isn't already a die-hard anti-Scieno. It's so clearly a non-rational reaction. Heck, to a Scientologist, your behavior would probably confirm everything they've been taught about Suppressive Persons. But hey, First Amendment, you can say what you like however you like (more or less).
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And in any case, it's certainly not fair to say "there isn't really very much hope for" your respondent - it just means they haven't advanced beyond high-school chem. No reason to disparage someone for that.
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That said, the xenu.net "heckler" website is a bit more balanced than you give it credit for (of course, it is fundamentally anti-CoS, but it does try to avoid some of the most hysterical stuff), and it does link to www.scientology.org. Albeit way down the page, and amidst a forest of critical links, so don't give it that much credit. Some of the other "heckler" sites are a little more uncritically critical -- if that makes any sense. :)
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Speaking of biased and unfair, don't confuse the attitude of Microsoft with the attitude of its employees. :)
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Well, that's terribly ironic, since in Scientology homosexuality is a biiiiiiig no-no. Of course, there are rumors that Scientology is blackmailing the guy with stories of past homosexual dalliances, but I don't know if it's true. I personally wouldn't care if he had fooled around with some guy, but I would object to the blackmailing, if it were the case.
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Of course, I could be totally wrong.
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Actually, no, I take that back. Such a subtle technique is beyond the intellectual reach of the clams.
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And that was before I'd even heard of Scientology.
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Seriously, it looks like there's enough confusion about the issue for more sensible type people of either side to sit back and say, "Okay, let's see what's really going on before we spout off."
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This probably refers to email bombs -- massive volumes of email sent with the intention of crashing their email servers or filling the mail queue. Not nearly as nasty as sending actual explosives via parcel post, but still an act of vandalism that we should condemn.
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Okay, I've got to hand it to you. That's one of the more subtle hot grits posts I've seen. :-)
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What controls are there to prevent people from injecting legitimate businesses' 800 numbers into the system?
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Except the post you're replying to was a troll. It didn't present any real arguments against religion, it just slammed religious belief. It's hardly any better than Shrub's dad saying publically that atheists shouldn't be considered US citizens.
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I don't want to see Ralph Reed dead. I want to see him discredited, exposed as the bigot he is. Or else for him to renounce his past bigotry. But unfortunately, as long as there's that miniscule but vocal group of people as bigoted as him, neither is particularly likely.
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