The whole trial sounds like bullshit. No body, little blotches of blood that can't be accurately dated, no murder weapon, the victim's boyfriend admits to killing several other people but not her, and was once friend's with the accused.
Albert Einstein didn't name his theories after himself.
But after reading the article, the summary is highly deceptive. The article basically says that Hans needs to reveal the location of the body if he wants a reduced sentence.
It doesn't say he will. The judge is just assuming that Hans will do that to reduce the sentence.
Wow I feel like a moron for have ever attempted to defend Hans online at all. Like he was friends, and his wife was seeing, a guy that murdered several people.
Now he's just going to fess up to the murder.
I guess this marks the end of ReiserFS. I'm sure no one in the Linux community wants to be associated to that piece of work.
Yes - without one man memorizing plans the US would have waited another 100 years before industrializing....
Doesn't this sound a bit odd? You can give him credit for good ole steampunk style industrial espionage, and starting the party. But I'm sure the US would have industrialized just fine without him.
Whatever they're just being cheap and not living up to their end of the deal - unlimited internet usage.
If they were serious about providing the services they advertise, I would have a fucking job laying down fiber optic cables (which I've spent 4 years specializing in...) instead of working a plasma cutter at an auto parts plant.
Fuck these companies, they don't deserve customer loyalty.
"And no one knows why cancer rates have increased so much in the last few years."
I don't like feeding anonymous trolls, but I will this time round. It's most likely exposure to pollutants and various chemicals from our industrial developments, cars, and consumer products.
And in response to your horseshit comment about cancer rates increasing so much over the last few years. I'll give one example of why cancer rates have NOT increased, and that's breast cancer.
And if you have allergies to detergents and other artificial things, are you saying you don't have allergies to ragweed, grass, pollen, and whatever else nature throws at you?
Is God the voice in your head? That personal mental opponent who always has a counter argument to every seemingly brilliant idea you get?
Basically Jack convinced himself to make it his life mission to eliminate video games.
I honestly am starting to believe that these people are just doing this shit just to troll us. And when I say "these people" I mean any of these out spoken fundamentalists.
"Maybe actors and programmers could broker a deal that if a game breaks a certain threshold of sales, they would start getting small percentages of the profits above threshold?"
hahahahahaha
The people who own the company - be it one person or the shareholders - are the ones entitled to the profits. The employees are being paid already. This guy wants to be treated like Tom fucking Cruise, but his face, body language, expressions, all that shit, had nothing to do with the game or it's success.
Actors and programmers brokering a deal between themselves... pfft... I think you mean actors and programmers brokering a deal with management and the executive officers of the company. And the only way that will happen is through a union.
But of course, this is/., and unions are like somewhat Communist, and/. is the land of American Libertarians, which could never be associated to any Commie scum...
Unions do have their bad points, but if you want to negotiate any kind of deal between the employer and the employees, and it's something as ridiculous as profit sharing, you'll probably need a union for it to happen. Otherwise you'll have to look for a company that offers profit sharing without having their arm twisted. In the steel industry, non-union companies only offered profit sharing because of unions in union companies fighting for it. The IT and programming field seems to have no equivalent of that.
The only way anything will change, at all, is if the programmers form their own union. Then you can get these totally unrealistic, magical deals brokered between the SAG and the Non-Existent Programmers Union (NEPU). Too bad your fellow junior programmers will get laid off every time the union tries to negotiate a pay raise...
Just using raised ink for the number-value of the currency would help, or even making that into braille.
In Canada, we have a holographic strip in our bills as well. That strip could be shaped distinctively for each bill.
It's smooth where the strip is, so someone could follow the strip with their finger, and by either printing on top of it or increasing the frequency of waves in the strip respective to the bills value would work. That's right, the holographic strip is kind of wavy.
Well... there's also the whole issue of writing drivers optimized for benchmarks exclusively. Both nVidia and ATI have a history of doing this kind of shit.
Maybe AMD can take advantage of Asus' new strategy of putting Linux on every motherboard. That could become a standardized OS across millions of motherboards a month. It could then be updated with a standard set of "gaming" drivers, and give a lot of control to the game developers over the hardware. It would help remove the overhead of a bloated OS like Vista, and contribute a lot towards Linux based gaming.
Vista, the Operating System I have yet to use for more than 2 minutes, must be absolutely terrible. Everyone, and I'm talking everyone, that I know who is either a system admin, maintenance lacky, developer, musician, and have recently bought a new computer with it preinstalled is pissed. I even argue with them, defending Microsoft quite passionately, and they still keep coming up with reasons to keep their hate on Vista.
This is the industry's opportunity to kick Windows in the teeth and burn this motherfucking monopoly down.
Come on, you're defending people who get off on images of kids getting raped.
It's one thing if it's some sleezy 15 year old girl that takes pictures of herself in the bathroom. But we're talking about the scum of the earth raping their own 5 year old daughter and posting pictures online.
A billion dollars does seem like far too much money to tackle this, it could be easily done with half that money, if not less. But don't sensationalize this into your rights getting raped. Child pornography is not a thought crime, it's photographic evidence of a crime, and people who are trading in it are likely to be a source of this crime.
This is an easy one to be rational about. I imagine even the "hardest" of criminals would approve.
Of course the unfortunate part of all this, is any program that is used to spy on people using their computers will just be abused and made completely irrelevant to the fundings initial objectives.
Terribly inefficient use of electricity for the task. Magnetrons have better wall plug efficiency than most lasers. Plus laser are much more difficult to maintain. The microwave idea sounds pretty damn good, especially if they can find frequencies that are not absorbed by water, but by the critters they're cooking.
The other AnonCoward is right, UV is a better idea, but most likely isn't practical for zebra mussels, and is more suited towards bacteria and viruses.
We should be mass publishing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in it's unannotated form.
Oh this is a bad idea?
I really don't give two shits for Mark Steyn. He's accusing environmentalists of being alarmists, meanwhile he's trying to get everyone to fear the "Islamic" menace. A lot of his arguments don't really hold when you look closer at the data, even though last time I looked, I was really lazy and found holes quickly brushing off the rest of his work.
Yeah, in places in the world they're protesting, they're trying to get laws passed that reflect Islamic law. So we can just keep voting their ideas down and having more kids than them. *shrug* If the "Euroislamofascists" get their ideas into government, then we can rebel and protest just like they did. Tis is life, and gives angsty youth something to yell in the streets about. Just like I wouldn't stand for any other lame conservative idea religious kooks would come up with. Just defy the law at will, and make everyone else comfortable doing so as well. Eventually you'll have an unenforceable law where you can pressure the government to overturn it.
But yeah, you're right, the law is ridiculous. I'd rather see Mark's ass handed to him in the realm of public opinion, not some tribunal. Same goes for Ernst Zundel.
People are so passive and just dealing with the basics of Western living here that a bunch of brown shirts roaming the streets at night is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Just keep selling these kids games like GTA4 and keep the porn firehose turned on full blast. That seems to be crushing rebellion pretty easily...
What're they going to do? Confiscate their pencils and sell them on eBay for 5 cents?
I'm sure the defendants have no where near $110 million, and if they have to keep paying it out of income they receive in the future, what's the point of even working?
Might as well squat an abandoned building in New Orleans instead. Move to some remote wilderness area and live off the land. Sounds like much better options than paying that kind of debt down.
Go to any industrial area and ask the companies that have shops there how often shit gets stolen.
The shop my dad works for has thieves come by in their yard regularly to steal brass fittings and random shit off of the old boilers sitting in their yard.
These same pieces of shit cut the 20 foot copper cable from a microwave generator cabinet I need for a space elevator competition coming up... I don't even know why they took the varistor in the cabinet. They're just picking anything they can take.
And if thieves weren't enough of a problem... People dumping random trash onto the property happens regularly. It seems like at least every two weeks, some truck driver ditches tires onto the property.
So you think, let's put up a big fence, and put barbed wire on the top... within a week or two the fence will be cut with bolt cutters that are used to break into shipping containers on the property.
Hopefully more of these same people try to steal live electrical cabling...
There's been a lot of research in how lasers interact with materials. It seems like the defacto research project when you can't think of anything else. So the physics journals have stacks and stacks of research on this shit. Especially lasers interacting with silicon, GaAs, gold, aluminum and steel.
As far as I can see, this technique could be put to great use in cleaning up quantum wells and quantum dots in laser and LED diode structures. More precision in manufacturing would probably lead to more precise light output.
I for one, support our laser cleaned nanostructure overlords.
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People are rating this funny!? But isn't it, really the year of Linux on the desktop? SplashTop Linux on every ASUS motherboard ...
or do people here think this is not significant?
Why do you people use such stupid pieces of hardware that require fancy software to put music onto them?
I just plug my MP3 player into my computer, it opens a folder and I drop the files in it.
Is that hard for people who know how to use a computer?
There is no confession. Just speculation that he will.
The summary is deceiving dude. The judge just speculates he's going to reveal the location for a reduction of sentence.
There's seriously nothing saying Hans even knows where it is.
The whole trial sounds like bullshit. No body, little blotches of blood that can't be accurately dated, no murder weapon, the victim's boyfriend admits to killing several other people but not her, and was once friend's with the accused.
It's like they're making a fake murder case.
I'm almost convinced that they are.
In the end the article just says the judge assumes Hans will reveal the body to reduce the sentence. The summary is bad for this article.
Hognoxious hit that detail on the head
"Well if the DA says it then it must be true! I mean a DA is a kind of lawyer, right?"
Alright alright, I'll RTFA before posting next time.
Albert Einstein didn't name his theories after himself.
But after reading the article, the summary is highly deceptive. The article basically says that Hans needs to reveal the location of the body if he wants a reduced sentence.
It doesn't say he will. The judge is just assuming that Hans will do that to reduce the sentence.
Wow I feel like a moron for have ever attempted to defend Hans online at all. Like he was friends, and his wife was seeing, a guy that murdered several people.
Now he's just going to fess up to the murder.
I guess this marks the end of ReiserFS. I'm sure no one in the Linux community wants to be associated to that piece of work.
Yes - without one man memorizing plans the US would have waited another 100 years before industrializing....
Doesn't this sound a bit odd? You can give him credit for good ole steampunk style industrial espionage, and starting the party. But I'm sure the US would have industrialized just fine without him.
meh - I just recommend masturbating more, and switching hands. It'll strengthen the wrists.
Whatever they're just being cheap and not living up to their end of the deal - unlimited internet usage.
If they were serious about providing the services they advertise, I would have a fucking job laying down fiber optic cables (which I've spent 4 years specializing in...) instead of working a plasma cutter at an auto parts plant.
Fuck these companies, they don't deserve customer loyalty.
Yay for mutagenic dyes used in consumer products!! Yay!!! Let's make these, in the millions!!! YAY!!!
"And no one knows why cancer rates have increased so much in the last few years."
I don't like feeding anonymous trolls, but I will this time round. It's most likely exposure to pollutants and various chemicals from our industrial developments, cars, and consumer products.
I blame the bioaccumulation of dioxins.
And in response to your horseshit comment about cancer rates increasing so much over the last few years. I'll give one example of why cancer rates have NOT increased, and that's breast cancer.
"Incidence and death rates for breast cancer have declined since 1969 in women aged 20-39."
And if you have allergies to detergents and other artificial things, are you saying you don't have allergies to ragweed, grass, pollen, and whatever else nature throws at you?
Is God the voice in your head? That personal mental opponent who always has a counter argument to every seemingly brilliant idea you get?
Basically Jack convinced himself to make it his life mission to eliminate video games.
I honestly am starting to believe that these people are just doing this shit just to troll us. And when I say "these people" I mean any of these out spoken fundamentalists.
I'm sure someone will program an application that can cut clips of their recorded phrases and glue them back into entirely new ones.
Fuck, they could probably synthesize that shit.
"Maybe actors and programmers could broker a deal that if a game breaks a certain threshold of sales, they would start getting small percentages of the profits above threshold?"
/., and unions are like somewhat Communist, and /. is the land of American Libertarians, which could never be associated to any Commie scum ...
hahahahahaha
The people who own the company - be it one person or the shareholders - are the ones entitled to the profits. The employees are being paid already. This guy wants to be treated like Tom fucking Cruise, but his face, body language, expressions, all that shit, had nothing to do with the game or it's success.
Actors and programmers brokering a deal between themselves... pfft... I think you mean actors and programmers brokering a deal with management and the executive officers of the company. And the only way that will happen is through a union.
But of course, this is
Unions do have their bad points, but if you want to negotiate any kind of deal between the employer and the employees, and it's something as ridiculous as profit sharing, you'll probably need a union for it to happen. Otherwise you'll have to look for a company that offers profit sharing without having their arm twisted. In the steel industry, non-union companies only offered profit sharing because of unions in union companies fighting for it. The IT and programming field seems to have no equivalent of that.
The only way anything will change, at all, is if the programmers form their own union. Then you can get these totally unrealistic, magical deals brokered between the SAG and the Non-Existent Programmers Union (NEPU). Too bad your fellow junior programmers will get laid off every time the union tries to negotiate a pay raise...
Canadian paper bills have braille on them.
Or do until the bumps get worn down.
Just using raised ink for the number-value of the currency would help, or even making that into braille.
In Canada, we have a holographic strip in our bills as well. That strip could be shaped distinctively for each bill.
It's smooth where the strip is, so someone could follow the strip with their finger, and by either printing on top of it or increasing the frequency of waves in the strip respective to the bills value would work. That's right, the holographic strip is kind of wavy.
Well ... there's also the whole issue of writing drivers optimized for benchmarks exclusively. Both nVidia and ATI have a history of doing this kind of shit.
Maybe AMD can take advantage of Asus' new strategy of putting Linux on every motherboard. That could become a standardized OS across millions of motherboards a month. It could then be updated with a standard set of "gaming" drivers, and give a lot of control to the game developers over the hardware. It would help remove the overhead of a bloated OS like Vista, and contribute a lot towards Linux based gaming.
Vista, the Operating System I have yet to use for more than 2 minutes, must be absolutely terrible. Everyone, and I'm talking everyone, that I know who is either a system admin, maintenance lacky, developer, musician, and have recently bought a new computer with it preinstalled is pissed. I even argue with them, defending Microsoft quite passionately, and they still keep coming up with reasons to keep their hate on Vista.
This is the industry's opportunity to kick Windows in the teeth and burn this motherfucking monopoly down.
Come on, you're defending people who get off on images of kids getting raped.
It's one thing if it's some sleezy 15 year old girl that takes pictures of herself in the bathroom. But we're talking about the scum of the earth raping their own 5 year old daughter and posting pictures online.
A billion dollars does seem like far too much money to tackle this, it could be easily done with half that money, if not less. But don't sensationalize this into your rights getting raped. Child pornography is not a thought crime, it's photographic evidence of a crime, and people who are trading in it are likely to be a source of this crime.
This is an easy one to be rational about. I imagine even the "hardest" of criminals would approve.
Of course the unfortunate part of all this, is any program that is used to spy on people using their computers will just be abused and made completely irrelevant to the fundings initial objectives.
Terribly inefficient use of electricity for the task. Magnetrons have better wall plug efficiency than most lasers. Plus laser are much more difficult to maintain. The microwave idea sounds pretty damn good, especially if they can find frequencies that are not absorbed by water, but by the critters they're cooking.
The other AnonCoward is right, UV is a better idea, but most likely isn't practical for zebra mussels, and is more suited towards bacteria and viruses.
This whole article doesn't even belong on Slashdot. What the fuck does this have to do as News for Nerds?
We should be mass publishing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in it's unannotated form.
...
Oh this is a bad idea?
I really don't give two shits for Mark Steyn. He's accusing environmentalists of being alarmists, meanwhile he's trying to get everyone to fear the "Islamic" menace. A lot of his arguments don't really hold when you look closer at the data, even though last time I looked, I was really lazy and found holes quickly brushing off the rest of his work.
Yeah, in places in the world they're protesting, they're trying to get laws passed that reflect Islamic law. So we can just keep voting their ideas down and having more kids than them. *shrug* If the "Euroislamofascists" get their ideas into government, then we can rebel and protest just like they did. Tis is life, and gives angsty youth something to yell in the streets about. Just like I wouldn't stand for any other lame conservative idea religious kooks would come up with. Just defy the law at will, and make everyone else comfortable doing so as well. Eventually you'll have an unenforceable law where you can pressure the government to overturn it.
But yeah, you're right, the law is ridiculous. I'd rather see Mark's ass handed to him in the realm of public opinion, not some tribunal. Same goes for Ernst Zundel.
People are so passive and just dealing with the basics of Western living here that a bunch of brown shirts roaming the streets at night is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Just keep selling these kids games like GTA4 and keep the porn firehose turned on full blast. That seems to be crushing rebellion pretty easily
What're they going to do? Confiscate their pencils and sell them on eBay for 5 cents?
I'm sure the defendants have no where near $110 million, and if they have to keep paying it out of income they receive in the future, what's the point of even working?
Might as well squat an abandoned building in New Orleans instead. Move to some remote wilderness area and live off the land. Sounds like much better options than paying that kind of debt down.
Go to any industrial area and ask the companies that have shops there how often shit gets stolen.
... I don't even know why they took the varistor in the cabinet. They're just picking anything they can take.
... within a week or two the fence will be cut with bolt cutters that are used to break into shipping containers on the property.
...
The shop my dad works for has thieves come by in their yard regularly to steal brass fittings and random shit off of the old boilers sitting in their yard.
These same pieces of shit cut the 20 foot copper cable from a microwave generator cabinet I need for a space elevator competition coming up
And if thieves weren't enough of a problem...
People dumping random trash onto the property happens regularly. It seems like at least every two weeks, some truck driver ditches tires onto the property.
So you think, let's put up a big fence, and put barbed wire on the top
Hopefully more of these same people try to steal live electrical cabling
There's been a lot of research in how lasers interact with materials. It seems like the defacto research project when you can't think of anything else. So the physics journals have stacks and stacks of research on this shit. Especially lasers interacting with silicon, GaAs, gold, aluminum and steel.
As far as I can see, this technique could be put to great use in cleaning up quantum wells and quantum dots in laser and LED diode structures. More precision in manufacturing would probably lead to more precise light output.
I for one, support our laser cleaned nanostructure overlords.