Not gonna happen. The anti-vaccine movement has long since stopped being about science (if it ever was) and has become a self-sustaining community of believers. Once a community like that develops around an issue, it's virtually impossible to get rid of it. These people have built an entire support system built around the idea that they are all bound by the fact that their poor kids got autism from the evil vaccines. They do not want to give up that support system, and will rationalize however they need to to keep it.
They will likely claim the court has no right to make medical decisions (already happened in this thread!) or that the court is being manipulated by Big Pharma with its legions of lobbyists. Under no circumstances will they simply admit they were wrong.
I agree with the virtualization bit. If this were 2002, or even 2005 I could see them thinking dual boot was the best way to go about putting Windows and Linux on the same box. Nowadays, though, using virtual machines is the clearly superior answer.
Then you'd need giant gorillas like King Kong to keep get rid of Godzilla. The beauty of the plan is that once winter sets in, the giant gorillas will simply freeze to death.
Joe Lieberman essentially became a Republican in the eyes of most of the voters before that election, so it's sort of a special case. Even so, the majority of the district elected to go with the senior Senator rather than take a flyer on a new guy in the end.
1.) Slashdot editors are lazy 2.) Everyone already knows Feinstein is a Democrat. She's one of the leaders of the party, and one of the people the Republicans are always complaining about. Anyone who pays attention to politics at all knows she's a Democrat.
Feinstein and many others will probably be facing primary challengers for the next election. We can certainly find better Democrats than these people.
The Senate is run almost entirely on seniority. No one is going to give up a Senator with that kind of seniority and replace them with someone of the same party unless the Senator gets convicted of a felony or something, and even then it's not certain.
Entrenched Senators only lose their seats when they retire or when there's a massive demographic shift in their district that moves more people of the opposition party in. The primaries are just a formality when a senior Senator is involved.
I'm not saying the Encyclopedia Britannica should be cited in research papers, it clearly shouldn't. I was primarily objecting to the previous poster's assertion that Wikipedia needs to put stricter limits on contributors, which I believe would kill much of the value of Wikipedia as a source of a vast array of information.
IANAL, but I'd imagine the purpose of the read out loud right is to protect playwrights from having people perform their plays without permission or compensation. In that context, it makes sense. In the context of a text to speech computer intended for personal use, it makes no sense.
Sure, if someone starts hooking their Kindle up to a PA system and staging public performances of an electronic reading of someone's book, I could see an issue. However, the device itself having the ability to read text back is not in itself any kind of violation. Computers have had text to speech in some form for decades, and I'm sure they've been used to "speak" copyrighted works plenty of times in the past.
The Author's Guild is cutting off its nose to spite its face here.
He means a true scholar will hunt down and kill anyone who misinterprets his work.
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If you can gain physical access, network security is essentially meaningless. I would hope FAA air traffic control facilities have more security than a simple key and lock.
Flash is indeed evil, but it's also necessary to get anything out of an increasing number of sites. The choice is basically live with the occasional Flash abuse or cut yourself off from an ever-growing amount of content on the web. Whether that additional content is worth the annoyance of the occasional Flash ad is a personal decision.
Heck, if I had the financial freedom to do so, I'd probably spend my time jumping around between startups too. The startup phase is in a lot of ways the best part of a company's life. It's full of boundless optimism and exciting work. It's also full of staggering risk and the ever-present specter of catastrophic failure too, which is why it's not right for everyone.
My brain loves working for startups, but my wallet doesn't. In Woz's case, he doesn't have to worry about the wallet part, so more power to him.
That's debatable, but the article (or at least the summary, since no one reads the articles) claims that MS will have to "give up its revenue stream" in the OS (meaning giving it away for free) in order to protect the revenue stream from their other apps. This is a ridiculous assertion given the current climate in the software business in general, and in the OS market in particular.
Having to give the OS away for free in order to sell the apps only makes sense if you don't already have a stranglehold on the OS market. Sure, MS has gotten some bad press lately but they still enjoy the overwhelming share of the OS market, and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
The fact that they are not making a lot of money selling Vista does not mean people are moving away from MS in droves...they're just sticking to an older MS product for now. MS is still entrenched as simply the way people expect computers to work, and it's going to take a much longer series of much larger screwups from Microsoft to change that.
Oh man, I hope my girlfriend gets on this! It will make it SO much easier to track her. I am so sick of hiding in the bushes across the street from her house for three hours just to find out she wasn't even home! And this is going to save me a fortune on text messages...I won't need to text her every 3 minutes asking where she is if I have Google Maps to tell me!
Seriously, this is going to revolutionize our relationship. I know we're going to be so happy with this new tracking technology! The restraining order says no, but your Google Maps icon says yes!
Nice sentiment, but let's see how we feel about it in 50 years when the moon is covered with gigantic advertisements for Pepsi and Budweiser.
Private investment in space has thus far been very disappointing. The only companies out there that are doing anything are the ones that are just looking to send people up in a parabolic arc without even reaching orbit for $200k a pop, and those looking to shoot dead people's ashes into space. None of these are particularly thrilling endeavors in my opinion.
Developing some sort of new craft that will get us anywhere interesting is so mind-bogglingly expensive and would take so long that private enterprise just isn't interested in doing it. The only entities we currently have that operate with those types of timelines and those budgets are national governments. The profit potential is just too uncertain and too far off for any private company to take it seriously.
So sure, if you're satisfied with continuing to just send people up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere, or at best LEO, then go ahead and let private enterprise do it all. If you want to shoot for something a little more exciting, it's going to take a concerted national effort to get it done.
If they need to try to Idiot-proof a system take out the "Idiot". If these companies hire more technology inclined workers (people who read/.) they they won't have this problem as often.
Maybe, but then they'd have to deal with everyone putting goatse links all over the company newsletter and sending out gay porn featuring the CEO of the company, so there's a little bit of a downside too.
On the other hand, most Slashdotters never leave the basement, so you would save on office space.
Does it interpret a system crash as an attack on central command and launch the missiles?
Seriously though, this seems as useless as that magic screen thingie they're always playing with on CNN. Sure, it looks pretty, but using brand new technology like this, with its inherent glitches, in a system that you need to be constantly up and highly responsive is not a wise thing to do.
Agreed. Capitalism is the system that requires a steadily rising standard of living to survive. Authoritarian states are created and thrive when standards of living are low.
In fact, if a Capitalist states endures a falling standard of living for long enough, it will often end up being replaced by force with an authoritarian controlled economy.
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Not gonna happen. The anti-vaccine movement has long since stopped being about science (if it ever was) and has become a self-sustaining community of believers. Once a community like that develops around an issue, it's virtually impossible to get rid of it. These people have built an entire support system built around the idea that they are all bound by the fact that their poor kids got autism from the evil vaccines. They do not want to give up that support system, and will rationalize however they need to to keep it.
They will likely claim the court has no right to make medical decisions (already happened in this thread!) or that the court is being manipulated by Big Pharma with its legions of lobbyists. Under no circumstances will they simply admit they were wrong.
I agree with the virtualization bit. If this were 2002, or even 2005 I could see them thinking dual boot was the best way to go about putting Windows and Linux on the same box. Nowadays, though, using virtual machines is the clearly superior answer.
Then you'd need giant gorillas like King Kong to keep get rid of Godzilla. The beauty of the plan is that once winter sets in, the giant gorillas will simply freeze to death.
Texas likes to protect its citizens from the tyranny of federal government so that the tyranny of state government has someone left to act on.
Joe Lieberman essentially became a Republican in the eyes of most of the voters before that election, so it's sort of a special case. Even so, the majority of the district elected to go with the senior Senator rather than take a flyer on a new guy in the end.
There are two reasons the D is likely missing:
1.) Slashdot editors are lazy
2.) Everyone already knows Feinstein is a Democrat. She's one of the leaders of the party, and one of the people the Republicans are always complaining about. Anyone who pays attention to politics at all knows she's a Democrat.
Feinstein and many others will probably be facing primary challengers for the next election. We can certainly find better Democrats than these people.
The Senate is run almost entirely on seniority. No one is going to give up a Senator with that kind of seniority and replace them with someone of the same party unless the Senator gets convicted of a felony or something, and even then it's not certain.
Entrenched Senators only lose their seats when they retire or when there's a massive demographic shift in their district that moves more people of the opposition party in. The primaries are just a formality when a senior Senator is involved.
I'm not saying the Encyclopedia Britannica should be cited in research papers, it clearly shouldn't. I was primarily objecting to the previous poster's assertion that Wikipedia needs to put stricter limits on contributors, which I believe would kill much of the value of Wikipedia as a source of a vast array of information.
IANAL, but I'd imagine the purpose of the read out loud right is to protect playwrights from having people perform their plays without permission or compensation. In that context, it makes sense. In the context of a text to speech computer intended for personal use, it makes no sense.
Sure, if someone starts hooking their Kindle up to a PA system and staging public performances of an electronic reading of someone's book, I could see an issue. However, the device itself having the ability to read text back is not in itself any kind of violation. Computers have had text to speech in some form for decades, and I'm sure they've been used to "speak" copyrighted works plenty of times in the past.
The Author's Guild is cutting off its nose to spite its face here.
He means a true scholar will hunt down and kill anyone who misinterprets his work.
If you can gain physical access, network security is essentially meaningless. I would hope FAA air traffic control facilities have more security than a simple key and lock.
If you want a well-researched and well-written encyclopedia, go buy the Encyclopedia Britannica.
If you want an encyclopedia that offers a good overview of a mind-bogglingly huge range of topics, visit Wikipedia.
Both of these things have their place. Stop trying to turn one into the other.
The obvious follow-up to the Wii would be the Super Wii.
18,000 operations should be more than enough to fill this thing full of porn, there's no need to get greedy.
was when I fire up Outlook and start typing a new email, and nothing shows up on the screen for 10 seconds
No, that's just your keystrokes battling all the viruses on your computer for CPU time.
Flash is indeed evil, but it's also necessary to get anything out of an increasing number of sites. The choice is basically live with the occasional Flash abuse or cut yourself off from an ever-growing amount of content on the web. Whether that additional content is worth the annoyance of the occasional Flash ad is a personal decision.
Heck, if I had the financial freedom to do so, I'd probably spend my time jumping around between startups too. The startup phase is in a lot of ways the best part of a company's life. It's full of boundless optimism and exciting work. It's also full of staggering risk and the ever-present specter of catastrophic failure too, which is why it's not right for everyone.
My brain loves working for startups, but my wallet doesn't. In Woz's case, he doesn't have to worry about the wallet part, so more power to him.
That's debatable, but the article (or at least the summary, since no one reads the articles) claims that MS will have to "give up its revenue stream" in the OS (meaning giving it away for free) in order to protect the revenue stream from their other apps. This is a ridiculous assertion given the current climate in the software business in general, and in the OS market in particular.
Having to give the OS away for free in order to sell the apps only makes sense if you don't already have a stranglehold on the OS market. Sure, MS has gotten some bad press lately but they still enjoy the overwhelming share of the OS market, and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
The fact that they are not making a lot of money selling Vista does not mean people are moving away from MS in droves...they're just sticking to an older MS product for now. MS is still entrenched as simply the way people expect computers to work, and it's going to take a much longer series of much larger screwups from Microsoft to change that.
Would you believe a piece of tree bark and some chalk?
Oh man, I hope my girlfriend gets on this! It will make it SO much easier to track her. I am so sick of hiding in the bushes across the street from her house for three hours just to find out she wasn't even home! And this is going to save me a fortune on text messages...I won't need to text her every 3 minutes asking where she is if I have Google Maps to tell me!
Seriously, this is going to revolutionize our relationship. I know we're going to be so happy with this new tracking technology! The restraining order says no, but your Google Maps icon says yes!
Nice sentiment, but let's see how we feel about it in 50 years when the moon is covered with gigantic advertisements for Pepsi and Budweiser.
Private investment in space has thus far been very disappointing. The only companies out there that are doing anything are the ones that are just looking to send people up in a parabolic arc without even reaching orbit for $200k a pop, and those looking to shoot dead people's ashes into space. None of these are particularly thrilling endeavors in my opinion.
Developing some sort of new craft that will get us anywhere interesting is so mind-bogglingly expensive and would take so long that private enterprise just isn't interested in doing it. The only entities we currently have that operate with those types of timelines and those budgets are national governments. The profit potential is just too uncertain and too far off for any private company to take it seriously.
So sure, if you're satisfied with continuing to just send people up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere, or at best LEO, then go ahead and let private enterprise do it all. If you want to shoot for something a little more exciting, it's going to take a concerted national effort to get it done.
If they need to try to Idiot-proof a system take out the "Idiot". If these companies hire more technology inclined workers (people who read /.) they they won't have this problem as often.
Maybe, but then they'd have to deal with everyone putting goatse links all over the company newsletter and sending out gay porn featuring the CEO of the company, so there's a little bit of a downside too.
On the other hand, most Slashdotters never leave the basement, so you would save on office space.
Does it interpret a system crash as an attack on central command and launch the missiles?
Seriously though, this seems as useless as that magic screen thingie they're always playing with on CNN. Sure, it looks pretty, but using brand new technology like this, with its inherent glitches, in a system that you need to be constantly up and highly responsive is not a wise thing to do.
Agreed. Capitalism is the system that requires a steadily rising standard of living to survive. Authoritarian states are created and thrive when standards of living are low.
In fact, if a Capitalist states endures a falling standard of living for long enough, it will often end up being replaced by force with an authoritarian controlled economy.