So the terrorists should use the goatse guy for hiding their messages. He seems spacious enough.
As an added bonus, their fellow terrorists will lose the will to live after staring at the goatse guy long enough to decode the message, making them perfect recruits for suicide bombings.
You missed the point. There are people willing to commit violence on the fringes of every religion. You can no more condemn Muslims for the actions of Al Qaeda as you can condemn Christians for the actions of Eric Rudolph and those like him.
Well, if that's the case, the solution is simple: Re-release the song, but instead of just sampling those two parts, sing the entire book! I smell a platinum record!
Why would reproducing a work that has long since been in the public domain be a problem? If it is, hundreds of publishers are in deep shit.
From what the article says, it seems some Muslims got offended at their holy scriptures being put to music. So, Sony is bowing to a few fundamentalist Muslims to keep from generating any bad press about how they offend Islam or whatever.
Personally, I think if they're going to start bowing down to any fringe group that complains on the Internet, they're going to have a hard time releasing any games ever again.
People are so scared of "terrorists", and associate Islam so closely with those terrorists, that they are scared to death of offending anyone that calls themselves a Muslim. This just makes it much easier for the radical wing of Islam to not only be heard, but to wield influence out of proportion with their numbers. Of course, you could argue the same thing has been done with regard to the more radical wings of Christianity in other spheres as well.
Stop spreading lies. Everyone knows that Apple products do not break down. Any issues you may be experiencing with your Apple product are merely a result of insufficient faith.
I agree. The only issue with C-SPAN is you have to make sure you don't doze off and forget to change the channel before the call-in portion starts. If you listen to that garbage for too long, your brain will start leaking out of your ears in an attempt to escape the inanity.
But yes, it still beats the hell out of every other station's punditry.
the company could promise people dont use it as a place to vent their frustrations with customers.
Are you trying to imply that call center drones have anything else to talk to each other about? In my experience, pretty much every conversation in a call center revolves around frustrations with the customers. If you don't spend enough time letting off steam by bitching about the customers, you'll eventually just bottle all that frustration in until you show up to work one day with a shotgun.
Luckily, I quit the call center business before I got to the shotgun stage. Lousiest 6 months of my life.
OMG the dollar sign is static... it's the end of the world!!!!
You're right. After the upcoming total economic collapse, we'll need the clock to be able to display the debt in terms of Chinese yuan or Euros. The current design does not allow for that.
Apparently, the World Bank is under cybersiege in an "Unprecedented Crisis". Turns out they've been hacked repeatedly, apparently from China.
I have a 5 digit Slashdot ID, so I think you can count on me being a reliable source. I got the information from a Slashdot story as well, so you can be pretty certain it's completely accurate.
You sick son of a bitch. How could you take advantage of a young, vulnerable operating system like that? An operating system less than 18 years of age is incapable of informed consent, and should not be "used", as you put it.
I'll be calling the Feds on you, and God help you if they find any screenshots of Linux on your computer.
That's the beauty of the plug-in hybrid model: You still have the gas as a backup and for long trips. Personally, I would jump at the chance to own a plug-in hybrid. The argument that people wouldn't plug them in during off-peak times is a little silly. The most obvious way to use them is to commute to and from work on electric power, and plug them in overnight. How is overnight not off-peak?
As for the batteries making them too expensive, it's true that for now that may be the case, but as adoption rates increase, the prices of batteries will fall. The Chevy Volt is slated to be in the 35-40k range, which is about the price of an upscale sedan. This means the masses won't be snapping them up right away, but they probably weren't going to do that anyway. Just like all new tech, the early adopters will come in first and help drive the price down to where the ordinary schmo can reasonably afford one.
I'm not sure what Toyota's strategy is in downplaying the plug-in hybrid model. Are they not able to come up with a good way to do it themselves? Are they trying to steal GM's thunder and delay the buzz until Toyota can catch up? Did the CEO of ExxonMobil threaten to have the CEO of Toyota shot if they started producing plug-in hybrids?
I think it's pretty obvious what happened here: Fossett was teleported out of his plane by the crew of a Starship from the future that used the "slingshot around the Sun" technique to travel back through time in order to retrieve him. They then took him back to their time in order to speak with an alien race that was accidentally destroying the Earth in its attempt to communicate with any daredevil billionaires that might be on the planet. Unfortunately for them, the Earth no longer used money, so there were no billionaires available, hence the need to fetch Fossett.
The evidence points so clearly to this scenario that there must be some sort of vast conspiracy covering it up, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment that would result from revealing that two of the Starship's crew members were able to infiltrate a nuclear wessel undetected.
I want to say verify identity with a credit/debit card, but that won't work very well because of Johnny 13 year old who wants a Gmail account.
That won't work for anyone who cares about their own privacy. Why would I want to give anyone my credit or debit card number if I wasn't actually buying something from that site at that particular time?
This just in: The Internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 2001. Shocking, I know. However, the most important search result, the one that shows you how truly wonderful the world is now compared to the world of 2008:
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion"
- Edmund Burke
I would not want to live in a world where representatives vote solely based on the opinions of their most vocal (and therefore usually most extreme) constituents. It's bad enough that most of them allow themselves to be so influenced by their most generous contributors.
That's a nice theory, but unless you work in fast food high turnover is not a good thing. It's very expensive to find and train qualified people, so dumping them for minor things like this is unwise.
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So the terrorists should use the goatse guy for hiding their messages. He seems spacious enough.
As an added bonus, their fellow terrorists will lose the will to live after staring at the goatse guy long enough to decode the message, making them perfect recruits for suicide bombings.
You missed the point. There are people willing to commit violence on the fringes of every religion. You can no more condemn Muslims for the actions of Al Qaeda as you can condemn Christians for the actions of Eric Rudolph and those like him.
Well, if that's the case, the solution is simple: Re-release the song, but instead of just sampling those two parts, sing the entire book! I smell a platinum record!
It's different. Christians don't blow stuff up... anymore... I think...
Eric Rudolph?
Okay, so he doesn't blow stuff up anymore because he's in prison, but it was not that long ago that he did.
Why would reproducing a work that has long since been in the public domain be a problem? If it is, hundreds of publishers are in deep shit.
From what the article says, it seems some Muslims got offended at their holy scriptures being put to music. So, Sony is bowing to a few fundamentalist Muslims to keep from generating any bad press about how they offend Islam or whatever.
Personally, I think if they're going to start bowing down to any fringe group that complains on the Internet, they're going to have a hard time releasing any games ever again.
People are so scared of "terrorists", and associate Islam so closely with those terrorists, that they are scared to death of offending anyone that calls themselves a Muslim. This just makes it much easier for the radical wing of Islam to not only be heard, but to wield influence out of proportion with their numbers. Of course, you could argue the same thing has been done with regard to the more radical wings of Christianity in other spheres as well.
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Stop spreading lies. Everyone knows that Apple products do not break down. Any issues you may be experiencing with your Apple product are merely a result of insufficient faith.
I agree. The only issue with C-SPAN is you have to make sure you don't doze off and forget to change the channel before the call-in portion starts. If you listen to that garbage for too long, your brain will start leaking out of your ears in an attempt to escape the inanity.
But yes, it still beats the hell out of every other station's punditry.
Actually, in Chinese numerology the number 7 is associated with sadness and tragedy. So yah, a very good number for Windows.
the company could promise people dont use it as a place to vent their frustrations with customers.
Are you trying to imply that call center drones have anything else to talk to each other about? In my experience, pretty much every conversation in a call center revolves around frustrations with the customers. If you don't spend enough time letting off steam by bitching about the customers, you'll eventually just bottle all that frustration in until you show up to work one day with a shotgun.
Luckily, I quit the call center business before I got to the shotgun stage. Lousiest 6 months of my life.
Anyone who would waste time on the offical company forum is already wasteing time.....on sites like slashdot.
True, but if you submit an Ask Slashdot that's work related, you can claim your Slashdot subscription as a business expense!
OMG the dollar sign is static... it's the end of the world!!!!
You're right. After the upcoming total economic collapse, we'll need the clock to be able to display the debt in terms of Chinese yuan or Euros. The current design does not allow for that.
Hi.
Apparently, the World Bank is under cybersiege in an "Unprecedented Crisis". Turns out they've been hacked repeatedly, apparently from China.
I have a 5 digit Slashdot ID, so I think you can count on me being a reliable source. I got the information from a Slashdot story as well, so you can be pretty certain it's completely accurate.
"Masturbating monkey" is what comes to mind.
Which, coincidentally, is the name of an upcoming Ubuntu release.
Well there's at least two other people who don't use facebook, the parent post and the moderator who gave it an insightful.
You'd think so, but actually the moderator is a regular Facebook user who just didn't know what the word "Insightful" meant.
If they mine data for behavior statistics, and they kill advertising.... what will they use the behavioral statistics for?
Online dating. Everyone always assumed TiVo wanted to collect all this data for marketing purposes, but actually they're just really, really lonely.
Just what exactly are you trying to pull? That mirror is defective! I can't even see my reflection in it!
You sick son of a bitch. How could you take advantage of a young, vulnerable operating system like that? An operating system less than 18 years of age is incapable of informed consent, and should not be "used", as you put it.
I'll be calling the Feds on you, and God help you if they find any screenshots of Linux on your computer.
If he's playing against kindergarten through third grade kids, I would think the most likely scenario is for him to lose on purpose.
That's the beauty of the plug-in hybrid model: You still have the gas as a backup and for long trips. Personally, I would jump at the chance to own a plug-in hybrid. The argument that people wouldn't plug them in during off-peak times is a little silly. The most obvious way to use them is to commute to and from work on electric power, and plug them in overnight. How is overnight not off-peak?
As for the batteries making them too expensive, it's true that for now that may be the case, but as adoption rates increase, the prices of batteries will fall. The Chevy Volt is slated to be in the 35-40k range, which is about the price of an upscale sedan. This means the masses won't be snapping them up right away, but they probably weren't going to do that anyway. Just like all new tech, the early adopters will come in first and help drive the price down to where the ordinary schmo can reasonably afford one.
I'm not sure what Toyota's strategy is in downplaying the plug-in hybrid model. Are they not able to come up with a good way to do it themselves? Are they trying to steal GM's thunder and delay the buzz until Toyota can catch up? Did the CEO of ExxonMobil threaten to have the CEO of Toyota shot if they started producing plug-in hybrids?
I think it's pretty obvious what happened here: Fossett was teleported out of his plane by the crew of a Starship from the future that used the "slingshot around the Sun" technique to travel back through time in order to retrieve him. They then took him back to their time in order to speak with an alien race that was accidentally destroying the Earth in its attempt to communicate with any daredevil billionaires that might be on the planet. Unfortunately for them, the Earth no longer used money, so there were no billionaires available, hence the need to fetch Fossett.
The evidence points so clearly to this scenario that there must be some sort of vast conspiracy covering it up, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment that would result from revealing that two of the Starship's crew members were able to infiltrate a nuclear wessel undetected.
I want to say verify identity with a credit/debit card, but that won't work very well because of Johnny 13 year old who wants a Gmail account.
That won't work for anyone who cares about their own privacy. Why would I want to give anyone my credit or debit card number if I wasn't actually buying something from that site at that particular time?
compared to the world of 2008:
Er...make that compared to the world of 2001.
I'm a dumbass (34,600) 3,080,000
nothing (16,500,000) 750,000,000
cotton candy (100,000) 5,520,000
This just in: The Internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 2001. Shocking, I know. However, the most important search result, the one that shows you how truly wonderful the world is now compared to the world of 2008:
porn (4,490,000) 236,000,000
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion"
- Edmund Burke
I would not want to live in a world where representatives vote solely based on the opinions of their most vocal (and therefore usually most extreme) constituents. It's bad enough that most of them allow themselves to be so influenced by their most generous contributors.
That's a nice theory, but unless you work in fast food high turnover is not a good thing. It's very expensive to find and train qualified people, so dumping them for minor things like this is unwise.