Correct me if I am wrong but you are using their tools, and their engine and their graphics, sounds, etc to create your work. While it is your work you are using their licensed material. And they just want to make sure you can't charge others for your 'original work'.
It would not eliminate 'crimes of passion' or accidents. It would eliminate 'serial murderers' by virtue of being caught the first time. It would also eliminate the whole 'tracking down the criminal', but not the investigation of the crime itself.
A symptom of being deranged could be a strong desire to kill people. Catching the person after the first time allows you to treat the disease, and stop the symtoms.
I would be happier if I knew that multiple-homicides were far less likely. Wouldn't you, or are you just scared you'd get caught ?
How is making a lot of arrests like Communism or the Taliban ? The rules regarding what is unlawful are known. The punishment for breaking the laws are known. People still break the laws, and when there is finally a big crackdown the people are scared into being honest all the time. It's not like you have made something prevalent like showing your face, or breathing or posting on slashdot illegal.
If you look at the rest of the article they then change some of the agents so that they know the odds of being arrested (like the police) and those agents tend to remain criminals over a long period of time.
"The device will finally turn the idea of digital convergence into a living room reality."
Huh...how about just trying to get digital convergence to pan out. Then we can worry about turning it into all sorts of stuff. A porn-outlet, a blood-caffinator, and yes if thats your "thing" a living room reality.
Galileo was jailed despite his 'strong evidence'..what was his evidence just not strong enough ?
Theories have intertia, and can be changed when an attitude of reflective equilibrium is taken. However people are deathly afraid of change, especially a change that affects the basis of their world view.
ICBM (SLBM) What are they thinking ?
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"Oh we are very sorry Mister President, how are we to know it was targeted at a major city instead of up....yes the fallout will be a problem. Again humblest apologies...sucker"
Re:light stopped? Or destroyed and re-emitted...
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It was "nearly" the same light so not exactly the same. Memory recorded in medium, new energy causes energy raise and the near perfect memory of the light to be discharged.
There have been very few attempts to find Madam Tetrachromat. The one that turned up Mrs. M in England, in 1993, was led by Gabriele Jordan, then at Cambridge University and now at the University of Newcastle.
i think she'd be pissed to find out she doesnt exist.
I submitted this story as well. And included far better details (1,200 light years) and commenting on how it would be funny if our astronomers made the same mistake as those in the dark ages. They called planets "wandering stars" because the orbits appeared random, turns out the orbits were around the sun not the earth.
No one will read this but I have free time at work (the last 2 weeks) so I'll give my 2 cents.
MCI has saved your bacon by calling to confirm you actually wanted to switch. The hassles would have been endless if AT&T had gotten a chance to bill you, like a steel non-recyclable beartrap on your ass.
So instead of paying money for a lawyer (read: bottom-feeder) or paying alot of money for a good lawyer (read: bottom-feeder-licker) commend MCI. Send them a present, a/. t-shirt perhaps to the operator...or give them money. Make random long-distance phone calls to people in far off places. Try to make a marked increase in their revenues.
Too bad he cannot get http://slashdot.slash
(H-T-T-P-COLON-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-DOT-DOT-SLASH)
If you changed the slash's to dashs what is that
in morse code.
"Useless post #1 of the day for me"
--Me
> I have an early edition of the Lord of the Rings which, I feel, adds to the enjoyment of the book. Not b/c it's rare, but because its rough, feels and smells old -- namely, it has character... something your monitor isn't likely to have, ever.
You really should see my monitor, I got two colors orange and blackish orange. And it smells (something about 10 years of pizza).
Slashdot Mirror
If you read the article you would find that they no longer use lava lamps, but instead a webcam inside of a black 'box' to generate the noise.
Original work ?
Correct me if I am wrong but you are using their tools, and their engine and their graphics, sounds, etc to create your work. While it is your work you are using their licensed material. And they just want to make sure you can't charge others for your 'original work'.
And as if the reviewer cared at www.mozdev.org there are jabber clients for mozilla. So you may not get IM's as base install, but they do exist.
It would not eliminate 'crimes of passion' or accidents. It would eliminate 'serial murderers' by virtue of being caught the first time. It would also eliminate the whole 'tracking down the criminal', but not the investigation of the crime itself.
A symptom of being deranged could be a strong desire to kill people. Catching the person after the first time allows you to treat the disease, and stop the symtoms.
I would be happier if I knew that multiple-homicides were far less likely. Wouldn't you, or are you just scared you'd get caught ?
How is making a lot of arrests like Communism or the Taliban ? The rules regarding what is unlawful are known. The punishment for breaking the laws are known. People still break the laws, and when there is finally a big crackdown the people are scared into being honest all the time. It's not like you have made something prevalent like showing your face, or breathing or posting on slashdot illegal.
If you look at the rest of the article they then change some of the agents so that they know the odds of being arrested (like the police) and those agents tend to remain criminals over a long period of time.
"The device will finally turn the idea of digital convergence into a living room reality."
...how about just trying to get digital convergence to pan out. Then we can worry about turning it into all sorts of stuff. A porn-outlet, a blood-caffinator, and yes if thats your "thing" a living room reality.
Huh
blasted writers.
You list the evidence yourself.
..what was his evidence just not strong enough ?
Galileo was jailed despite his 'strong evidence'
Theories have intertia, and can be changed when an attitude of reflective equilibrium is taken. However people are deathly afraid of change, especially a change that affects the basis of their world view.
It is nice Tommy Lee is no technologicaly inclined. Should have realized though, he is ALL over the internet.
Anonymous yes, important no.
"Oh we are very sorry Mister President, how are we to know it was targeted at a major city instead of up....yes the fallout will be a problem. Again humblest apologies...sucker"
It was "nearly" the same light so not exactly the same. Memory recorded in medium, new energy causes energy raise and the near perfect memory of the light to be discharged.
IBM had a rebranded version of the Crosspad as its own already. Maybe they could remarket it if this takes off.
//picks crosspad off the shelf, blows dust off//
"Hey brand new thousand bucks"
.....ow....
Procedural is great because its what I know now, why would I bother learning something new where people will know more than me.
Its not immediatley better than procedural so just give up.(Lets see what 30 years of compiler tweaking can do.)
Spending 4 times as long to make it reusable later to save time is stupid, who know how long im gonna be around on this planet anyways
The comment is incorrect and can be found to be false in the first paragraph or so. Dr. Jordan hasn't found a tetrachromat but others have ...HURRAY /.
There have been very few attempts to find Madam Tetrachromat. The one that turned up Mrs. M in England, in 1993, was led by Gabriele Jordan, then at Cambridge University and now at the University of Newcastle. i think she'd be pissed to find out she doesnt exist.
I submitted this story as well. And included far better details (1,200 light years) and commenting on how it would be funny if our astronomers made the same mistake as those in the dark ages. They called planets "wandering stars" because the orbits appeared random, turns out the orbits were around the sun not the earth.
Way to go slashdot.
No one will read this but I have free time at work (the last 2 weeks) so I'll give my 2 cents. /. t-shirt perhaps to the operator...or give them money. Make random long-distance phone calls to people in far off places. Try to make a marked increase in their revenues.
MCI has saved your bacon by calling to confirm you actually wanted to switch. The hassles would have been endless if AT&T had gotten a chance to bill you, like a steel non-recyclable beartrap on your ass.
So instead of paying money for a lawyer (read: bottom-feeder) or paying alot of money for a good lawyer (read: bottom-feeder-licker) commend MCI. Send them a present, a
"I am the messiah"
-----Dan Bern
Too bad he cannot get
http://slashdot.slash
(H-T-T-P-COLON-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-DOT-DOT-SLASH)
If you changed the slash's to dashs what is that in morse code.
"Useless post #1 of the day for me"
--Me
> I have an early edition of the Lord of the Rings which, I feel, adds to the enjoyment of the book. Not b/c it's rare, but because its rough, feels and smells old -- namely, it has character... something your monitor isn't likely to have, ever.
You really should see my monitor, I got two colors orange and blackish orange. And it smells (something about 10 years of pizza).