So go along with all the posts expressing suprise that the United States' Government would be on the side of privacy in a debate. I have found the way to manipulate politicians into protecting internet privacy. Just say China and Russia are against privacy... ARE YOU?
If you call 800 people earning more than $50k a viable industry then I have some Florida swampland to sell you. Sounds like less than 1% of all the musicians in the world are not living in their mother's basement...
Because someone who makes 10k off of music on Pandora could not possibly be popular enough to sell music in other places or sell tickets to shows.
The bad news is that how many of the "artists" on Pandora are actually corporations? Who owns the most popular historical music from the Beatles and other bands?
politicians choose new projects specifically in order to benefit themselves, rather than the people who they supposedly represent
This doesn't contradict what I wrote. When a voter hears "building a new road" they assume it will benefit someone, somewhere. If it's being built in their general geographic area then they assume they'll derive some benefit from it, even if only marginally. The fact remains: people seem to care more about roads being efficient (i.e. getting them where they need to go as quickly as possible) than they do roads being as safe as possible.
Agreed, there was a bypass bridge built very close to my house that I have never been on. However it diverts traffic away from the street light near my house, allowing far fewer cars to need to use the surface streets. I figure with the average of 2 minutes a trip that bridge saves me and everyone else that lives in my neighborhood, and the huge amount of people using that highway, it has paid for itself hundreds of times over already.
Can somebody spare some "troll" karma for this post?
I hereby retract my call to heap troll karma on alen's post. A moment's reflection led me to realize that I'm not even sure I know what troll karma is. I apologize and welcome alen's ideas. Carry on.
Oh, I thought you meant YOUR post as if you were doing a more direct version of the reverse-psychology call for moderation thing. "Ill get modded down for this but..."
According to J Michael Straczyski, some guys at NASA actually contacted the B5 crew to see about the designs of the Star Fury, because that was the most realistic and maneuverable fighter-sized ship they'd seen in fiction. They also did make use of some interesting concepts, like (a) having semi-realistic tactics in space combat instead of just a free-for-all, (b) factoring in gravity of nearby planets and stars, and (c) making sure portrayed military practices bore some relationship to actual militaries.
Of course, there are some violations of physics in B5 too: Shots make noise in space, and you can hear the engine noise of passing ships.
The story goes that he happy handed all the material over, with the only stipulation that if they build something based on B5 designs, they must call it a Starfury.
In defense of the energy drink company... most of the stunts they sponsor were from people who were going to do the stunt anyhow. They are just providing some cash to get it going in return for sticking their logo on it.
Does this mean they were storing the passwords in cleartext? In a real system they would simply be storing the hashes, shortening the password would cause it to create a different hash and not match.
Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) are designed to fail safe using active intervention mechanisms and totally don't fail safe if the active mechanism screws up as it did in Fukushima.
Except that Fukushima was a Boiling Water Reactor. BWRs are a unsafe poor design. PWRs are designed with failsafe systems. But don't let that get in the way of your anti-nuclear rant, you are on a roll.
I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
The name of the image file made it sound like Jane Foster is a frost giant.
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Is it just me or does the author not know what false flag means?
Its a semaphore code?
..but somehow we lack a strategic bacon reserve. I think bacon really should have the priority there.
What strategies are based on bacon?
most slashdotters are net producers of gasses.
You're thinking CO2 and methane. I'm quite sure I don't produce very much xenon.
I have a fission reactor in my garage. So I am a net producer of radioactive Xenon.
Right now, everyone reading this is likely doing something illegal.
When reading Slashdot becomes outlawed, then only outlaws will read Slashdot.
Perhaps that will cut down on the trolling.
When I was a young man, we didn'have these new-fangled self-inflating airbag thingys. We had to blow up our airbags "manually"....., and we LIKED IT!!
I don't think air bags are pilot and flight attendant shaped.
The second failure was fairly spectacular. You can also easily see what brand of car they were using.
So go along with all the posts expressing suprise that the United States' Government would be on the side of privacy in a debate. I have found the way to manipulate politicians into protecting internet privacy. Just say China and Russia are against privacy... ARE YOU?
it is also enabling musicians to earn a living
If you call 800 people earning more than $50k a viable industry then I have some Florida swampland to sell you. Sounds like less than 1% of all the musicians in the world are not living in their mother's basement...
Because someone who makes 10k off of music on Pandora could not possibly be popular enough to sell music in other places or sell tickets to shows.
The bad news is that how many of the "artists" on Pandora are actually corporations? Who owns the most popular historical music from the Beatles and other bands?
What happens when an actual bird moves in?
The birds will steal the cameras.
Measure performance based on lines of code put online. That should help efficiency.
But I code in Perl you insensitive clod!
Perl efficiency is inversely proportional to lines of code.
This doesn't contradict what I wrote. When a voter hears "building a new road" they assume it will benefit someone, somewhere. If it's being built in their general geographic area then they assume they'll derive some benefit from it, even if only marginally. The fact remains: people seem to care more about roads being efficient (i.e. getting them where they need to go as quickly as possible) than they do roads being as safe as possible.
Agreed, there was a bypass bridge built very close to my house that I have never been on. However it diverts traffic away from the street light near my house, allowing far fewer cars to need to use the surface streets. I figure with the average of 2 minutes a trip that bridge saves me and everyone else that lives in my neighborhood, and the huge amount of people using that highway, it has paid for itself hundreds of times over already.
Can somebody spare some "troll" karma for this post?
I hereby retract my call to heap troll karma on alen's post. A moment's reflection led me to realize that I'm not even sure I know what troll karma is. I apologize and welcome alen's ideas. Carry on.
Oh, I thought you meant YOUR post as if you were doing a more direct version of the reverse-psychology call for moderation thing. "Ill get modded down for this but..."
DC
Marvel
All cars? Presumably they only want to track cars in their own country.
I don't know, but I bet this is the only thread where a post consisting of simply "Fuck You" could be rated +5 Insightful.
I claim the patch of trees outside my office window.
According to J Michael Straczyski, some guys at NASA actually contacted the B5 crew to see about the designs of the Star Fury, because that was the most realistic and maneuverable fighter-sized ship they'd seen in fiction. They also did make use of some interesting concepts, like (a) having semi-realistic tactics in space combat instead of just a free-for-all, (b) factoring in gravity of nearby planets and stars, and (c) making sure portrayed military practices bore some relationship to actual militaries.
Of course, there are some violations of physics in B5 too: Shots make noise in space, and you can hear the engine noise of passing ships.
The story goes that he happy handed all the material over, with the only stipulation that if they build something based on B5 designs, they must call it a Starfury.
Not being american *or* australian, the summary was not terribly helpful.
What is the SEC?
ASIC is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit
SEC is the South Eastern Conference
Oh, and people don't have to shout fire in a crowded movie theater anymore -- that's why we have fire alarms.
And pulling the fire alarm when there is not actually a fire is illegal. In the eyes of the law it is exactly the same as yelling fire.
In defense of the energy drink company... most of the stunts they sponsor were from people who were going to do the stunt anyhow. They are just providing some cash to get it going in return for sticking their logo on it.
Trees are the default crop. Been this way since mankind was swinging from branch to branch,
So then it is trees and vines are the default crops.
Does this mean they were storing the passwords in cleartext? In a real system they would simply be storing the hashes, shortening the password would cause it to create a different hash and not match.
Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) are designed to fail safe using active intervention mechanisms and totally don't fail safe if the active mechanism screws up as it did in Fukushima.
Except that Fukushima was a Boiling Water Reactor. BWRs are a unsafe poor design. PWRs are designed with failsafe systems. But don't let that get in the way of your anti-nuclear rant, you are on a roll.
I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
The name of the image file made it sound like Jane Foster is a frost giant.
Maybe an anorexic one.
To Dice: if it ain't broken, don't "fix it".
That has never been the motto here. Why would it take hold now?
If it ain't broken, fix it until it is.