These people aren't submitting stories because they're good people, they're aiming for profit.
Slashdot has a very high pagerank on google. Google highly values outbound links from a good site. So, if you want to get your site raised in the google rankings, simply get slashdot to link to your site. These submit-whores don't care about slashdot, they don't care about quality stories, they just want that link.
A true slashdot supporter will submit stories regardless of personal profit.
Edward Teller also raised the speculative possibility that an atomic bomb might "ignite" the atmosphere, due to a hypothetical fusion reaction of nitrogen nuclei. Hans Bethe calculated, according to Robert Serber, that it could not happen. In his book The Road from Los Alamos, Bethe says a refutation was written by Konopinski, C. Marvin, and Teller as report LA-602 (declassified Feb. 1973, PDF), showing that ignition of the atmosphere was impossible, not just unlikely.
If you want a subscription music service I'd suggest just getting XM or Sirius. They offer far more music than you get anywhere else, plus live content. The only drawback is that you can't pick exactly what you listen to.
If you don't mind ads, you can also get free radio anywhere in the country, they play music too.
I work for a nation wide company that does sales and service in every state. We have to pay city, county and state taxes for the location the work is done in. The accounting program we have uses a comercial database of what to charge for every location in the country.
However, when we ship something we only pay the sales tax for states that we have an office in.
So, it's not infeasible to think that they could require you to pay local taxes, it would just increase the demand for services that auto-calculate it all.
DirecTV has a few stations that show four shows at once. It's a quick way to see what's on on several networks at once, or you can see what story the major news channels are showing. Only one has sound.
It may sound like a fun idea, but in reality it really isn't all that useful, you can only have sound on one at a time anyway, and I'm sure you can't read the CC for four stations at once...
The entries this year are much more impressive than last. Last year DARPA had to make the qualifications easier in order to get enough vehicles to qualify for the race. Many bots had basic errors such as driving in circles when GPS was lost. Many failed from simple mechanical or software problems such as "forgot to turn off the go_slow_for_safety flag".
This year the qualifications were more difficult, including a tunnel shielded with metal which was designed to test the ability to drive through a tunnel as well as what the bot does in case of loss of GPS signal. Many of the teams were able to complete the course with no difficulties and on the first attempt.
Hopefully this will all add up to at least one vehicle completing the course. One DARPA official (unofficial) said they thought five bots would probably finish this year.
The team to watch? Princeton. They have a really simple setup, all of their object detection is done via stereo cameras using software written by one student. Very impressive.
If you hit F12 in opera you get a nice "quick menu" where you can:
* Open All/Background/Requested/None popups * Enable GIF animation * Enable Sounds * Enable Java * Enable Plug-ins (flash, etc) * Enable Javascript * Enable Cookies, referrers, etc * Enable Proxy Server (no switching yet though) * Switch your browser identification to IE/etc
So for many of those things you don't *need* an extension.
And the #1 opera feature is that it automatically saves your session. So you can close Opera to reboot or whatever and it comes back exactly where you left it (even where you scrolled on the screen). Firefox you have to go find an extension to give that functionality, which most average users don't do.
The irreplacable data on your computer is generally much smaller. All of my photos total only about 3 gigs, school documents only a few hundred megs for a bachelors degree, source code less than a hundred megs. Things like mp3's and movies and porn don't really need to be backed up because they can be re-gotten. Businesses have more data, but even then you're generally better off backing up to tape and then mailing the tapes to a friend somewhere.
The whole reason CC exists is because people are getting sued left and right for using someone else's work. He says "Creative Commons tries to insert itself as another layer into a system that already protects content developers like me to an extreme.", but CC is set up the other way. If you write something and want to make sure people understand that they can copy/redistribute/etc *without* worrying about getting sued, then they use CC. If you want to be a dick and restrict the crap you create then you can stick with traditional copyrights.
CC is *not* a way to retain *more* rights, it's a way to clearly share your work with others.
Is owning virtual property any different than owning any other sort of software? When you pay $800 for photoshop, you get a long series of ones and zeros that end up performing some function. When you buy virtual real estate, you're buing the right to do something with a similar long series of ones and zeros which perform some function (entertainment).
While I personally wouldn't spend money on either product, I can understand how some people would. What we need to do is to make sure they realize that all the rules are set by the company, it is definately *not* like real-world real estate.
I switched to Opera and Thunderbird years ago and I haven't had any problems at *all* with viruses or spyware. While there is some malware running around that automatically infects PC's, I'd guess that 99% of the "infections" come from people going to sites that install spyware for them via IE.
Switching entire OS's and throwing out all your old software seems kind of drastic. Just switch your browser/email client...
Except that the 15k goes to MS, they still need to have administrators on hand to install the updates. It's not like MS sends out a guy to perform the upgrades.
*** WARNING *** When doing a google translation proxy, remember two things: 1) The images that you load from the target page do *not* use the proxy. So if they want to track you down, all they have to do is look for the next few image loads following the google load for the main page. 2) en|en translations stand out in the logs, since it's not a normal translation option. You should use (for example) de|en. It'll fail on every german word and show the original word, which is english.
Remember that Rutan built the cancelled X-38 which was intended to replace the Soyuz as the lifeboat for the space station. So while he may need some more power out of the engine, he knows a bit about reentry heat/physics.
So you're saying you need a purse or bag with a PDA and a small antenna to walk through a crowd in order to pick up who has the most chips to steal. Doesn't sound too hard in the dense vegas crowds...
Also, don't forget about future enhancements in the antennas, or perhaps a vehicle mounted system. Anything that uses radio waves is in danger of being snooped.
Law enforcement can do *anything*. For example, it is legal for an undercover cop to take drugs, sell drugs, murder people, etc. during an investigation. The only sticky point here could be entrapment, but it doesn't look like the government asked them to pirate anything.
An important question will be what news and information is reliable. That's gone downhill in the last 20 years as the TV news sources compete to have the first "exclusive" info, regardless of whether it's true or not.
I'd rather pay for access to quality, well researched, and TRUE information than to find some free place that offers "maybe true, but sensational!" information.
This was also a theme from the Matrix. The machine world was not controlled by a single overlord but was instead made up of billions of different programs. All the way down to the "wind" or the "bird" programs. Taken individually they're all rather simple and pointless, but when taken as a whole they build something much more valuable.
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These people aren't submitting stories because they're good people, they're aiming for profit.
Slashdot has a very high pagerank on google. Google highly values outbound links from a good site. So, if you want to get your site raised in the google rankings, simply get slashdot to link to your site. These submit-whores don't care about slashdot, they don't care about quality stories, they just want that link.
A true slashdot supporter will submit stories regardless of personal profit.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
Edward Teller also raised the speculative possibility that an atomic bomb might "ignite" the atmosphere, due to a hypothetical fusion reaction of nitrogen nuclei. Hans Bethe calculated, according to Robert Serber, that it could not happen. In his book The Road from Los Alamos, Bethe says a refutation was written by Konopinski, C. Marvin, and Teller as report LA-602 (declassified Feb. 1973, PDF), showing that ignition of the atmosphere was impossible, not just unlikely.
If you want a subscription music service I'd suggest just getting XM or Sirius. They offer far more music than you get anywhere else, plus live content. The only drawback is that you can't pick exactly what you listen to.
If you don't mind ads, you can also get free radio anywhere in the country, they play music too.
In the US, How it's Made is on the Science channel.
I work for a nation wide company that does sales and service in every state. We have to pay city, county and state taxes for the location the work is done in. The accounting program we have uses a comercial database of what to charge for every location in the country.
However, when we ship something we only pay the sales tax for states that we have an office in.
So, it's not infeasible to think that they could require you to pay local taxes, it would just increase the demand for services that auto-calculate it all.
Yahoo puts advertisers first (see paid search submissions, secretly placing paid results at the top, etc).
Google puts the users first, ads are unobtrusive and respectful, results aren't paid, etc.
visa 4111 1111 1111 1111 passes as well.
DirecTV has a few stations that show four shows at once. It's a quick way to see what's on on several networks at once, or you can see what story the major news channels are showing. Only one has sound.
It may sound like a fun idea, but in reality it really isn't all that useful, you can only have sound on one at a time anyway, and I'm sure you can't read the CC for four stations at once...
The entries this year are much more impressive than last. Last year DARPA had to make the qualifications easier in order to get enough vehicles to qualify for the race. Many bots had basic errors such as driving in circles when GPS was lost. Many failed from simple mechanical or software problems such as "forgot to turn off the go_slow_for_safety flag".
This year the qualifications were more difficult, including a tunnel shielded with metal which was designed to test the ability to drive through a tunnel as well as what the bot does in case of loss of GPS signal. Many of the teams were able to complete the course with no difficulties and on the first attempt.
Hopefully this will all add up to at least one vehicle completing the course. One DARPA official (unofficial) said they thought five bots would probably finish this year.
The team to watch? Princeton. They have a really simple setup, all of their object detection is done via stereo cameras using software written by one student. Very impressive.
If you hit F12 in opera you get a nice "quick menu" where you can:
* Open All/Background/Requested/None popups
* Enable GIF animation
* Enable Sounds
* Enable Java
* Enable Plug-ins (flash, etc)
* Enable Javascript
* Enable Cookies, referrers, etc
* Enable Proxy Server (no switching yet though)
* Switch your browser identification to IE/etc
So for many of those things you don't *need* an extension.
And the #1 opera feature is that it automatically saves your session. So you can close Opera to reboot or whatever and it comes back exactly where you left it (even where you scrolled on the screen). Firefox you have to go find an extension to give that functionality, which most average users don't do.
The irreplacable data on your computer is generally much smaller. All of my photos total only about 3 gigs, school documents only a few hundred megs for a bachelors degree, source code less than a hundred megs. Things like mp3's and movies and porn don't really need to be backed up because they can be re-gotten. Businesses have more data, but even then you're generally better off backing up to tape and then mailing the tapes to a friend somewhere.
As usual, Dvorak misses the point completely.
The whole reason CC exists is because people are getting sued left and right for using someone else's work. He says "Creative Commons tries to insert itself as another layer into a system that already protects content developers like me to an extreme.", but CC is set up the other way. If you write something and want to make sure people understand that they can copy/redistribute/etc *without* worrying about getting sued, then they use CC. If you want to be a dick and restrict the crap you create then you can stick with traditional copyrights.
CC is *not* a way to retain *more* rights, it's a way to clearly share your work with others.
You do realize that in a true combat environment, having a light on yourself is a big "shoot me" target, don't you?
Is owning virtual property any different than owning any other sort of software? When you pay $800 for photoshop, you get a long series of ones and zeros that end up performing some function. When you buy virtual real estate, you're buing the right to do something with a similar long series of ones and zeros which perform some function (entertainment).
While I personally wouldn't spend money on either product, I can understand how some people would. What we need to do is to make sure they realize that all the rules are set by the company, it is definately *not* like real-world real estate.
Thunderbird 0.1 was released on July 28, 2003 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Th underbird
Today is May 27, 2005.
The math is left as an exercise for the reader.
I switched to Opera and Thunderbird years ago and I haven't had any problems at *all* with viruses or spyware. While there is some malware running around that automatically infects PC's, I'd guess that 99% of the "infections" come from people going to sites that install spyware for them via IE.
Switching entire OS's and throwing out all your old software seems kind of drastic. Just switch your browser/email client...
Except that the 15k goes to MS, they still need to have administrators on hand to install the updates. It's not like MS sends out a guy to perform the upgrades.
*** WARNING ***
When doing a google translation proxy, remember two things:
1) The images that you load from the target page do *not* use the proxy. So if they want to track you down, all they have to do is look for the next few image loads following the google load for the main page.
2) en|en translations stand out in the logs, since it's not a normal translation option. You should use (for example) de|en. It'll fail on every german word and show the original word, which is english.
Remember that Rutan built the cancelled X-38 which was intended to replace the Soyuz as the lifeboat for the space station. So while he may need some more power out of the engine, he knows a bit about reentry heat/physics.
So you're saying you need a purse or bag with a PDA and a small antenna to walk through a crowd in order to pick up who has the most chips to steal. Doesn't sound too hard in the dense vegas crowds...
Also, don't forget about future enhancements in the antennas, or perhaps a vehicle mounted system. Anything that uses radio waves is in danger of being snooped.
Law enforcement can do *anything*. For example, it is legal for an undercover cop to take drugs, sell drugs, murder people, etc. during an investigation. The only sticky point here could be entrapment, but it doesn't look like the government asked them to pirate anything.
An important question will be what news and information is reliable. That's gone downhill in the last 20 years as the TV news sources compete to have the first "exclusive" info, regardless of whether it's true or not.
I'd rather pay for access to quality, well researched, and TRUE information than to find some free place that offers "maybe true, but sensational!" information.
This was also a theme from the Matrix. The machine world was not controlled by a single overlord but was instead made up of billions of different programs. All the way down to the "wind" or the "bird" programs. Taken individually they're all rather simple and pointless, but when taken as a whole they build something much more valuable.
An *excellent* book on some australian hackers from the 90's. Free, too, though I got a signed copy for really cheap.
http://www.underground-book.com
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