While I entirely agree with your post, it's flawed in a couple of key ways...
1) The DOJ won't win some and lose some. Because of the way our legal system works as soon as people start being found guilty (and they will) the possibility (probabilty)is that EVERYONE will be found guilty.
2) People won't sit around to get arrested. They'll pull their stuff and hopefully (they hope) they won't be on a list yet. Assuming they "escape" they find/ found a new network using some controls to ensure anonymity and continue to trade what they want.
3) People won't go back to P2P. Sure SOME people will, but these are in the minority. Most people don't go searching for local bands to support, they want that cool song they heard on the radio. I REALLY doubt that bands will be able to make $10,000+ yearly, mostly because even if they DO release stuff it's to a smaller audience who still have to find their music. Maybe somebody would like it if they heard it, but haven't ever had that oppurtunity? They won't download it.
3a) Also, paying for music won't happen for a little bit. People won't want to pay for what they got for free last week, last month, last year. By this time a new network will probably have sprung up enabling copyrighted material to be traded again.
4/5) I doubt there will be enough money flowing to attract artists. Even if there is, established artists have already signed contracts with labels. These labels have the ability to get large amounts of people to hear/see/read about their artists music. A small start-up band definitely doesn't, and even if their stuff is better simply WILL NOT get the exposure necessary to compete with the established band. The established band will make more money than the start-up, causing more start-ups to sign with labels, perpetuating the cycle.
Anyway, that's just my opinion. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I doubt enough people will "break free" from the labels' marketing machines to let smaller bands compete financially (and they are at least comparing profits because a band will NOT say "Fuck You" to the label if they're gonna lose money) with larger bands who are signed with labels. This just means that a new and "better" trading system will be developed so people can trade their copyrighted material as much as they want.
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I think it may be a little out of order, considering:
7: Extreme threat of collision capable of causing a global catastrophe.
9: Collision capable of causing regional devestation.
I hope I'm not the only one who think a global catastrophe should rank higher on the scale than regional devestation. (There are some other mix ups too, I just felt like posting those two.)
Ummm... I doubt we have ANY conglomerates that would spend money to produce "cool" gizmos without making good returns. That IS the point of business, afterall. You are seriously naive to expect a company to make something because it's the latest technology when there's no or little market.
Only if you substitute the computers for telescopes. I don't think calculating whether or not they're going to hit is the problem, it's finding them in the first place. This means it can't be solved in a SETI manner unless there are a whole lot of amateur astronomers with magnification that's pretty hard to find.
That's to be expected, most Americans (which I am) assume all of Canada is about as highly developed as the Yukon. If you look at it like that indoor plumbing and paved roads are a good deal. (Though not figuring out TV and the 24 hour clock are everywhere indicates he interviewed some incredibly stupid Americans).
I doubt it's possible to be a GOOD litigator and not play to win. It's a mindset that you need to have in order to be successful. For instance, almost all surgeons are extremely confident, almost arrogant, in their abilities- not just medical abilities, but in everything they do. (I've seen studies showing that, it's not saying you have to be arrogant to be a good surgeon, just that surgeons are, for the most part, very confident people).
Anyway, you could argue that it's the same thing with litigators, that if the "play to win" mindset isn't there than they're in the wrong line of work. (And probably don't get a whole ton of business, especially not mine if I'm guilty or innocent).
I doubt we're concerned about that at all. Here's the reason:
The time from Moon to Earth is much less than the time from America to China of the ICBMs we have now. We know this, China knows this. Q.E.D Unless China wants to be turned into a parking lot on the chance their rock will hit D.C. their launching a rock at us is slim and none.
Now, if they were to develop a missile shield with 100% success rate at intercepting missiles then we might have a problem if they decide to try to hit us. And THAT is assuming that we can't find a way to destroy the rock... maybe launch a few missiles at it? All you'd need to do is split the rock into a couple of good chunks to have them miss their intended target or to have it burn up in the atmosphere.
"In response to the mass laughter we've been hearing upon admitting this, we'd just like to point out that if you were to release the source to say, Linux, it would have serious security problems too."
I think there's a difficulty in translation. It's impossible to figure out what Habu really thought. First, there's the Japanese definition of sport/ game versus our definition. I'm sure there's a difference (though I don't know what). Secondly, there's the translator's opinion. Many words don't translate directly from language to language, so maybe he had the "option" to say either game or sport and he said sport. Q.E.D we have no idea what Habu was saying.
I didn't look for specific letters, but I found that overall the real woman enunciated her words more, like you said. However, if one wasn't looking for it and couldn't compare the two clips I don't think it'd be possible to pick out the fake.
For example, instead of the same person saying the same thing, two different people saying two different things would be very hard to tell which person was faking. This would probably get harder if one had an accent.
That was the biggest Karma whoring I've ever seen. Not necessarily a BAD thing, but something that shouldn't be modded up to +5 informative/ interesting on EVERY post. +3 is fine, but more than that is the guy beating the system. Good idea though.
I find that the split for news/ discussion is about 50-50. I always read/ post in the discussions, but I also find myself hearing people discussing things that I read on Slashdot earlier that day or even days before. In conclusion it doesn't MATTER when Slashdot posts something, but an awful lot of the time they're actually with or ahead of the rest of the media.
The only problem with your idea is: how many times a day do you see a story RIGHT when it's posted? For me it's only a couple times a WEEK, if that. There's no incentive for a 10 minute delay if you're going to miss that window 9 times out of 10 or more. Make the window longer and people will be pissed (that aren't subscribers) because they can't post relatively near the front end.
I think the solution is to have most stories show up 1 hour later for non-subscribers, but to only allow posts when everyone can see the story. For "time-sensitive" or breaking news stories you could even take off that filter to keep people from complaining that they were an hour behind the latest AotC (or whatever, you know) news b/c of that damn delay.
The one thing I'd really like to see is the removal of the Kharma Cap. It's so annoying to get a high scoring post and then get -1 Troll or something after you've been modded up and then 49 Kharma. It's a little thing, but it annoys me to no end.
I'd just like to let everyone know that the screenshots are GORGEOUS, and while I'm going to be and don't have time to read everything skimming the pictures was a review in and of itself.
The "point" is because that's just incredibly cool. I mean seriously, go look at the pictures. That's an example of synergy (whole is greater then the sum of the parts) plus it would look SO nice sitting on my living room floor.
It'll be funny to see record companies respond
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I imagine it'll be something about how it doesn't matter what happens for BOOKS, and how they plan to keep trying to shut down all the file sharing programs anyway. Afterall, ACTUAL profit is less important than the CONCEPT that you're giving away your product (intellectual property, you know) to whoever wants it.
How many times will this have to be proven before somebody (other then/.ers) gets it?
"Microsoft contacted 12 Nov 2001, additional information given 25 Mar 2002."
That's pretty long time (5-6 months, too lazy to figure out the actual number of days etc.) that Microsoft has done nothing (at least not a fix). Especially because this overlaps the time when they decided to make their people go to security workshops (or some such). If they can't even fix a known, reported bug in the security how can they find them on their own and fix them? Or not write them in the future?
Oh yeah, it'd be nice to know if I can get around this by doing "right-click" / "back" or if that is affected and not JUST the toolbar.
Sure, of course we don't, I've never heard the phrase, "the police took the suspect into custody."
To be arrested there has to be a reason. You don't get arrested simply b/c you didn't like Joe, somebody mentioned that, and the police didn't have any other leads that day. You get arrested b/c you threatened to kill Joe, yelled "No! I'm serious!", bought a gun soon afterwards and were found at the crime scene.
Obviously that's an exxageration, but there has to be reasonable suspicion b/c otherwise the police get in trouble for infringing on your rights or some such.
2. The game controllers were uncomfortably large for my (adult, male) hands.
This is slightly OT, but am I the only person in the world who actually likes the controllers on the Xbox? They fit my hands well (better than any other console, Playstations are small and uncomfortable, and the Gamecube's are incredibly awkward) and the buttons are arranged correctly... People complain about the diamond shape of the buttons, but actually, using the angle of your thumb, it lines up straight, like a cross. (You hold the controller, you thumb points along a line through the middle two buttons which lines it up much better than a "normal" configuration.) Also the dual joystick type things help make actually playing games so much better... It allows a FPS to be fun and playable, while other types of games don't lose any control. So what's people's deal with the controllers. I'm honestly curious.
Well, a guy I know (and trust, he wasn't joking) once told me about a friend of his. Former Marine. His girlfriend lived ~50 miles away, and on the weekends he'd run there in the morning and back at night. Or if he wanted to do some *training* he'd pick a direction and run until he got tired, then turn around and run back. I think that SEALs are more physically fit then Marines (at least in the water, don't know about land) so I think it *might* be possible, though I think he probably exxagerated his time.
"Coincidentally, the Marathon des Sables in Morocco is 141 miles as well, and that takes 7 days to run." Ah, but that's only 20.2 miles a day. Easily doable if you pace yourself. I believe armies used to travel around that distance everyday (marching), so a competitor could probably do about 40 a day pushing it.
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While I entirely agree with your post, it's flawed in a couple of key ways...
1) The DOJ won't win some and lose some. Because of the way our legal system works as soon as people start being found guilty (and they will) the possibility (probabilty)is that EVERYONE will be found guilty.
2) People won't sit around to get arrested. They'll pull their stuff and hopefully (they hope) they won't be on a list yet. Assuming they "escape" they find/ found a new network using some controls to ensure anonymity and continue to trade what they want.
3) People won't go back to P2P. Sure SOME people will, but these are in the minority. Most people don't go searching for local bands to support, they want that cool song they heard on the radio. I REALLY doubt that bands will be able to make $10,000+ yearly, mostly because even if they DO release stuff it's to a smaller audience who still have to find their music. Maybe somebody would like it if they heard it, but haven't ever had that oppurtunity? They won't download it.
3a) Also, paying for music won't happen for a little bit. People won't want to pay for what they got for free last week, last month, last year. By this time a new network will probably have sprung up enabling copyrighted material to be traded again.
4/5) I doubt there will be enough money flowing to attract artists. Even if there is, established artists have already signed contracts with labels. These labels have the ability to get large amounts of people to hear/see/read about their artists music. A small start-up band definitely doesn't, and even if their stuff is better simply WILL NOT get the exposure necessary to compete with the established band. The established band will make more money than the start-up, causing more start-ups to sign with labels, perpetuating the cycle.
Anyway, that's just my opinion. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I doubt enough people will "break free" from the labels' marketing machines to let smaller bands compete financially (and they are at least comparing profits because a band will NOT say "Fuck You" to the label if they're gonna lose money) with larger bands who are signed with labels. This just means that a new and "better" trading system will be developed so people can trade their copyrighted material as much as they want.
I think it may be a little out of order, considering:
7: Extreme threat of collision capable of causing a global catastrophe.
9: Collision capable of causing regional devestation.
I hope I'm not the only one who think a global catastrophe should rank higher on the scale than regional devestation.
(There are some other mix ups too, I just felt like posting those two.)
Ummm... I doubt we have ANY conglomerates that would spend money to produce "cool" gizmos without making good returns. That IS the point of business, afterall. You are seriously naive to expect a company to make something because it's the latest technology when there's no or little market.
Only if you substitute the computers for telescopes. I don't think calculating whether or not they're going to hit is the problem, it's finding them in the first place. This means it can't be solved in a SETI manner unless there are a whole lot of amateur astronomers with magnification that's pretty hard to find.
That's to be expected, most Americans (which I am) assume all of Canada is about as highly developed as the Yukon. If you look at it like that indoor plumbing and paved roads are a good deal. (Though not figuring out TV and the 24 hour clock are everywhere indicates he interviewed some incredibly stupid Americans).
I doubt it's possible to be a GOOD litigator and not play to win. It's a mindset that you need to have in order to be successful. For instance, almost all surgeons are extremely confident, almost arrogant, in their abilities- not just medical abilities, but in everything they do. (I've seen studies showing that, it's not saying you have to be arrogant to be a good surgeon, just that surgeons are, for the most part, very confident people).
Anyway, you could argue that it's the same thing with litigators, that if the "play to win" mindset isn't there than they're in the wrong line of work. (And probably don't get a whole ton of business, especially not mine if I'm guilty or innocent).
I hope Nintendo read your comment, and wish that I had mod points.
And in response to the guy who replied... they can still sell a reduced price GC WITHOUT the GBA.
I doubt we're concerned about that at all. Here's the reason:
The time from Moon to Earth is much less than the time from America to China of the ICBMs we have now. We know this, China knows this. Q.E.D Unless China wants to be turned into a parking lot on the chance their rock will hit D.C. their launching a rock at us is slim and none.
Now, if they were to develop a missile shield with 100% success rate at intercepting missiles then we might have a problem if they decide to try to hit us. And THAT is assuming that we can't find a way to destroy the rock... maybe launch a few missiles at it? All you'd need to do is split the rock into a couple of good chunks to have them miss their intended target or to have it burn up in the atmosphere.
"In response to the mass laughter we've been hearing upon admitting this, we'd just like to point out that if you were to release the source to say, Linux, it would have serious security problems too."
Oh wait...
Then drop prices anyway, and prove to the consumer how great (and kind!) a company Microsoft is.
I think there's a difficulty in translation. It's impossible to figure out what Habu really thought. First, there's the Japanese definition of sport/ game versus our definition. I'm sure there's a difference (though I don't know what). Secondly, there's the translator's opinion. Many words don't translate directly from language to language, so maybe he had the "option" to say either game or sport and he said sport. Q.E.D we have no idea what Habu was saying.
I didn't look for specific letters, but I found that overall the real woman enunciated her words more, like you said. However, if one wasn't looking for it and couldn't compare the two clips I don't think it'd be possible to pick out the fake.
For example, instead of the same person saying the same thing, two different people saying two different things would be very hard to tell which person was faking. This would probably get harder if one had an accent.
That was the biggest Karma whoring I've ever seen. Not necessarily a BAD thing, but something that shouldn't be modded up to +5 informative/ interesting on EVERY post. +3 is fine, but more than that is the guy beating the system. Good idea though.
I find that the split for news/ discussion is about 50-50. I always read/ post in the discussions, but I also find myself hearing people discussing things that I read on Slashdot earlier that day or even days before. In conclusion it doesn't MATTER when Slashdot posts something, but an awful lot of the time they're actually with or ahead of the rest of the media.
And of course the military makes all the data they're collecting public, right?
The only problem with your idea is: how many times a day do you see a story RIGHT when it's posted? For me it's only a couple times a WEEK, if that. There's no incentive for a 10 minute delay if you're going to miss that window 9 times out of 10 or more. Make the window longer and people will be pissed (that aren't subscribers) because they can't post relatively near the front end.
I think the solution is to have most stories show up 1 hour later for non-subscribers, but to only allow posts when everyone can see the story. For "time-sensitive" or breaking news stories you could even take off that filter to keep people from complaining that they were an hour behind the latest AotC (or whatever, you know) news b/c of that damn delay.
The one thing I'd really like to see is the removal of the Kharma Cap. It's so annoying to get a high scoring post and then get -1 Troll or something after you've been modded up and then 49 Kharma. It's a little thing, but it annoys me to no end.
I'd just like to let everyone know that the screenshots are GORGEOUS, and while I'm going to be and don't have time to read everything skimming the pictures was a review in and of itself.
The "point" is because that's just incredibly cool. I mean seriously, go look at the pictures. That's an example of synergy (whole is greater then the sum of the parts) plus it would look SO nice sitting on my living room floor.
I imagine it'll be something about how it doesn't matter what happens for BOOKS, and how they plan to keep trying to shut down all the file sharing programs anyway. Afterall, ACTUAL profit is less important than the CONCEPT that you're giving away your product (intellectual property, you know) to whoever wants it.
/.ers) gets it?
How many times will this have to be proven before somebody (other then
"Microsoft contacted 12 Nov 2001, additional information given 25 Mar 2002."
That's pretty long time (5-6 months, too lazy to figure out the actual number of days etc.) that Microsoft has done nothing (at least not a fix). Especially because this overlaps the time when they decided to make their people go to security workshops (or some such). If they can't even fix a known, reported bug in the security how can they find them on their own and fix them? Or not write them in the future?
Oh yeah, it'd be nice to know if I can get around this by doing "right-click" / "back" or if that is affected and not JUST the toolbar.
Sure, of course we don't, I've never heard the phrase, "the police took the suspect into custody."
To be arrested there has to be a reason. You don't get arrested simply b/c you didn't like Joe, somebody mentioned that, and the police didn't have any other leads that day. You get arrested b/c you threatened to kill Joe, yelled "No! I'm serious!", bought a gun soon afterwards and were found at the crime scene.
Obviously that's an exxageration, but there has to be reasonable suspicion b/c otherwise the police get in trouble for infringing on your rights or some such.
2. The game controllers were uncomfortably large for my (adult, male) hands.
This is slightly OT, but am I the only person in the world who actually likes the controllers on the Xbox? They fit my hands well (better than any other console, Playstations are small and uncomfortable, and the Gamecube's are incredibly awkward) and the buttons are arranged correctly... People complain about the diamond shape of the buttons, but actually, using the angle of your thumb, it lines up straight, like a cross. (You hold the controller, you thumb points along a line through the middle two buttons which lines it up much better than a "normal" configuration.) Also the dual joystick type things help make actually playing games so much better... It allows a FPS to be fun and playable, while other types of games don't lose any control. So what's people's deal with the controllers. I'm honestly curious.
What do you do if someone were to simply detonate nuclear weapons in a city?
Missile-defense isn't designed to protect against this... only missiles. Your argument is like:
"That front airbag won't protect me from a side-on collision."
You're arguing against something entirely different.
I've read that book, and yes, you're correct. That was the first thing that came to mind when I read that article.
BTW, that series is really good if all you've read of his books is the Hitchhiker series.
Well, a guy I know (and trust, he wasn't joking) once told me about a friend of his. Former Marine. His girlfriend lived ~50 miles away, and on the weekends he'd run there in the morning and back at night. Or if he wanted to do some *training* he'd pick a direction and run until he got tired, then turn around and run back. I think that SEALs are more physically fit then Marines (at least in the water, don't know about land) so I think it *might* be possible, though I think he probably exxagerated his time.
"Coincidentally, the Marathon des Sables in Morocco is 141 miles as well, and that takes 7 days to run."
Ah, but that's only 20.2 miles a day. Easily doable if you pace yourself. I believe armies used to travel around that distance everyday (marching), so a competitor could probably do about 40 a day pushing it.