Yes. Just because the first amendment doesn't apply doesn't mean that this doesn't impact speech, or isn't important.
Insistence on asserting absolute property rights over a forum that Google has made every effort to sell as a public one is also very narrow-minded. If a private entity can censor on a whim, then the only way to have free speech would be to prevent private ownership of public communication mediums.
My graphics card has solid drivers but no 3D support. There haven't been dedicated 3D graphics cards since the Voodoo 2 days. At least not mainstream ones.
There's nothing in the article (yes, I read it). It's just what everyone already knew - Google+ is one more Google service and will continue to exist and act as a data source to better target their advertisements. Big deal. The actual content of the unified privacy policy remains less threatening than most, even if people continue to cower at its mere existence. The contribution that it mentions from Steve Jobs is essentially non-existent, and I've already written more than this thing deserves.
In my experience the RadeonHD driver has been pretty solid. It's open, requires no kernel downgrades, and will continue to be supported into the foreseeable future. Lack of 3D acceleration is the only issue that I'm aware of, but they're working on that. This is a big step up over Nvidia's approach (or PowerVR's).
The Eee Keyboard comes first to mind for this - it's an all-in-one except for the screen (except it does have a screen, it's just really small). You don't gain anything though by going this route, the keyboard isn't significantly smaller or lighter than a small laptop and it's a little more awkward and, most of all, there are more pieces to juggle.
Don't underestimate the importance of having everything in a single package for portability - I've been really disappointed with the route that Apple has been going with this, offloading more and more things to a myriad of dongles. I'm hoping they don't get too many imitators in that respect. Like everyone else in this thread, I would recommend a traditional laptop.
PowerVR could compete if they opened their drivers, or at least released specs so that other people could write them. They've been extremely reticent about this.
Why? What's wrong with Disney princesses? Did little boys who wanted/Miami Vice/ lunch boxes really want to be undercover narcotics agents with stupid clothing and bad hair?
What's wrong is that if those little boys really did want to be undercover narcotics agents with stupid clothing and bad hair, they could have done that. No matter what you do and no matter how hard you work, you are never going to be a princess.
especially since the privatized TSA contractor can't hide behind sovereign immunity and can be replaced by another privatized TSA contractor.
Yes they can, any private security company would make sure that an immunity clause is written into their contract. Most likely what you'd see is an increase in scapegoating - publicly fire the schlub doing the patdown that someone complains about in order to protect the person who ordered the process in the first place. This would convince people that the privatized process is an improvement even as they're taking off their shoes and getting ball-groped.
"Peanut allergies in children have more than tripled in the United States from 1997 to 2008"
Your first post smelled like a troll, but I thought to myself "No, I should give this person the benefit of a doubt. Maybe he really doesn't know."::sigh::
Children can choose to avoid ballgames and many other traditionally fun childhood places where peanut dust is prevalent, but they can't avoid school.
This is the first decent argument I've seen in this thread in opposition to this law. Most of the rest of the people here are giving pretty weird knee-jerk responses saying that if it doesn't catch every well-prepared master criminal then it's worthless.
Still, the fact that it only works for the first few shots means that it does work for the first few shots. That might catch a few people and given that this sounds as though it's of minimal cost to implement and doesn't really harm anyone's right to bear arms or privacy or anything else, it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
I do get your point but listen to the podcast that I linked - they make it clear that most stolen credit card numbers come from what they call 'hacking' (probably a compromised machine at a merchant or bank, maybe one at your grocery store) and most of the rest come from fraudulent or bugged ATMs or the like. Conspicuously absent is the sort of skimming that you're talking about and I'd guess that this has something to do with the impracticality of the process in addition to the danger.
I'd imagine that you got the brush off from the police because the bank is in a much better position to evaluate your claim than the police are, so that's the system which they have in place to handle it.
I know this is Slashdot and you didn't read the article, so let me help you out:
Other researchers in the field can spot dodgy methods in a paper like the mascot in a cereal box knock-off of Where’s Waldo? Scientists know that every study is imperfect or incomplete in some way and are especially skeptical of results that contradict—rather than build upon—the existing science.
When lots of data has been published supporting one conclusion, and then a single data set points in a different direction, the most likely explanation is that something is wrong with that rogue data set.
The thrust of the matter is that there have been several other previous studies on the effects of groundwater contribution to sea level rise, all with conclusions in roughly the same (low) ballpark. Then a single study comes along with wildly different results and that's the one which gets heavily reported on in popular media. I don't know who the real scientists are in this case (and you don't either), but we'll see if the new study survives a thorough peer review.
It's certainly not victimless: any merchant who doesn't have insurance is getting screwed by the fraudster, any merchant who does have insurance (because of all the credit card fraud) is getting screwed by the insurance company.
Your numbers are also off - good credit card numbers can go for $30 - $45 depending on the type of card and where it's from:
and the idea that a guy working in a restaurant would do this... Well, if he was very stupid then maybe. But he'd get caught in no time once this restaurant was identified as a common point of use between all these stolen cards.
Bullshit. Scorched Earth has nothing to do with Castle Clout. In fact, the differences are so large that I have trouble seeing how you could even make that connection. Arcing projectile trajectories? I can't see anything else that they have in common.
I picked it up in one of the previous Humble Bundles, but have yet to get around to playing it. It's only $5. There are certainly plenty of others that I could recommend, but it depends on what you're looking for. Spelunky is a fantastic side-scroller with roguelike trappings (permanent death, random level generation, many discoverables and tricks that you learn over time), you really need a control pad for that though. Pixelated retro graphics, but good ones - they're expressive. Monster's Den Chronicles is a reasonably solid turn-based dungeon crawl if you're looking for browser-based flash game:
There's also an open source real-time graphical version of Angband, which would be quite similar to Diablo, but I forget what it's called and it's quite an old project by now (at least ten years old). I don't think it would match up to Diablo graphically. If you really want something that closely matches Diablo then, as an AC pointed out, the boxed version of Torchlight requires no activation. So when I said "unless they've changed things," as it turns out they have changed things.
I can also recommend Icewind Dale. It's also quite old by now (available on Good Old Games) so graphically it's not so hot any more, though I think it's at least as good as Diablo 1. It's not a roguelike, it's a D&D based RPG, but it is definitely a dungeon crawl - the focus is on delving into dungeons, loot gathering, monster slaying, not on involved plots or politicing.
Unless they've changed things, Torchlight requires activation. So that is not a good choice for someone who is looking for a single player game which does not need online access.
A better option might be Nethack or ADOM or Angband but, despite the fact that Diablo seems to be expressly styled after Angband, those are very different games.
What, you can't even spell nigger anymore? Self censorship to this degree is not about sensitivity, it's about fear: people are afraid that if they use the word nigger, even in a non-insulting context, they'll get labeled. I've never seen it censored in print like this before, maybe that's common now, but this is just unacceptable.
Part of growing up is learning that words can't hurt you.
They are completely irrelevant, at least to people who understand that this is all politics and nothing else. [Spewing political flamebait] Nobel prize is irrelevant, it's a political tool and nothing else.
The nobel peace prize has been given both as a prize for previous efforts at promoting peace and as a tool in itself - the committee has given the prize to people who they hope will use whatever status it confers to promote peace in the future. This is not inconsistent with the intention of the prize, but rubs some people the wrong way since it's not what they feel a prize is supposed to be.
I see the same phenomenon with Chicago-style pizza - some people dislike it simply because it's not what they expect pizza to be. They derisively call it "pizza casserole" or some such and refuse to eat it, even though they're only depriving themselves.
To the best of my knowledge, the other nobel prizes have been given exclusively for previous accomplishments and contributions to their fields.
It is the only thing aside from violent revolution that limits government power over its citizens or citizens from using government power over each other.
You don't cotton to that whole "democracy" business? Voting's for suckers?
Look, governments are clearly collective entities. Certainly that's not all there is to it, but it's their collective nature that drives them towards efficiency. In other words, public accountability. You could view violent revolution as one part of that, but there are lessor revolutions. Electoral revolutions.
Businesses are competitive entities and the free market drives them towards efficiency. Everyone seems to know how that works, even though it's a more complicated process.
People like to moan about government waste, but for some reason businesses often get a pass. I tend to think the opposite, because my own experience tells me that governmental organizations (at least outside of the military) tend to run on a shoestring, but I have no way to quantitatively compare government inefficiency to private inefficiency.
However, when you say that competition between collective entities drives efficiency, that rings false. For one thing, collectives are also generally monopolies. That's how they work and that's fine for collectives - monopoly status is a benefit, not a danger, when you're not relying on competition. Introducing competition means losing that benefit and that means redundancy (not the good kind of redundancy, the inefficient kind of redundancy). It also means risk, which is something that governments are not supposed to be about. Example of government risk taking:
The city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania realized that they needed a trash incinerator. The collective thing to do would have been to go to neighboring cities or perhaps to the county and ask them to contribute to an incinerator which they would all share. They would also share in any added costs if something went wrong with the plan. Instead, Harrisburg decided to fund the whole thing themselves in the hope of generating profit. For a business this kind of profit-seeking would have been fine, it would just be a failed business. For Harrisburg this has meant severe cutbacks to the police force, fire department, pensions, etc. It will probably lead to new taxes, though I haven't heard anything about that.
I'm rambling now. The point is that when you confuse your motives you wind up with a mess.
State governments here in the US try to raise revenue by luring companies to set up shop in their states using tax incentives. The net result is a sort of tragedy of the commons - overall tax revenue is lower and even though politicians try and claim they're "creating jobs" they're really just stealing them from other states.
When governments (collective entities) try to act like businesses (competitive entities) it seldom works out. Usually only a few who are able to take advantage of the situation benefit.
Both mathematics and "Computer science" are considered formal sciences, as opposed to empirical sciences:
This was a definition with which I was not familiar. So all right, I will concede to the infallible authority of Wikipedia. Thanks for enlightening me.
I still like the other definition better - I think that stipulating a science as something which utilizes the scientific method groups things together in a simple and effective way, while allowing for new as yet undeveloped fields.
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Yes. Just because the first amendment doesn't apply doesn't mean that this doesn't impact speech, or isn't important.
Insistence on asserting absolute property rights over a forum that Google has made every effort to sell as a public one is also very narrow-minded. If a private entity can censor on a whim, then the only way to have free speech would be to prevent private ownership of public communication mediums.
My graphics card has solid drivers but no 3D support. There haven't been dedicated 3D graphics cards since the Voodoo 2 days. At least not mainstream ones.
There's nothing in the article (yes, I read it). It's just what everyone already knew - Google+ is one more Google service and will continue to exist and act as a data source to better target their advertisements. Big deal. The actual content of the unified privacy policy remains less threatening than most, even if people continue to cower at its mere existence. The contribution that it mentions from Steve Jobs is essentially non-existent, and I've already written more than this thing deserves.
In my experience the RadeonHD driver has been pretty solid. It's open, requires no kernel downgrades, and will continue to be supported into the foreseeable future. Lack of 3D acceleration is the only issue that I'm aware of, but they're working on that. This is a big step up over Nvidia's approach (or PowerVR's).
Just like AMD?
That would be fine, though they could certainly go further. What are you getting at?
The Eee Keyboard comes first to mind for this - it's an all-in-one except for the screen (except it does have a screen, it's just really small). You don't gain anything though by going this route, the keyboard isn't significantly smaller or lighter than a small laptop and it's a little more awkward and, most of all, there are more pieces to juggle.
Don't underestimate the importance of having everything in a single package for portability - I've been really disappointed with the route that Apple has been going with this, offloading more and more things to a myriad of dongles. I'm hoping they don't get too many imitators in that respect. Like everyone else in this thread, I would recommend a traditional laptop.
PowerVR could compete if they opened their drivers, or at least released specs so that other people could write them. They've been extremely reticent about this.
Why? What's wrong with Disney princesses? Did little boys who wanted /Miami Vice/ lunch boxes really want to be undercover narcotics agents with stupid clothing and bad hair?
What's wrong is that if those little boys really did want to be undercover narcotics agents with stupid clothing and bad hair, they could have done that. No matter what you do and no matter how hard you work, you are never going to be a princess.
especially since the privatized TSA contractor can't hide behind sovereign immunity and can be replaced by another privatized TSA contractor.
Yes they can, any private security company would make sure that an immunity clause is written into their contract. Most likely what you'd see is an increase in scapegoating - publicly fire the schlub doing the patdown that someone complains about in order to protect the person who ordered the process in the first place. This would convince people that the privatized process is an improvement even as they're taking off their shoes and getting ball-groped.
"Peanut allergies in children have more than tripled in the United States from 1997 to 2008"
::sigh::
Your first post smelled like a troll, but I thought to myself "No, I should give this person the benefit of a doubt. Maybe he really doesn't know."
Children can choose to avoid ballgames and many other traditionally fun childhood places where peanut dust is prevalent, but they can't avoid school.
Peanuts are very dangerous to some people. They could certainly be used as a weapon, though that's not why they're banned:
http://foodallergies.about.com/od/adultfoodallergies/f/nutsatschool.htm
It seems odd to me that you haven't heard of this problem since it's been so widely publicized, but maybe that's only the case around here.
This is the first decent argument I've seen in this thread in opposition to this law. Most of the rest of the people here are giving pretty weird knee-jerk responses saying that if it doesn't catch every well-prepared master criminal then it's worthless.
Still, the fact that it only works for the first few shots means that it does work for the first few shots. That might catch a few people and given that this sounds as though it's of minimal cost to implement and doesn't really harm anyone's right to bear arms or privacy or anything else, it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
I do get your point but listen to the podcast that I linked - they make it clear that most stolen credit card numbers come from what they call 'hacking' (probably a compromised machine at a merchant or bank, maybe one at your grocery store) and most of the rest come from fraudulent or bugged ATMs or the like. Conspicuously absent is the sort of skimming that you're talking about and I'd guess that this has something to do with the impracticality of the process in addition to the danger.
I'd imagine that you got the brush off from the police because the bank is in a much better position to evaluate your claim than the police are, so that's the system which they have in place to handle it.
Other researchers in the field can spot dodgy methods in a paper like the mascot in a cereal box knock-off of Where’s Waldo? Scientists know that every study is imperfect or incomplete in some way and are especially skeptical of results that contradict—rather than build upon—the existing science. When lots of data has been published supporting one conclusion, and then a single data set points in a different direction, the most likely explanation is that something is wrong with that rogue data set.
The thrust of the matter is that there have been several other previous studies on the effects of groundwater contribution to sea level rise, all with conclusions in roughly the same (low) ballpark. Then a single study comes along with wildly different results and that's the one which gets heavily reported on in popular media. I don't know who the real scientists are in this case (and you don't either), but we'll see if the new study survives a thorough peer review.
It's certainly not victimless: any merchant who doesn't have insurance is getting screwed by the fraudster, any merchant who does have insurance (because of all the credit card fraud) is getting screwed by the insurance company.
Your numbers are also off - good credit card numbers can go for $30 - $45 depending on the type of card and where it's from:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/16/137181702/the-tuesday-podcast-inside-the-credit-card-black-market
and the idea that a guy working in a restaurant would do this... Well, if he was very stupid then maybe. But he'd get caught in no time once this restaurant was identified as a common point of use between all these stolen cards.
Bullshit. Scorched Earth has nothing to do with Castle Clout. In fact, the differences are so large that I have trouble seeing how you could even make that connection. Arcing projectile trajectories? I can't see anything else that they have in common.
I've heard some very positive things about Dungeons of Dredmor:
http://www.gaslampgames.com/blog/
I picked it up in one of the previous Humble Bundles, but have yet to get around to playing it. It's only $5. There are certainly plenty of others that I could recommend, but it depends on what you're looking for. Spelunky is a fantastic side-scroller with roguelike trappings (permanent death, random level generation, many discoverables and tricks that you learn over time), you really need a control pad for that though. Pixelated retro graphics, but good ones - they're expressive. Monster's Den Chronicles is a reasonably solid turn-based dungeon crawl if you're looking for browser-based flash game:
http://armorgames.com/play/13132/monsters-den-chronicles
There's also an open source real-time graphical version of Angband, which would be quite similar to Diablo, but I forget what it's called and it's quite an old project by now (at least ten years old). I don't think it would match up to Diablo graphically. If you really want something that closely matches Diablo then, as an AC pointed out, the boxed version of Torchlight requires no activation. So when I said "unless they've changed things," as it turns out they have changed things.
I can also recommend Icewind Dale. It's also quite old by now (available on Good Old Games) so graphically it's not so hot any more, though I think it's at least as good as Diablo 1. It's not a roguelike, it's a D&D based RPG, but it is definitely a dungeon crawl - the focus is on delving into dungeons, loot gathering, monster slaying, not on involved plots or politicing.
The retail version of Torchlight doesn't require internet access to work.
Ah, you're right. Very nice, I've seen a few developers move in this direction. Hope that turns into a trend.
Unless they've changed things, Torchlight requires activation. So that is not a good choice for someone who is looking for a single player game which does not need online access.
A better option might be Nethack or ADOM or Angband but, despite the fact that Diablo seems to be expressly styled after Angband, those are very different games.
What, you can't even spell nigger anymore? Self censorship to this degree is not about sensitivity, it's about fear: people are afraid that if they use the word nigger, even in a non-insulting context, they'll get labeled. I've never seen it censored in print like this before, maybe that's common now, but this is just unacceptable.
Part of growing up is learning that words can't hurt you.
They are completely irrelevant, at least to people who understand that this is all politics and nothing else. [Spewing political flamebait] Nobel prize is irrelevant, it's a political tool and nothing else.
The nobel peace prize has been given both as a prize for previous efforts at promoting peace and as a tool in itself - the committee has given the prize to people who they hope will use whatever status it confers to promote peace in the future. This is not inconsistent with the intention of the prize, but rubs some people the wrong way since it's not what they feel a prize is supposed to be.
I see the same phenomenon with Chicago-style pizza - some people dislike it simply because it's not what they expect pizza to be. They derisively call it "pizza casserole" or some such and refuse to eat it, even though they're only depriving themselves.
To the best of my knowledge, the other nobel prizes have been given exclusively for previous accomplishments and contributions to their fields.
It is the only thing aside from violent revolution that limits government power over its citizens or citizens from using government power over each other.
You don't cotton to that whole "democracy" business? Voting's for suckers?
Look, governments are clearly collective entities. Certainly that's not all there is to it, but it's their collective nature that drives them towards efficiency. In other words, public accountability. You could view violent revolution as one part of that, but there are lessor revolutions. Electoral revolutions.
Businesses are competitive entities and the free market drives them towards efficiency. Everyone seems to know how that works, even though it's a more complicated process.
People like to moan about government waste, but for some reason businesses often get a pass. I tend to think the opposite, because my own experience tells me that governmental organizations (at least outside of the military) tend to run on a shoestring, but I have no way to quantitatively compare government inefficiency to private inefficiency.
However, when you say that competition between collective entities drives efficiency, that rings false. For one thing, collectives are also generally monopolies. That's how they work and that's fine for collectives - monopoly status is a benefit, not a danger, when you're not relying on competition. Introducing competition means losing that benefit and that means redundancy (not the good kind of redundancy, the inefficient kind of redundancy). It also means risk, which is something that governments are not supposed to be about. Example of government risk taking:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/03/23/149058391/trying-to-save-a-broke-city
The city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania realized that they needed a trash incinerator. The collective thing to do would have been to go to neighboring cities or perhaps to the county and ask them to contribute to an incinerator which they would all share. They would also share in any added costs if something went wrong with the plan. Instead, Harrisburg decided to fund the whole thing themselves in the hope of generating profit. For a business this kind of profit-seeking would have been fine, it would just be a failed business. For Harrisburg this has meant severe cutbacks to the police force, fire department, pensions, etc. It will probably lead to new taxes, though I haven't heard anything about that.
I'm rambling now. The point is that when you confuse your motives you wind up with a mess.
State governments here in the US try to raise revenue by luring companies to set up shop in their states using tax incentives. The net result is a sort of tragedy of the commons - overall tax revenue is lower and even though politicians try and claim they're "creating jobs" they're really just stealing them from other states.
When governments (collective entities) try to act like businesses (competitive entities) it seldom works out. Usually only a few who are able to take advantage of the situation benefit.
Both mathematics and "Computer science" are considered formal sciences, as opposed to empirical sciences:
This was a definition with which I was not familiar. So all right, I will concede to the infallible authority of Wikipedia. Thanks for enlightening me.
I still like the other definition better - I think that stipulating a science as something which utilizes the scientific method groups things together in a simple and effective way, while allowing for new as yet undeveloped fields.
More information is required.
Well yeah, that's the point - you don't know why your monitor was rejected and you won't until you turn it on.
Here, there's a thread with more information. Looks like you've got a chance of a little over 80% to get a good one:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1215866/reviewed-400-2560x1440-ips-no-ag-90hz-achieva-shimian-qh270-and-catleap-q270