And don't forget that the supposed Autism epidemic may be nothing more than a consequence of changes in how autism is diagnosed, and an increase in the number of autistic people who actually receive treatment.
Sony: They're fucking clown shoes. If they were real, I'd beat the shit out of them for being so stupid. I can't believe the US legal system would have anything to do with this shit. I, for one, will be boycotting Sony. Who's with me?
Man, I wish they would make something I want. Then I could boycott that. I guess I just can't win against a giant like Sony.
Following the removal of OtherOS, the demolition of Sony's safeguards was swift and ruthless.
You deserve an extra mod point for that sentence alone. Their security got in the way of legitimate users doing perfectly legal activity, and turned hackers against them.
Sad. Scientists may have to perform those tests and waste countless dollars, just to make people stop taking medical advise from a woman who is best known for posing in playboy, and picking her nose on tv.
The punchline there was that the planet selling the narcotics needed the Enterprise's help to get cargo lines reestablished. So, by leaving them high and dry, he was creating a situation where the one planet would get past their withdrawal before cargo could be reestablished.
Technically, Assange could be sent to Guantanamo, but this is mostly just an argument his lawyers are making. They are claiming that it would be illegal to hand him over, knowing that he could end up getting tortured or denied a fair trial, as a result. But, is this anything more than speculation on the part of his attorney?
I know I won't understand the answer to this, but, if antimatter is being sent into space, (even if it is only a minute amount), and it is either formed, or extracted from what was previously here on earth, would that affect the earth's mass? (Again, I would understand if the answer was "not by a measurable amount")
Just limit voice usage to 60 seconds a month. I mean, it's not as if you have anything good to say anyway. Why upgrade the network when you can just spread the current one thinner. It's fine.
I say voice usage needs to be set at 60 minutes per month. When you call to cancel, they're sure to put you on hold for at least thirty.
Another commenter made the point that the only reason they got off this easy is because the plaintiff settled out of court for less. So, this would not set any legal precedent because it never went to a decision.
So, your boss rips you off. You sue your boss. Your boss offers you a pitance and says "that's all you're getting". You accept and go home. I wasn't that angry until I read your comment.
"let's try this illegal thing! Maybe we won't get caught and we can keep the 50 million. if we do, what harm?"
It's a bit more insidious than that. This 50 million wasn't just sitting in a trash bag under the CEO's desk. It was out there, making interest. So they profited from their copyright infringement. Their punishment should be worse!
I wouldn't say that. I'm sure that for every pirate out there, the money they didn't pay had to go somewhere. Even if the suspect never had the extra money, that can be seen as debt avoidance, which is arguably the best investment you can make. The point is, I wouldn't want the court system going through a defendant's financial records, looking for ways to pile on new punishments.
old post, i know, but I hope someone is still reading this:
Research what ghost hunters and other shows do. I would recommend watching several episodes of Ghost Hunters, if you are serious about this for a couple of reasons: what they get right, and what they get wrong. When someone describes a phenomena, they try to debunk it. I don't know if there is anything to the claims that EM caused by bad wiring creates the creepy feeling people claim to report, but they are big on finding things like that. Then, when something funny happens to them, they often assume it is paranormal, sometimes going so far as to pop off an explanation that they couldn't possibly know for a fact.
For example, if a battery goes dead, they say "it takes energy to manifest, so the ghost must have been drawing power from our equipment". (How do they know that ghosts even exist, let alone whether they are battery-powered?) It seems like they are very skeptical toward the claims of others, but not toward their own.
So, I am recommending that you try to do exactly what they do; go in, try to get EVP readings (note that for EVP, people often will play with the sound settings, changing the speed, pitch, etc, until they get something sounding like a human voice), try the mag-light trick (unscrew a flashlight until it is barely making connection. Ask questions and if it turns on or off during specific questions, present that), and above all else, take a ton of footage. Ghost hunters send in several people for six to eight hours, just to produce a few minutes of footage.
After you have produced footage that could be somewhat convincing, go back and explain as much as possible. Show what you had to do to make the EVP sound kind-of-sort-of like a voice. Explain how pareidolia ties into this, and show how much time was spent dicking around, just to get a few minutes of difficult-to-explain footage. Try to trick them, and then teach how the trick was done. If you come across anything you can't explain, you may want to put it online, and ask if anybody else has any ideas.
I know this is a great deal of work, especially when you consider that you will have to work twice as hard as people who get paid to do this stuff, but, that is what it would take to really tear this apart.
Also, some of us would love to see Ghost Hunters given the Penn & Teller treatment. Post your results online, please!
Thank you for posting your tech support request. We will look into this as soon as possible. And for the general public out there, I would like to remind you that, if you ever have a problem with messages not being posted correctly, the best solution is to use that same messaging system to post anonymously to whatever forum you happen to be on. Our staff doesn't have email, or even a PO box, but we do monitor every forum for anonymous "doesn't work" messages, so that we know when to begin our random bug-fishing expedition.
Oh, wait. I just realized I don't work for slashdot. Sorry...I guess I got your bug tracking system confused with someone else's.
(Lucky for me, slashdot doesn't have an "embittered asshole" mod. I wonder if that would be +1 or -1.)
There may be countries where the government is trustworthy enough to allow this. But the United States isn't one of them.
In fact, the government was set up to not trust itself. The framers of the constitution didn't trust the government they were creating, so they crafted it to be full of gridlock.
There is a big difference between "checks and balances" and "gridlock". I don't know how they would feel about the hyper partisanship and gridlock we see today.
Unless I misread it, this is about everybody who takes the equivalent of Biology 101. Since that class is a requisite in many universities, we are talking about college students of all majors. I would hope that biology majors did better in this respect, but is it no surprise that business majors, philosophy majors, etc, just memorized the material and never put much thought into their implications?
IANAL, but I suspect that there's also a big risk there, beyond losing lots of lawyer fees. If you take on a giant and lose, you have just set a precedent that weakens the GPL. In theory, it shouldn't be that way*, but this would make it more difficult to win against more evenly matched legal teams in the future.
* (ie either it's legal or not. It shouldn't matter if the last guy had a bad lawyer)
I can't tell by reading it, but it sounds like they are patenting at least two things:
a). The ability to tie all information together (as you said), and tie it not just to some anonymous cookie, but also to your account (which is not so simple using cookies alone), but also to your friends list.
b). The ability to tailor ads to your friends based on what they gather from you. You like crazy goat porn? Your friends will start seeing ads for it. Not only that, but this will happen on twitter, Linkdin, and every other social networking site you use. Better hope he's enough of a friend-whore that he doesn't notice that they all started when you friended him.
I'm wondering how far this will go? If someone one your friends list sends you a private message on facebook, can contents of that message now be linked to every site you and he visit?
I suspect you're joking, but they said the witness has to be credible. So, if you are related to a TSA agent, he/she had better hope never to piss you off.
Wow. You just turned that around on the guy and inspired him to spend four paragraphs to say "fuck you"...I would be more proud of that than the +5 insightful.
Slashdot Mirror
Mr show had a sketch on that sort of thing. It has gotten out of hand.
So you are recommending a change in policy as an alternative to looking for more efficient ways to support programs the voters want?
And don't forget that the supposed Autism epidemic may be nothing more than a consequence of changes in how autism is diagnosed, and an increase in the number of autistic people who actually receive treatment.
Sony: They're fucking clown shoes. If they were real, I'd beat the shit out of them for being so stupid. I can't believe the US legal system would have anything to do with this shit. I, for one, will be boycotting Sony. Who's with me?
Man, I wish they would make something I want. Then I could boycott that. I guess I just can't win against a giant like Sony.
Following the removal of OtherOS, the demolition of Sony's safeguards was swift and ruthless.
You deserve an extra mod point for that sentence alone. Their security got in the way of legitimate users doing perfectly legal activity, and turned hackers against them.
Sad. Scientists may have to perform those tests and waste countless dollars, just to make people stop taking medical advise from a woman who is best known for posing in playboy, and picking her nose on tv.
The punchline there was that the planet selling the narcotics needed the Enterprise's help to get cargo lines reestablished. So, by leaving them high and dry, he was creating a situation where the one planet would get past their withdrawal before cargo could be reestablished.
MySpace still had 500 employees?
One for each user. Now THAT'S customer service!
Technically, Assange could be sent to Guantanamo, but this is mostly just an argument his lawyers are making. They are claiming that it would be illegal to hand him over, knowing that he could end up getting tortured or denied a fair trial, as a result. But, is this anything more than speculation on the part of his attorney?
Enemy combatant?
I know I won't understand the answer to this, but, if antimatter is being sent into space, (even if it is only a minute amount), and it is either formed, or extracted from what was previously here on earth, would that affect the earth's mass? (Again, I would understand if the answer was "not by a measurable amount")
Just limit voice usage to 60 seconds a month. I mean, it's not as if you have anything good to say anyway. Why upgrade the network when you can just spread the current one thinner. It's fine.
I say voice usage needs to be set at 60 minutes per month. When you call to cancel, they're sure to put you on hold for at least thirty.
Another commenter made the point that the only reason they got off this easy is because the plaintiff settled out of court for less. So, this would not set any legal precedent because it never went to a decision.
So, your boss rips you off. You sue your boss. Your boss offers you a pitance and says "that's all you're getting". You accept and go home. I wasn't that angry until I read your comment.
"let's try this illegal thing! Maybe we won't get caught and we can keep the 50 million. if we do, what harm?"
It's a bit more insidious than that. This 50 million wasn't just sitting in a trash bag under the CEO's desk. It was out there, making interest. So they profited from their copyright infringement. Their punishment should be worse!
I wouldn't say that. I'm sure that for every pirate out there, the money they didn't pay had to go somewhere. Even if the suspect never had the extra money, that can be seen as debt avoidance, which is arguably the best investment you can make. The point is, I wouldn't want the court system going through a defendant's financial records, looking for ways to pile on new punishments.
old post, i know, but I hope someone is still reading this:
Research what ghost hunters and other shows do. I would recommend watching several episodes of Ghost Hunters, if you are serious about this for a couple of reasons: what they get right, and what they get wrong. When someone describes a phenomena, they try to debunk it. I don't know if there is anything to the claims that EM caused by bad wiring creates the creepy feeling people claim to report, but they are big on finding things like that. Then, when something funny happens to them, they often assume it is paranormal, sometimes going so far as to pop off an explanation that they couldn't possibly know for a fact.
For example, if a battery goes dead, they say "it takes energy to manifest, so the ghost must have been drawing power from our equipment". (How do they know that ghosts even exist, let alone whether they are battery-powered?) It seems like they are very skeptical toward the claims of others, but not toward their own.
So, I am recommending that you try to do exactly what they do; go in, try to get EVP readings (note that for EVP, people often will play with the sound settings, changing the speed, pitch, etc, until they get something sounding like a human voice), try the mag-light trick (unscrew a flashlight until it is barely making connection. Ask questions and if it turns on or off during specific questions, present that), and above all else, take a ton of footage. Ghost hunters send in several people for six to eight hours, just to produce a few minutes of footage.
After you have produced footage that could be somewhat convincing, go back and explain as much as possible. Show what you had to do to make the EVP sound kind-of-sort-of like a voice. Explain how pareidolia ties into this, and show how much time was spent dicking around, just to get a few minutes of difficult-to-explain footage. Try to trick them, and then teach how the trick was done. If you come across anything you can't explain, you may want to put it online, and ask if anybody else has any ideas.
I know this is a great deal of work, especially when you consider that you will have to work twice as hard as people who get paid to do this stuff, but, that is what it would take to really tear this apart.
Also, some of us would love to see Ghost Hunters given the Penn & Teller treatment. Post your results online, please!
Can't see my posts.
Thank you for posting your tech support request. We will look into this as soon as possible. And for the general public out there, I would like to remind you that, if you ever have a problem with messages not being posted correctly, the best solution is to use that same messaging system to post anonymously to whatever forum you happen to be on. Our staff doesn't have email, or even a PO box, but we do monitor every forum for anonymous "doesn't work" messages, so that we know when to begin our random bug-fishing expedition.
Oh, wait. I just realized I don't work for slashdot. Sorry...I guess I got your bug tracking system confused with someone else's.
(Lucky for me, slashdot doesn't have an "embittered asshole" mod. I wonder if that would be +1 or -1.)
There may be countries where the government is trustworthy enough to allow this. But the United States isn't one of them.
In fact, the government was set up to not trust itself. The framers of the constitution didn't trust the government they were creating, so they crafted it to be full of gridlock.
There is a big difference between "checks and balances" and "gridlock". I don't know how they would feel about the hyper partisanship and gridlock we see today.
Unless I misread it, this is about everybody who takes the equivalent of Biology 101. Since that class is a requisite in many universities, we are talking about college students of all majors. I would hope that biology majors did better in this respect, but is it no surprise that business majors, philosophy majors, etc, just memorized the material and never put much thought into their implications?
IANAL, but I suspect that there's also a big risk there, beyond losing lots of lawyer fees. If you take on a giant and lose, you have just set a precedent that weakens the GPL. In theory, it shouldn't be that way*, but this would make it more difficult to win against more evenly matched legal teams in the future.
* (ie either it's legal or not. It shouldn't matter if the last guy had a bad lawyer)
Prior Art:
"First post"
"frosty piss"
"Natalie Portman naked and petrified"
Thank you Slashdot trolls! You might have defeated this thing...
I can't tell by reading it, but it sounds like they are patenting at least two things:
a). The ability to tie all information together (as you said), and tie it not just to some anonymous cookie, but also to your account (which is not so simple using cookies alone), but also to your friends list.
b). The ability to tailor ads to your friends based on what they gather from you. You like crazy goat porn? Your friends will start seeing ads for it. Not only that, but this will happen on twitter, Linkdin, and every other social networking site you use. Better hope he's enough of a friend-whore that he doesn't notice that they all started when you friended him.
I'm wondering how far this will go? If someone one your friends list sends you a private message on facebook, can contents of that message now be linked to every site you and he visit?
So civil liberties is somehow linked with Hitler now?
I suspect you're joking, but they said the witness has to be credible. So, if you are related to a TSA agent, he/she had better hope never to piss you off.
Wow. You just turned that around on the guy and inspired him to spend four paragraphs to say "fuck you"...I would be more proud of that than the +5 insightful.