re:... will they allow other browsers on their new mobile OS? :>)
Why wouldn't they? That's the whole premise of free software: the freedom to be able to do what one wants and needs, not just the "free" aspect of its cost being zero. If it's possible to build a browser in javascript or java, then you could run a browser in a browser. And you could run a browser in the mozilla mobile OS. [warning, i am not a spokesgirl for mozilla, firefox, godzilla, gojira, or any other software projects other than MyOwn ( (tm), moi) ]
re: How dare he give the populous the right to monitor the police state. ;>)
We, the populace, are indeed populous!!! One is a noun, the other is adjectival. --- signed, the Homonym patrol. Our motto: that word does not mean what you think it means.
re: That applies even to journalists, as well as to fake journalists like O'Keefe, and to bystanders who record it on cellphones.[emphasis mine] .
There's no such thing as a "fake journalist". If you keep a journal, whether as a writer for a newpaper (french "journal", "journaux") or as a writer for your own newsletter or as a typer for a web-page that publishes your own writings and musings, you are a journalist. Calling someone a "citizen journalist" is a way for the news-service employed to look down on the news-gatherers and reporters who may not be getting paid for their services. .
Even freelancers (and possibly plagiarists) are getting offended when these for-profit corporations and companies dare to request free work from them, or to copy and publish their work without a fee: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/206237/atlantic-is-sorry-to-have-offended-freelancer-with-request-for-free-content/#comment-820797749 .
Actually, let me take back part of what I said. There is such a thing as a fake journalist: perhaps when someone prints or makes or purports to have fake credentials or calls themselves a journalist in order to get information which they have no intent of publishing or using in a story but is part of an investigation, or is just part of a ploy to be somewhere or pass through an otherwise restricted area. That would be a valid example of a "fake journalist". What you were describing is NOT a fake journalist. It's just someone who's not "credentialed" by some corporation or business as a newsie. And we don't even want to go into the problem of allowing governmental bodies to be the accrediting or validating agency for "journalists" or "news gatherers" or "reporters".
Because there's a law passed that made it legal, because someone lobbied to pass a law to make lobbying legal? ;>) .
Srsly, if you look up the laws limiting when former legislators are forbidden to work for private entities immediately after leaving office, you'll see a surge of these laws occurring right after some big ethics scandal when someone gets caught doing corporate bidding and then immediately bailing out of their legislative job into a high paying corporate job in an industry they recently regulated. . Then, as the years pass and people forget about the reason and need for these regulations, the currently new batch of state or federal level legislators votes the old restrictions out and give themselves the ability to receive "gifts" from constituents. This is playing out right now in california, and happens over and over again everywhere in this country. Here's an article in the
L.A. Times about this on March 3rd, 2013:
California lawmakers showered with gifts after shelving limits
California legislators disclose gifts received in 2012 -
SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers accepted a trip to Brazil, fine cigars and crystal ducks, among many other gifts from corporations, trade groups and other special...
I am completely serious about how easy it is to find these types of shenanigans being reported on. It happens in every county and every state in these United States of Shamerica. And probably also in every country in this world.
Someone lobbied to pass a law to make lobbying legal? ;>) .
Srsly, if you look up the laws limiting when former legislators are forbidden to work for private entities immediately after leaving office, you'll see a surge of these laws occurring right after some big ethics scandal when someone gets caught doing corporate bidding and then immediately bailing out of their legislative job into a high paying corporate job in an industry they recently regulated. . Then, as the years pass and people forget about the reason and need for these regulations, the currently new batch of state or federal level legislators votes the old restrictions out and give themselves the ability to receive "gifts" from constituents. This is playing out right now in california, and happens over and over again everywhere in this country. Here's an article in the
L.A. Times about this on March 3rd, 2013:
California lawmakers showered with gifts after shelving limits
California legislators disclose gifts received in 2012 -
SACRAMENTO â" California lawmakers accepted a trip to Brazil, fine cigars and crystal ducks, among many other gifts from corporations, trade groups and other special...
I am completely serious about how easy it is to find these types of shenanigans being reported on. It happens in every county and every state in these United States of Shamerica. And probably also in every country in this world.
Microsoft used to not spend any money on political campaigns. Then, after a while, they figured out enough to post political contributions on both sides and then to hire a lobbyist to advocate for them.
Jun 30, 2003 Â CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why the software maker has quietly given marching orders to its phalanx of lobbyists to get the government to...
Jan 26, 2010 -- Google quickly gaining on Microsoft in lobbying spending. Search giant is quickly catching up to Redmond as a tech power to be reckoned with in Washington...
It's not as if this is anything new. Industry boards have long written laws: not just outlines, not just drafts, but the entire full set and exact wording just as they want it to be. That you can search for yourself. There are thousands of examples of that.
Sanity prevails. How uncommon, and how good for it to occur. I'll have to read the details of the case that made it this far up the chain. Will this circuit court ruling have repercussions and applications outside of its jurisdiction, or is the rest of the country on its own still? IANAL, BIYAAL, WYCTC? (but if you are a lawyer, would you care to comment?)
re : (I worked on the laboratory part of this experiment, as I'm a chemist), .
Ah, so you measured the spectra of the organic compounds in the laboratory environment for comparison to the astronomical observations, eh? Very cool... Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question.
And might not grant proposal writers be purposefully including snippets of text or stylistic flourishes or word-usage choices characteristic of those high-level academicians whom they expect to be reviewing the grant proposal?? If they do, the reviewer might see that the proposer has some genius in them, since they are obviously on the correct trail and path!!! If they used techniques or buzzwords that are not "au courant" or standard canon fodder [joke, joke, pun intended], then they'd be seen as idiots. This "partial plagiarizing" may be seen as paying "homage" or "paying tribute" to the "gods of the academy" so that these lesser beings may enter the "pantheon of the greats!" [can you tell that I've been reading up on the french pantheon in my french classes?]
re: In fact, the US government has historically been more limited in what it does domestically than abroad. .
Funny.... There was a Mission Impossible (the 1960's - 1970's tv series version) episode on a few nights ago, where the opening reel-to-reel tape mission disclosure said something like
Blah-blah-blahbitty-blah has hidden on an island with which we have no extradition treaty. Since we are not allowed to kidnap persons on foreign soil, your mission will be to trick them into returning to the United States after which we will be able to detain and arrest them. [emphasis mine]
Isn't that so sweet, sweetums? We used to have a time when even the law-breaking Mission Impossible team wouldn't break the so called rule about not kidnapping someone on foreign soil. This brings on from me a new poem, think 1960's hippy-chick or 1950's beatnik-broad reading to you, with bongo-beat and william shatneresque pauses: Ah, extra-ordinary rendition, ... your time has come; you have become ordinary,... where is all the fun? . (c) moi 2013-march-8-15h21-PST
re: Alright! Time to start the Journal of Validated Armchair Hypotheses. :>)
JAVA-H, the new online journal with all that buzz! .
Alright, stick an extra "A" in that journal title and I'll be itchin' to get published in JAVA-H:
- American? - too geographically limited? - J of American Validated Armchair Hypotheses
- Anthropomorphic? - relating all research to human endeavors? birds do it, bees do it, even educated humans do it...
- Axiomatically? - ooh, this one sounds even more scientific and even a bit mathematically, logically, philosophically tastier... I might stop here at this one... Journal of Axiomatically Validated Armchair Hypotheses.
re: you have to start off by IDing your friend to it. .
Ha. I misread your "IDing" as "iDing" ( or more clearly: "I-D-ing" as "i-Ding" ) as if it were a new electronic interactive way to ping or ding somebody. That would really be a cool new thing to trademark and create: iDing which pings and dings someone in real life, and if they're physically close enough to you IRL then you can hear the little submarine "ping" come out of their cell phone! Quick, Robin, off to the App-Mobile (TM, moi) to write this app!!!
and there's an extraordinary amount the U.S. government doesn't tell us because they've (the executive, the legislative, the judicial) decided that we are outside of the need to know: secret orders, secret laws, secret courts and tribunals. So the executive can decide who is and is not a terr'rist and deserves (in their not-so-humble opinion) to receive a smoking drone-bang-wake-up-and-die in secret meetings with no legislative or judicial oversight; the congress can pass certain black appropriations without any open discussion in closed-door meetings; and the FISA court can meet and order/allow warrant-less wiretapping. That's not even to mention the ex post facto okaying of the NSA warrant-less wiretapping via ATT boxes of the USA (in its entirety possibly). .
Hell, I sound paranoid, and this is the non-paranoid actually published and disclosed stuff that I mentioned (since that's all little ol' me can know about!) Don't forget the NSL (national security letters)!
Gotcha! I'll buy that line of reasoning. I remember reading somewhere that when the school system provides a free lunch, kids do better. When the school system provides a free breakfast (also, or instead, I forget which...) the kids do even better. This is most effective when the kids getting the free or reduced cost meals are not pointed out and do not feel like they're different from the other kids who don't get the free meals (like not having special meal card colors or anything). .
There's also the "discount approach" where the tax burden is decreased and people are told that the "extras" can be paid for by the parents or by extra fees. Then, the rich area schools get their enrichment or after-school program paid for by parents who can afford it, whereas the poorer neighborhoods all do without. Yet the political idiots can claim that all of the schools are equal because the same opportunity is afforded to all, the poor just aren't getting the money together to give their kds the bonuses. [french nobility idiot's quote: the law in all its majesty also forbids the rich from sleeping under the bridges as much as it forbids the poor from doing so. The rich just have no need for sleeping under the bridge]. .
Third rant [you've set me off for these rants, i apologize]: somehow they can always find the money for the football teams ( for the uniforms, for the sod to get redone yearly, for the scoreboards, for the extra bus trips, for all of those extra items), yet there's never enough money to do the artistic extracurriculars or the scientific or others (either enough money for math club or for model U.N. but not for both, or we have to choose between music programs or visual arts, but not both). Texas must have an extra large problem with football, at least if everything I saw on Friday Night Lights was to be believed. I live in La Jolla (San Diego, CA). What's the football situation really like in Texas? Does it really suck up all of the money and the oxygen from the rest of the school system?
How can you tell that the spectra you are observing is definitely something from the object being observed at that distance as opposed to an organic molecule in our Earth's atmosphere which is interposed between the observatory and the object being observed? [i apologize if this is a naive question; I am still in high school].
Also see the prior article, where my comment/question about "is this a slashvertisement?" got rapidly modded down to a (-1) score. .
What's with all of the down-voting on comments on the "key caps" article that dared to ask if the article itself was a slashvertisement? There's something bizarre about 13 out of 19 comments being down-modded to (-1) scores so rapidly, particularly when some of the were obviously not troll postings but merely questioning the usefulness of the article itself. . http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1721233/rsa-from-apple-keys-to-biometric-security-devices-video
Especially the comments by RocketRabbit.
But what's with all of the down-voting on comments on the "key caps" article that dared to ask if the article itself was a slashvertisement? There's something bizarre about 13 out of 19 comments being down-modded to (-1) scores so rapidly, particularly when some of the were obviously not troll postings but merely questioning the usefulness of the article itself. . http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1721233/rsa-from-apple-keys-to-biometric-security-devices-video
Especially the comments by RocketRabbit.
Editors or someone else with high-level powers, (dice? rob-limo?), is screwing with the scores and the moderation system for sure. :>(
Similar thing happened to me on the last so called RSA conference posting by RobLimo-sine-o:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3514379&cid=43077401
That was an article called
RSA: From Apple Keys to Biometric Security Devices (Video), which at last I checked 30 seconds ago had:
score . . . . . number of comments
-1 . . . . . . . . . 19 comments
0 . . . . . . . . . . 6 comments
1 . . . . . . . . . . 4 comments
2 . . . . . . . . . . 1 comment (haha, no one likes this article)
I strongly agree with you that either Dice or someone high up in the/. hierarchy is fucking with the scores received. My follow-up
comment on that article is still scored as +1 so it's one of the few +1 comments on there. But seriously, look at the skewing of (-1) comments, 13 out of 19 comments on there are at (-1). That's a crazy useless article, isn't it? This kind of shitty behavior by the moderators and the editors and the runners of this site is making me reconsider even posting on the articles of interest to me.
Adblocking usually works by not even requesting the ads to be blocked. The advertisements have to be referenced by an URL in the HTML of the main page which you've requested. Your adblocker software has a blacklist of sites which are not to be used since they are primarily used to serve ads or tracking gifs or such; so your adblocking add-on stops your browser from even requesting those subportions of the page which consist of those ads. That particular type of ad-blocking would actually decrease your bandwidth usage. . There is a different type of ad-suppression which requests and receives the advert components but just does not display them to you; that type of mechanism would waste bandwidth.
"Macro" Rubio is an excellent mis-spelling of his name! It perfectly captures the ability of the Rubio action figure politician to spout key political phrases in response to hot-button questions, just like a macro executes a sequence of key-strokes in response to the macro-command+defining-keystrike. It also implies the reflexive behavior of this political spouting: no thinking is required, just say what your tea-party or other masters want you to say! [equal opportunty political sniper here; ask me to respond to Obama or Holder's bizarre political anti-constitutional contortions, and I would gladly do so!]
Are they really? It seems, IMHO, that there were more protestors in the 1960's and 1970's against the war in vietnam according to what the magazine articles say and what the history books say in my high school. Where are the radical Berkeley protestor types strongly arguing against the war? They weren't even out in that much of a full force even when Bush was president. Even those country singers who dared to speak out before the war started, the Dixie Chicks, suffered a huge backlash for voicing their opinions, and that backlash even forced madonna to modify the release time of her next video and album. .
People are not as outspoken these days about these issues. Those who are outspoken are not as vociferous as those in the past. Where are the sit ins? Most of the occupy movements seemed to be pointless. (in my opinion)
re: commas don't go before "and." .
There are three types of rules: rules meant to be followed, rules meant to be broken, and rules that fuck with your mind. [see the example of what I did there?] When you have a list with multiple items separated by commas, it is permissible to put the "and" prefacing the last item even though it will be preceded by a comma.
;>)
Just to be persnickety is why I point this out. Now that particular rule does not apply to the ask-slashdot-author's sentence, but I thought I'd point out that the simple rule of commas not going before "&" is not as clear-cut as it seems. [notice the comma before the ''but'']
Slashdot Mirror
re: ... will they allow other browsers on their new mobile OS?
:>)
Why wouldn't they? That's the whole premise of free software: the freedom to be able to do what one wants and needs, not just the "free" aspect of its cost being zero. If it's possible to build a browser in javascript or java, then you could run a browser in a browser. And you could run a browser in the mozilla mobile OS. [warning, i am not a spokesgirl for mozilla, firefox, godzilla, gojira, or any other software projects other than MyOwn ( (tm), moi) ]
re: How dare he give the populous the right to monitor the police state.
;>)
We, the populace, are indeed populous!!! One is a noun, the other is adjectival. --- signed, the Homonym patrol. Our motto: that word does not mean what you think it means.
re: That applies even to journalists, as well as to fake journalists like O'Keefe, and to bystanders who record it on cellphones.[emphasis mine]
.
There's no such thing as a "fake journalist". If you keep a journal, whether as a writer for a newpaper (french "journal", "journaux") or as a writer for your own newsletter or as a typer for a web-page that publishes your own writings and musings, you are a journalist. Calling someone a "citizen journalist" is a way for the news-service employed to look down on the news-gatherers and reporters who may not be getting paid for their services.
.
Even freelancers (and possibly plagiarists) are getting offended when these for-profit corporations and companies dare to request free work from them, or to copy and publish their work without a fee: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/206237/atlantic-is-sorry-to-have-offended-freelancer-with-request-for-free-content/#comment-820797749
.
Actually, let me take back part of what I said. There is such a thing as a fake journalist: perhaps when someone prints or makes or purports to have fake credentials or calls themselves a journalist in order to get information which they have no intent of publishing or using in a story but is part of an investigation, or is just part of a ploy to be somewhere or pass through an otherwise restricted area. That would be a valid example of a "fake journalist". What you were describing is NOT a fake journalist. It's just someone who's not "credentialed" by some corporation or business as a newsie. And we don't even want to go into the problem of allowing governmental bodies to be the accrediting or validating agency for "journalists" or "news gatherers" or "reporters".
Because there's a law passed that made it legal, because someone lobbied to pass a law to make lobbying legal? ;>)
California lawmakers showered with gifts after shelving limits.
Srsly, if you look up the laws limiting when former legislators are forbidden to work for private entities immediately after leaving office, you'll see a surge of these laws occurring right after some big ethics scandal when someone gets caught doing corporate bidding and then immediately bailing out of their legislative job into a high paying corporate job in an industry they recently regulated.
.
Then, as the years pass and people forget about the reason and need for these regulations, the currently new batch of state or federal level legislators votes the old restrictions out and give themselves the ability to receive "gifts" from constituents. This is playing out right now in california, and happens over and over again everywhere in this country. Here's an article in the L.A. Times about this on March 3rd, 2013:
California legislators disclose gifts received in 2012 - SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers accepted a trip to Brazil, fine cigars and crystal ducks, among many other gifts from corporations, trade groups and other special
I am completely serious about how easy it is to find these types of shenanigans being reported on. It happens in every county and every state in these United States of Shamerica. And probably also in every country in this world.
Someone lobbied to pass a law to make lobbying legal? ;>)
California lawmakers showered with gifts after shelving limits.
Srsly, if you look up the laws limiting when former legislators are forbidden to work for private entities immediately after leaving office, you'll see a surge of these laws occurring right after some big ethics scandal when someone gets caught doing corporate bidding and then immediately bailing out of their legislative job into a high paying corporate job in an industry they recently regulated.
.
Then, as the years pass and people forget about the reason and need for these regulations, the currently new batch of state or federal level legislators votes the old restrictions out and give themselves the ability to receive "gifts" from constituents. This is playing out right now in california, and happens over and over again everywhere in this country. Here's an article in the L.A. Times about this on March 3rd, 2013:
California legislators disclose gifts received in 2012 - SACRAMENTO â" California lawmakers accepted a trip to Brazil, fine cigars and crystal ducks, among many other gifts from corporations, trade groups and other special
I am completely serious about how easy it is to find these types of shenanigans being reported on. It happens in every county and every state in these United States of Shamerica. And probably also in every country in this world.
correction to my borked link above, that fourth link really should be : http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10441374-75.html
.
I don't know how that "politics.slashdot.org/" snuck in front of that URL.
Microsoft used to not spend any money on political campaigns. Then, after a while, they figured out enough to post political contributions on both sides and then to hire a lobbyist to advocate for them.
Microsoft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of EnronAnother older example
Microsoft's new push in Washington - CNET News http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071_3-1021938.htmlJun 30, 2003 Â CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why the software maker has quietly given marching orders to its phalanx of lobbyists to get the government to ...
Of course, Google couldn't be left behind
Jan 26, 2010 -- Google quickly gaining on Microsoft in lobbying spending. Search giant is quickly catching up to Redmond as a tech power to be reckoned with in WashingtonIt's not as if this is anything new. Industry boards have long written laws: not just outlines, not just drafts, but the entire full set and exact wording just as they want it to be. That you can search for yourself. There are thousands of examples of that.
Sanity prevails. How uncommon, and how good for it to occur. I'll have to read the details of the case that made it this far up the chain. Will this circuit court ruling have repercussions and applications outside of its jurisdiction, or is the rest of the country on its own still? IANAL, BIYAAL, WYCTC? (but if you are a lawyer, would you care to comment?)
re : (I worked on the laboratory part of this experiment, as I'm a chemist),
.
Ah, so you measured the spectra of the organic compounds in the laboratory environment for comparison to the astronomical observations, eh? Very cool... Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question.
And might not grant proposal writers be purposefully including snippets of text or stylistic flourishes or word-usage choices characteristic of those high-level academicians whom they expect to be reviewing the grant proposal?? If they do, the reviewer might see that the proposer has some genius in them, since they are obviously on the correct trail and path!!! If they used techniques or buzzwords that are not "au courant" or standard canon fodder [joke, joke, pun intended], then they'd be seen as idiots. This "partial plagiarizing" may be seen as paying "homage" or "paying tribute" to the "gods of the academy" so that these lesser beings may enter the "pantheon of the greats!" [can you tell that I've been reading up on the french pantheon in my french classes?]
.
Funny.... There was a Mission Impossible (the 1960's - 1970's tv series version) episode on a few nights ago, where the opening reel-to-reel tape mission disclosure said something like Blah-blah-blahbitty-blah has hidden on an island with which we have no extradition treaty. Since we are not allowed to kidnap persons on foreign soil, your mission will be to trick them into returning to the United States after which we will be able to detain and arrest them. [emphasis mine]
Isn't that so sweet, sweetums? We used to have a time when even the law-breaking Mission Impossible team wouldn't break the so called rule about not kidnapping someone on foreign soil. This brings on from me a new poem, think 1960's hippy-chick or 1950's beatnik-broad reading to you, with bongo-beat and william shatneresque pauses:
Ah, extra-ordinary rendition,
... your time has come;
you have become ordinary,...
where is all the fun?
.
(c) moi 2013-march-8-15h21-PST
re: Alright! Time to start the Journal of Validated Armchair Hypotheses.
:>)
JAVA-H, the new online journal with all that buzz!
.
Alright, stick an extra "A" in that journal title and I'll be itchin' to get published in JAVA-H:
- American? - too geographically limited? - J of American Validated Armchair Hypotheses
- Anthropomorphic? - relating all research to human endeavors? birds do it, bees do it, even educated humans do it...
- Axiomatically? - ooh, this one sounds even more scientific and even a bit mathematically, logically, philosophically tastier... I might stop here at this one... Journal of Axiomatically Validated Armchair Hypotheses.
re: you have to start off by IDing your friend to it.
.
Ha. I misread your "IDing" as "iDing" ( or more clearly: "I-D-ing" as "i-Ding" ) as if it were a new electronic interactive way to ping or ding somebody. That would really be a cool new thing to trademark and create: iDing which pings and dings someone in real life, and if they're physically close enough to you IRL then you can hear the little submarine "ping" come out of their cell phone! Quick, Robin, off to the App-Mobile (TM, moi) to write this app!!!
and there's an extraordinary amount the U.S. government doesn't tell us because they've (the executive, the legislative, the judicial) decided that we are outside of the need to know: secret orders, secret laws, secret courts and tribunals. So the executive can decide who is and is not a terr'rist and deserves (in their not-so-humble opinion) to receive a smoking drone-bang-wake-up-and-die in secret meetings with no legislative or judicial oversight; the congress can pass certain black appropriations without any open discussion in closed-door meetings; and the FISA court can meet and order/allow warrant-less wiretapping. That's not even to mention the ex post facto okaying of the NSA warrant-less wiretapping via ATT boxes of the USA (in its entirety possibly).
.
Hell, I sound paranoid, and this is the non-paranoid actually published and disclosed stuff that I mentioned (since that's all little ol' me can know about!) Don't forget the NSL (national security letters)!
Gotcha! I'll buy that line of reasoning. I remember reading somewhere that when the school system provides a free lunch, kids do better. When the school system provides a free breakfast (also, or instead, I forget which...) the kids do even better. This is most effective when the kids getting the free or reduced cost meals are not pointed out and do not feel like they're different from the other kids who don't get the free meals (like not having special meal card colors or anything).
.
There's also the "discount approach" where the tax burden is decreased and people are told that the "extras" can be paid for by the parents or by extra fees. Then, the rich area schools get their enrichment or after-school program paid for by parents who can afford it, whereas the poorer neighborhoods all do without. Yet the political idiots can claim that all of the schools are equal because the same opportunity is afforded to all, the poor just aren't getting the money together to give their kds the bonuses. [french nobility idiot's quote: the law in all its majesty also forbids the rich from sleeping under the bridges as much as it forbids the poor from doing so. The rich just have no need for sleeping under the bridge].
.
Third rant [you've set me off for these rants, i apologize]: somehow they can always find the money for the football teams ( for the uniforms, for the sod to get redone yearly, for the scoreboards, for the extra bus trips, for all of those extra items), yet there's never enough money to do the artistic extracurriculars or the scientific or others (either enough money for math club or for model U.N. but not for both, or we have to choose between music programs or visual arts, but not both). Texas must have an extra large problem with football, at least if everything I saw on Friday Night Lights was to be believed. I live in La Jolla (San Diego, CA). What's the football situation really like in Texas? Does it really suck up all of the money and the oxygen from the rest of the school system?
So you're saying it's the people that're stupid and that it's not the schools' fault? Somehow, that doesn't seem a whole lot better or laudatory...
How can you tell that the spectra you are observing is definitely something from the object being observed at that distance as opposed to an organic molecule in our Earth's atmosphere which is interposed between the observatory and the object being observed? [i apologize if this is a naive question; I am still in high school].
Also see the prior article, where my comment/question about "is this a slashvertisement?" got rapidly modded down to a (-1) score.
.
What's with all of the down-voting on comments on the "key caps" article that dared to ask if the article itself was a slashvertisement? There's something bizarre about 13 out of 19 comments being down-modded to (-1) scores so rapidly, particularly when some of the were obviously not troll postings but merely questioning the usefulness of the article itself.
.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1721233/rsa-from-apple-keys-to-biometric-security-devices-video
Especially the comments by RocketRabbit.
But what's with all of the down-voting on comments on the "key caps" article that dared to ask if the article itself was a slashvertisement? There's something bizarre about 13 out of 19 comments being down-modded to (-1) scores so rapidly, particularly when some of the were obviously not troll postings but merely questioning the usefulness of the article itself.
.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1721233/rsa-from-apple-keys-to-biometric-security-devices-video Especially the comments by RocketRabbit.
Similar thing happened to me on the last so called RSA conference posting by RobLimo-sine-o: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3514379&cid=43077401
That was an article called RSA: From Apple Keys to Biometric Security Devices (Video), which at last I checked 30 seconds ago had: /. hierarchy is fucking with the scores received. My follow-up
comment on that article is still scored as +1 so it's one of the few +1 comments on there. But seriously, look at the skewing of (-1) comments, 13 out of 19 comments on there are at (-1). That's a crazy useless article, isn't it? This kind of shitty behavior by the moderators and the editors and the runners of this site is making me reconsider even posting on the articles of interest to me.
score . . . . . number of comments
-1 . . . . . . . . . 19 comments
0 . . . . . . . . . . 6 comments
1 . . . . . . . . . . 4 comments
2 . . . . . . . . . . 1 comment (haha, no one likes this article)
I strongly agree with you that either Dice or someone high up in the
Adblocking usually works by not even requesting the ads to be blocked. The advertisements have to be referenced by an URL in the HTML of the main page which you've requested. Your adblocker software has a blacklist of sites which are not to be used since they are primarily used to serve ads or tracking gifs or such; so your adblocking add-on stops your browser from even requesting those subportions of the page which consist of those ads. That particular type of ad-blocking would actually decrease your bandwidth usage.
.
There is a different type of ad-suppression which requests and receives the advert components but just does not display them to you; that type of mechanism would waste bandwidth.
"Macro" Rubio is an excellent mis-spelling of his name! It perfectly captures the ability of the Rubio action figure politician to spout key political phrases in response to hot-button questions, just like a macro executes a sequence of key-strokes in response to the macro-command+defining-keystrike. It also implies the reflexive behavior of this political spouting: no thinking is required, just say what your tea-party or other masters want you to say! [equal opportunty political sniper here; ask me to respond to Obama or Holder's bizarre political anti-constitutional contortions, and I would gladly do so!]
Boy are also a nice hobby, if you remember not to take them seriously or take over too much of your time or your life. ;>)
Are they really? It seems, IMHO, that there were more protestors in the 1960's and 1970's against the war in vietnam according to what the magazine articles say and what the history books say in my high school. Where are the radical Berkeley protestor types strongly arguing against the war? They weren't even out in that much of a full force even when Bush was president. Even those country singers who dared to speak out before the war started, the Dixie Chicks, suffered a huge backlash for voicing their opinions, and that backlash even forced madonna to modify the release time of her next video and album.
.
People are not as outspoken these days about these issues. Those who are outspoken are not as vociferous as those in the past. Where are the sit ins? Most of the occupy movements seemed to be pointless. (in my opinion)
re: commas don't go before "and."
.
There are three types of rules: rules meant to be followed, rules meant to be broken, and rules that fuck with your mind. [see the example of what I did there?] When you have a list with multiple items separated by commas, it is permissible to put the "and" prefacing the last item even though it will be preceded by a comma.
;>)
Just to be persnickety is why I point this out. Now that particular rule does not apply to the ask-slashdot-author's sentence, but I thought I'd point out that the simple rule of commas not going before "&" is not as clear-cut as it seems. [notice the comma before the ''but'']