"It looks like you're trying to do one of the following:
Overthrow the government with deviant thoughts
Get yourself imprisoned
Find out when the government is cleaning up the polluted river by your home so you know when to start fishing again.
I suggest omitting the following words from your search: RIVER, WEEK, CLEANUP. Try 'What is the?' and you are sure to get better results from your query."
At its peak in late 1999, Yahoo's market cap was over $100B. You don't just kill a hundred billion dollar company all at once; they have been doing a solid job of strangling it slowly for the last twelve years though. Shouldn't be too much longer.
For a moment there I thought you were talking about Facebook.
should not be perceived as a threat to any other country,
They're not a threat to other countries. They're a threat to their own people. Currently the regime discourages dissent and protests through beatings and jailings, but people still stand up against them. How many will still do so when threatened with a helicopter gunship... Whether it works as advertised or not?
Where is the profit in finding ET? Even if you come up with an answer, then how do you limit the profit to those who make the discovery.
The people who first make contact can set up a theme park in Orlando that functions as a kind of extraterrestrial petting zoo. You charge people for admission, extra for activities like Pet-An-Alien, Ride-An-Alien, Family-Photo-With-An-Alien (with relevant props like laser guns, gold-pressed latinum, and oversized copies of To Serve Man). Sell freeze-dried ice cream in the gift shop and copies of the Beatles white album in the aliens' equivalent of an MP3, known as Ogg-Vorbis.
There are plenty of ways to profit off this! You just have to think like a corporation.
The company will apparently say he is leaving for 'personal reasons.'
Generally when there is any doubt about why an executive is leaving their position, this is the ambiguous statement the company makes. The point is to allow the company to save face, to allow the individual to save face, and to avoid allegations of libel by either side.
In this case, I don't think there's anyone in the industry who isn't familiar with the actual reason Thompson is leaving: he lied about his credentials in the hiring process, and the person ultimately responsible for vetting the information looked the other way because she had lied about her own credentials. At the end of the day, they determined that Yahoo could not maintain the necessary credibility or focus to conduct business if he stayed.
It's public knowledge and it's not debatable, so who are they trying to hide this information from? They're sweeping it under the rug in broad daylight, when they should be owning up to it with a mea culpa":
Thompson should say he messed up, he apologizes and he's moving on.
Yahoo should say it messed up, it apologizes and it's moving on.
Maybe that's part of Yahoo's problem: it doesn't move on. It needs to move on, figure out what its role is going to be this decade and focus on that role, or it's going to follow AltaVista into oblivion.
I think the problem is that they're doing it wrong by putting the warning at the beginning of the disc. Generally people don't know if a movie is worth ripping until after they've seen it. But by the end, they've forgotten that they weren't supposed to rip it. If they put the warning at the end... Say, right before the credits, people who are thinking, "that was really good, I think I'll rip that," will think twice. "Man, it's like they knew what I was thinking." By putting it at the beginning, you're actually encouraging piracy, because the user is thinking, "wow! If this film is so good people are stealing it, I should probably rip it too! Hey, let's rip it while we make dinner and then watch it!"
Beginning next month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require that all new cars sold in the U.S. display a H.U.D. screen on the windshield for a full 20 seconds before the driver may put the car in drive. The screen will convey a message about the dangers of drinking and driving. A spokesperson from NHTSA says the purpose is not to prevent drunk driving, but to educate the public.
In July, all new hammers will require the user to listen to a 20-second public service message about watching out for your fingers. Accelerometers in the device will sense any attempted use prior to the end of the message, and will trigger a restart, this time being sung as an off-key duet by Adam Sandler and the Aflack duck. A spokesman for the National Hammer Thumb Safety Administration says the purpose is not to prevent accidents, but to educate the public that it too is known as the NHTSA.
Also, Nokia replied to criticism of its new Lumia 900 cell phone by saying that the perceived network problems are actually an enforced 20-second delay. A Nokia spokeswoman said, "sorry for the delay in returning your call. I was captivated by the beautiful interface on my new Lumia. The point of the generous -- we don't like to call it enforced -- 'respite' is not to prevent you from doing something dumb on the Internet. The point is to stop and smell the roses... To immerse the user in the Windows interface so they can become familiar with it and truly appreciate it."
We'd either blockade the receiving country with ships, or send that Charles Xavier guy to go work things out with Magneto (See X-Men: First Class Plot, paragraph 4).
But seriously, the Cuban Missile Crisis was Russia's response to the U.S.'s placement of 100 nuclear IRBMs in Italy and Turkey a year earlier that had the ability to take out Moscow (See "Cuban Missile Crisis" Paragraph 1). The result of the crisis was that the Soviets removed their missile base equipment from Cuba and the U.S. dismantled its missiles in Italy and Turkey. And the leaders of the two countries got a Bat Phone so they could figure this out quicker next time (See "Cuban Missile Crisis" Paragraph 5).
So from Russia's perspective, they're looking at this and asking, "Really? Didn't we already go through this 50 years ago?" They don't know what kinds of missiles are going to actually be at a base in Poland. If history were to repeat itself, it seems logical that their response would be to set up a missile base near the U.S... you know, to protect against a missile attack from Iran in case one of the missiles it fires at the U.S. overshoots its target.
For a while we avoided this problem by telling the public we had this magical ability to shoot down nuclear missiles with lasers from space, but then Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd had to show everyone it doesn't really work (See Spies Like Us, Plot, paragraph 4), so now we have to build more missile bases to make everyone feel safe again. Who knew Chevy Chase would actually end up destroying the world? And to think, his high school guidance counselor said he'd never amount to anything.
Finally, a way to make your cat want to play with sharks. Cat chases the laser, shark chases the cat... It's a lot like rock, paper, scissors. Until someone loses a cat.
It's only a matter of time before the MPAA/RIAA gets this outlawed because pirates could be using it to broadcast entire ripped DVDs to each other in mere seconds using sharks with frickin' multiplexin' red and green lasers attached to their heads! You laugh, but it will happen.
This is not all the FBI is doing though. The "suspect" not presented with a plot on day one and then ignored forever if they say no thanks. These guys are softened up first and encouraged to become more radical. Then maybe a plot is suggested, and suggested over and over until their resistance is worn down.
That's OK, because in the end Winston "realized that he had won the victory over himself, and he loved Big Brother."
Discover could have gotten it's cost of the documentary down to the cost of the film crews.
If you're suggesting that the Discovery Channel exec used her Discover card to drive her costs down to the break-even point, I think you're overestimating the value of the rewards program. They only give you one percent back, and the purchase protection only covers domestic airline crashes (this one was in Mexico). When you factor in the annual fee, she probably lost money!
Or perhaps you just confused the financial company with the media company.
I worry that China is broadcasting the source code for Windows Vista, and 200 years from now some alien civilization will receive it and think they're schematics for something great. They'll build it, nearly destroy themselves and then come looking for us.
Ever have one of those conversations where you're asking your wife/girlfriend (yeah, I know, this is slashdot) where she'd like to go for dinner, and she tells you what she thinks you want to hear. And you say OK because you think that's where she wants to go. You're both so busy trying to figure out what the other person wants that your ability to interact effectively breaks down completely... And you either end up still arguing about it on the couch an hour later or at some restaurant neither of you likes.
This is the same thing! Microsoft is trying to patent relationship dysfunction!
You might as well use a tablet with a keyboard with keys that change under your fingers depending on what the device thinks you're going to type next. You'll never get what you want because the key you're looking for is constantly moving around... Running away from your fingers or hiding under them. There's a reason the QWERTY layout is standard, despite its flaws - everyone knows where to expect the keys!!!
The only group that would claim this is a good idea would be the advertisers: "Oh, you searched for Peanut Butter? You must be looking for JIFF." "Oh, you searched for tasty and filling? You must be looking for JIFF." Oh, you searched for JPG/GIF? You must be looking for JIFF!"
Actually, I heard Osama Bin Laden was pretty heavy into buying used SNES games on eBay after he went into hiding in Pakistan. He'd sit in his room for hours playing UN Squadron on that little TV, plotting new ways to lose the game. He was also a frequent user of the disaster feature in Sim City. There are reports that he was trying to build a weapon of mass destruction out of a Beowulf cluster of SNESes, because he couldn't get enough PS3s due to export restrictions, but nothing ever really came of it because the shape of the SNES power adapters prevented him from using all of his available outlets at the same time.
OK, I'll bite. This is an "air breathing" battery that uses oxygen from the atmosphere to create lithium peroxide and electrical energy. What if I drive to some place where there is no air, like Los Angeles, and get stuck there?
In 2000 I had several coworkers who moved out of their apartments and into their cubicles. They reasoned that they spent so much time there anyway, and got free high speed internet, it didn't make sense to pay for rent, gas, and utilities just to spend 8-10 hours a week in traffic. The company quietly encouraged it too, moving everyone to a building that had shower facilities in the restroom and allowed them to install curtains and inflatable doors on their cubicles.
I wonder if the census counted them as living in our office building, or if it just skipped them entirely. I suspect it skipped them, because the census takers wouldn't have come to our office park and the company wouldn't want documentation that it violated zoning laws. Still it's fun to think that 60 years from now their grandchildren might find them listed as "Mr. H Potter, the sleeping bag under the desk, cubicle 5, row 8, 2nd floor, building 9," etc. Then again, they were engineers whose 20s and 30s were spent reading slashdot and literally living in their cubicles... they probably didn't have kids.
ICANN kept introducing new gTLDs that it alleged the world needed, when all those new gTLDs did was create confusion for the general population and liability for corporations and organizations that felt pressured to race to "buy" their name again with the latest gTLD ending to "protect" their image. It was a money grab on their part. Simply shameful. Now the system through which this nonsense was created is down?
I wouldn't call that broken. I'd call it "fixed." Glad they finally got around to it.
I've generally thought of museums as places where you could connect with the past. For example: "This is the actual flag Francis Scott Key was looking at when he wrote the Star Spangled Banner... look at the tears and the holes!"
How long before museums routinely use 3D printing to replicate items that are damaged or considered too fragile to be on display, or too valuable? Once you start "replacing" the missing parts, you're rewriting history. I know the Chinese would never censor or rewrite anything, but what about the French? Would you still want to go the Louvre see the Venus de Milo if she had new 3D printed arms?
Jesus and Superman didn't fight the Romans and Lex Luther without expecting some backlash, you know.
I was wondering what Christopher Reeve was up to these days. Glad to know he's still finding top-notch co-stars for his movies. Is that available through Netflix?
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What week is the river cleanup?
"It looks like you're trying to do one of the following:
I suggest omitting the following words from your search: RIVER, WEEK, CLEANUP. Try 'What is the?' and you are sure to get better results from your query."
At its peak in late 1999, Yahoo's market cap was over $100B. You don't just kill a hundred billion dollar company all at once; they have been doing a solid job of strangling it slowly for the last twelve years though. Shouldn't be too much longer.
For a moment there I thought you were talking about Facebook.
should not be perceived as a threat to any other country,
They're not a threat to other countries. They're a threat to their own people. Currently the regime discourages dissent and protests through beatings and jailings, but people still stand up against them. How many will still do so when threatened with a helicopter gunship... Whether it works as advertised or not?
Where is the profit in finding ET? Even if you come up with an answer, then how do you limit the profit to those who make the discovery.
The people who first make contact can set up a theme park in Orlando that functions as a kind of extraterrestrial petting zoo. You charge people for admission, extra for activities like Pet-An-Alien, Ride-An-Alien, Family-Photo-With-An-Alien (with relevant props like laser guns, gold-pressed latinum, and oversized copies of To Serve Man). Sell freeze-dried ice cream in the gift shop and copies of the Beatles white album in the aliens' equivalent of an MP3, known as Ogg-Vorbis.
There are plenty of ways to profit off this! You just have to think like a corporation.
What does Russia expect to accomplish with its moon base?
Rumor has it Putin is looking for a new location where his future inaugurations can take place without the distraction of nearby protests.
The company will apparently say he is leaving for 'personal reasons.'
Generally when there is any doubt about why an executive is leaving their position, this is the ambiguous statement the company makes. The point is to allow the company to save face, to allow the individual to save face, and to avoid allegations of libel by either side.
In this case, I don't think there's anyone in the industry who isn't familiar with the actual reason Thompson is leaving: he lied about his credentials in the hiring process, and the person ultimately responsible for vetting the information looked the other way because she had lied about her own credentials. At the end of the day, they determined that Yahoo could not maintain the necessary credibility or focus to conduct business if he stayed.
It's public knowledge and it's not debatable, so who are they trying to hide this information from? They're sweeping it under the rug in broad daylight, when they should be owning up to it with a mea culpa":
Maybe that's part of Yahoo's problem: it doesn't move on. It needs to move on, figure out what its role is going to be this decade and focus on that role, or it's going to follow AltaVista into oblivion.
FFS! Didn't you see the movie?!? All we need to do is bolt warp drive onto an ICBM, and wait for the Vulcans to notice!
Geez, slow today or what? :-)
At the rate we're going, the Vulcans' first contact is likely to be with North Korea.
(aboard a passing spaceship, a North Korean missile test is seen)
"Look! There's the signal! Just like the video prophet foretold! Land here!"
(at the North Korean launch site)
"Please help our people! We are destitute and can barely feed ourselves!"
"This must be the place."
The anonymous reader who submitted the story must be new here. The only automaton-written stories on this site are marked "Slashdot TV."
I think the problem is that they're doing it wrong by putting the warning at the beginning of the disc. Generally people don't know if a movie is worth ripping until after they've seen it. But by the end, they've forgotten that they weren't supposed to rip it. If they put the warning at the end... Say, right before the credits, people who are thinking, "that was really good, I think I'll rip that," will think twice. "Man, it's like they knew what I was thinking." By putting it at the beginning, you're actually encouraging piracy, because the user is thinking, "wow! If this film is so good people are stealing it, I should probably rip it too! Hey, let's rip it while we make dinner and then watch it!"
Beginning next month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require that all new cars sold in the U.S. display a H.U.D. screen on the windshield for a full 20 seconds before the driver may put the car in drive. The screen will convey a message about the dangers of drinking and driving. A spokesperson from NHTSA says the purpose is not to prevent drunk driving, but to educate the public.
In July, all new hammers will require the user to listen to a 20-second public service message about watching out for your fingers. Accelerometers in the device will sense any attempted use prior to the end of the message, and will trigger a restart, this time being sung as an off-key duet by Adam Sandler and the Aflack duck. A spokesman for the National Hammer Thumb Safety Administration says the purpose is not to prevent accidents, but to educate the public that it too is known as the NHTSA.
Also, Nokia replied to criticism of its new Lumia 900 cell phone by saying that the perceived network problems are actually an enforced 20-second delay. A Nokia spokeswoman said, "sorry for the delay in returning your call. I was captivated by the beautiful interface on my new Lumia. The point of the generous -- we don't like to call it enforced -- 'respite' is not to prevent you from doing something dumb on the Internet. The point is to stop and smell the roses... To immerse the user in the Windows interface so they can become familiar with it and truly appreciate it."
Perhaps it was voting for better working conditions. For itself.
We'd either blockade the receiving country with ships, or send that Charles Xavier guy to go work things out with Magneto (See X-Men: First Class Plot, paragraph 4).
But seriously, the Cuban Missile Crisis was Russia's response to the U.S.'s placement of 100 nuclear IRBMs in Italy and Turkey a year earlier that had the ability to take out Moscow (See "Cuban Missile Crisis" Paragraph 1). The result of the crisis was that the Soviets removed their missile base equipment from Cuba and the U.S. dismantled its missiles in Italy and Turkey. And the leaders of the two countries got a Bat Phone so they could figure this out quicker next time (See "Cuban Missile Crisis" Paragraph 5).
So from Russia's perspective, they're looking at this and asking, "Really? Didn't we already go through this 50 years ago?" They don't know what kinds of missiles are going to actually be at a base in Poland. If history were to repeat itself, it seems logical that their response would be to set up a missile base near the U.S... you know, to protect against a missile attack from Iran in case one of the missiles it fires at the U.S. overshoots its target.
For a while we avoided this problem by telling the public we had this magical ability to shoot down nuclear missiles with lasers from space, but then Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd had to show everyone it doesn't really work (See Spies Like Us, Plot, paragraph 4), so now we have to build more missile bases to make everyone feel safe again. Who knew Chevy Chase would actually end up destroying the world? And to think, his high school guidance counselor said he'd never amount to anything.
Finally, a way to make your cat want to play with sharks. Cat chases the laser, shark chases the cat... It's a lot like rock, paper, scissors. Until someone loses a cat.
It's only a matter of time before the MPAA/RIAA gets this outlawed because pirates could be using it to broadcast entire ripped DVDs to each other in mere seconds using sharks with frickin' multiplexin' red and green lasers attached to their heads! You laugh, but it will happen.
This is not all the FBI is doing though. The "suspect" not presented with a plot on day one and then ignored forever if they say no thanks. These guys are softened up first and encouraged to become more radical. Then maybe a plot is suggested, and suggested over and over until their resistance is worn down.
That's OK, because in the end Winston "realized that he had won the victory over himself, and he loved Big Brother."
Discover could have gotten it's cost of the documentary down to the cost of the film crews.
If you're suggesting that the Discovery Channel exec used her Discover card to drive her costs down to the break-even point, I think you're overestimating the value of the rewards program. They only give you one percent back, and the purchase protection only covers domestic airline crashes (this one was in Mexico). When you factor in the annual fee, she probably lost money!
Or perhaps you just confused the financial company with the media company.
I worry that China is broadcasting the source code for Windows Vista, and 200 years from now some alien civilization will receive it and think they're schematics for something great. They'll build it, nearly destroy themselves and then come looking for us.
Mitt Romney, is that you?
Ever have one of those conversations where you're asking your wife/girlfriend (yeah, I know, this is slashdot) where she'd like to go for dinner, and she tells you what she thinks you want to hear. And you say OK because you think that's where she wants to go. You're both so busy trying to figure out what the other person wants that your ability to interact effectively breaks down completely... And you either end up still arguing about it on the couch an hour later or at some restaurant neither of you likes.
This is the same thing! Microsoft is trying to patent relationship dysfunction!
You might as well use a tablet with a keyboard with keys that change under your fingers depending on what the device thinks you're going to type next. You'll never get what you want because the key you're looking for is constantly moving around... Running away from your fingers or hiding under them. There's a reason the QWERTY layout is standard, despite its flaws - everyone knows where to expect the keys!!!
The only group that would claim this is a good idea would be the advertisers: "Oh, you searched for Peanut Butter? You must be looking for JIFF." "Oh, you searched for tasty and filling? You must be looking for JIFF." Oh, you searched for JPG/GIF? You must be looking for JIFF!"
Actually, I heard Osama Bin Laden was pretty heavy into buying used SNES games on eBay after he went into hiding in Pakistan. He'd sit in his room for hours playing UN Squadron on that little TV, plotting new ways to lose the game. He was also a frequent user of the disaster feature in Sim City. There are reports that he was trying to build a weapon of mass destruction out of a Beowulf cluster of SNESes, because he couldn't get enough PS3s due to export restrictions, but nothing ever really came of it because the shape of the SNES power adapters prevented him from using all of his available outlets at the same time.
Your move, range anxiety crowd.
OK, I'll bite. This is an "air breathing" battery that uses oxygen from the atmosphere to create lithium peroxide and electrical energy. What if I drive to some place where there is no air, like Los Angeles, and get stuck there?
In 2000 I had several coworkers who moved out of their apartments and into their cubicles. They reasoned that they spent so much time there anyway, and got free high speed internet, it didn't make sense to pay for rent, gas, and utilities just to spend 8-10 hours a week in traffic. The company quietly encouraged it too, moving everyone to a building that had shower facilities in the restroom and allowed them to install curtains and inflatable doors on their cubicles.
I wonder if the census counted them as living in our office building, or if it just skipped them entirely. I suspect it skipped them, because the census takers wouldn't have come to our office park and the company wouldn't want documentation that it violated zoning laws. Still it's fun to think that 60 years from now their grandchildren might find them listed as "Mr. H Potter, the sleeping bag under the desk, cubicle 5, row 8, 2nd floor, building 9," etc. Then again, they were engineers whose 20s and 30s were spent reading slashdot and literally living in their cubicles... they probably didn't have kids.
ICANN kept introducing new gTLDs that it alleged the world needed, when all those new gTLDs did was create confusion for the general population and liability for corporations and organizations that felt pressured to race to "buy" their name again with the latest gTLD ending to "protect" their image. It was a money grab on their part. Simply shameful. Now the system through which this nonsense was created is down?
I wouldn't call that broken. I'd call it "fixed." Glad they finally got around to it.
I've generally thought of museums as places where you could connect with the past. For example: "This is the actual flag Francis Scott Key was looking at when he wrote the Star Spangled Banner... look at the tears and the holes!"
How long before museums routinely use 3D printing to replicate items that are damaged or considered too fragile to be on display, or too valuable? Once you start "replacing" the missing parts, you're rewriting history. I know the Chinese would never censor or rewrite anything, but what about the French? Would you still want to go the Louvre see the Venus de Milo if she had new 3D printed arms?
Jesus and Superman didn't fight the Romans and Lex Luther without expecting some backlash, you know.
I was wondering what Christopher Reeve was up to these days. Glad to know he's still finding top-notch co-stars for his movies. Is that available through Netflix?