This might sound stupid, but it's what L Ron Hubbard did, resulting in Scientology. It allowed him to continue to publicize the pseudo-science, "Dianetics", but be protected from attacks under the law.
Becoming a religion gave him lots of free speech breaks, lots of financial breaks, and kept the cause going, as it does today.
You really think your daughter and her friend didn't know they were less than the real deal? Kids aren't stupid.
While you were at it, I hope you explained how most people commit hundreds of illegal acts in their lifetimes, but how it's not really a big deal.. just that you shouldn't go screaming about it.
I live in the UK and we have similar ads, although they are more formal looking.
They state that you should remain 'vigilent' for other people in the audience using recording equipment, and that if you use such equipment youreslf, you will be detained and arrested, with potential for two years' imprisonment. No BS, they really say that.
Add that to the stupid brown dots they're adding to all the films (very noticable in Kill Bill), and going to the cinema is turning into a real headfu*k.
Everyone seems to set about making the impossible things in TV shows become a reality. Perhaps we need to start a TV show where geeks get laid by hot chicks all the time?
In addition to the above post, this feature also spells the end of buffer overflow attacks, since data and code are truly separated. Even if a sloppy programmer makes his data spill everywhere through a 'data' area of memory, it doesn't matter, it's not directly executable without copying it to 'program' memory first.
Plesk is most certainly NOT open source. I know this is a bit of a nit pick on a humorous post, but none of the major hosting server management systems are open source, although the new 'VirtualMin' addition to the Webmin software is making an attempt at it.
The device comes with a mandatory 'automatic purge' feature. Each recording is marked by a timestamp on disk and thirty one days after a recording has been made, it is automatically deleted. This feature fits in with Japanese copyright rules.
Oh great, what next? A 'will not record porn because it's not good for the children' feature? When will consumers get treated like adults? This sucks about as much as the end of Jeepers Creepers 2 where all the people except the hot chick die.
What I really really hate is when you see 'screenshots' or sequences on TV which are advertising a game, and they're things you'd NEVER see during actual gameplay.
When I see a game ad, I want to see what it's like from the perspective of playing it. Not some dumb raycasted promotional graphic that looks NOTHING like the game. Gran Turismo's screenshots are guilty of this. Nearly all of them are 'external' views. Who uses the external views while driving? I want to see what the graphics quality is like from 'inside the cab', not what the action replays are like.
Okay, you have a point, but I still don't fully agree with it. I speed. A relationship doesn't stop this. Speeding is a dipshit thing to do, but hell, I enjoy it, and it's my vice.
I have often looked at virus creation. Although I have never bothered to actually 'get into it', I think the theories behind virus coding present an interesting challenge.
That said, clearly virus writers break into two groups, a) the group with low self esteem, who write viruses to feel like they made a 'difference' in the world, and who desperately seek attention.. and b) people who find the whole concept of viruses interesting from a computer science (or even biological) aspect.
So, and this is perhaps where I'll agree with you, maybe these 'low self esteem' virus writers, if they had a girlfriend, wouldn't have low self esteem anymore, and wouldn't write viruses?
Oh, and again, part of the whole virgin thing is that if said individual were able to get some, it would probably be much more appealing that writing stupid viruses, correct?
Well that's the most persistent dip-shit argument I've heard on Slashdot. If sex was so amazing that no-one wanted to do anything else but have sex, then a) we wouldn't even be on this site, b) no-one sexually active would play sports, c) or computer games, d) or go on vacation.
Just because you're getting laid doesn't mean you can't find other things similarly interesting.
No-one has the right to steal things either. Should you be getting an automatic courts summons as soon as you 'test' a grape in a grocery store?
Laws are always set more strictly than they are enforced. This allows leeway, and gives a greater rationale for coming down hard on people who step way over the line.
Sure, the speed limit might be 30, but they don't even twitch their nose until you're doing 36-40. Why? Because if the limit is 30, then prosecuting someone doing 40 is easy. If they set the limit to 39mph, then prosecuting that 40mph driver would seem unethical.
Did anyone actually bother to visit the RPMPAN page? Check out that logo, it's so camp.
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Perhaps some slashdot readers have had a similar experience?
Count me in.
Back in the late Eighties, I bought one of those 'brick' phones. Of course, as was the style at the time they weren't called that, because they just happened to be that size, nothing special.
As was the style at the time, the phones used ridiculous NiCad batteries for portability -- when you were in the car, they ran off of a device hooked up to the car battery, so you didn't need to wear the batteries out. Unfortunately the NiCad batteries were crap. As you probably already know, NiCad batteries have this really horrible 'memory' effect where if you recharge the battery before it's completely empty, it thinks that where you've just started to recharge it from is the *real* empty.. and it's not.
I could also only get thirty minutes' talk time out of a full charge, although it'd stay on standby on one charge for about three hours. Considering it took 12 hours to charge the NiCad (overnight charger), this wasn't a great arrangement if you wanted to use the phone while out and about during the daytime.
At the time, NiMH's weren't available for cell phones, in fact hardly anyone used them at all for anything really. But they delivered better battery life (for the time), didn't have the horrible memory effect, and charged more quickly than the NiCads charged.
So what I did was buy a second battery from Motorola for the princely sum of $95 (!!! and this was in the Eighties!!), I gutted it, and replaced all of the NiCad cells (yes, those big batteries are just collections of batteries all hooked together - it's not just one giant pool of acid in there..) with approximately 25 regular AA sized NiMH batteries that I bought at some store in a town. And, yes, I made sure the voltages all added up and that the current supply somewhat matched up. So I threw the casing back on the battery, hooked it up, and the phone worked! Talk-time was up to about ninety minutes, standby time was up to SIX hours (!! - I know, this sounds pretty ridiculous by today's standards, but there you go). I was walking on air.
A week later, I was walking along, cellphone in its case (they were big, so you carried them in things kinda like camera cases - you know, those big Nikon camera bags, that you can get a few lenses in).. phone was on standby,and suddenly BANG, the side casing of the battery ploughed a hole through the bag and fell onto the floor and suddenly all this goop (the battery acid) was running out. I dropped it immediately and battery acid was pouring out everyplace.
There are some companies (and individuals) who send large amounts of e-mail, who are 'spammers' by one definition (as in they send large amounts of commercial mail containing advertisements) but who live by the letter of the law.
Freaks sending incest or rape spam to all the addresses they can find are crossing signficant moral boundaries, but people who've legitimately got access to mailing lists rented out by newsletter companies (to which you signed up, often accepting that you'd receive some ads) don't deserve to be hounded. What they're doing is not illegal, and not morally wrong, since you have accepted to receive this info.
Of course, there are a lot more bad spammers out there, than spammers who have morals, only mail proper lists, and respect remove requests, but that doesn't mean all spammers have to be tarred with the same brush.
The term 'spammer' is as accusatory, and often as false, as 'criminal'. You might think all criminals are bad, but what about the 'criminal' who said something bad about the government and got arrested for it? Likewise, not all 'spammers' are inherently evil scum sending porno ads to your TV-addicted drooling children.
they took the simple step of moving the blades behind the counter at the store pharmacy. Shoplifting drops overnight, no added cost and no privacy concerns.
And sales should drop too.
I can't speak for everyone, but I bet a reasonable percentage of people will avoid making a purchase if it involves lining up for an extra 5 minutes (in addition to the checkout time) at the pharmacy. That'd be enough for me to go back to cheap disposables.
The average computer programmer in India costs $20 per hour in wages and benefits, compared to $65 per hour for an American with a comparable degree and experience
So you're telling me the average Indian programmer earns like $40k a year, and the average American programmer earns $120k a year? Bullshit! Not even with benefits!
I know a lot of programmers in the LA Valleys earning $30k-$50k and enjoying it. It's not the 'old money' but it's more than livable if you're single.
There is no freaking way the *average* programmer in the US earns $120k including benefits.
Thou art surely trolling?
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The dollar is currently incredibly weak. 1 British pound could only buy 140 cents a year or so ago, now it can buy almost 170.
Up until now, x-rays have only been used on luggage and to scan your personal belongings which you put into the tray before you walk through the metal detector. Why? Because x-rays have been proven to be dangerous to living matter at high levels.
Of course, this doesn't stop them being used in an extremely diluted form, as in regular x-rays at the dentist or the hospital, but you cannot send x-rays more than a metre at these low levels because of spectral bandwidth diminishment issues (730 nanometers of bandwidth over more than a couple of feet diminishes beyond 100db/A - a useless level).
So, how can this scanner work? It uses a slightly varied version of the 'x-ray spec', known as "X-Ray2 (squared)". This is a new improved version of x-rays which have had the fatal bit removed. But, this is such new technology that we can't really be SURE of what's going on.
[some bozo] proposes a great way to fund Open Source education and development until companies comply with open standards. Microsoft pays a 10% penalty until their products comply with open standards.
Ooh, la de la, we all live in fairy-tale land.
I think I'm going to propose a system where all of the fruit loops working on Python and Java all decide to work on Perl 6 instead! La-de-la!
Oooooh, and I think that Dell should give 10% of their profits to Apple until they both have an equal share of the marketplace, la-de-la!
And I think all members of the Linux 'cult' should pay a tithe of their income to help support poor old SCO, la-de-la!
It's okay proposing nonsense, but it's whether it's actually legal and feasible that counts. This project is neither.
Fair enough, but when you say 'program DHTML'.. that really means 'knit together X totally different technologies'.
Saying you built a site 'with DHTML', is like saying you built a site 'with Macromedia', when you really meant to say you used Freehand, Flash, and Dreamweaver.
There's nothing dynamic about HTML. It's a flat staid format, which while often has bits and pieces added to it, is anything but dynamic.
When we say DHTML or 'Dynamic HTML', aren't we really referring to the OTHER non-HTML technologies which make Web pages 'come alive'? For example, JavaScript and CSS. Without these the whole concept of 'DHTML' can't even be entertained.
DHTML really doesn't exist in a concrete sense. It's just a vague concept. If you're going to write a book about JavaScript and CSS, then just say so.
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This might sound stupid, but it's what L Ron Hubbard did, resulting in Scientology. It allowed him to continue to publicize the pseudo-science, "Dianetics", but be protected from attacks under the law.
Becoming a religion gave him lots of free speech breaks, lots of financial breaks, and kept the cause going, as it does today.
If I build a forklift can I say I can lift 3000 lbs?
Yes, you can, because you now can lift 3000 lbs.
You could also say you can dig a hole.. even though you might require a shovel to do it.
You can say you can 'use the Internet'.. even though you require a computer to do it.
You really think your daughter and her friend didn't know they were less than the real deal? Kids aren't stupid.
While you were at it, I hope you explained how most people commit hundreds of illegal acts in their lifetimes, but how it's not really a big deal.. just that you shouldn't go screaming about it.
I live in the UK and we have similar ads, although they are more formal looking.
They state that you should remain 'vigilent' for other people in the audience using recording equipment, and that if you use such equipment youreslf, you will be detained and arrested, with potential for two years' imprisonment. No BS, they really say that.
Add that to the stupid brown dots they're adding to all the films (very noticable in Kill Bill), and going to the cinema is turning into a real headfu*k.
Everyone seems to set about making the impossible things in TV shows become a reality. Perhaps we need to start a TV show where geeks get laid by hot chicks all the time?
In addition to the above post, this feature also spells the end of buffer overflow attacks, since data and code are truly separated. Even if a sloppy programmer makes his data spill everywhere through a 'data' area of memory, it doesn't matter, it's not directly executable without copying it to 'program' memory first.
Plesk is most certainly NOT open source. I know this is a bit of a nit pick on a humorous post, but none of the major hosting server management systems are open source, although the new 'VirtualMin' addition to the Webmin software is making an attempt at it.
The device comes with a mandatory 'automatic purge' feature. Each recording is marked by a timestamp on disk and thirty one days after a recording has been made, it is automatically deleted. This feature fits in with Japanese copyright rules.
Oh great, what next? A 'will not record porn because it's not good for the children' feature? When will consumers get treated like adults? This sucks about as much as the end of Jeepers Creepers 2 where all the people except the hot chick die.
What I really really hate is when you see 'screenshots' or sequences on TV which are advertising a game, and they're things you'd NEVER see during actual gameplay.
When I see a game ad, I want to see what it's like from the perspective of playing it. Not some dumb raycasted promotional graphic that looks NOTHING like the game. Gran Turismo's screenshots are guilty of this. Nearly all of them are 'external' views. Who uses the external views while driving? I want to see what the graphics quality is like from 'inside the cab', not what the action replays are like.
aren't plastics created from oil ?. At least trees can grow back.
Most experiments in producing wooden CDs have failed miserably, except for Madonna's latest album which was both wooden and sold heaps.
Okay, you have a point, but I still don't fully agree with it. I speed. A relationship doesn't stop this. Speeding is a dipshit thing to do, but hell, I enjoy it, and it's my vice.
I have often looked at virus creation. Although I have never bothered to actually 'get into it', I think the theories behind virus coding present an interesting challenge.
That said, clearly virus writers break into two groups, a) the group with low self esteem, who write viruses to feel like they made a 'difference' in the world, and who desperately seek attention.. and b) people who find the whole concept of viruses interesting from a computer science (or even biological) aspect.
So, and this is perhaps where I'll agree with you, maybe these 'low self esteem' virus writers, if they had a girlfriend, wouldn't have low self esteem anymore, and wouldn't write viruses?
Oh, and again, part of the whole virgin thing is that if said individual were able to get some, it would probably be much more appealing that writing stupid viruses, correct?
Well that's the most persistent dip-shit argument I've heard on Slashdot. If sex was so amazing that no-one wanted to do anything else but have sex, then a) we wouldn't even be on this site, b) no-one sexually active would play sports, c) or computer games, d) or go on vacation.
Just because you're getting laid doesn't mean you can't find other things similarly interesting.
No-one has the right to steal things either. Should you be getting an automatic courts summons as soon as you 'test' a grape in a grocery store?
Laws are always set more strictly than they are enforced. This allows leeway, and gives a greater rationale for coming down hard on people who step way over the line.
Sure, the speed limit might be 30, but they don't even twitch their nose until you're doing 36-40. Why? Because if the limit is 30, then prosecuting someone doing 40 is easy. If they set the limit to 39mph, then prosecuting that 40mph driver would seem unethical.
Did anyone actually bother to visit the RPMPAN page? Check out that logo, it's so camp.
Perhaps some slashdot readers have had a similar experience?
Count me in.
Back in the late Eighties, I bought one of those 'brick' phones. Of course, as was the style at the time they weren't called that, because they just happened to be that size, nothing special.
As was the style at the time, the phones used ridiculous NiCad batteries for portability -- when you were in the car, they ran off of a device hooked up to the car battery, so you didn't need to wear the batteries out. Unfortunately the NiCad batteries were crap. As you probably already know, NiCad batteries have this really horrible 'memory' effect where if you recharge the battery before it's completely empty, it thinks that where you've just started to recharge it from is the *real* empty.. and it's not.
I could also only get thirty minutes' talk time out of a full charge, although it'd stay on standby on one charge for about three hours. Considering it took 12 hours to charge the NiCad (overnight charger), this wasn't a great arrangement if you wanted to use the phone while out and about during the daytime.
At the time, NiMH's weren't available for cell phones, in fact hardly anyone used them at all for anything really. But they delivered better battery life (for the time), didn't have the horrible memory effect, and charged more quickly than the NiCads charged.
So what I did was buy a second battery from Motorola for the princely sum of $95 (!!! and this was in the Eighties!!), I gutted it, and replaced all of the NiCad cells (yes, those big batteries are just collections of batteries all hooked together - it's not just one giant pool of acid in there..) with approximately 25 regular AA sized NiMH batteries that I bought at some store in a town. And, yes, I made sure the voltages all added up and that the current supply somewhat matched up. So I threw the casing back on the battery, hooked it up, and the phone worked! Talk-time was up to about ninety minutes, standby time was up to SIX hours (!! - I know, this sounds pretty ridiculous by today's standards, but there you go). I was walking on air.
A week later, I was walking along, cellphone in its case (they were big, so you carried them in things kinda like camera cases - you know, those big Nikon camera bags, that you can get a few lenses in).. phone was on standby,and suddenly BANG, the side casing of the battery ploughed a hole through the bag and fell onto the floor and suddenly all this goop (the battery acid) was running out. I dropped it immediately and battery acid was pouring out everyplace.
That was some dangerous stuff.
There are some companies (and individuals) who send large amounts of e-mail, who are 'spammers' by one definition (as in they send large amounts of commercial mail containing advertisements) but who live by the letter of the law.
Freaks sending incest or rape spam to all the addresses they can find are crossing signficant moral boundaries, but people who've legitimately got access to mailing lists rented out by newsletter companies (to which you signed up, often accepting that you'd receive some ads) don't deserve to be hounded. What they're doing is not illegal, and not morally wrong, since you have accepted to receive this info.
Of course, there are a lot more bad spammers out there, than spammers who have morals, only mail proper lists, and respect remove requests, but that doesn't mean all spammers have to be tarred with the same brush.
The term 'spammer' is as accusatory, and often as false, as 'criminal'. You might think all criminals are bad, but what about the 'criminal' who said something bad about the government and got arrested for it? Likewise, not all 'spammers' are inherently evil scum sending porno ads to your TV-addicted drooling children.
they took the simple step of moving the blades behind the counter at the store pharmacy. Shoplifting drops overnight, no added cost and no privacy concerns.
And sales should drop too.
I can't speak for everyone, but I bet a reasonable percentage of people will avoid making a purchase if it involves lining up for an extra 5 minutes (in addition to the checkout time) at the pharmacy. That'd be enough for me to go back to cheap disposables.
Hahahaha, that's the best Soviet Russia joke I've seen in a long time.
The Linux intellectual property is really sound, and not code? Oh great, now the RIAA are gunna bust our nuts for distributing Linux for free!
The average computer programmer in India costs $20 per hour in wages and benefits, compared to $65 per hour for an American with a comparable degree and experience
So you're telling me the average Indian programmer earns like $40k a year, and the average American programmer earns $120k a year? Bullshit! Not even with benefits!
I know a lot of programmers in the LA Valleys earning $30k-$50k and enjoying it. It's not the 'old money' but it's more than livable if you're single.
There is no freaking way the *average* programmer in the US earns $120k including benefits.
The dollar is currently incredibly weak. 1 British pound could only buy 140 cents a year or so ago, now it can buy almost 170.
Up until now, x-rays have only been used on luggage and to scan your personal belongings which you put into the tray before you walk through the metal detector. Why? Because x-rays have been proven to be dangerous to living matter at high levels.
Of course, this doesn't stop them being used in an extremely diluted form, as in regular x-rays at the dentist or the hospital, but you cannot send x-rays more than a metre at these low levels because of spectral bandwidth diminishment issues (730 nanometers of bandwidth over more than a couple of feet diminishes beyond 100db/A - a useless level).
So, how can this scanner work? It uses a slightly varied version of the 'x-ray spec', known as "X-Ray2 (squared)". This is a new improved version of x-rays which have had the fatal bit removed. But, this is such new technology that we can't really be SURE of what's going on.
I recommend caution.
[some bozo] proposes a great way to fund Open Source education and development until companies comply with open standards. Microsoft pays a 10% penalty until their products comply with open standards.
Ooh, la de la, we all live in fairy-tale land.
I think I'm going to propose a system where all of the fruit loops working on Python and Java all decide to work on Perl 6 instead! La-de-la!
Oooooh, and I think that Dell should give 10% of their profits to Apple until they both have an equal share of the marketplace, la-de-la!
And I think all members of the Linux 'cult' should pay a tithe of their income to help support poor old SCO, la-de-la!
It's okay proposing nonsense, but it's whether it's actually legal and feasible that counts. This project is neither.
Fair enough, but when you say 'program DHTML'.. that really means 'knit together X totally different technologies'.
:)
Saying you built a site 'with DHTML', is like saying you built a site 'with Macromedia', when you really meant to say you used Freehand, Flash, and Dreamweaver.
Is pointless semantics, is all.
There's nothing dynamic about HTML. It's a flat staid format, which while often has bits and pieces added to it, is anything but dynamic.
When we say DHTML or 'Dynamic HTML', aren't we really referring to the OTHER non-HTML technologies which make Web pages 'come alive'? For example, JavaScript and CSS. Without these the whole concept of 'DHTML' can't even be entertained.
DHTML really doesn't exist in a concrete sense. It's just a vague concept. If you're going to write a book about JavaScript and CSS, then just say so.