This being slashdot, I guess it's only natural that you didn't read the article before rushing to post your opinion.
According to the statute, 47 USC 551(b), cable operators are prohibited from collecting "personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber concerned."
How exactly does this undo the damage that Microsoft has done to so many companies with it's corrupt business practices?
I'd prefer to see:
1) Microsoft to be required to licence Windows under uniform fixed court agreed terms to all hardware vendors, with no conditions allowed on what else they sell (e.g. bare PCs, Linux), or what else they do or don't load onto their PCs (office software, browsers, ISP links)
2) Certain file formats (office documents) to be deemed part of national commerce infrastructure, and put under control of some industry body rather than microsoft
Sure it'd be a cool engineering feat to put men on mars, but so what? For what purpose? Real world mars? There's only two things I really want to see out of the space program:
1) Find extra-terrestial life
2) Create extra-terrestial human colonies (MUCH lower priority)
1) Can much better be accomplished using robots than manned missions, and the seas of Europa seem a more interesting destinationn than mars. By all means send a serious exploratory robotic mission to mars too, though.
2) We'll learn 99% of what we would on mars by putting a colony on our moon, and it's be a hell of a lot cheaper and safer.
At the end of the day if a given source provide their take on a story then that's their take. Whether their first take, last take or whatever best matches your own views seems irrevelant.
If there any indication that a bews source changed it's story due to outside pressure than that would of course affect their credibility, but you'd be naieve not to think that there were biases, angles and prudent decisions built into the way any story is reported.
Up until relatively recently there hasn't really been much choice, but with Linux having matured, I'd have to guess that something like KDE3 is a valid alternative for school use (and much better for software development!)
All it needs is a few administrators with the cohones to make the leap...
The other benefit of SCSI is (was?) that it queues and reorders read/write commands so as to optimize disk head movement. This is not only essential for servers, but also for multitasking OS's where you've got multiple tasks doing disk IO.
They do, and I'm writing this at work on one - an Ultra 5.
The IDE drive's performace SUCKS. It's horrible. My PII 266MHz (state of the art at the time I bought it) at home with SCSI drives just kicks the crap out of this thing on file copies, compiles etc.
The reason each years batch of new flus all originate in Asia is because of humans, pigs and ducks living in close proximity. Apparently viruses can be passed between these species...
I'm hoping to obtain a patent for "Utilizing the methane producing capabilitites of sybiotic colonic microbes to produce sound pressure waves emitted from the anus modulated by sphinctal muscle control".
I have an similar book myself but meant for a younger group - I'm not sure how far back it dates, but I think it was my Dad's as a kid - "101 things a boy can do".
I can't remember too many of them , but for example one of the 101 things a boy can do is make a paper volcano that spews forth hot "lava" made out of some nasty toxic mercury compound that I guess pharmacists were happy to sell to young boys back then.
Actually, the best editor ever was BRIEF by Underware, an awesome PC editor then got sucked up by Borland and disappeared.
When I switched to Unix from DOS an aeon ago, the first thing I did was look for a decent editor, and was incredulous that people actually used vi - a line editor!! - for real work. The absolute minimal requirements for a productive editor are modeless, mouse cut and paste and off-the-cuff macro record/playback. I ended up choosing emacs and configuring the keys like BRIEF.
You're right about nedit though - it's an excellent editor and I use it on occasion to do stuff like complicated search/replaces that I've never bothered to learn with emacs (how does emacs refer to wildcarded bits of what you searched for in the replace string?).
The GPL is a legally binding licence agreement, that no-one is forced to use. If you want to benefit from others work and build on top of GPL'd code then you can do so, but that benefit comes with obligations.
There's no discretion to GPL's applicability or separate rules for Linux friendly companies or whatever. Either the GPL does cover Beta release (note that people PAID for the "Beta", which would seem to destroy any position they may otherwise have had), or it doesn't. The FSF appears to think that it does, and I believe they know more about it then either you or I do.
I have a friend who works for the company that makes these (Helpmate in Danbury, CT, which is a division of Pyxis), and the reason they can "trigger" the elevator to stop for them is because they're integrated into the eleveator system - they have a radio interface to the elevator so that they can call it without hitting buttons.
From what I remember reading, the major features of fingerprints - the locations of whorls, ridges etc - ARE genetically determined, but the details are not... You'd of course expect clones to have the same degree of similarity as identical twins in this respect (although due to different mitochondrial DNA, clones could be said to be less alike than idential twins - they'd have different metabolisms).
First, if you shout fire in a crowded theatre and people get crushed in the panic, then you're responsible, not the movie theatre for not being able to handle the rush.
Secondly, most sites (except the largest commercial ones) certainly can't handle 1/2 million slashdotties all hitting them at once, so to put the blame on the site just doesn't cut it. If slashdot wants to be a good netizen then they should warn web masters before linking them - especially if they're going to be hit with a gazillion attempts to download a huge tarball.
So if I coat a bar of gold bullion with plastic and sell it to you for $30 as part of some IPO scam, should bullion investors be upset because they're paying $1000's for what "goes" for $30?
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If you've worked for classified military projects, that's probably exactly what your resume does look like.
Interviwer: Can you tell me a little about the most recent poject you worked on?
You: No.
I think it's great. Instead of sending me spam via mail, fax and email -- now they can engineer ads based on my DNA.
Finally they can send the penis enlargement ads to those who need them!
What broke the standard model?
Um, E3 => booth babes, so how can this possibly be off topic?
b abes/big/TwoInPinkBikinis.jpg
http://www.chickshardware.com/html/expo/ects2000/
(hey, you've got to spend karma somehow)
This being slashdot, I guess it's only natural that you didn't read the article before rushing to post your opinion.
According to the statute, 47 USC 551(b), cable operators are prohibited from collecting "personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber concerned."
Speaking of boobies (and I do like to speak of boobies), I was impressed by Google's completion of the set "hooters, knockers, fun bags":
Google on boobies
That's pretty impressive! I think it could pass the Turing test!
How exactly does this undo the damage that Microsoft has done to so many companies with it's corrupt business practices?
I'd prefer to see:
1) Microsoft to be required to licence Windows under uniform fixed court agreed terms to all hardware vendors, with no conditions allowed on what else they sell (e.g. bare PCs, Linux), or what else they do or don't load onto their PCs (office software, browsers, ISP links)
2) Certain file formats (office documents) to be deemed part of national commerce infrastructure, and put under control of some industry body rather than microsoft
Sure it'd be a cool engineering feat to put men on mars, but so what? For what purpose? Real world mars? There's only two things I really want to see out of the space program:
1) Find extra-terrestial life
2) Create extra-terrestial human colonies (MUCH lower priority)
1) Can much better be accomplished using robots than manned missions, and the seas of Europa seem a more interesting destinationn than mars. By all means send a serious exploratory robotic mission to mars too, though.
2) We'll learn 99% of what we would on mars by putting a colony on our moon, and it's be a hell of a lot cheaper and safer.
2002-04-03 17:39:55 New Celine Dion CD will crash your computer (articles,news) (rejected)
I don't see why this is an issue at all.
At the end of the day if a given source provide their take on a story then that's their take. Whether their first take, last take or whatever best matches your own views seems irrevelant.
If there any indication that a bews source changed it's story due to outside pressure than that would of course affect their credibility, but you'd be naieve not to think that there were biases, angles and prudent decisions built into the way any story is reported.
Up until relatively recently there hasn't really been much choice, but with Linux having matured, I'd have to guess that something like KDE3 is a valid alternative for school use (and much better for software development!)
All it needs is a few administrators with the cohones to make the leap...
linux4k12.com is still available!
The other benefit of SCSI is (was?) that it queues and reorders read/write commands so as to optimize disk head movement. This is not only essential for servers, but also for multitasking OS's where you've got multiple tasks doing disk IO.
They do, and I'm writing this at work on one - an Ultra 5.
The IDE drive's performace SUCKS. It's horrible. My PII 266MHz (state of the art at the time I bought it) at home with SCSI drives just kicks the crap out of this thing on file copies, compiles etc.
A chimp can't catch a cold from me.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
The reason each years batch of new flus all originate in Asia is because of humans, pigs and ducks living in close proximity. Apparently viruses can be passed between these species...
That's a bogus argument.
If something like a T-Rex were imported here from another planet, it would just as surely be top doggie here as it was back home.
Why?
Because it's fucking huge and has giant spiky teeth.
Case closed.
McKinley was designed by HP rather than Intel as was Merced (aka Itanic), so it may actually perform well, considering HP's PA-RISC work.
I'm hoping to obtain a patent for "Utilizing the methane producing capabilitites of sybiotic colonic microbes to produce sound pressure waves emitted from the anus modulated by sphinctal muscle control".
This is my 1000th post! w00t!
Heh! :-)
I have an similar book myself but meant for a younger group - I'm not sure how far back it dates, but I think it was my Dad's as a kid - "101 things a boy can do".
I can't remember too many of them , but for example one of the 101 things a boy can do is make a paper volcano that spews forth hot "lava" made out of some nasty toxic mercury compound that I guess pharmacists were happy to sell to young boys back then.
Actually, the best editor ever was BRIEF by Underware, an awesome PC editor then got sucked up by Borland and disappeared.
When I switched to Unix from DOS an aeon ago, the first thing I did was look for a decent editor, and was incredulous that people actually used vi - a line editor!! - for real work. The absolute minimal requirements for a productive editor are modeless, mouse cut and paste and off-the-cuff macro record/playback. I ended up choosing emacs and configuring the keys like BRIEF.
You're right about nedit though - it's an excellent editor and I use it on occasion to do stuff like complicated search/replaces that I've never bothered to learn with emacs (how does emacs refer to wildcarded bits of what you searched for in the replace string?).
The GPL is a legally binding licence agreement, that no-one is forced to use. If you want to benefit from others work and build on top of GPL'd code then you can do so, but that benefit comes with obligations.
There's no discretion to GPL's applicability or separate rules for Linux friendly companies or whatever. Either the GPL does cover Beta release (note that people PAID for the "Beta", which would seem to destroy any position they may otherwise have had), or it doesn't. The FSF appears to think that it does, and I believe they know more about it then either you or I do.
Err, then seeing as beer tasting like rat's piss is a bad thing, does that mean that beer tasting like cat's piss is good?!
I have a friend who works for the company that makes these (Helpmate in Danbury, CT, which is a division of Pyxis), and the reason they can "trigger" the elevator to stop for them is because they're integrated into the eleveator system - they have a radio interface to the elevator so that they can call it without hitting buttons.
From what I remember reading, the major features of fingerprints - the locations of whorls, ridges etc - ARE genetically determined, but the details are not... You'd of course expect clones to have the same degree of similarity as identical twins in this respect (although due to different mitochondrial DNA, clones could be said to be less alike than idential twins - they'd have different metabolisms).
First, if you shout fire in a crowded theatre and people get crushed in the panic, then you're responsible, not the movie theatre for not being able to handle the rush.
Secondly, most sites (except the largest commercial ones) certainly can't handle 1/2 million slashdotties all hitting them at once, so to put the blame on the site just doesn't cut it. If slashdot wants to be a good netizen then they should warn web masters before linking them - especially if they're going to be hit with a gazillion attempts to download a huge tarball.
So if I coat a bar of gold bullion with plastic and sell it to you for $30 as part of some IPO scam, should bullion investors be upset because they're paying $1000's for what "goes" for $30?
Were you born stupid, or dropped on your head?