Because, quite frankly, they're not so tried and true that they couldn't be made better. What this project does is fascisticly enforce good software design from the get-go, and I'm curious about what results will get produced. And remember, it's largely an intellectual/educational exercise; having the contestants focus on these applications is just a guarantee that whatever is produced has a hope of finding a good home.
Being born in 1952 a year before Watson and Crick published their findings about the structure of DNA, your parents couldn't have known of the significance of those initials at the time. Were you teased as a child? And do you attach any metaphysical philosophical significance to such a coincidence? Do you find it disturbing that others have tried to find such significance fore you?
How much was Lewis Carroll's work an inspiration for your own? Clearly he must have had some influence, regarding the number 42's significance in both his and your works. (Hunting of the Snark: helmsman rule #42; Alice in Wonderland: rule #42 that all persons more than a mile tall must leave the court; etc.) And one needn't go so far as to call both bodies of work "semi-incoherent" to find similarities in style and typical audience.
Before I get flamed, I should explain that by "religious fundamentalism", I am describing the beliefs of about half a percent of people of faith, and am not attempting to describe or characterize "mainstream" religious belief.
Actually, much of "mainstream" religious belief is quite fundamentalist in nature. It's just lost most of its shock value through overexposure.
There is some information I don't want anyone to have, because it is never relevent except for nefarious purposes. Race, for example. What we need is more effective means of poisoning such personal records with deliberately false information, but as with all such things, the bad guys tend to stay one step ahead of the evolving techniques of the good guys.
At least one thing is clear: Slashdot's AC trolls have successfully cast doubt on everyone's sexual orientation and excluded Slashdot as a source for such information.
You do have to wonder at a German company named "Axis". Are they deliberately trying to sound fascist or what? You should probably should have gone with a nice American company like "Allied Computing".:-)
Ack. Bloody 'ell. Yes. What I meant to say about asteroids is that they're what's left over from the accretion disk that formed our galaxy. That makes much more sense in light of the second half of that item.
Asteroids brought all the early water to a fledgling planet called Earth. It's where we came from, dammit.
Their mineral content and low gravity make them ideal for mining expeditions -- no sense in wasting lots of fuel to get the stuff back.
The moon, after all, was just another lump of rock, albeit a little bigger. Half the fun is seeing NASA pull this one off. Trust me, it'll come in handy when they try to do some missions you'll actually appreciate, like to Mars or to Mars' moons, which are really just captured asteroids, after all.
I'm sure viewers at home can come up with lots more reasons.
NEW YORK, April 28, 2000 -- MP3.com (NASDAQ: MPPP) had its day in court against the major record labels today, as U.S. District Court Justice Jed Rakoff granted a summary judgment on behalf of the labels in their suit filed over MP3.com's My.MP3.com service.
"This is not a victory for the record labels--it's a loss," MP3.com Chairman/CEO Michael Robertson said in response to the decision. "New technologies for delivering music are here to stay, and the technology trend is moving in only one direction: forward.
"The record companies are at a crossroads and are required to make a decision about the technology that they choose to embrace. My.MP3.com is a system which requires the purchase of CDs in order to function, as opposed to other services like Napster that do not require users to first purchase a CD before accessing music. The labels made the decision to challenge a technology that will protect their intellectual property interests and grow their business. They will be left with copyright chaos, as we're witnessing today."
Despite the recording industry's claims that online music services are damaging their business, music sales figures in the United States were up approximately 8 percent in the first quarter of 2000 over 1999's first quarter, according to music sales authority Soundscan, which tracks music sales at points of purchase throughout the United States.
"By standing against the My.MP3.com technology, the recording industry is standing against increased revenues for its members and damaging the chances of a responsible music delivery system to counter the unregulated systems like Napster and Gnutella. These systems do not compensate artists and rights owners," Robertson said. "When pioneering new technologies designed to grow their businesses are attacked, it leaves a vacuum which will be filled with technologies unfriendly to artists and their existing revenue streams." Since its inception, MP3.com has been a champion of artist's rights. We'll continue this mission."
Now, here's a really crazy bit, applying in Canada, I don't know about the U.S. in this respect: While it is legal for juries to refuse to convict if they believe the law in question is inhumane, it is illegel for lawyers & judges to inform jurors of those rights. In other words, the ignorance of juries of the laws related to their execution of their sworn duties is entrenched in law.
In the US, there are at least a few jurisdictions that require that a jury be informed of its right to nullify (Pennsylvania, perhaps?). The rest of them just don't inform the jury, which in most cases amounts to the same thing as preventing them from doing it.
Cruel and unusual punishments are covered by the eighth amendment, not fourth. And the stripping of constitutional rights isn't a cruel and unusual punishment; it's a due process violation covered by the fifth amendment.
There's a russian word "zorok" meaning sharp-sighted, perspicacious, etc. (masculine singular short-form adjective).
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Depending on how pissed off a user could get from seeing his beloved sims characters die, he could try to press charges under Federal statute 1030 subsection (a) (5)(A):
Whoever knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;....incurs a penalty of: (c) (3)(A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, in the case of an offense...of this section which does not occur after a conviction for another offense under this section...and no more than ten years imprisonment if previously convicted,...or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph.
Intentionally causing damage without authorization sounds about right....
Zvezda would have been powered while in orbit by 2 plutonium radioisotope generators and had a rapid-fire gun for defense against killer-satellites.
I can see including an anti-satellite gun ("sputoyed" anyone?), but the last time NASA launched a probe with an RTG, people went ballistic (no pun intended). And that's for a one-time launch. You can imagine what the furor would be if either space agency got into the habit of having rockets regularly going up and down with a plutonium payload?
Would someone please explain the difference between "leasing" a domain name and "owning" it, which consists of paying ongoing annual renewal fees? I only see two possibilities:
Benefiting squatters who want to own a name for the long haul but who want to make some money off it in the mean time
Giving up all sorts of rights associated with ownership in exchange for what may be a smaller annual fee.
As someone already pointed out, anyone would have to be insane to market a name only to see it revert to its owner after it became popular and the lease expired. Maybe non-commercial non-competitive obscure sites may not suffer as much, but then what are they doing buying their own domain name in the first place?
I figured that since people are using a silly word like "born", they might as well make a proper analogy. It was born when it was finally all put together, version 1.0. Sometime after it was "conceived" and before it got its booster shots, got its tonsils taken out, had radial keratotomy to fix its myopia, etc.:-)
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Because, quite frankly, they're not so tried and true that they couldn't be made better. What this project does is fascisticly enforce good software design from the get-go, and I'm curious about what results will get produced. And remember, it's largely an intellectual/educational exercise; having the contestants focus on these applications is just a guarantee that whatever is produced has a hope of finding a good home.
Phexro extended our congratulations to Bruce and Valerie on the birth of Bruce 2.0, otherwise known as Stanley Charles Perens.
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You know open-source has hit the big time when we start seeing mergers within the industry.
Being born in 1952 a year before Watson and Crick published their findings about the structure of DNA, your parents couldn't have known of the significance of those initials at the time. Were you teased as a child? And do you attach any metaphysical philosophical significance to such a coincidence? Do you find it disturbing that others have tried to find such significance fore you?
How much was Lewis Carroll's work an inspiration for your own? Clearly he must have had some influence, regarding the number 42's significance in both his and your works. (Hunting of the Snark: helmsman rule #42; Alice in Wonderland: rule #42 that all persons more than a mile tall must leave the court; etc.) And one needn't go so far as to call both bodies of work "semi-incoherent" to find similarities in style and typical audience.
Before I get flamed, I should explain that by "religious fundamentalism", I am describing the beliefs of about half a percent of people of faith, and am not attempting to describe or characterize "mainstream" religious belief.
Actually, much of "mainstream" religious belief is quite fundamentalist in nature. It's just lost most of its shock value through overexposure.
I'm working on fitting an entire computing lab inside a converted ENIAC. A whole 3000 cubic feet, baby!
The irony is that I actually checked the "no score +1 bonus" box, but slashdot munged the result and gave me the bonus anyway.
There is some information I don't want anyone to have, because it is never relevent except for nefarious purposes. Race, for example. What we need is more effective means of poisoning such personal records with deliberately false information, but as with all such things, the bad guys tend to stay one step ahead of the evolving techniques of the good guys.
At least one thing is clear: Slashdot's AC trolls have successfully cast doubt on everyone's sexual orientation and excluded Slashdot as a source for such information.
World War II was fought between the Axis Powers (Germany, Austria, Italy, etc.) against the Allied Powers (US, Great Britain, etc.)
You do have to wonder at a German company named "Axis". Are they deliberately trying to sound fascist or what? You should probably should have gone with a nice American company like "Allied Computing". :-)
You mean "smoot", and the answer is no.
Hell, even Star Office, made buy the guys who sell Sparcs, and who have a Linux version, doesn't do Sparc.
You mean "bought out by the guys who sell Sparcs". They didn't write it themselves and they haven't gotten around to porting it.
Ack. Bloody 'ell. Yes. What I meant to say about asteroids is that they're what's left over from the accretion disk that formed our galaxy. That makes much more sense in light of the second half of that item.
Asteroids brought all the early water to a fledgling planet called Earth. It's where we came from, dammit.
Their mineral content and low gravity make them ideal for mining expeditions -- no sense in wasting lots of fuel to get the stuff back.
The moon, after all, was just another lump of rock, albeit a little bigger. Half the fun is seeing NASA pull this one off. Trust me, it'll come in handy when they try to do some missions you'll actually appreciate, like to Mars or to Mars' moons, which are really just captured asteroids, after all.
I'm sure viewers at home can come up with lots more reasons.
(http://news.mp3.com/news/liststory?topic_id=276&c ategory_id=1001&month=200004)
NEW YORK, April 28, 2000 -- MP3.com (NASDAQ: MPPP) had its day in court against the major record labels today, as U.S. District Court Justice Jed Rakoff granted a summary judgment on behalf of the labels in their suit filed over MP3.com's My.MP3.com service.
"This is not a victory for the record labels--it's a loss," MP3.com Chairman/CEO Michael Robertson said in response to the decision. "New technologies for delivering music are here to stay, and the technology trend is moving in only one direction: forward.
"The record companies are at a crossroads and are required to make a decision about the technology that they choose to embrace. My.MP3.com is a system which requires the purchase of CDs in order to function, as opposed to other services like Napster that do not require users to first purchase a CD before accessing music. The labels made the decision to challenge a technology that will protect their intellectual property interests and grow their business. They will be left with copyright chaos, as we're witnessing today."
Despite the recording industry's claims that online music services are damaging their business, music sales figures in the United States were up approximately 8 percent in the first quarter of 2000 over 1999's first quarter, according to music sales authority Soundscan, which tracks music sales at points of purchase throughout the United States.
"By standing against the My.MP3.com technology, the recording industry is standing against increased revenues for its members and damaging the chances of a responsible music delivery system to counter the unregulated systems like Napster and Gnutella. These systems do not compensate artists and rights owners," Robertson said. "When pioneering new technologies designed to grow their businesses are attacked, it leaves a vacuum which will be filled with technologies unfriendly to artists and their existing revenue streams." Since its inception, MP3.com has been a champion of artist's rights. We'll continue this mission."
Now, here's a really crazy bit, applying in Canada, I don't know about the U.S. in this respect: While it is legal for juries to refuse to convict if they believe the law in question is inhumane, it is illegel for lawyers & judges to inform jurors of those rights. In other words, the ignorance of juries of the laws related to their execution of their sworn duties is entrenched in law.
In the US, there are at least a few jurisdictions that require that a jury be informed of its right to nullify (Pennsylvania, perhaps?). The rest of them just don't inform the jury, which in most cases amounts to the same thing as preventing them from doing it.
Cruel and unusual punishments are covered by the eighth amendment, not fourth. And the stripping of constitutional rights isn't a cruel and unusual punishment; it's a due process violation covered by the fifth amendment.
How about "Duren", meaning bad, evil, nasty, ugly, etc. I personally like "durman" meaning drug/narcotic, but that's a little further removed.
There's a russian word "zorok" meaning sharp-sighted, perspicacious, etc. (masculine singular short-form adjective).
Depending on how pissed off a user could get from seeing his beloved sims characters die, he could try to press charges under Federal statute 1030 subsection (a) (5)(A):
Whoever knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;....incurs a penalty of: (c) (3)(A) a
fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, in the case of an offense...of this section which does not occur after a conviction for another offense under this section...and no more than ten years imprisonment if previously convicted,...or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph.
Intentionally causing damage without authorization sounds about right....
Zvezda would have been powered while in orbit by 2 plutonium radioisotope generators and had a rapid-fire gun for defense against killer-satellites.
I can see including an anti-satellite gun ("sputoyed" anyone?), but the last time NASA launched a probe with an RTG, people went ballistic (no pun intended). And that's for a one-time launch. You can imagine what the furor would be if either space agency got into the habit of having rockets regularly going up and down with a plutonium payload?
Here is Joey Skaggs's website. And here is the Soloman Project, the hoax in question.
In Brazil, they speak Portuguese, not Spanish. Maybe you meant to say "Eu quero o juiz Dredd no português! Eu sou a lei!"
Benefiting squatters who want to own a name for the long haul but who want to make some money off it in the mean time
Giving up all sorts of rights associated with ownership in exchange for what may be a smaller annual fee.
As someone already pointed out, anyone would have to be insane to market a name only to see it revert to its owner after it became popular and the lease expired. Maybe non-commercial non-competitive obscure sites may not suffer as much, but then what are they doing buying their own domain name in the first place?
I figured that since people are using a silly word like "born", they might as well make a proper analogy. It was born when it was finally all put together, version 1.0. Sometime after it was "conceived" and before it got its booster shots, got its tonsils taken out, had radial keratotomy to fix its myopia, etc. :-)