Alcohol is one of the few things (besides water) that permeates the stomach lining and enters the blood stream without going through the intestines. It's also one of the few things that'll permeate the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain without assistance. The humorous post that you responded to was quite correct in leaving out the bowels (albeit while leaving out the blood stream).
He had to show up physically, because how else can there be any verification of who he says he is.
They didn't give him immediate results because it's a beta exam and they're still ironing out the details of how to score the answers (partial credit, etc.).
He got a dead-tree certificate because it's much easier to photocopy and give to employers.
And if that last one doesn't satisfy you, you can pretend that the online censor-boards in Australia would confiscate his certificate if it were kept online, and therefore the dead-tree copy is just a prudent precaution.
You're forgetting that the person you cite doesn't have a +1 bonus, whereas the person above does. More moderators have high threshholds than low ones, and when more moderators examine a comment, the comment is more likely to get moderated up. This probably even outweighs the fact that the other guy was post #4. (And as others have said, your guy wasn't moderated down, just not moderated up.)
But I've been victimized by capricious idiot moderators enough to agree with your sentiments anyway.
The CA exists to verify that the server is run by who it says it is. That means when you go to www.mcdonalds.com to buy burgers and check the certificate and it says "McDonald's, Inc." the CA had better have done its job and verified that the server is indeed being run by the golden arches people. If not, and the customer gets a load of rancid meat, I don't know what kind of liability comes into play, but in the U.S. anyway, someone's probably going to try to sue someone.
Rancid meat? That is a normal and successful purchase at McDonalds. ["Our pledge to you is at least one bandaid in every egg mcmuffin!"]
You can trademark common words for specificly enumerated types of applications: like the prototypical Apple computers and Apple records. The problem with trademarking common words is that they're harder to defend than invented words, and they're harder to acquire if they've previously been applied in a field. Witness Microsoft's trademark of "Plug N Play", rather than "Plug and Play", since "plug and play" as a phrase has been used regarding computers for quite some time. And btw, the one-click shopping issue concerns patents rather than trademarks (which are both distinguished from copyrights).
If you want to repeal a stupid trademark, then just get a bunch of your friends together and start misusing the trademark -- if it is not properly defended and if it becomes part of people's normal vocabulary (and if there is no alternative word to choose) then it ceases to be a trademark -- just look at the proliferation of the word "spam" as applied to junk mail or news postings.
[ObFCC] The FCC is just itching to regulate some more. The idea of a government agency (especially in the US) that would rather not regulate, except those mean nasty corporations leave us no choice would be laughable if people's thoughts didn't actually work that way. [/ObFCC]
BTW, that's hardly the world's largest palindrome (and in fact, it's not a palindrome at all since technically, palindromes cannot contain proper nouns such as Panama). For a 540 word version of the Panama one, try here. And if you're adventurous and count foreign languages (French) there's this one which is 1247 words long. There's also a really long German one kicking around, but I can't dredge up a url.
Yes, sterling engines are wonderfully efficient, and I personally find them much sexier than internal-combustion ones. The problem with them is they have especially crappy acceleration. What this means is that they're useless as a drop-in replacement for the internal combustion engine that drives your car -- the alternative is instead you'd have to have a sterling engine constantly running and powering a battery that then drives an electric motor that drives your car. The problem with this is it suffers from all the problems associated with regular battery-powered electric cars.
And it's really too bad, 'cause the word "sterling" has so much marketing potential.;-)
For example, the sid=moderation might not be archived, and there used to be some really interesting stuff in there (like roblimo talking about slashdot's quiet period).
(I'll pretend you don't know this, but if you actually do, you can pretend too -- it'll be fun.)
It's all in the spirit of the Swedish Chef of Jim Henson's Muppets fame. The enchefferizer is supposed to take English text and make it sound like the Swedish Chef were butchering it with his (hilarious if you're a Merkin) accent. To learn more, there's always alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork.
If Santa can't handle the little bastards, then you can always send in the clowns. Now those are professionals who know how to handle their own, and while a bunch of six-year-olds may be able to subdue one overweight bearded man in a suit, they surely can't subdue a legion of goulish fiends in warpaint and attack shoes. Remember Poltergeist? I thought so.
Hufrättee friede-a i pilutmål mut "moosikpuret" 1999-12-27 19:39
JÖNKÖPING Ett fisa fägee till puretkupiered moosik på Internet är inget legbrutt. Först måste-a det befises ett moosikee legts in utun tillstånd.
Dee bedömningee gör Göta hufrätt, sum på måndegee friede-a ee 17-åring sum åtelets för ett sprida moosik oolegligt på Internet.
Unledningee till ett dee 17-årige-a Felköpingspujkee på sin hemsida legt ut länker till puretkupiered moosik fer ett hun fille-a impunera på sina kemreter. Det fer fikteegt för hunum ett få så många besökere-a sum möjligt. Bork Bork Bork! Någut hun lyckedes fäl med, på bera några måneder besökte-a toosentels persuner hemsidun.
- Fi trudde-a ett hufrättee skoolle-a fälla ynglingee, säger ee besfikee Lers Goosteffssun, fd för skifprudoocenternes intresseurguneeseshun IFPI, sum öferfäger ett försöka öferklega till Högsta dumstulee.
Utun tillstånd
- Fi lär ooss äfee ef såduna här dumer sum går ooss imut. I nästa fell kummer fi gifetfees ett fisa ett dee sum her legt in moosikffeelerna på Internet her gjurt det utun tillstånd, ooch då kummer puretee ett fälles i fert fell för medferkun, säger Lers Goosteffssun.
IFPI, Interneshunel Federeshun ooff zee Phunugrephic Indoostry, her sum hoofoodooppgifft ett befeka de-a rättigheter sum upphufsrättslegee ger. Bork Bork Bork! Oorguniseshunee företräder itt femtiutel skifbuleg sum tillsemmuns sferer för curka 95 prucent ef dee sfenska skifmerknedee. De-a seneste-a åree her ellt mer puretkupiered moosik i så kellede-a MP3-filer sprideets ilektruniskt öfer nätet.
- Jeg trur ett Internet på sikt kummer ett bli itt sooferänt tekniskt hjälpmedel för ett sprida bra moosik legligt. Mee det ter några år innun rättfisun hinner iffett teknikee.
Dömts till fängelse-a
Lers Goosteffssun säger till TT ett det under de-a seneste-a månederna kummit flera dumer, både-a i Ioorupa ooch i USA, där persuner dömts till fängelse-a för ett oolegligt ha sprideet moosik på Internet.
I det ektooella målet fick besökerna på hemsidun ee hänfisneeng till oolika vebbedresser där ljoodffilerna funns. Moosikffeelerna pesserede-a eldrig 17-åringens serfer utun gick durekt till besökerens detur. Därigenum her hun inte-a gjurt moosikee tillgänglig i dee mening sum efses i upphufslegee, skrifer hufrättee.
Däremut, mener hufrättee, skoolle-a 17-åringee koonna bli irsättningsskyldeeg till moosikrättighetseenneheferna.
- Fi her imellertid inga pluner på ett kräfa irsättning. Fi är inte-a ute-a iffter dee här pujkee sum persun, utun iffter företeelsee sum sådun, säger Lers Goosteffssun på IFPI. Cecileea Undersun Idvell/TT
1) It's just a bag (significantly uncomplicated) and that makes it a good organ to start with. The technology is still a ways off before we'll be growing complicated organs like artificial eyes, etc.
2) You wouldn't believe the number of chronic ailments that exist which would be solved by just replacing the whole thing. Interstitial cystitis comes to mind. If you're living with a disorder like that for twenty years, you'll start to hope that someone will just show up and yank the whole thing out and replace it.
...but that penguin is a Quicktime mascot and not our own dear Tux. It's sort've odd that Apple would pick a penguin at the time it did, and it makes it rather worthless as a trademark, since whenever people see cute penguins these days they immediately think Linux.
Was it only this year that scientists determined that they have cultural traditions?
I could've sworn I knew several years ago that chimpanzees had different cultural adaptations for eating and drinking: "Do I go with the long blade of grass, or will some bunched up leaves do the trick for getting at termites? Do I use some chewed up leaves as a sponge to get water, or is there a better way? Do I whack something with a log or do I use a rock?" and that these techniques were communicable from one population to the next via various interactions and learning.
Or is that all just what they found out this year and I just dreamed the rest?
There's a lot more than 100% of the current market to grab. There's an enormous number of people out there who aren't using anything, much less windows or linux. Look at linux's inroads in Mexico and India if you need an example.
There are far more people who don't use a computer than who are currently locked into a non-linux system. Linux's strength as a bulletproof os suitable for settop-esque consumer devices may help it grab a few of those people. Or it might not.
There are two successful methods you can choose, depending on your own creativity, to create a search result that will point to microsoft.com.
The first is to go to microsoft.com and find some words that you can string together and take out of context. Remember: Google doesn't preserve the order of your words, and Microsoft.com is one of the most linked websites on the web, so whatever string you put together will likely point to them first before others, and this is even more true if you reference Bill Gates.
To illustrate this, we can put together a simple string of words like Bill Gates eats customers in his office. All of those words are found on Microsoft's site, and lo and behold, microsoft.com is the first site to come up.
The second technique is really just a variation on the first: when Google encounters a word in your search that it doesn't understand, it just drops it and proceeds with the rest of your search. Thus, if you are creative and come up with a word that sounds like an obscene sexual act but which doesn't actually exist in the English language, like for instance "oingoboingo", you can make a lovely search like Bill Gates oingoboingoed your mother. Again, microsoft.com is the first site to come up, after "oingoboingoed" is dropped.
Now you too can explore your own personal brand of juvenile humor.
Slashdot Mirror
Alcohol is one of the few things (besides water) that permeates the stomach lining and enters the blood stream without going through the intestines. It's also one of the few things that'll permeate the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain without assistance. The humorous post that you responded to was quite correct in leaving out the bowels (albeit while leaving out the blood stream).
We all know you wacky Australians wouldn't let a little problem like that get in your way.... ;)
He had to show up physically, because how else can there be any verification of who he says he is.
They didn't give him immediate results because it's a beta exam and they're still ironing out the details of how to score the answers (partial credit, etc.).
He got a dead-tree certificate because it's much easier to photocopy and give to employers.
And if that last one doesn't satisfy you, you can pretend that the online censor-boards in Australia would confiscate his certificate if it were kept online, and therefore the dead-tree copy is just a prudent precaution.
You're forgetting that the person you cite doesn't have a +1 bonus, whereas the person above does. More moderators have high threshholds than low ones, and when more moderators examine a comment, the comment is more likely to get moderated up. This probably even outweighs the fact that the other guy was post #4. (And as others have said, your guy wasn't moderated down, just not moderated up.)
But I've been victimized by capricious idiot moderators enough to agree with your sentiments anyway.
The CA exists to verify that the server is run by who it says it is. That means when you go to www.mcdonalds.com to buy burgers and check the certificate and it says "McDonald's, Inc." the CA had better have done its job and verified that the server is indeed being run by the golden arches people. If not, and the customer gets a load of rancid meat, I don't know what kind of liability comes into play, but in the U.S. anyway, someone's probably going to try to sue someone.
;)
Rancid meat? That is a normal and successful purchase at McDonalds. ["Our pledge to you is at least one bandaid in every egg mcmuffin!"]
Your other points are spot on.
You can trademark common words for specificly enumerated types of applications: like the prototypical Apple computers and Apple records. The problem with trademarking common words is that they're harder to defend than invented words, and they're harder to acquire if they've previously been applied in a field. Witness Microsoft's trademark of "Plug N Play", rather than "Plug and Play", since "plug and play" as a phrase has been used regarding computers for quite some time. And btw, the one-click shopping issue concerns patents rather than trademarks (which are both distinguished from copyrights).
If you want to repeal a stupid trademark, then just get a bunch of your friends together and start misusing the trademark -- if it is not properly defended and if it becomes part of people's normal vocabulary (and if there is no alternative word to choose) then it ceases to be a trademark -- just look at the proliferation of the word "spam" as applied to junk mail or news postings.
[ObFCC]
The FCC is just itching to regulate some more. The idea of a government agency (especially in the US) that would rather not regulate, except those mean nasty corporations leave us no choice would be laughable if people's thoughts didn't actually work that way.
[/ObFCC]
BTW, that's hardly the world's largest palindrome (and in fact, it's not a palindrome at all since technically, palindromes cannot contain proper nouns such as Panama). For a 540 word version of the Panama one, try here. And if you're adventurous and count foreign languages (French) there's this one which is 1247 words long. There's also a really long German one kicking around, but I can't dredge up a url.
Yes, sterling engines are wonderfully efficient, and I personally find them much sexier than internal-combustion ones. The problem with them is they have especially crappy acceleration. What this means is that they're useless as a drop-in replacement for the internal combustion engine that drives your car -- the alternative is instead you'd have to have a sterling engine constantly running and powering a battery that then drives an electric motor that drives your car. The problem with this is it suffers from all the problems associated with regular battery-powered electric cars.
;-)
And it's really too bad, 'cause the word "sterling" has so much marketing potential.
Y2K issues have already walloped Microsoft, at least according to the fine folks at memepool who snagged this screenshot. ;-)
For example, the sid=moderation might not be archived, and there used to be some really interesting stuff in there (like roblimo talking about slashdot's quiet period).
(I'll pretend you don't know this, but if you actually do, you can pretend too -- it'll be fun.)
It's all in the spirit of the Swedish Chef of Jim Henson's Muppets fame. The enchefferizer is supposed to take English text and make it sound like the Swedish Chef were butchering it with his (hilarious if you're a Merkin) accent. To learn more, there's always alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork.
If Santa can't handle the little bastards, then you can always send in the clowns. Now those are professionals who know how to handle their own, and while a bunch of six-year-olds may be able to subdue one overweight bearded man in a suit, they surely can't subdue a legion of goulish fiends in warpaint and attack shoes. Remember Poltergeist? I thought so.
Yeah, but we just did it with prior art. :-)
But I don't think it's any clearer.
Hufrättee friede-a i pilutmål mut "moosikpuret"
1999-12-27 19:39
JÖNKÖPING
Ett fisa fägee till puretkupiered moosik på Internet är inget legbrutt. Först
måste-a det befises ett moosikee legts in utun tillstånd.
Dee bedömningee gör Göta hufrätt, sum på måndegee friede-a ee 17-åring
sum åtelets för ett sprida moosik oolegligt på Internet.
Unledningee till ett dee 17-årige-a Felköpingspujkee på sin hemsida legt ut
länker till puretkupiered moosik fer ett hun fille-a impunera på sina
kemreter. Det fer fikteegt för hunum ett få så många besökere-a sum möjligt.
Bork Bork Bork!
Någut hun lyckedes fäl med, på bera några måneder besökte-a toosentels
persuner hemsidun.
- Fi trudde-a ett hufrättee skoolle-a fälla ynglingee, säger ee besfikee Lers
Goosteffssun, fd för skifprudoocenternes intresseurguneeseshun IFPI, sum
öferfäger ett försöka öferklega till Högsta dumstulee.
Utun tillstånd
- Fi lär ooss äfee ef såduna här dumer sum går ooss imut. I nästa fell
kummer fi gifetfees ett fisa ett dee sum her legt in moosikffeelerna på
Internet her gjurt det utun tillstånd, ooch då kummer puretee ett fälles i
fert fell för medferkun, säger Lers Goosteffssun.
IFPI, Interneshunel Federeshun ooff zee Phunugrephic Indoostry, her sum
hoofoodooppgifft ett befeka de-a rättigheter sum upphufsrättslegee ger.
Bork Bork Bork!
Oorguniseshunee företräder itt femtiutel skifbuleg sum tillsemmuns
sferer för curka 95 prucent ef dee sfenska skifmerknedee. De-a seneste-a
åree her ellt mer puretkupiered moosik i så kellede-a MP3-filer sprideets
ilektruniskt öfer nätet.
- Jeg trur ett Internet på sikt kummer ett bli itt sooferänt tekniskt
hjälpmedel för ett sprida bra moosik legligt. Mee det ter några år innun
rättfisun hinner iffett teknikee.
Dömts till fängelse-a
Lers Goosteffssun säger till TT ett det under de-a seneste-a månederna kummit
flera dumer, både-a i Ioorupa ooch i USA, där persuner dömts till fängelse-a för
ett oolegligt ha sprideet moosik på Internet.
I det ektooella målet fick besökerna på hemsidun ee hänfisneeng till oolika
vebbedresser där ljoodffilerna funns. Moosikffeelerna pesserede-a eldrig
17-åringens serfer utun gick durekt till besökerens detur. Därigenum her
hun inte-a gjurt moosikee tillgänglig i dee mening sum efses i upphufslegee,
skrifer hufrättee.
Däremut, mener hufrättee, skoolle-a 17-åringee koonna bli irsättningsskyldeeg
till moosikrättighetseenneheferna.
- Fi her imellertid inga pluner på ett kräfa irsättning. Fi är inte-a ute-a
iffter dee här pujkee sum persun, utun iffter företeelsee sum sådun, säger
Lers Goosteffssun på IFPI.
Cecileea Undersun Idvell/TT
God says it should be the God/Wearable Computer Fashion Show.
While the products make up the operation part of the fashion show, without the breasts, it wouldn't be complete.
Look at the article (or just the abstract if you're lazy) here.
Ok, I'll try.
:-)
Macin... Linux.
Ma... Linux
Linux.
Linux.
Nope, it just doesn't seem to come out.
(the irony is I'm posting this from a mac)
Two reasons:
1) It's just a bag (significantly uncomplicated) and that makes it a good organ to start with. The technology is still a ways off before we'll be growing complicated organs like artificial eyes, etc.
2) You wouldn't believe the number of chronic ailments that exist which would be solved by just replacing the whole thing. Interstitial cystitis comes to mind. If you're living with a disorder like that for twenty years, you'll start to hope that someone will just show up and yank the whole thing out and replace it.
...but that penguin is a Quicktime mascot and not our own dear Tux. It's sort've odd that Apple would pick a penguin at the time it did, and it makes it rather worthless as a trademark, since whenever people see cute penguins these days they immediately think Linux.
Was it only this year that scientists determined that they have cultural traditions?
I could've sworn I knew several years ago that chimpanzees had different cultural adaptations for eating and drinking: "Do I go with the long blade of grass, or will some bunched up leaves do the trick for getting at termites? Do I use some chewed up leaves as a sponge to get water, or is there a better way? Do I whack something with a log or do I use a rock?" and that these techniques were communicable from one population to the next via various interactions and learning.
Or is that all just what they found out this year and I just dreamed the rest?
Deja.com is Doe #60. Seriously. Read the cease&desist letter.
He used it for the part where he bullshitted you into thinking he didn't just steal it from the anonymous coward who posted it earlier.
At least by my reckoning of the English language. The resulting search puts an American-football team on top.
There's a lot more than 100% of the current market to grab. There's an enormous number of people out there who aren't using anything, much less windows or linux. Look at linux's inroads in Mexico and India if you need an example.
There are far more people who don't use a computer than who are currently locked into a non-linux system. Linux's strength as a bulletproof os suitable for settop-esque consumer devices may help it grab a few of those people. Or it might not.
There are two successful methods you can choose, depending on your own creativity, to create a search result that will point to microsoft.com.
The first is to go to microsoft.com and find some words that you can string together and take out of context. Remember: Google doesn't preserve the order of your words, and Microsoft.com is one of the most linked websites on the web, so whatever string you put together will likely point to them first before others, and this is even more true if you reference Bill Gates.
To illustrate this, we can put together a simple string of words like Bill Gates eats customers in his office. All of those words are found on Microsoft's site, and lo and behold, microsoft.com is the first site to come up.
The second technique is really just a variation on the first: when Google encounters a word in your search that it doesn't understand, it just drops it and proceeds with the rest of your search. Thus, if you are creative and come up with a word that sounds like an obscene sexual act but which doesn't actually exist in the English language, like for instance "oingoboingo", you can make a lovely search like Bill Gates oingoboingoed your mother. Again, microsoft.com is the first site to come up, after "oingoboingoed" is dropped.
Now you too can explore your own personal brand of juvenile humor.