If you pronounce the "&" as the Latin "et" (from which the & letterform was based) it's "How et Ser Moving Company". And they don't even force Latin on the MIT students any more.
The wiki page says that Linotype wants a penny per OS copy licensed. That's vastly, vastly cheaper than trying to buy a font. And although it does come to tens of millions of dollars, it's still a lot less than fighting court cases. Why not just pay the $.01 and be done with it?
Linotype seems to own the font fair and square. Why try to cheat them out of their millimeter of green for it?
I think he meant "caveat emptor", "let the buyer beware". "Cave canem" is "Beware of the dog". "Caveat canem" isn't actually valid Latin; it's a sentence without a subject.
The Supreme Court pretty much said it for them. All Microsoft is doing at this point is living with the reality that the court handed them. They don't like it, but there aren't any legal recourses left.
Because they thought they had a slam-dunk. The goal was to "protect children". They knew there was porn on the Internet, and didn't particularly think that they had to prove that kids could find it.
Note that the quote above may be "FTFA", but the quote originated with the ACLU attorney. I hate to draw too fine a distinction there, but the ACLU is considered a pretty radically lefty organization, and of course they're opposed to all government limitations. I happen to agree with them; I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU myself and support them in their opposition to the law. But the quote is opinion, not fact, even if it comes from TFA.
Because the.com TLD is the repository of all crud. It's open to everybody.
If the TLD isn't.com, the registrars should guarantee that it means something. For example, the.edu domain is restricted, and the registrar (a compnay caled Educase) is responsible for guaranteeing that it doesn't get full of spammers and scammers. Some country code domains are usefully geographically limited. By contrast, the.biz domain is stupid, because there's nothing in it that wouldn't be better off in.com unless you're trying to fool somebody with your scuzzy "CapitalOne.biz" domain.
People trust.edu domains because Educase backs them with their reputation. If the rep fails, the.edu domain owners will be pissed off, because they're paying for exclusivity.
So maybe, just maybe, these guys will be vigilant about kicking out the registrations of people with.xxx domains who host malware. The guys keeping them honest will be the.xxx domain owners themselves, who are selling a legal but sleazy project where some degree of trust is needed. (In the real world would you trust a porn purveyor with your credit card?)
That "guaranteed free of malware" would involve a lot of vigilance on their part, and in return the.xxx domain owners would get people less wary of visiting their sites. They'd pay through the nose for that. They can't guarantee it completely, but if they investigate reports seriously and shut down domains spewing malware they might just get some trust. I'd be willing to give them a shot. It's a valid reason to establish a new domain, unlike most of the other new TLDs, which are just pork for domain registrars.
Even non-Asperger's patients might have trouble articulating the features of a bored face. It's recognized intuitively, not intellectually, and it's that intuition you lack. You might even be able to train yourself to recognize the features consciously, if you chose, but that would be a huge congnitive strain to have to do.
(I spent some time studying with Asperger's patients to prepare for a role I was going to play. I wanted to play Iago in Othello as having Asperger's: somebody who consciously understood people's emotions and was able to manipulate them more effectively than one who only had an intuitive understanding of those emotions.)
Specifically, the marijuana that Quinn has clearly been smoking. There are a host of factors behind the reluctance to switch to Linux desktops: unfamiliarity, MS lock-in, intertia, the confusing array of different Linux distros, not to mention the number of Slashdotters themselves who will tell you that Linux isn't completely ready for the desktop yet.
If Quinn thinks that my footwear is the deciding factor, I wish he'd quit bogarting that joint.
Tickets Broadway-style musicals often cost upwards of a hundred bucks. When an audience member pays that much money to see a show, they give a standing O at the drop of a hat. They figure it must be a damn fine show; otherwise, why would they have paid so much money? So getting only one standing ovation is the equivalent of a golf clap.
From the very tail end of the article: "This story should not be construed to mean that Einstein's theory of Special Relativity is wrong."
Einstein was completely correct. What's wrong is the idea that you can use the time-dilation effect to get to another solar system safely if you can get close enough to light speed, since even short times in space cause health effects. Which has nothing to do with "aging" per se, and even less to do with relativity. And still less to do with NASA's immediate plans, since NASA only has solar-system travel in mind for the next few decades.
So the final tally is: Space travel: still dangerous Einstein: correct Article author: dipstick
They're not concerned with whether or not your voluntary porn viewing becomes public. They're concerned for their poor little kiddies who might accidentally bump into Nitke's site, and aren't subjected to any age-testing at all. The porn shop down the street from you will chuck you out if you're under 18 (in their own self-interest; they know that they will get chucked out of town, picketed, or legally harassed if they don't.)
Ultimately it's up to the parents, but the parents aren't totally out of line in asking for a bit of help keeping the porn away from accidentally showing up. I'm glad Google finds ways to keep the search-engine spam porn down; that keeps the kiddies mostly out of the dangerous neck of the woods when they're not seeking it out.
The law as written is incredibly dumb; a credit card is a lousy way to verify age. I'd say that Nitke's interstitial page is sufficient to satisfy the interest of keeping kids from seeing porn unless they're looking for it. But now we'll have to wait until somebody actually brings charges to find out.
So basically Nitke has to wait until somebody finds her site offensive, brings charges, and the appeals go up to the Supreme Court. I suppose that concrete instances make it easier to decide.
But as far as I can tell, she's liable today. I just looked at her site. She's got a "Hey, kiddies go away" interstitial page, but she doesn't require a credit card or other proof of age. Click through, and there's a nekkid woman.
I'm a bit surprised that the Supreme Court doesn't consider it "harm" that she risks prosecution for that. And she's not the only one; there are thousands of sites whose owners risk prosecution and cannot know what their legal status is. Those sites include people acting in good faith and without prurient interest, like breast-cancer awareness sites.
Eventually one of them will be charged under the law, and then they'll know.
Yeah, I think that's why major foreign companies usually offer ADRs.
In the end I just went with a European stock mutual fund, which makes sense for (a) diversity and (b) the fact that I don't actually know which foreign companies to invest in. Being a tech nerd in America I know (or at least think I know) which American companies to buy.
Sadly, I don't know squat about how they deal with foreign stocks. I wish I did; I'd love to be able to invest in them. But they're not readily traded in the US unless they've got a separate listing on a US exchange.
I'd really kinda like to diversify my portfolio out of dollar-valued stocks because, well, as you might have noticed the economy of this country is doomed. No matter what the market seems to think today. The dollar is in a bubble of its own, and when that bubble burts... hoo, boy, is THAT gonna suck.
Wow, that's just about nuthin'. The portfolio page asks for Stock, Amount, and Price, but not Trading Date (necessary to figure out annual yields). The resulting page doesn't list news for those companies, just the current stock price.
I use the Yahoo Finance page to track my portfolio. It's redundant with my actual brokerage page, but the brokerage is much more paranoid about automatically logging me out, so a simple check is often a pain. Fortunately, for me keeping the two in synch is easy because I trade only a few times a year.
Google's got a loooooong way to go before I abandon that. I have faith that they can, but for the moment I wouldn't call this Beta. Usually when Google calls something "Beta" it at least shows one cool thing. This is just a "me, too" page.
The article isn't clear, but from what I've seen it sounds like these agents don't have any unclassified-access computer connected to the Internet on their desks at all. That means that the vast amount of information indexed by Google is unavailable to them.
No, you can't ask Google "Where is Osama bin Laden?" But actual intelligence work assumes that you know about the real world. If you want to check a phone book, look on a map, check a dictionary, it really sucks to have to replicate those features on the unclassified network. If you come across a reference to an unknown organization, why not start at the organization's own up-and-up web site? Perhaps it's benign; how can you know if you've never heard of it?
I've known more than one intelligence agent who literally phoned home to have a spouse check out something on the Web for them.
You laugh, but every time I hear people convinced that the FBI/CIA is maintaining a detailed file on them, I just know that there's no way either organization has that kind of manpower to care about them.
Not that I'm thrilled that they seem to be intent on gathering scattershot information when they can (taking pictures of protesters, granting themselves the right to listen in to phone calls). They don't even have time to process the information they have.
The PageRank algorithm is patented (patent 6,285,999) and public.
But Google's results are much more than page rank. It also involves other algorithms relating to the search keys for a particular search. And there are tuning factors to the particular PageRank implementation. Google's proprietary tweaks keep ahead of the people who try to artificially inflate their page rank (like, apparently, these guys). Those are secret, and search engine optimizers would dearly love to know them so that they could fake out Google.
The test compares DRMed WMA to MP3s. Different file formats will have different power consumption requirements to decode. I'm sure they'd find that DRM WMAs do consume more power than unDRM WMAs, but will the difference be 25%?
Protein and fat. Tofu gets 20% to 40% of its calories from fat, depending on what kind you get. Still pretty good for you, and fairly complete amino-acid wise.
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If you pronounce the "&" as the Latin "et" (from which the & letterform was based) it's "How et Ser Moving Company". And they don't even force Latin on the MIT students any more.
Developers: We've got some really good ideas for reducing backup space by using compression and incremental backups.
Marketing: How much in the best conceivable case?
Developers: Oh, I dunno, maybe 25x.
Marketing: 25x? Is that good?
Developers: Yeah, I suppose, but the cool stuff is...
Marketing: Wow! 25x! That's a really big number!
Developers: Actually, please don't quote me on that. They'll make fun of me on Slashdot if you do. Promise me.
Marketing: We promise.
Developers: Thanks. Now, let me show you where the good stuff is...
Marketing (on phone): Larry? It's me. How big can you print me up a poster that says "25x"?
The wiki page says that Linotype wants a penny per OS copy licensed. That's vastly, vastly cheaper than trying to buy a font. And although it does come to tens of millions of dollars, it's still a lot less than fighting court cases. Why not just pay the $.01 and be done with it?
Linotype seems to own the font fair and square. Why try to cheat them out of their millimeter of green for it?
I think he meant "caveat emptor", "let the buyer beware". "Cave canem" is "Beware of the dog". "Caveat canem" isn't actually valid Latin; it's a sentence without a subject.
Mine is 402: Payment required
The Supreme Court pretty much said it for them. All Microsoft is doing at this point is living with the reality that the court handed them. They don't like it, but there aren't any legal recourses left.
Because they thought they had a slam-dunk. The goal was to "protect children". They knew there was porn on the Internet, and didn't particularly think that they had to prove that kids could find it.
Note that the quote above may be "FTFA", but the quote originated with the ACLU attorney. I hate to draw too fine a distinction there, but the ACLU is considered a pretty radically lefty organization, and of course they're opposed to all government limitations. I happen to agree with them; I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU myself and support them in their opposition to the law. But the quote is opinion, not fact, even if it comes from TFA.
Because the .com TLD is the repository of all crud. It's open to everybody.
.com, the registrars should guarantee that it means something. For example, the .edu domain is restricted, and the registrar (a compnay caled Educase) is responsible for guaranteeing that it doesn't get full of spammers and scammers. Some country code domains are usefully geographically limited. By contrast, the .biz domain is stupid, because there's nothing in it that wouldn't be better off in .com unless you're trying to fool somebody with your scuzzy "CapitalOne.biz" domain.
.edu domains because Educase backs them with their reputation. If the rep fails, the .edu domain owners will be pissed off, because they're paying for exclusivity.
.xxx domains who host malware. The guys keeping them honest will be the .xxx domain owners themselves, who are selling a legal but sleazy project where some degree of trust is needed. (In the real world would you trust a porn purveyor with your credit card?)
.xxx domain owners would get people less wary of visiting their sites. They'd pay through the nose for that. They can't guarantee it completely, but if they investigate reports seriously and shut down domains spewing malware they might just get some trust. I'd be willing to give them a shot. It's a valid reason to establish a new domain, unlike most of the other new TLDs, which are just pork for domain registrars.
If the TLD isn't
People trust
So maybe, just maybe, these guys will be vigilant about kicking out the registrations of people with
That "guaranteed free of malware" would involve a lot of vigilance on their part, and in return the
Even non-Asperger's patients might have trouble articulating the features of a bored face. It's recognized intuitively, not intellectually, and it's that intuition you lack. You might even be able to train yourself to recognize the features consciously, if you chose, but that would be a huge congnitive strain to have to do.
(I spent some time studying with Asperger's patients to prepare for a role I was going to play. I wanted to play Iago in Othello as having Asperger's: somebody who consciously understood people's emotions and was able to manipulate them more effectively than one who only had an intuitive understanding of those emotions.)
In my pants.
[Apologies. Crude, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity.]
Specifically, the marijuana that Quinn has clearly been smoking. There are a host of factors behind the reluctance to switch to Linux desktops: unfamiliarity, MS lock-in, intertia, the confusing array of different Linux distros, not to mention the number of Slashdotters themselves who will tell you that Linux isn't completely ready for the desktop yet.
If Quinn thinks that my footwear is the deciding factor, I wish he'd quit bogarting that joint.
Tickets Broadway-style musicals often cost upwards of a hundred bucks. When an audience member pays that much money to see a show, they give a standing O at the drop of a hat. They figure it must be a damn fine show; otherwise, why would they have paid so much money? So getting only one standing ovation is the equivalent of a golf clap.
"Click on the ajaxWrite icon to launch an MS Word-compatible word processor in seconds".
Many seconds. Many, many seconds.
"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 207.67.194.7."
I want a web-based word processor so that my letter to Mom can get slashdotted?
From the very tail end of the article: "This story should not be construed to mean that Einstein's theory of Special Relativity is wrong."
Einstein was completely correct. What's wrong is the idea that you can use the time-dilation effect to get to another solar system safely if you can get close enough to light speed, since even short times in space cause health effects. Which has nothing to do with "aging" per se, and even less to do with relativity. And still less to do with NASA's immediate plans, since NASA only has solar-system travel in mind for the next few decades.
So the final tally is:
Space travel: still dangerous
Einstein: correct
Article author: dipstick
They're not concerned with whether or not your voluntary porn viewing becomes public. They're concerned for their poor little kiddies who might accidentally bump into Nitke's site, and aren't subjected to any age-testing at all. The porn shop down the street from you will chuck you out if you're under 18 (in their own self-interest; they know that they will get chucked out of town, picketed, or legally harassed if they don't.)
Ultimately it's up to the parents, but the parents aren't totally out of line in asking for a bit of help keeping the porn away from accidentally showing up. I'm glad Google finds ways to keep the search-engine spam porn down; that keeps the kiddies mostly out of the dangerous neck of the woods when they're not seeking it out.
The law as written is incredibly dumb; a credit card is a lousy way to verify age. I'd say that Nitke's interstitial page is sufficient to satisfy the interest of keeping kids from seeing porn unless they're looking for it. But now we'll have to wait until somebody actually brings charges to find out.
So basically Nitke has to wait until somebody finds her site offensive, brings charges, and the appeals go up to the Supreme Court. I suppose that concrete instances make it easier to decide.
But as far as I can tell, she's liable today. I just looked at her site. She's got a "Hey, kiddies go away" interstitial page, but she doesn't require a credit card or other proof of age. Click through, and there's a nekkid woman.
I'm a bit surprised that the Supreme Court doesn't consider it "harm" that she risks prosecution for that. And she's not the only one; there are thousands of sites whose owners risk prosecution and cannot know what their legal status is. Those sites include people acting in good faith and without prurient interest, like breast-cancer awareness sites.
Eventually one of them will be charged under the law, and then they'll know.
Yeah, I think that's why major foreign companies usually offer ADRs.
In the end I just went with a European stock mutual fund, which makes sense for (a) diversity and (b) the fact that I don't actually know which foreign companies to invest in. Being a tech nerd in America I know (or at least think I know) which American companies to buy.
Sadly, I don't know squat about how they deal with foreign stocks. I wish I did; I'd love to be able to invest in them. But they're not readily traded in the US unless they've got a separate listing on a US exchange.
I'd really kinda like to diversify my portfolio out of dollar-valued stocks because, well, as you might have noticed the economy of this country is doomed. No matter what the market seems to think today. The dollar is in a bubble of its own, and when that bubble burts... hoo, boy, is THAT gonna suck.
Wow, that's just about nuthin'. The portfolio page asks for Stock, Amount, and Price, but not Trading Date (necessary to figure out annual yields). The resulting page doesn't list news for those companies, just the current stock price.
I use the Yahoo Finance page to track my portfolio. It's redundant with my actual brokerage page, but the brokerage is much more paranoid about automatically logging me out, so a simple check is often a pain. Fortunately, for me keeping the two in synch is easy because I trade only a few times a year.
Google's got a loooooong way to go before I abandon that. I have faith that they can, but for the moment I wouldn't call this Beta. Usually when Google calls something "Beta" it at least shows one cool thing. This is just a "me, too" page.
The article isn't clear, but from what I've seen it sounds like these agents don't have any unclassified-access computer connected to the Internet on their desks at all. That means that the vast amount of information indexed by Google is unavailable to them.
No, you can't ask Google "Where is Osama bin Laden?" But actual intelligence work assumes that you know about the real world. If you want to check a phone book, look on a map, check a dictionary, it really sucks to have to replicate those features on the unclassified network. If you come across a reference to an unknown organization, why not start at the organization's own up-and-up web site? Perhaps it's benign; how can you know if you've never heard of it?
I've known more than one intelligence agent who literally phoned home to have a spouse check out something on the Web for them.
You laugh, but every time I hear people convinced that the FBI/CIA is maintaining a detailed file on them, I just know that there's no way either organization has that kind of manpower to care about them.
Not that I'm thrilled that they seem to be intent on gathering scattershot information when they can (taking pictures of protesters, granting themselves the right to listen in to phone calls). They don't even have time to process the information they have.
You paid off your house before finishing your education? That's unusual. I take it you went back to school after some other career?
The PageRank algorithm is patented (patent 6,285,999) and public.
But Google's results are much more than page rank. It also involves other algorithms relating to the search keys for a particular search. And there are tuning factors to the particular PageRank implementation. Google's proprietary tweaks keep ahead of the people who try to artificially inflate their page rank (like, apparently, these guys). Those are secret, and search engine optimizers would dearly love to know them so that they could fake out Google.
The test compares DRMed WMA to MP3s. Different file formats will have different power consumption requirements to decode. I'm sure they'd find that DRM WMAs do consume more power than unDRM WMAs, but will the difference be 25%?
Tofu is pretty much all protein, not carbs.
Protein and fat. Tofu gets 20% to 40% of its calories from fat, depending on what kind you get. Still pretty good for you, and fairly complete amino-acid wise.