NoScript is pretty much a gift from heaven as far as I'm concerned. The only annoying thing in it is that the 'temporarily allow' option is for the browser's lifetime, and not only for the window- or session-lifetime.
But not getting bothered by popups unless I really need them (which is rarely) is one of the best things about the whole addon. I've been (ab)using the 'Intaweb' for a long long time (Yes, I did use gopher...), and the amount of irrelevant crap nowadays is staggering. A page being 270K in size with only about 150 words of usable information is to me an absolute waste. If you'd be using a 14K4 modem now (yesyes.. I know...) you wouldn't even be able to browse anything anymore.
And then people wonder that 'my internet is so slow'...
And I've been known to just wget a page and run it through strings to read articles;)
And in what must be a sign of the Apocalypse, BW holds Slashdot's moderation system up as a model for maintaining civility in message boards. If they would really spend some time here, they'd realize short sighted the system is.
I think their point wasn't to say that Slashdot has *the* solution, nor even for the matter the best or even a good solution, but at least one that seems to work a whole hell of a lot better than most of the other stuff around.
As far as reader controlled moderation goes, there are always ones that will screw things up, but if your overall readerbase honestly moderates posts, then the ones that screw up (either intentionally or unintentionally) will be statistically insignificant.
There are quite a few things in the slashdot moderating system that don't work as well as they could, but all in all, it's a pretty stable system in my experience.
Take a look at my user # - I've been following Slashdot a long time and I can say that it is no longer worth a damn to really read... I'll just stick with Digg.
Uhm.. Your user number is 18 million, 667 thousand and 13... How does this make you 'following Slashdot a long time'..
Tax rates as-is really don't matter. It's what's being done with those taxes, and what kind of environment it creates that does matter. And the most important thing is often overlooked. As an example, if I compare the work a friend of mine in the US does and the work I do, we're doing virtually the same thing. However he nets less that I do (quite a lot less actually) despite the tax rates in the US being a lot lower than here.
Also if I'm without a job, part of my taxes come back to me in the form of an intermediate payment done by the government to help me bide over the time between jobs (if you don't have too much own capital, that is)
Also taxes are used for things like for instance health-insurance. I pay $160 per month in health insurance, and have rather extensive coverage. Comparing the same sort of coverage to what it would cost in the US (done this 3 years ago), it'd came to $540 for the cheapest option.
So just 'tax rates' is not something that you can compare between countries.
"Most" European providers give you a flat rate without any limitations other than "Hey, you've been using your 20Mb download stream 24/7 for the last 2 months, can we complain?".
For instance: My general throughput because of working from home with X-servers and several very DB heavy applications is around 100GB per month. I'm paying $80 for an unlimited 20Mb/2Mb link.
This option is available pretty much anywhere where I live (Netherlands, by the way), including enormous conglomerates of 3000 people.;)
Plain text would be fine as long as you did the metadata consistently.
I totally agree. However there's one ever so slight problem with this. If you've actually ever looked at any official Congress documents, then you'll realize that they're as far removed from 'plain text', as the niagara falls are from the little brook behind your house.
It seems impossible for legislatures (and that doesn't only go for lawmakers) to write in sensible language.
Everytime I read something along these lines, I just sigh deeply and hope that people will start to think.
I'm hyper allergic to all Penicillin related antibiotics, so I'm one of those people that if things get really bad, need to fall back on the not-so-standard antibiotics. Using these in the treatment of an illness is very ill advised to begin with (pun intended), and my doctor so far has managed to keep that sort of treatment for me down to an absolute minimal level (once, to be exact). I was in the situation where I had a developing pneumonia, something a lot of people don't worry about too much, they'll just dress warmly, generally still go to work, etc. My doctor 'adviced' me (read: Told me in no uncertain terms) to stay the hell home, in bed, and make very very sure it wouldn't develop into a full scale pneumonia, since treating that would not only be costly (my health insurance is good enough to not make that matter any), but also dangerous in the terms of the common pneumonia causing strains to build up more resistances to the few antibiotics I can actually use.
This is rather common sense, and should also be common knowledge (and not only in the medical world).
Anyway, rambling, this sort of news makes me shiver, since I try my damndest best not to be another cause of the creation of more resistant strains, but these 'people' go and approve the widespread use of something like this...
Obviously anyone with any sort of knowledge about the issue says NO, but just as obviously the FDA doesn't give a shit...
supercedes the artists' right to control their distribution medium.
And there's a stickler point for you. It's not about the artists, it's about the recording industry. There are enough artists out there that actually allow you to download their music for free, but also offer merchandise, cheap CDs, etc, without the intervention of a record label. Quite a few people I know that download music can't be bothered to pay for a CD from say EMI at $21 but are more than willing to buy a CD from an indy that offers free downloads, but also sells CDs for $8.
The latter artist actually makes more money per CD sold than the artist that's 'under the wings' of a record label.
I can't be arsed at the moment to give links to the enormous amount of research available that supports that fact, but I'm sure you can find it quite easilly yourself.
I wouldn't play EVE though because I prefer finding a way to write code and study things, more than actually carrying them out. And in mmorpgs people aren't fond of enriching ones experience with scripting.
Heh. The funny part of this is that that's exactly what I do in WoW:) With the LUA/XML interface they have there, you can do a LOT of scripting (and people do) to make your life easier.
One of the best 'mods' out there for example is 'gatherer' which basically keeps track of where you mined/gathered on both your minimap and on your worldmap, so you can go out of your way just a little while travelling to see if something already respawned, and you can get statistics on which zone can give you which material.
Another mod is one that calculates the amount of hitpoints an opponent has by comparing the % hitpoints to the actual damage dealt, and updates accordingly.
Great stuff (and don't forget enchantrix, auctioneer, and numerous other mods that make life so much easier)
The CPP lobbies for the levying of taxes on autistic children with photographical memory.
A spokesman said: "It's very obvious that when these children listen to a song, they store it in their memory forever. We cannot allow this underhanded method of storing illegal copies of music, and will thus try to rectify this situation."
Since if you want to do everything from the ground up (understanding of servos, of the electronics involved to run said servos, actually building the electronics, etc), I think that a Z80 would be a rather good choice.
They're very cheap, very useful little toys, and no need for complex electronics either, generally no need for buffer structures, has its own ram refresh, you can just plug in an eprom pretty much without a problem, build the whole thing on standard experimental PCB, and has a very simple straightforward assembly language with direct IN/OUT which can drive a lot of commonly available ICs for servo control, light control, sensor control, etc.
The cheap factor is kinda handy;) I never bothered putting in safeties, if I blew a Z80 I'd just plug in a new one.
Sattelite Tv has been broken hard for a really long time, longer than DVD... I remember helping a friend pull the epoxy off a VideoCipherII board in college to mod the prom so it would descramble everything (Playboy channel is what we were after)
Thank you for proving once again that pr0n is a main reason for technological development! Weeh!
Ow man! I've wasted so much time on that, programming it for tons of different platforms, trying to get useful creations, etc:) It's always been one of the more inspiring bits of programming for me, to be able to make things like this with just the simplest ruleset.
I'm very sure that the budgeting issues between these two activities are so insanely far apart, that any sort of comparison would be impossible to make.
Tossing a rocket into space with a vehicle built for re-entry would be a lot easier and cost a lot less than making sure everyone in a country containing 1.2 billion people will be fed properly.
Linux users will probably just find ways hack around it, and ignore the fact they're breaking the law (no matter how ill-conceived that law may be; the point is that if Microsoft breaks the same law they would be sued into oblivion. It's simply not an option.).
The only reason that M$ can be sued for this is because it's a US company, so it can be confronted with breaking US law. However the linux developers are generally not living in the US, and them breaking a US law is completely inconsequential. The only problem that you're going to get here (and it already exists as far as encryption/decryption schemes go) is that the specific modules that break the US law on copyright/IP/(crypto) can not be used in the US, can not be distributed to/from the US, and anyone in the US found using these will be in breach of the law.
However, if I use a DES-128 encryption scheme in say Europe, I don't break any laws in my locale. Exporting this to/Importing this in the US however is a problem where I *will* be breaking the law, since I'm using more than a 54-bit scheme and will fall under the US munitions law.
Citing a source = spreading FUD now? Interesting outlook you have there.
No. Blaming someone else for spreading FUD when they're quoting a publication, then quoting a different publication yourself to refute his point of view...
If you state the first person spreading FUD, then so does the second, since he's doing exactly the same. So either or neither.
Slashdot Mirror
What you're forgetting is one very very important thing: Headon collisions.
They very rarely happen in F1, but they happen a lot in real life.
2 cars hitting each other headon at 75mph each still gives you a 150mph impact.
NoScript is pretty much a gift from heaven as far as I'm concerned. The only annoying thing in it is that the 'temporarily allow' option is for the browser's lifetime, and not only for the window- or session-lifetime.
;)
But not getting bothered by popups unless I really need them (which is rarely) is one of the best things about the whole addon. I've been (ab)using the 'Intaweb' for a long long time (Yes, I did use gopher...), and the amount of irrelevant crap nowadays is staggering. A page being 270K in size with only about 150 words of usable information is to me an absolute waste. If you'd be using a 14K4 modem now (yesyes.. I know...) you wouldn't even be able to browse anything anymore.
And then people wonder that 'my internet is so slow'...
And I've been known to just wget a page and run it through strings to read articles
I think their point wasn't to say that Slashdot has *the* solution, nor even for the matter the best or even a good solution, but at least one that seems to work a whole hell of a lot better than most of the other stuff around.
As far as reader controlled moderation goes, there are always ones that will screw things up, but if your overall readerbase honestly moderates posts, then the ones that screw up (either intentionally or unintentionally) will be statistically insignificant.
There are quite a few things in the slashdot moderating system that don't work as well as they could, but all in all, it's a pretty stable system in my experience.
ROFL.
Someone please hand me more coffee... I wanna go home!
Man that was silly.
Uhm.. Your user number is 18 million, 667 thousand and 13... How does this make you 'following Slashdot a long time'..
And no, please don't check my user #...
The earth is indeed split into 24 lunes, which all have hour boundaries, however there are 39 timezones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones
Tax rates as-is really don't matter. It's what's being done with those taxes, and what kind of environment it creates that does matter. And the most important thing is often overlooked. As an example, if I compare the work a friend of mine in the US does and the work I do, we're doing virtually the same thing. However he nets less that I do (quite a lot less actually) despite the tax rates in the US being a lot lower than here.
Also if I'm without a job, part of my taxes come back to me in the form of an intermediate payment done by the government to help me bide over the time between jobs (if you don't have too much own capital, that is)
Also taxes are used for things like for instance health-insurance. I pay $160 per month in health insurance, and have rather extensive coverage. Comparing the same sort of coverage to what it would cost in the US (done this 3 years ago), it'd came to $540 for the cheapest option.
So just 'tax rates' is not something that you can compare between countries.
Splut.
Your information is either faulty, or very old :)
;)
"Most" European providers give you a flat rate without any limitations other than "Hey, you've been using your 20Mb download stream 24/7 for the last 2 months, can we complain?".
For instance: My general throughput because of working from home with X-servers and several very DB heavy applications is around 100GB per month. I'm paying $80 for an unlimited 20Mb/2Mb link.
This option is available pretty much anywhere where I live (Netherlands, by the way), including enormous conglomerates of 3000 people.
Splut.
I totally agree. However there's one ever so slight problem with this. If you've actually ever looked at any official Congress documents, then you'll realize that they're as far removed from 'plain text', as the niagara falls are from the little brook behind your house.
It seems impossible for legislatures (and that doesn't only go for lawmakers) to write in sensible language.
Everytime I read something along these lines, I just sigh deeply and hope that people will start to think.
I'm hyper allergic to all Penicillin related antibiotics, so I'm one of those people that if things get really bad, need to fall back on the not-so-standard antibiotics. Using these in the treatment of an illness is very ill advised to begin with (pun intended), and my doctor so far has managed to keep that sort of treatment for me down to an absolute minimal level (once, to be exact). I was in the situation where I had a developing pneumonia, something a lot of people don't worry about too much, they'll just dress warmly, generally still go to work, etc. My doctor 'adviced' me (read: Told me in no uncertain terms) to stay the hell home, in bed, and make very very sure it wouldn't develop into a full scale pneumonia, since treating that would not only be costly (my health insurance is good enough to not make that matter any), but also dangerous in the terms of the common pneumonia causing strains to build up more resistances to the few antibiotics I can actually use.
This is rather common sense, and should also be common knowledge (and not only in the medical world).
Anyway, rambling, this sort of news makes me shiver, since I try my damndest best not to be another cause of the creation of more resistant strains, but these 'people' go and approve the widespread use of something like this...
Obviously anyone with any sort of knowledge about the issue says NO, but just as obviously the FDA doesn't give a shit...
And there's a stickler point for you. It's not about the artists, it's about the recording industry. There are enough artists out there that actually allow you to download their music for free, but also offer merchandise, cheap CDs, etc, without the intervention of a record label. Quite a few people I know that download music can't be bothered to pay for a CD from say EMI at $21 but are more than willing to buy a CD from an indy that offers free downloads, but also sells CDs for $8.
The latter artist actually makes more money per CD sold than the artist that's 'under the wings' of a record label.
I can't be arsed at the moment to give links to the enormous amount of research available that supports that fact, but I'm sure you can find it quite easilly yourself.
Heh. The funny part of this is that that's exactly what I do in WoW
One of the best 'mods' out there for example is 'gatherer' which basically keeps track of where you mined/gathered on both your minimap and on your worldmap, so you can go out of your way just a little while travelling to see if something already respawned, and you can get statistics on which zone can give you which material.
Another mod is one that calculates the amount of hitpoints an opponent has by comparing the % hitpoints to the actual damage dealt, and updates accordingly.
Great stuff (and don't forget enchantrix, auctioneer, and numerous other mods that make life so much easier)
The CPP lobbies for the levying of taxes on autistic children with photographical memory.
A spokesman said: "It's very obvious that when these children listen to a song, they store it in their memory forever. We cannot allow this underhanded method of storing illegal copies of music, and will thus try to rectify this situation."
With this device, you can finally play the smallest electric violin for someone! Weeeh!
Since if you want to do everything from the ground up (understanding of servos, of the electronics involved to run said servos, actually building the electronics, etc), I think that a Z80 would be a rather good choice.
;) I never bothered putting in safeties, if I blew a Z80 I'd just plug in a new one.
They're very cheap, very useful little toys, and no need for complex electronics either, generally no need for buffer structures, has its own ram refresh, you can just plug in an eprom pretty much without a problem, build the whole thing on standard experimental PCB, and has a very simple straightforward assembly language with direct IN/OUT which can drive a lot of commonly available ICs for servo control, light control, sensor control, etc.
The cheap factor is kinda handy
Where the HELL did that mountain come from???
Repeat after me: We are all individuals!
Is obviously the best tool in this 'contest', without any doubt.
Thank you for proving once again that pr0n is a main reason for technological development! Weeh!
Low Energy Metal Minion Incinerating New Grounds.
Ow man! I've wasted so much time on that, programming it for tons of different platforms, trying to get useful creations, etc :) It's always been one of the more inspiring bits of programming for me, to be able to make things like this with just the simplest ruleset.
I'm very sure that the budgeting issues between these two activities are so insanely far apart, that any sort of comparison would be impossible to make.
Tossing a rocket into space with a vehicle built for re-entry would be a lot easier and cost a lot less than making sure everyone in a country containing 1.2 billion people will be fed properly.
Completely correct! I'll hazard a guess and say it's several centuries if not more
The only reason that M$ can be sued for this is because it's a US company, so it can be confronted with breaking US law. However the linux developers are generally not living in the US, and them breaking a US law is completely inconsequential. The only problem that you're going to get here (and it already exists as far as encryption/decryption schemes go) is that the specific modules that break the US law on copyright/IP/(crypto) can not be used in the US, can not be distributed to/from the US, and anyone in the US found using these will be in breach of the law.
However, if I use a DES-128 encryption scheme in say Europe, I don't break any laws in my locale. Exporting this to/Importing this in the US however is a problem where I *will* be breaking the law, since I'm using more than a 54-bit scheme and will fall under the US munitions law.
Splut.
No. Blaming someone else for spreading FUD when they're quoting a publication, then quoting a different publication yourself to refute his point of view...
If you state the first person spreading FUD, then so does the second, since he's doing exactly the same. So either or neither.