Just a few days after it was originally noted that Kent State University had banned athletes from posting on Facebook, the Kent Stater announced that the ban was reversed.
Really? So now you lose your scholarship if you don't use Facebook? Or is it just really late and my mind is working way too literally?;)
-- This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
Cast: John Dvorak: played by a angry, crying, screaming Horatio Sanz Normal Human: played by you (unless you are John Dvorak)
Dvorak: CSS IS STUPID!! I CAN'T MAKE IT WORK SO IT SUCKS!!! STUPID STANDARDS BODIES!!! WHY DON'T THEY MAKE ALL THE BROWSERS WORK THE SAME?!?!? WHY!?!?!
Normal Human: Uhm, John. The standards bodies aren't in charge of the browsers. And lot's of people use CSS on sites that look practically identical on all the major browsers.
Bvorak: NO THEY DON'T. I CAN'T MAKE IT WORK, SO IT SUCKS!!!
Normal Human: Maybe if you bought a good book on CSS. Something by Eric Meyer...
DVORAK!: BUT IT CASCADES!!!
Normal Human: It's suppopsed to cascade. Just calm down.
From what I hear, they all shop at Target, or "Tär-zhAy"
Who told you about the secret, hilarious name that I CAME UP WITH for my favorite (pronounced "fave-o-right") store?!?! Do you people have my room bugged or something? I swear, ever since Stupert Murdoch (another little gem of mine, and no you can't use it) bought MySpace, everytime I think of something funny, like a week later, I see it on TV, and I'm getting sick of it. So back off, ok? Yesterday I came up with a hilarious pun on Hillary Duff's name and if I find out someone has been eavesdropping, I am gonna be ticked...
Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock.
Hey, and maybe then I can get a docking station for my docking station that has QuadQuad-SLI, and then maybe I can get in a robotic exo-skeleton and become the first Headmaster, and we can finally take the fight directly to Unicron. Is the gaming industry out of its mind? Seriously. I mean, I am not going to buy four graphics cards to put into my computer to play games. Ever. Period. End of story. I'm sorry game developers, but you're just gonna have to make do with the measly bazillion pixels my current stand-alone graphics card can dish out.
-- Instead of imagining a beowulf cluster of PS3's, just wait three years and check out the PS4.
In other news, if they notice a suspicious looking network cable snaking out to the curb and in through a barely opened car window, it might mean that this former St. Petersburg, Florida resident has moved to the UK, and is, apparently, still not a coffee drinker.
So what is this, some kind of new meta-discussion feature where Slashdot editors dig through some story and haul out lame comments that they think highlight the story. Whatever. Sounds stupid to me...
[Reads through some of the comments...]
A touch more cynically...revery... Wait a second... I got featured?!?! On Slashdot!?! Hey that is so cool! Hi mom! Hi Cornelia! Check out my cynical self... I'm on Slashdot's new BackSlash feature.... Did I say it was stupid? I meant stupendous!!! and uh... lamerrific... or soemthing like that. And Timothy, what an editor. Such insight, such wisdom. You're not gonna regret this... no sir. I'm gonna come up with some great comments for your next backslash. Something understated, but profound. Email me and let me know what the topic will be so I can do some research, ok? We'll do lunch.
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I think you just made my initial point for me. The college isn't concerned that their star player is doing something illegal, their worried that he might be stupid enough to post it online.
It is fairly obvious that the school is less concerned with preventing students from engaging in illegal activity and undesirable behavior than it is with preventing it from becoming public knowledge that students are engaging in illegal activity and undesirable behavior. If they had come out and said, "If we catch you confessing to activities that violate our code of conduct, you will face disciplinary action", that would be quite another thing altogether. (Not that people wouldn't complain, I'm just saying I think they could make a pretty decent defense of their actions.)
If I'm not mistaken, 90% broadband coverage based on geography would almost always translate to a higher percentage of people than 90% of the population.
[Haj] You know... open. [Pin] But how open? It's not a black and white issue. [Haj] It should be open, like a door. [Pin] That makes no sense, Haj. [Haj] Sure it does. A door is either open or closed. There's no in-between there my color-blind friend. [Pin] Are you kidding me? Look at this door. It's closed. But if I pull it just a little, is it open? [Haj] Yes. It is open. [Pin] How about now, if I pull it some more, is it more open? [Haj] You can't be more or less open Pin... That's my point. [Pin] Look at the %^%@#@%# door Haj. Does it look MORE OPEN to you? [Haj] Well that's a different question isn't it. Does it "look more open"? [Pin]... [Haj] I mean what if my eyes were closed? [Pin] Haj... [Haj] What if I was blind, Pin? Huh, what then? [Pin]... [Haj] Now you're totally stumped, aren't you buddy? Stumped by my rhetorical questions. [Pin]... [Haj] [in a girl's voice] What if I was blind? [Haj] I can't believe you don't have a response dude... Pin? whatcha doing with that ice pick? [the screen goes black and there is the sound of terrible things being done to someone's eyes] [Haj] I just want you to know, if you ask "does the door ~feel~ open", I'm not going to answer you man... [Haj] Pin... Are you still there? Hello? Anybody?
The Hong Kong police suspected that the black DS Lite units sold in Hong Kong recently were part of the same theft and offers one million Hong Kong dollars ($128,840 or 102,138) to anyone with a tip.
Wow, $128,840 or 102,138?
I'll just take the number please. Now, if I can just get 456,542 I'll have s complete set...
[Me thinking] Oh man... Google killed that guy for just revealing it's intentions, which is evil. But, it also hit the submit button for him, thereby causing his death to not be in vain, which was nice. Of course, the poster did unnecessarily use "quotation marks" around the word "brain", which is evil, and deserves death. But he also used the contraction "it's" correctly and didn't misspell sentience, which is good... I guess I don't know what to think... I just hope Google doesn't notice my extravagant and unnecessary use of quotation marks and ellipsis and kill me... I suppose I'd better fix it before
Sure, put pressure on Congress, but guess who pays for them to be in office? People have proven that they will vote for whoever has more money (=ad time), so money becomes the issue.
You had me till right there. If Congressmen will vote for whoever gives them more money/ad time, there is a reason for that. It's because they believe that people will vote for the Congressman who has the most ad time. How does going after Apple fix that? It just creates a corporate vacuum, that will be filled by someone else. It temporarily disrupts a money trail. Big deal.
Come up with a way to change how people vote. Come up with a way to move power back down to local levels (which makes Congressional positions worth less) and you've got a winner.
Keep doing what we're all doing today and you're just part of the game.
This sounds completely bizarre to me. I have never, ever, ever had a problem with a Linux distro that brought the system down, that I couldn't diagnose within five minutes of web browsing. I have, however, had many, many, many Windows problems that kept a system down that Microsoft themselves couldn't solve. (Frequently the solution was reinstall)
Granted, Windows has been more stable recently, but in my experience, everything on a Linux system can be logged, whereas half of the stuff on a Windows systems happens in a way that you can't get to it or see what's going on.
The one thing from the study that I'll readily agree with wasn't quoted in the linked article, but instead can be found here on the Yankee Group's news page:
Underlying these findings is the crucial point that TCO metrics such as reliability, performance, security and management ultimately depend on an individual company's implementation.
When I first saw the article headline, I swear it read "PC's Role Key in New Formal Wear"
I had about 3 seconds of excitement thinking about playing Tux Racer on my Tux, customized holographic clothing a'la Automan, and the possibility of hacking into the evening gown of a beautiful but dangerous female Russian spy.
But then I remembered this, and was glad I was wrong...
I understand and basically agree with most of what you say. My point was pretty much limited to the concept of copyright as opposed to the current implementation. Copyright is a lot like taxes and tarriffs, you can only extend/increase them so much before people find it easier to just break the law. Lord Macaulay wrote/said some interesting things on the subject of copyright, things with which I readily agree. You can read them in full here and an excerpt here.
Here are a few more excerpts:
I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass [...] there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers. At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. [...] Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. [...] Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living.
The only thing you said that I really disagree with is this: Authors of the works getting slavery wages while all benefits are ripped by someone who didn't labour. And said parasites ordering the authors to pay for packaging and breakage of electronic copies of the works, as confirmed by courts in many jurisdictions
I think the fact that the author had the right to sell their copyright is legitimate. The fact that they felt they had a better chance of making money with a parasitic label is regrettable, but I think it is their choice to make.
Some would argue that it is. Some would even argue that it goes back to a Judeo-Christian principle that a "laborer is worthy of his wages" and that a government is merely recognizing their responsibility to protect that right.
Some would also argue that I am smoking crack... but that's just part of the fun of arguing.
I unsderstand what you were saying. My point was that ID/Creationists have no need to refute the "egg first" claim. If an all powerful being created everything, he could have made either one come first. (those - like me - who specifically believe the Genesis account might have to take issue with it though...)
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Just a few days after it was originally noted that Kent State University had banned athletes from posting on Facebook, the Kent Stater announced that the ban was reversed.
;)
Really? So now you lose your scholarship if you don't use Facebook? Or is it just really late and my mind is working way too literally?
--
This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
Cast:
...
John Dvorak: played by a angry, crying, screaming Horatio Sanz
Normal Human: played by you (unless you are John Dvorak)
Dvorak: CSS IS STUPID!! I CAN'T MAKE IT WORK SO IT SUCKS!!! STUPID STANDARDS BODIES!!! WHY DON'T THEY MAKE ALL THE BROWSERS WORK THE SAME?!?!? WHY!?!?!
Normal Human: Uhm, John. The standards bodies aren't in charge of the browsers. And lot's of people use CSS on sites that look practically identical on all the major browsers.
Bvorak: NO THEY DON'T. I CAN'T MAKE IT WORK, SO IT SUCKS!!!
Normal Human: Maybe if you bought a good book on CSS. Something by Eric Meyer...
DVORAK!: BUT IT CASCADES!!!
Normal Human: It's suppopsed to cascade. Just calm down.
DVORAK!!!: A BEAR ATE MY PARENTS!!!!
Normal Human:
DVORAK!?!?!: KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
Normal Human: I hate you.
Long-term weather prediction is really easy. It's getting the computer model of the butterfly right that's really hard...
From what I hear, they all shop at Target, or "Tär-zhAy"
Who told you about the secret, hilarious name that I CAME UP WITH for my favorite (pronounced "fave-o-right") store?!?! Do you people have my room bugged or something? I swear, ever since Stupert Murdoch (another little gem of mine, and no you can't use it) bought MySpace, everytime I think of something funny, like a week later, I see it on TV, and I'm getting sick of it. So back off, ok? Yesterday I came up with a hilarious pun on Hillary Duff's name and if I find out someone has been eavesdropping, I am gonna be ticked...
Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock.
Hey, and maybe then I can get a docking station for my docking station that has QuadQuad-SLI, and then maybe I can get in a robotic exo-skeleton and become the first Headmaster, and we can finally take the fight directly to Unicron. Is the gaming industry out of its mind? Seriously. I mean, I am not going to buy four graphics cards to put into my computer to play games. Ever. Period. End of story. I'm sorry game developers, but you're just gonna have to make do with the measly bazillion pixels my current stand-alone graphics card can dish out.
--
Instead of imagining a beowulf cluster of PS3's, just wait three years and check out the PS4.
Well, can I be the first to say that it's about time. I've just been emptying my nanotubes into a big jar that I keep by the bed.
--
This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
In other news, if they notice a suspicious looking network cable snaking out to the curb and in through a barely opened car window, it might mean that this former St. Petersburg, Florida resident has moved to the UK, and is, apparently, still not a coffee drinker.
I mean, I tried to make it work, but I couldn't ever get her to give me a callback...
So what is this, some kind of new meta-discussion feature where Slashdot editors dig through some story and haul out lame comments that they think highlight the story. Whatever. Sounds stupid to me...
[Reads through some of the comments...]
A touch more cynically...revery...
Wait a second... I got featured?!?! On Slashdot!?! Hey that is so cool! Hi mom! Hi Cornelia! Check out my cynical self... I'm on Slashdot's new BackSlash feature.... Did I say it was stupid? I meant stupendous!!! and uh... lamerrific... or soemthing like that.
And Timothy, what an editor. Such insight, such wisdom. You're not gonna regret this... no sir. I'm gonna come up with some great comments for your next backslash. Something understated, but profound. Email me and let me know what the topic will be so I can do some research, ok? We'll do lunch.
--
This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
I think you just made my initial point for me. The college isn't concerned that their star player is doing something illegal, their worried that he might be stupid enough to post it online.
Click me for free money! [aclu.org]
Hey, it's my old alma mater...
It is fairly obvious that the school is less concerned with preventing students from engaging in illegal activity and undesirable behavior than it is with preventing it from becoming public knowledge that students are engaging in illegal activity and undesirable behavior. If they had come out and said, "If we catch you confessing to activities that violate our code of conduct, you will face disciplinary action", that would be quite another thing altogether. (Not that people wouldn't complain, I'm just saying I think they could make a pretty decent defense of their actions.)
If I'm not mistaken, 90% broadband coverage based on geography would almost always translate to a higher percentage of people than 90% of the population.
How Open Does Open Source Need to be?
... ... ...
[Haj] You know... open.
[Pin] But how open? It's not a black and white issue.
[Haj] It should be open, like a door.
[Pin] That makes no sense, Haj.
[Haj] Sure it does. A door is either open or closed. There's no in-between there my color-blind friend.
[Pin] Are you kidding me? Look at this door. It's closed. But if I pull it just a little, is it open?
[Haj] Yes. It is open.
[Pin] How about now, if I pull it some more, is it more open?
[Haj] You can't be more or less open Pin... That's my point.
[Pin] Look at the %^%@#@%# door Haj. Does it look MORE OPEN to you?
[Haj] Well that's a different question isn't it. Does it "look more open"?
[Pin]
[Haj] I mean what if my eyes were closed?
[Pin] Haj...
[Haj] What if I was blind, Pin? Huh, what then?
[Pin]
[Haj] Now you're totally stumped, aren't you buddy? Stumped by my rhetorical questions.
[Pin]
[Haj] [in a girl's voice] What if I was blind?
[Haj] I can't believe you don't have a response dude... Pin? whatcha doing with that ice pick?
[the screen goes black and there is the sound of terrible things being done to someone's eyes]
[Haj] I just want you to know, if you ask "does the door ~feel~ open", I'm not going to answer you man...
[Haj] Pin... Are you still there? Hello? Anybody?
The Hong Kong police suspected that the black DS Lite units sold in Hong Kong recently were part of the same theft and offers one million Hong Kong dollars ($128,840 or 102,138) to anyone with a tip.
Wow, $128,840 or 102,138?
I'll just take the number please. Now, if I can just get 456,542 I'll have s complete set...
We must stop it now, before...
[Me thinking] Oh man... Google killed that guy for just revealing it's intentions, which is evil. But, it also hit the submit button for him, thereby causing his death to not be in vain, which was nice. Of course, the poster did unnecessarily use "quotation marks" around the word "brain", which is evil, and deserves death. But he also used the contraction "it's" correctly and didn't misspell sentience, which is good... I guess I don't know what to think... I just hope Google doesn't notice my extravagant and unnecessary use of quotation marks and ellipsis and kill me... I suppose I'd better fix it before
Sure, put pressure on Congress, but guess who pays for them to be in office? People have proven that they will vote for whoever has more money (=ad time), so money becomes the issue.
You had me till right there. If Congressmen will vote for whoever gives them more money/ad time, there is a reason for that. It's because they believe that people will vote for the Congressman who has the most ad time. How does going after Apple fix that? It just creates a corporate vacuum, that will be filled by someone else. It temporarily disrupts a money trail. Big deal.
Come up with a way to change how people vote. Come up with a way to move power back down to local levels (which makes Congressional positions worth less) and you've got a winner.
Keep doing what we're all doing today and you're just part of the game.
Granted, Windows has been more stable recently, but in my experience, everything on a Linux system can be logged, whereas half of the stuff on a Windows systems happens in a way that you can't get to it or see what's going on.
The one thing from the study that I'll readily agree with wasn't quoted in the linked article, but instead can be found here on the Yankee Group's news page:
Didn't the RIAA/IFPI know that In Soviet Russia, the artist pays YOU?
The RIAA pretty much believes that regardless of where in the universe you are, EVERYONE pays them...
When I first saw the article headline, I swear it read "PC's Role Key in New Formal Wear"
I had about 3 seconds of excitement thinking about playing Tux Racer on my Tux, customized holographic clothing a'la Automan, and the possibility of hacking into the evening gown of a beautiful but dangerous female Russian spy.
But then I remembered this, and was glad I was wrong...
Here are a few more excerpts:
The only thing you said that I really disagree with is this: Authors of the works getting slavery wages while all benefits are ripped by someone who didn't labour. And said parasites ordering the authors to pay for packaging and breakage of electronic copies of the works, as confirmed by courts in many jurisdictions
I think the fact that the author had the right to sell their copyright is legitimate. The fact that they felt they had a better chance of making money with a parasitic label is regrettable, but I think it is their choice to make.
Anyway, thanks for the response.
but copyright isn't a natural law
Some would argue that it is. Some would even argue that it goes back to a Judeo-Christian principle that a "laborer is worthy of his wages" and that a government is merely recognizing their responsibility to protect that right.
Some would also argue that I am smoking crack... but that's just part of the fun of arguing.
Me fail grammar? That's dispositive...
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This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
I unsderstand what you were saying. My point was that ID/Creationists have no need to refute the "egg first" claim. If an all powerful being created everything, he could have made either one come first. (those - like me - who specifically believe the Genesis account might have to take issue with it though...)