I'm pretty sure that Tuvalu thinks that warmer won't be better. They're bown and so poor their country sold their national domain because ".tv" was more valuable to those who can afford a computer than to their citizens.
No one cares what happens to them... no one who counts, anyway:(
this is just sad, just plain sad. How could the FT publish such drivel? Well, I found this bit of ironic doubletalk quite entertaining: The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: "the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda". I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem.
There's the propaganda (it's not happening, it's happening but we aren't causing it, we are causing it but it's good for us, we're causing it but we can't do anything about it, [insert the next migration of the goalpost here]), and there's the truth. See... the thing is... when you call out a troll for trolling, they always play "takes one to know one / he who smelt it delt it" and call you a troll. Same goes for a lier: To cover up what they're doing, they'll say whoever calls them out are the ones doing it, so people will be confused and they can keep getting away with it. In both instances the intent is to deceive, and obfuscation is key.
The important part to consider, is who's trying to get away with something? The scientists who want to be payed to study the climate, or the industrialists who want to buy a bigger yatch?
You live somewhere, where the is street traffic. Now, lets say within arms reach of the street, you place [something] either (a) Illegal to distribute (not necessarily posses, just distribute) (b) Illegal to distribute to minors (c) Illegal to distribute to others not possesing a license.
Are you breaking the law by putting it out there in the open, where anyone can access it trivially? So you think it should be illegal to leave your keys in your car? That covers (b) and (c).
As far as I know, its legal in Denmark too. If you're on a public area, and you get photographed, say tourists posing in a photo and you happen to be in the background, and this photo is published on the Web, you cant demand it to be taken down. I dunno about Denmark, but there's a difference between commercial use and personal use.
with blur. It's that simple. They don't need an advanced algorithm to identify individual people, only one to identify that there is a person there and then apply a blur on that region of the photo. I think Google can handle it. Yup.
Seriously, I could whip up an algo to do just that myself, I'm sure the giant heads working at google can do it too. And if blurring is too high-tech, just do the classic black rectangle. No fuss at all.
After assembling something, if there are any parts left over I simply declare them to be extra junk. With scientists declaring the same thing about DNA they can't identify, I guess the old saw is true, great minds do think alike. They used to say that the pancreas was just there to keep the rest of the guts in place. They once removed a part of the brain that was obviously useless, and getting in the way of their operation to a vital part... the patient could never again acquire new knowledge after the operation (as in Memento).
So I never believed them when they were saying "junk DNA". As usual, that was just hubris.
Seriously. I don't judge the unknown songs until I actually hear them.
I actually got to know of Frezepop through GH2, and it turns out I like their plastic pop beats. I'd hate it if I already knew all the songs in there, where's the fun in that? Same old, same old... bleah.
A riot gains its power not from the handful of violent people, but rather from the hundreds (or thousands) of people surrounding the trouble makers preventing the police from arresting the agitators. What gives it power when the agitators are policement in plain clothes? It happens more often then you'd think.
You have the Apple fanboys jumping up and down and telling us all how incredibly secure Mac OS X is. On the other hand, you have the Apple fanboys talking about insecure OS X is--so insecure that Apple can't allow any applications that have not been prescreened.
Which is it? Is OS X an insecure mess? Or is it bullet-proof? After all, isn't that the beauty of the iPhone--it's runs a "real" OS X? This is where I wonder what's wrong with you. Who said it was bullet proof? Find me someone who actually said that, then I'll remove you from my idiot list, which you just made (bravo!).
While you're off on that wild goose chase, you might want to pause to ponder if security is a magic property of an OS, or an ongoing effort of security-minded decisions.
Did you even read the damn article? Apparently not. Because Hollywood ISN'T lobbying for it? Did you even read what I was replying to? I quoted it and everything.
Given the choice between having Hollywood lobbying against something stupid, like a camcorder ban, or something more serious, like a DMCA equivalent, I'd much rather pacify them with the stupid stuff. Choice?? Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced This Spring!
If it's a plain ol' DVD, that will play back in any regular ol' DVD player, then there's no DRM. Considering all the hoops me and my old engineer buddy had to go through to get our DVDs to play on his crummy old TV, I might have to say that you sir, are full of shit.
There is DRM a plenty on DVDs. Heck, region lock? Hello?
What info? There hasn't been any informative articles on Slashdot for a very long time. It's all chaff. This article is chaff. All the comments are chaff. The entire front page of Slashdot is chaff. I just checked the Firehose and every single aticle waiting there currently is marked as YRO! What a bunch of crap. So why, exactly, don't you move on?
70 % of the budget from FY95 to FY06 (up to August 31), in tens of millions of dollars, third column for 100%: So, between 25 to 30 before 9-11, and then between 55 and 60 after.
Basically, their budget doubled as a result. Thanks for RTFA and giving me the bit I wanted:)
Finally, another execrable piece of shite not wasting any more resources that could be used for a worthwhile purposes. Aside from the fact that you're trolling with "what you people like sucks", what mechanism, exactly, will now divert HBO's resources to "worthwhile purposes"? That show ended and now everyone involved (writers, actors, producers, stagehands, etc.) will spend their lives and bank accounts... curing cancer? Rescuing puppies? They won't go on pursuing their careers in TV? The Sopranos killed all their careers?
Stop wasting yours, and slashdot's resources on your shit. Go out and do something worthwhile, instead of trolling the net, telling people that what they like is not good.
When a technical story does come up, it gets maybe 50 comments, 30 of which will be bad trolls, 15 of which will be whiny kids who don't even grasp the basic premise of the article, 4 people complaining about an obscure technical mistake in the article and 1 interesting comment that's worth reading.
The majority of comments on Slashdot have always been shit Which is why people shouldn't be modding up comments that are useless, like people whining that the entire article doesn't interest them. ESPECIALLY when the summary explains that it's being posted because so many people asked for it ("hey, people like X, I'll go in there and say X sucks! I am t3h awesome, lol"). This is a site for nerds to talk about the news, and apparently a lot of nerds want to discuss this bit of TV news. Let them talk amongst themselves.
If people really need to tell the world about what they don't like,/. gives them a journal for their personal thoughts, they could even start their own tech blog... with blackjack, and hookers!
Or you could use the same technique on New Orleans. Just show some satellite pics from before and after the flood. Lookit all that devastation. Whoever did that atrocity was very thorough. 1- Floods look different than fires. 2- Natural disasters are atrocious, but not atrocities. 3- Those levees should have been cat4 resistent, they weren't. All levels of governments over the last 20 or 30 years are responsible for that disaster. Primarily the officials who say things like "no one could have known" and who botch the response. This was their responsibility, and they were asleep at the wheel.
I'm curious, of the people who watch Sopranos and are old enough to have gone through the previous pop culture obsession with the mob, around the time of The Godfather, what's the attraction still? It all seems so '80s to me. Crime and violence never go out of style.
It is unfortunate that a TV show now comes under "stuff that matters". I'm surprised there are still idiots who come in threads to complain about the thread. How hard is it to just go "that's not interresting" amd to move on?
I don't even watch that show, I just came to know what's the big deal about the ending. I do not, however, want a list of the stuff you don't care about, so STFU already.
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No one cares what happens to them... no one who counts, anyway
The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: "the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda". I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem.
There's the propaganda (it's not happening, it's happening but we aren't causing it, we are causing it but it's good for us, we're causing it but we can't do anything about it, [insert the next migration of the goalpost here]), and there's the truth.
See... the thing is... when you call out a troll for trolling, they always play "takes one to know one / he who smelt it delt it" and call you a troll. Same goes for a lier: To cover up what they're doing, they'll say whoever calls them out are the ones doing it, so people will be confused and they can keep getting away with it.
In both instances the intent is to deceive, and obfuscation is key.
The important part to consider, is who's trying to get away with something?
The scientists who want to be payed to study the climate, or the industrialists who want to buy a bigger yatch?
(a) Illegal to distribute (not necessarily posses, just distribute)
(b) Illegal to distribute to minors
(c) Illegal to distribute to others not possesing a license.
Are you breaking the law by putting it out there in the open, where anyone can access it trivially? So you think it should be illegal to leave your keys in your car? That covers (b) and (c).
Seriously, I could whip up an algo to do just that myself, I'm sure the giant heads working at google can do it too.
And if blurring is too high-tech, just do the classic black rectangle. No fuss at all.
They once removed a part of the brain that was obviously useless, and getting in the way of their operation to a vital part... the patient could never again acquire new knowledge after the operation (as in Memento).
So I never believed them when they were saying "junk DNA".
As usual, that was just hubris.
Seriously. I don't judge the unknown songs until I actually hear them.
I actually got to know of Frezepop through GH2, and it turns out I like their plastic pop beats.I'd hate it if I already knew all the songs in there, where's the fun in that? Same old, same old... bleah.
It happens more often then you'd think.
You have the Apple fanboys jumping up and down and telling us all how incredibly secure Mac OS X is. On the other hand, you have the Apple fanboys talking about insecure OS X is--so insecure that Apple can't allow any applications that have not been prescreened.
Which is it? Is OS X an insecure mess? Or is it bullet-proof? After all, isn't that the beauty of the iPhone--it's runs a "real" OS X? This is where I wonder what's wrong with you.
Who said it was bullet proof? Find me someone who actually said that, then I'll remove you from my idiot list, which you just made (bravo!).
While you're off on that wild goose chase, you might want to pause to ponder if security is a magic property of an OS, or an ongoing effort of security-minded decisions.
Did you even read what I was replying to? I quoted it and everything.
There is DRM a plenty on DVDs.
Heck, region lock? Hello?
What a bunch of crap. So why, exactly, don't you move on?
third column for 100%
Basically, their budget doubled as a result.
Thanks for RTFA and giving me the bit I wanted
Stop wasting yours, and slashdot's resources on your shit. Go out and do something worthwhile, instead of trolling the net, telling people that what they like is not good.
The majority of comments on Slashdot have always been shit Which is why people shouldn't be modding up comments that are useless, like people whining that the entire article doesn't interest them. ESPECIALLY when the summary explains that it's being posted because so many people asked for it ("hey, people like X, I'll go in there and say X sucks! I am t3h awesome, lol").
This is a site for nerds to talk about the news, and apparently a lot of nerds want to discuss this bit of TV news. Let them talk amongst themselves.
If people really need to tell the world about what they don't like,
Mod down the chaff, mod up the info.
That is all.
2- Natural disasters are atrocious, but not atrocities.
3- Those levees should have been cat4 resistent, they weren't. All levels of governments over the last 20 or 30 years are responsible for that disaster. Primarily the officials who say things like "no one could have known" and who botch the response. This was their responsibility, and they were asleep at the wheel.
60 billion huh?
Does anyone know how much that budget was back in 2000?
I don't even watch that show, I just came to know what's the big deal about the ending. I do not, however, want a list of the stuff you don't care about, so STFU already.