The publisher is normally the entity in charge of beta testing and quality assurance. With them out of the picture, who's making sure the product they release is bug free?
Its a science article, so it should be international units, but/. is in the US, so it might not be. Not important, right? Its not like we ever lost a probe over such issues...
Sigh, its like some kind of conspiracy to force me to RTFA!
Frankly ive always felt that unless the cause for war is good enough for the commander in chief to pick up a gun and lead the troops off to battle in the name of truth and honor and whatever else he might be fighting for, then its not a good enough reason to send a single lowly infantryman.
When I first saw the ads talking about a virus and seeing the people turn, seconds from contamination, into bloodthirsty maniacs, I thought "Oh, so its flash-rabies, big whoop".
Rage is the french name for rabies.
The rabies cure was found by a french man.
And from Webster's: Main Entry: 1rage
Pronunciation: 'rAj
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
PS Anyone trolling with the usual, boring, old crap about french surrender, wich is automatic anytime france or french is mentioned will thereby prove their lameness.
ood wholesome game devoid of violence, blood, cuss words(THPS), and sex appeal.(I play games with that, but there's no place for it in a library)
Have you even seen Pikmin? Violent deaths by the hundreds! Poor, poor lil' pikmins!
And are you implying that we should rid libraries of all books containing blood, cuss words, violence and sex? Better get the bible out the libraries then...and Shakespeare...and encyclopedias...
It was also an important part of the diet of the european middle-ages peasant. Peasants would stockpile barley and wheat for the winter, but towards the end of the winter, the grains would start to go bad. The solution to this is beer
Ahhhh, beer! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems! -H.J.S.
Last time I tried to use a Netscape browser it wouldn't let me load a web page without spending 10 minutes filling out personnal information.
The damn thing kept telling me it was to better personalise the user experience in shared macines...I'M THE ONLY USER ON MY MACHINE I would scream at it, to no avail.
I won't even bother with downloading any more Netscapes without assurances that it has stopped being an information-gathering tool and that I now can surf the web without giving away my privacy to the browser company.
Safari has no configuration to go through, Safari is goodness.
How's RFID going to let that happen? The most it can let someone do is know what goods you're carrying. If a store knew what you're carrying, they could debit your account (assuming you'd already given them the account details and authorisation), but that has nothing to do with RFID.
And how do they identify your account? Magic, or RFID from your wallet?
And if you want, you can substitute "organised crime" with "RIAA"...
Place speakers playing RIAA owned music in public space.
Charge everyone withing earshot with automated RFID billing.
Extremely high-powered tranceivers? Remember - these tags are passive. You need to be within a few inches (or extremely powerful) to read a signal much farther than that. And of course, there's interference.
In the streetlight, embedded in the asphalt, whatever...
Is it presently illegal to remove barcodes from products you purchase? No? Then what makes you think laws could/would be enacted to make an analogous act illegal?
The same freaking way that it was once legal to buy all the opium you wanted. Laws change, jeez.
The reason that there is no law making it illegal to remove the barcode once you're out of the store is because the barcode has no use once you are out of the store. If you had bothered to read the damn article you would have understood my comment instead of trolling me with this.
like I said, these "Speedpasses" are everywhere.
huh-uh...I don't have one, no one in my family/friends/aquaitances has one.
I was talking about ubiquitous use here, not -one- compnay offering it as a service used by a minority of its costummers.
and charges me $1500
I specifically mentionned skimming small amounts from many people...you are sounding more and more like a troll.
So I don't need to offer theories and logic to counter your ridiculous, paranoid fear
Indeed! Your reply contained no logic, I'm surprised you point this out yourself.
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Later he throws in this little paranoia bit about "Do you really want your car's tires broadcasting your every move?" What's that about? He knows they don't "broadcast" and that you'd have to be within several feet to monitor. You already have a frickin license plate on your car, so who cares?
how long will it take for commercial "scanners" to come around, so you can locate the chip and neutralize it?
How long will it take for DMCA-like laws that make that practice illegal?
I can't WAIT for the day when I just walk out the door with a cart full of stuff and it's automatically taken out of my checking account. that would well be worth someone being able to count how many hammers I buy in a month.
Yes, and I can't wait for organised crime to automatically skim a lil' bit off the top of all our checking accounts as we walk past 'em. Not much, just a few bucks per person, walk around in a crowd and you'd make a few thousand dollars in minutes...
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While you may be physically weaker, I'm sure you will be a different person, probably stronger mentally.
Or crushed mentally and physically. Possibly suffering from brain damage or psychological trauma...
Getting stronger as a result of hardship is a possibility. It is not the only possibility.
There is a workaround the plan 9 issue, I can skip forward on the part where it freezes, but the Evolution issue baffles me.
Thankfully, my Buckaroo banzai DVD plays fine!
What doesn't kill you will make you stronger. Same thing here.
Mental image of a car crash in wich you are crippled instead of killed...
don't take it personal though, my mom allways said a lot of BS too.
The publisher is normally the entity in charge of beta testing and quality assurance. With them out of the picture, who's making sure the product they release is bug free?
Unless he gets a lot of royalties from toy sales and/or t-shirts, he doesn't have a leg to stand on
Well, at least you have a very good understanding of how the "justice" system works.
The law sides with the most loaded.
file swapping is NOT illegal in the Great White North.
What the hell?
Is that international units or imperial?
/. is in the US, so it might not be.
Its a science article, so it should be international units, but
Not important, right? Its not like we ever lost a probe over such issues...
Sigh, its like some kind of conspiracy to force me to RTFA!
Frankly ive always felt that unless the cause for war is good enough for the commander in chief to pick up a gun and lead the troops off to battle in the name of truth and honor and whatever else he might be fighting for, then its not a good enough reason to send a single lowly infantryman.
Indeed!
What happens to the rest of the folks in more populated states when the system crashes and there are too few farmers to farm fields the hard way?
That's why the government keeps a secret stash of Amish folk in suspended animation.
We (the USA) produce most of the world's copyrighted material, and we give out billions of dollars each year to other countries for free.
Er, no, and no.
You produce most of the world's internationaly distributed copyright material (wich is a minority of the total of copyrighted material).
And you loan billions of dollars, with a lot of strings attached.
Edison didn't invent the lightbulb, but he did improve it, and applied for a patent...
Edison had a nasty habit of patenting things he did not invent...
Emphasis on the "known" for, not the statistically recognised as...
so you can probably dig up more recent figures if you feel like it (I don't).
Me neither
and we're a city [Toronto] not known for its violence.
Speaking from Montreal, you are...
Oh, right. I checked and it is a vaccine.
Its the "after exposure" part that made me think it was a cure.
Apparently a freaking raccoon can get vaccinated and I can't. I hate that.
Well, the racoons get more rabbies than we do, and they bite the dogs that then bite us. So vaccinating the racoons is a way to protect us.
When I first saw the ads talking about a virus and seeing the people turn, seconds from contamination, into bloodthirsty maniacs, I thought "Oh, so its flash-rabies, big whoop".
Rage is the french name for rabies.
The rabies cure was found by a french man.
And from Webster's:
Main Entry: 1rage
Pronunciation: 'rAj
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
PS Anyone trolling with the usual, boring, old crap about french surrender, wich is automatic anytime france or french is mentioned will thereby prove their lameness.
ood wholesome game devoid of violence, blood, cuss words(THPS), and sex appeal.(I play games with that, but there's no place for it in a library)
Have you even seen Pikmin? Violent deaths by the hundreds! Poor, poor lil' pikmins!
And are you implying that we should rid libraries of all books containing blood, cuss words, violence and sex? Better get the bible out the libraries then...and Shakespeare...and encyclopedias...
Our time is coming.
I have no idea how someone could ever use 40 million dollars in their lifetime, let alone 40 billion.
I would.
I would invest heavily in genetics, cybernetics, and behaviour sciences to create...wait for it... cyborg monkey butlers!
In other words, I would use that money to make the world a better place.
With more monkeys.
It was also an important part of the diet of the european middle-ages peasant. Peasants would stockpile barley and wheat for the winter, but towards the end of the winter, the grains would start to go bad. The solution to this is beer
Ahhhh, beer!
The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!
-H.J.S.
Yes, I wouldn't want to miss the latest in cruelty TV if I moved away...
;- )
Can you win this box in a contest?
Last time I tried to use a Netscape browser it wouldn't let me load a web page without spending 10 minutes filling out personnal information.
The damn thing kept telling me it was to better personalise the user experience in shared macines...I'M THE ONLY USER ON MY MACHINE I would scream at it, to no avail.
I won't even bother with downloading any more Netscapes without assurances that it has stopped being an information-gathering tool and that I now can surf the web without giving away my privacy to the browser company.
Safari has no configuration to go through, Safari is goodness.
I like the picture where someone is drawing a fish on the blackboard while others are doing math.
Who knew that I had a future in advance mathematics when I was doodling in my math notebook during class? : )
They took the pic just as he was about to draw the eye...
And how do they identify your account? Magic, or RFID from your wallet?
And if you want, you can substitute "organised crime" with "RIAA"...
There ya go...
Extremely high-powered tranceivers? Remember - these tags are passive. You need to be within a few inches (or extremely powerful) to read a signal much farther than that. And of course, there's interference.
In the streetlight, embedded in the asphalt, whatever...
Is it presently illegal to remove barcodes from products you purchase? No? Then what makes you think laws could/would be enacted to make an analogous act illegal?
WTF? Too...many...logic holes...sarcasm generator...overloading...
The same freaking way that it was once legal to buy all the opium you wanted. Laws change, jeez.
The reason that there is no law making it illegal to remove the barcode once you're out of the store is because the barcode has no use once you are out of the store. If you had bothered to read the damn article you would have understood my comment instead of trolling me with this.
like I said, these "Speedpasses" are everywhere.
huh-uh...I don't have one, no one in my family/friends/aquaitances has one.
I was talking about ubiquitous use here, not -one- compnay offering it as a service used by a minority of its costummers.
and charges me $1500
I specifically mentionned skimming small amounts from many people...you are sounding more and more like a troll.
So I don't need to offer theories and logic to counter your ridiculous, paranoid fear
Indeed!
Your reply contained no logic, I'm surprised you point this out yourself.
Later he throws in this little paranoia bit about "Do you really want your car's tires broadcasting your every move?" What's that about? He knows they don't "broadcast" and that you'd have to be within several feet to monitor. You already have a frickin license plate on your car, so who cares?
Trancievers in every street light...
London would be the first city to implement it.
how long will it take for commercial "scanners" to come around, so you can locate the chip and neutralize it?
How long will it take for DMCA-like laws that make that practice illegal?
I can't WAIT for the day when I just walk out the door with a cart full of stuff and it's automatically taken out of my checking account. that would well be worth someone being able to count how many hammers I buy in a month.
Yes, and I can't wait for organised crime to automatically skim a lil' bit off the top of all our checking accounts as we walk past 'em.
Not much, just a few bucks per person, walk around in a crowd and you'd make a few thousand dollars in minutes...