The difference would be if AAA had arranged it so that every intersection of every highway had a color assigned to each road, and then you'd just follow red-red-blue-red-blue and it would be guaranteed to get you to your destination in Florida -- regardless of whether you were already in Florida, or in New York, or in Washington.
I probably shouldn't post this, but I was at the meeting. Here's how it went down.
FBI: Hello, AT&T, can we have the phone records for 123-555-6789? As you can see here, we have a warrant here to tap that number, because it belongs to Osama Bin Laden. In fact, it says so right on the caller ID! AT&T: Why, certainly! And while we're at it, here are the records for several hundred thousand Americans who are completely or only tangentially related. We hope this helps! FBI: No, please, stop! We don't want that data! AT&T: Don't be so modest. Here's a few hundred thousand more! FBI: Please! Stop! Don't! You're offending the very values upon which J. Edgar Hoover built this place!
Use your NewYorkCountryLawyer powers and just Jedi it up there. I don't know. I'm sure none of the seven people left on Slashdot who don't know who you are work on staff, so if you can contact any of them, I'm sure it'll show up.
I don't really watch Numb3rs, but I remember catching an episode where they had a suspect who was fleeing down the crowded interstate, and the detective guy was really frustrated because he thought he lost him, but thankfully Math-man was there and he happened to have a bunch of data on traffic patterns on-hand and right there, then used equations from fluid dynamics (which he cranked out in his head on the fly) to draw a little circle on the map to predict where the guy would wind up, and the detective guy was like "HOLY SHIT THERE'S A PARKING GARAGE THERE" and that's exactly where they found him.
I don't know if that's representative of the series or not, but I have to say that I find "enhance" much more believable.
I have never used eBay to buy or sell anything We could tell that as soon as you said "begins its slide into the pit," as if eBay's management has been particularly stellar until this point. The same eBay that owns Paypal -- the same eBay that after all these years just addressed the retaliatory feedback problem that everyone complained about with a solution that nobody wanted. The same eBay that is notorious for its rampant scams, frauds and pseudo-legal "fine print" schemes. The same eBay that enabled this entire debacle by offering companies, and not just Scientology, virtually unfettered administrative access to their auction listings, and then actively refused to police its use -- the same eBay that so bends over backwards to service the needs of companies who have nothing to do with the operation of the site but make nebulous claims of abuses of their rights by sellers, and the very same eBay that then whips around and tells its own customers concerned with the potential for abuse by VeRO that they are protected by "legally-binding agreements." That very same eBay has fed us that very same line before, when it says our protection against fraudulent sellers and buyers is -- you guessed it -- legally-binding agreements. And from what I can see, the legally-binding agreements for VeRO carry the very same weight as the legally-binding agreements for auctions.
eBay isn't sliding into the pit -- it IS the #1 festering, stinking cesspit on the Internet. I hope that Scientology and other VeRO users abuse the everliving shit out of the system, convincing people to finally throw up their hands and go somewhere else, and VeRO promises not to disappoint.
Do both. Going after the advertisers is an effective way to persuade an ad-driven media company. No advertiser sticks around when they realize that their ad campaign is actively harming their company. We need more people telling sites like Kongregate that they won't be visiting since they support this shit, and then sites like Kongregate probably won't support it anymore and Facebook won't get paid for it and the entire Beacon campaign will get dropped like a ton of bricks.
Let's imagine another hypothetical: one where Dvorak is a respected columnist who is taken seriously. I can see the Slashdot comments now: "Wow, another Dvorak article! Hooray!" "No one understands the industry better than Dvorak!" "This is one of the most insightful and valuable things I've read all week!"
Of course, this is just a hypothetical, and like the one in the article itself has little to do with reality.
This was not a strategy to get the voting machines back into play in the places which rejected them. Diebold is a very old company going back into the 19th century, and was until relatively recently a very well established and trusted name in security equipment. The Diebold Elections Systems division has not only failed to produce reliable products, but has garnered enormous bad press which has reflected extremely negatively upon that name. Regardless of what their true motives are with Diebold Election Systems, I think everyone can see why any rational executive at Diebold would see the need to protect the Diebold name. A good name is one of the greatest assets a company in any industry can have, and especially so in security, where trust comes grudgingly. If Diebold seems incompetent, possibly malicious, with its election systems, why would you, the bank manager, trust them to build your ATM machines?
Calling them Premier Election Systems does not undo the damage that's been done, but it does help deflect future damages. Any attempt to recertify the machines under the new name is probably something they still would have done under the old name.
That doesn't make the machines any less awful. It doesn't absolve Diebold of the responsibility for what it has done, nor does it mean that their ATM machines are any more trustworthy now. If I were the bank manager, I probably still would not buy their machines. But, if we are going to criticize the company for its incompetence, let us at least criticize them for the incompetencies which they demonstrate -- not ones which we misinterpret into their strategies.
Without doing any research into this, I'd guess that those countries with a share of the playerbase large enough to have more than a million or so invested would be those countries large enough that a mere million wouldn't drop their rank below 90, such as the United States and China. In any case, if we assume that the loss of 9m would substantially alter the rankings of the countries, this would only work to WoW's advantage in this calculation, further emphasizing the writer's calculation.
I think the comparison is an insightful one. It is not to say "let's go make Azeroth irl doodz," or at least, that's not how I interpret it. This is a very intuitive way to illustrate the meaning of the number "9,000,000."
There is no such thing as a movie pirate -- there are only copyright protection enablers! Without this "piracy," the industry would never have been successful in acquiring tools like the DMCA, which in turn make DRM legally defensible, which must be a good thing, because it enables consumer choice! If DRM is good for the consumer, then piracy is good for the industry! Also, I am pleased to announce that henceforth up shall be referred to as down.
At age 18, a man is old enough to have to notify the government where he lives at all times, or risk imprisonment. Since he is apparently eligible and responsible enough to be on 24-hour call to put his life on hold -- possibly forever -- to go fight a war, shouldn't he be eligible to drink a beer and enjoy the full benefits of citizenship in a nation that demands such self-sacrifice?
Slashdot is apparently now accepting terrible editorialization of news stories.
It is well known that eBay does not know its buyers and sellers. It cannot filter out scammers and fraudsters. Expecting it to filter out murderers is even more insane -- so insane that I can only speculate that this is not what the poster even has in mind. I assume, then, that the poster's complaint is that eBay allows these items to be listed in the first place.
Apparently, the poster is extremely fond of gun control. That's fine. You're entitled to your opinion. Choosing to capitalize on a tragedy to motivate a witch hunt in the name of your ideologies is another matter entirely. eBay allowed listing of these parts in full and complete compliance with state and federal laws -- laws which eBay has, in general, gone above and beyond the call of duty to satisfy.
This witch hunt smells to me of exactly the same bullshit we went through after 9/11, when people looked for anyone and anything to blame, and when highly questionable "solutions" were pushed through the legislature with little thought or caution. And now after Va. Tech, we've got the usual crowd of people utterly unable to accept a world in which tragedy is a reality, attempting to blame anyone and anything for allowing this to happen. eBay gets blamed for allowing Cho to purchase magazines, even though these magazines were readily available elsewhere. Video games get blamed for allowing Cho to "train" for the murder. And, of course, the right of the People to keep and bear arms gets blamed for giving him the freedom to own firearms in the first place. Of course, the second amendment is hardly the only victim in the aftermath of all this: the first amendment has also suffered considerably, with people getting arrested for having highly laughable "warning signs," like violent writing.
Frankly, these school shooting do not scare me. I fully accept that someday, it could be me among the dead in such a tragedy -- or my wife, my sons, or my daughters. But, eventually, my name will be among the dead for one reason or another. I refuse to live what days I have left, be it 100 years or be it a week, gripped in fear about when the curtain will drop on my life. And so what scares me far more than school shooters and terrorists are the people who are unable to do this; people whose fear is so profound that they will not only undermine their own lives in a futile attempt to stop death, but they'll demand that you undermine yours as well, ironically by undermining the very rights that literally millions of people have voluntarily stepped into the line of fire to protect.
So, in conclusion, I do not find Cho to be a terribly threatening in the grand scheme of things -- not nearly so threatening as folks like Jack Thompson or, apparently, the author of this post, who attempt to inflame the matter with laughable policy suggestions that curtail our freedoms and do nothing to maker us safer.
Oh, sure, it's all well and good to talk about the common man's right to a hammer. But, why oversimplify it as an either/or thing? Surely it is not so black and white as "you can have all hammers, or no hammers." Why would a common man need a high-grade carpenter's hammer? What about hammers with assault prongs, which are used to violently rip teeth from gums? What about sledgehammers, whose sole purvue is destruction?
I propose a few common-sense regulations on hammers. Hammers with weights over 16 ounces and two or more of the following features should be banned: 1. Handles longer than 6 inches 2. Black rubber or plastic grip 3. Concealed screwdriver or other implements 4. Attached pick or prongs 5. Metalic handle
There is simply no reason why the general public should possess the same hammers as carpenters.
I envision there one day being a vast network of computers, accessible to all, containing limitless mountains of data -- and on this network, the common man will finally be able to communicate with his kinsmen worldwide and transcend all borders. Finally, free of the tyranny of governments and liberated from the logistics of contemporary communication, Mankind shall at last realize his full artistic potential. No more need a man hide his drawings of the horribly mutated, furry Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk engaged in sadomasochistic intercourse as they eject feces from their hermaphroditic nipples; it shall be available to all, stumbled across by those just trying to fi--
You know, now that I think about it, you're right. If you can get some torches and pitchforks together, I'll rally the townspeople, and we can storm Bell Labs.
With several businesses now owning their own Unix mainframes, and with some futurists speculating that hobbyists may one day have full-fledged Unix systems in their basements, a detailed understanding of Unix operation -- including its intricacies, like these "processes" -- becomes increasingly important, even for people not charged with the operation of one of these computational goliaths. I for one plan to study these "processes" carefully.
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The difference would be if AAA had arranged it so that every intersection of every highway had a color assigned to each road, and then you'd just follow red-red-blue-red-blue and it would be guaranteed to get you to your destination in Florida -- regardless of whether you were already in Florida, or in New York, or in Washington.
Having traveled a bit, I feel confident saying that Wikipedia's worldwide list of airports is what you're looking for.
I probably shouldn't post this, but I was at the meeting. Here's how it went down.
FBI: Hello, AT&T, can we have the phone records for 123-555-6789? As you can see here, we have a warrant here to tap that number, because it belongs to Osama Bin Laden. In fact, it says so right on the caller ID!
AT&T: Why, certainly! And while we're at it, here are the records for several hundred thousand Americans who are completely or only tangentially related. We hope this helps!
FBI: No, please, stop! We don't want that data!
AT&T: Don't be so modest. Here's a few hundred thousand more!
FBI: Please! Stop! Don't! You're offending the very values upon which J. Edgar Hoover built this place!
That's exactly how it happened.
Use your NewYorkCountryLawyer powers and just Jedi it up there. I don't know. I'm sure none of the seven people left on Slashdot who don't know who you are work on staff, so if you can contact any of them, I'm sure it'll show up.
I don't really watch Numb3rs, but I remember catching an episode where they had a suspect who was fleeing down the crowded interstate, and the detective guy was really frustrated because he thought he lost him, but thankfully Math-man was there and he happened to have a bunch of data on traffic patterns on-hand and right there, then used equations from fluid dynamics (which he cranked out in his head on the fly) to draw a little circle on the map to predict where the guy would wind up, and the detective guy was like "HOLY SHIT THERE'S A PARKING GARAGE THERE" and that's exactly where they found him.
I don't know if that's representative of the series or not, but I have to say that I find "enhance" much more believable.
Was there something terribly wrong with wipers to begin with?
eBay isn't sliding into the pit -- it IS the #1 festering, stinking cesspit on the Internet. I hope that Scientology and other VeRO users abuse the everliving shit out of the system, convincing people to finally throw up their hands and go somewhere else, and VeRO promises not to disappoint.
If that's "+5 Insightful" around here these day, then I want a piece of the action: 1 + 1 = 2. This profound result is equally surprising.
If you're implying that we're bad by comparison, might I remind you that it had been posted on SpaceDigg over a billion years before that?
As it improves staff morale, memes will leak out into the security lines. A staff video will be posted to the forums:
TSA guard: ID please?
Traveller: Sure thing.
TSA guard: mmmhmmm... Well, Bob, terroristsayswhat?
Traveller: what?
TSA guard: oh ho ho, to gitmo we go!
and across the nation, copycat guards will try to duplicate it.
Have you tried playing it?
The tech industry looks back at another crappy Dvorak year.
Do both. Going after the advertisers is an effective way to persuade an ad-driven media company. No advertiser sticks around when they realize that their ad campaign is actively harming their company. We need more people telling sites like Kongregate that they won't be visiting since they support this shit, and then sites like Kongregate probably won't support it anymore and Facebook won't get paid for it and the entire Beacon campaign will get dropped like a ton of bricks.
Let's imagine another hypothetical: one where Dvorak is a respected columnist who is taken seriously. I can see the Slashdot comments now: "Wow, another Dvorak article! Hooray!" "No one understands the industry better than Dvorak!" "This is one of the most insightful and valuable things I've read all week!"
Of course, this is just a hypothetical, and like the one in the article itself has little to do with reality.
This was not a strategy to get the voting machines back into play in the places which rejected them. Diebold is a very old company going back into the 19th century, and was until relatively recently a very well established and trusted name in security equipment. The Diebold Elections Systems division has not only failed to produce reliable products, but has garnered enormous bad press which has reflected extremely negatively upon that name. Regardless of what their true motives are with Diebold Election Systems, I think everyone can see why any rational executive at Diebold would see the need to protect the Diebold name. A good name is one of the greatest assets a company in any industry can have, and especially so in security, where trust comes grudgingly. If Diebold seems incompetent, possibly malicious, with its election systems, why would you, the bank manager, trust them to build your ATM machines?
Calling them Premier Election Systems does not undo the damage that's been done, but it does help deflect future damages. Any attempt to recertify the machines under the new name is probably something they still would have done under the old name.
That doesn't make the machines any less awful. It doesn't absolve Diebold of the responsibility for what it has done, nor does it mean that their ATM machines are any more trustworthy now. If I were the bank manager, I probably still would not buy their machines. But, if we are going to criticize the company for its incompetence, let us at least criticize them for the incompetencies which they demonstrate -- not ones which we misinterpret into their strategies.
No, the 9th Circuit is a federal court, and so this decision has consequences nation-wide.
Without doing any research into this, I'd guess that those countries with a share of the playerbase large enough to have more than a million or so invested would be those countries large enough that a mere million wouldn't drop their rank below 90, such as the United States and China. In any case, if we assume that the loss of 9m would substantially alter the rankings of the countries, this would only work to WoW's advantage in this calculation, further emphasizing the writer's calculation.
I think the comparison is an insightful one. It is not to say "let's go make Azeroth irl doodz," or at least, that's not how I interpret it. This is a very intuitive way to illustrate the meaning of the number "9,000,000."
There is no such thing as a movie pirate -- there are only copyright protection enablers! Without this "piracy," the industry would never have been successful in acquiring tools like the DMCA, which in turn make DRM legally defensible, which must be a good thing, because it enables consumer choice! If DRM is good for the consumer, then piracy is good for the industry! Also, I am pleased to announce that henceforth up shall be referred to as down.
At age 18, a man is old enough to have to notify the government where he lives at all times, or risk imprisonment. Since he is apparently eligible and responsible enough to be on 24-hour call to put his life on hold -- possibly forever -- to go fight a war, shouldn't he be eligible to drink a beer and enjoy the full benefits of citizenship in a nation that demands such self-sacrifice?
Sir, is this a-
HEY, YOUR NAME IS OSWALD LIKE THAT ASSASSIN GUY. My god, another warning sign! HAUL HIM OFF TO CUBA!
Slashdot is apparently now accepting terrible editorialization of news stories.
It is well known that eBay does not know its buyers and sellers. It cannot filter out scammers and fraudsters. Expecting it to filter out murderers is even more insane -- so insane that I can only speculate that this is not what the poster even has in mind. I assume, then, that the poster's complaint is that eBay allows these items to be listed in the first place.
Apparently, the poster is extremely fond of gun control. That's fine. You're entitled to your opinion. Choosing to capitalize on a tragedy to motivate a witch hunt in the name of your ideologies is another matter entirely. eBay allowed listing of these parts in full and complete compliance with state and federal laws -- laws which eBay has, in general, gone above and beyond the call of duty to satisfy.
This witch hunt smells to me of exactly the same bullshit we went through after 9/11, when people looked for anyone and anything to blame, and when highly questionable "solutions" were pushed through the legislature with little thought or caution. And now after Va. Tech, we've got the usual crowd of people utterly unable to accept a world in which tragedy is a reality, attempting to blame anyone and anything for allowing this to happen. eBay gets blamed for allowing Cho to purchase magazines, even though these magazines were readily available elsewhere. Video games get blamed for allowing Cho to "train" for the murder. And, of course, the right of the People to keep and bear arms gets blamed for giving him the freedom to own firearms in the first place. Of course, the second amendment is hardly the only victim in the aftermath of all this: the first amendment has also suffered considerably, with people getting arrested for having highly laughable "warning signs," like violent writing.
Frankly, these school shooting do not scare me. I fully accept that someday, it could be me among the dead in such a tragedy -- or my wife, my sons, or my daughters. But, eventually, my name will be among the dead for one reason or another. I refuse to live what days I have left, be it 100 years or be it a week, gripped in fear about when the curtain will drop on my life. And so what scares me far more than school shooters and terrorists are the people who are unable to do this; people whose fear is so profound that they will not only undermine their own lives in a futile attempt to stop death, but they'll demand that you undermine yours as well, ironically by undermining the very rights that literally millions of people have voluntarily stepped into the line of fire to protect.
So, in conclusion, I do not find Cho to be a terribly threatening in the grand scheme of things -- not nearly so threatening as folks like Jack Thompson or, apparently, the author of this post, who attempt to inflame the matter with laughable policy suggestions that curtail our freedoms and do nothing to maker us safer.
Oh, sure, it's all well and good to talk about the common man's right to a hammer. But, why oversimplify it as an either/or thing? Surely it is not so black and white as "you can have all hammers, or no hammers." Why would a common man need a high-grade carpenter's hammer? What about hammers with assault prongs, which are used to violently rip teeth from gums? What about sledgehammers, whose sole purvue is destruction?
I propose a few common-sense regulations on hammers. Hammers with weights over 16 ounces and two or more of the following features should be banned:
1. Handles longer than 6 inches
2. Black rubber or plastic grip
3. Concealed screwdriver or other implements
4. Attached pick or prongs
5. Metalic handle
There is simply no reason why the general public should possess the same hammers as carpenters.
I envision there one day being a vast network of computers, accessible to all, containing limitless mountains of data -- and on this network, the common man will finally be able to communicate with his kinsmen worldwide and transcend all borders. Finally, free of the tyranny of governments and liberated from the logistics of contemporary communication, Mankind shall at last realize his full artistic potential. No more need a man hide his drawings of the horribly mutated, furry Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk engaged in sadomasochistic intercourse as they eject feces from their hermaphroditic nipples; it shall be available to all, stumbled across by those just trying to fi--
You know, now that I think about it, you're right. If you can get some torches and pitchforks together, I'll rally the townspeople, and we can storm Bell Labs.
With several businesses now owning their own Unix mainframes, and with some futurists speculating that hobbyists may one day have full-fledged Unix systems in their basements, a detailed understanding of Unix operation -- including its intricacies, like these "processes" -- becomes increasingly important, even for people not charged with the operation of one of these computational goliaths. I for one plan to study these "processes" carefully.
Is that your $0.02, or your $.0002?