Its not stupid, its called not being the lowest common denominator and we need to be better at it more often. Regardless of what the radicals or moderates in Islam say or what their reaction is, we should continue to criticise those members of our own society that are willing to incite others for whatever reason - that is what makes us better than them, and that is why we like to live in our society rather than theirs.
Attempting to change their society will never, ever succeed, its only going to cause more issues than it solves. So the answer is not to change them, but to ignore them and certainly never, ever become like them.
Burning the Koran is a deliberate incitement, and is on a different level to the Islamic radicals burning American or western flags or Bibles, because we have a significantly lower attachment to the actual physical object (although in some ways, American patriotism and anti-flag burning movements are starting to become a religion in themselves) - burning an American flag or bible isn't going to get the streets filled with hundreds of thousands of Americans denouncing Iran or whomever, its barely going to register on our news cycle that evening.
Let me try and put this as an example in a purely western scenario - imagine what it would be like if, instead of books, we were talking about abortions, and imagine if instead of burning the book as a protest against what the book stands for, we had the anti-abortionist groups deliberately having abortions as a protest. How many abortions would it take until the other side gives in? How many abortions would it take until society takes action? Sure, the analogy looks wrong, and perhaps it is in some ways, but in both cases its an example (mine is probably a highly extreme example) of the protesters becoming what they protest against in order to facilitate that protest - in this case, the church are becoming the radical group that is deliberately inciting the other party.
As a higher denominator, this is what we should be preventing - because its not on our level, its far below it and I don't enjoy being part of a society that can stoop that low.
I've got both an iPhone 3G and a Nokia N900 (and also an iPad). Back in April I switched to the N900 because I liked it and it was open. I switched back around the start of July. The reason was simple enough - the application range for the N900 sucked badly, and the Ovi store is extremely poor.
Even with a fully open platform at their disposal, the application market is sorely lacking and the closed platform wins hands down. If I could have the iPhones application market on the N900s hardware, I would be happy.
I do find it interesting how the acceptance of automated actions here on slashdot changes from moment to moment - so opt-in automated updates is a security hazard, but opt-out automated updates are not a violation of privacy *and* a security hazard (you are allowing the automated update server install whatever it wishes on your system)?
At the very very least, Firefox should give you the option to opt-in or out on first start up - it doesn't, and that imho is poor.
1. Let me repeat this slowly - I do not want a gimped Awesome Bar, I want the pre-Awesome Bar functionality. That suggestion does not give me that. Currently no suggestions put forward in any of the times I have mentioned this on any of the forums I have discussed it in has reverted the behaviour, its just broken the AB in some way or other.
2. That should be unticked by default - that is my entire point. Having the option to untick it does not negate the fact that it shouldnt be ticked in the first place.
3. And what if I am copying something from another tab to do just that? Ooops, I can't - I must dismiss the dialog, go to the other tab, get the information, return, refresh the page to get the dialog back and then deal with it. Stupid and unnecessary.
Because of stupid ass stunts like foisting the 'Awesome Bar' on us with no option to completely revert back to the old behaviour (no, setting maxRichResults to 0 DOES NOT WORK before someone chimes up with it - it gimps the AB somewhat but it does not revert it to pre-AB behaviour).
Because of stupid ass stunts like turning on silent automatic updates by default when we bitched and shouted at Microsoft for doing exactly the same thing.
Because of the way activity in one tab can still block the entire browser, such as showing an authentication prompt (no way to switch to another tab while that there box is showing).
Both Feta and the proper name of Parmesan enjoy "protected designation of origin" status within the EU already, as well as plenty of other foods such as Parma Ham.
When it became better supported in devices than the alternative - a CPU bound codec will never be preferential to a hardware accelerated codec, regardless of how many people want it to be. Come back when WebM is hardware accelerated in a good proportion of devices and we can talk.
Firefox, on the other hand uses a password that protects them either when you try to view the passwords through the dialog box, OR when the passwords have to get loaded in order to be used by a site.
Not by default it doesn't - "Use a master password" is unchecked by default, meaning very few people are actually protected by it.
To all the conspiracy theorists out there on this - do you really think the CIA/NSA/Pentagon Special (because their mommy says so) Activities Group couldn't come up with something a little more watertight and less... rubbish than this? Do you really think they would have any difficulty coming up with an *actual* rape victim if they were behind this? Someone who had a black eye, bruises on their wrists and arms, signs of forced entry, high emotional distress rather than a case that hinges on whether a condom was worn or not?
School leavers handwriting skills are getting worse year on year based on what I have seen - in the past month I have met with 4 17 year olds who have handwriting that I would expect from a 10 year old, yet they can type quite well.
The problem is, with the bulk of the Slashdot community the universe will change the moment someone delivers to their requirements - it is nothing but a justification for going to torrents.
When iTunes music was DRMed, it was the DRM. When the DRM was removed, it was the price. When the price was lowered, it was *still* the price. There are people in this comment thread that say 99c is too much, and it should be ad driven - despite the amount of flak ads take on all mediums here on this site, and the amount of effort expended to remove them from web pages and tv streams.
Forget books, I used to routinely run RPG sessions in school with nothing but myself (GM), five or six friends, an empty room or space, pens and paper. No dice, no books, nothing.
I ran the game and made the decisions, and because I was fair doing it no one ever complained about the lack of dice or adherence to rules - I made it fun to play and that is all you really need.
While the B-1s were converted to conventional capabilities in the 1990s (a direct result of them being unable to take part in the First Gulf War), they never lost the ability to carry and deploy nukes - they stayed in a dual capabilities role until fairly recently when the B-1B was paper derated from the nuclear role. To return to the nuclear role would be a simple enough exercise.
They have been doing most of their moves quietly. There is a 'public' flight from Venezuela airline that move between Venezuela, Syria, and Iran. The only problem is that when the publica tries to book a flight, you can not get on it.
Yeah, this hit the 'news' recently, and its a load of twaddle. The actual route is a circular route between Tehran-Beirut-Damascus-Caracus (Iran Air flight 744) and the 'issue' of not being able to book a seat on it was raised by an Israeli intelligence operative.
The problem is, you can certainly book a flight on it, there are even aviation enthusiasts that have published trip reports (http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.main/107603).
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Why would you hate to see a C# to Dalvik compiler? Whats wrong with broadening the options available to developers?
Firstly, my point about hauling the house was meant for the unbelievably stupid concept of having the shuttle built to haul several tonnes of cargo on top of its crew of seven people while the basic issues of risk have not been solved. The very fact that you have a heavy cargo on board increases the risk to the crew to, in my humble opinion, unacceptable levels as you increase the complexity of onboard systems, control, abort scenarios etc etc etc.
Secondly, aviation was horrendously dangerous in the first few decades - today, the number of people in the air at any one moment drastically outweighs the number of people killed in aviation related accidents every year. Airplanes regularly carry 400 or more people through the air, all the while carrying several hundred tonnes of highly flammable fuel onboard - but improvements in safety have drastically reduced the risk of carrying that fuel, allowing for longer and longer flights.
When you see the orbiters they look like they just rolled out of the factory. Anything you read about orbiters deteriorating is a lie. They are pristine.
With all the money and attention lavished on them, that is as it should be.
Many people are still in denial that this county would be so stupid as to throw away such magnificent machines and they want to be there to keep them flying when we come to our senses.
The shuttles barely have a niche now, and that niche only exists because people work hard to make it exist - the shuttles are a prime example of what not to do, and I couldn't care less (yes, that is the correct way to use that phrase - its "couldn't" not "could") if the shuttles never fleww again.
What the US needs now is a commuter vehicle, something that runs as regular as a standard family car, with similar maintenance levels, not classic car levels. The US does not need a 'do it all' vehicle which comes with an appropriately sized superbudget, it does not need the ability to haul the entire house with it each time it makes the commute from the house to the office. Leave the heavy lift to specialised vehicles, and leave the commuting to specialised vehicles - they are separate problems, they should have separate solutions.
Im guessing the fact that the US (and the UK) had kept a brutal dictator in power in Iran for several decades prior to that, plus the fact that the US were punishing Iranians for overthrowing said dictator (freezing Iranian assets in the US) had nothing to do with the hostage crisis...
When Paypal verified my bank account, they actually deposited two sums that totalled more than a British Pound, and never wanted it back. And yes, this was intentional!
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Its not stupid, its called not being the lowest common denominator and we need to be better at it more often. Regardless of what the radicals or moderates in Islam say or what their reaction is, we should continue to criticise those members of our own society that are willing to incite others for whatever reason - that is what makes us better than them, and that is why we like to live in our society rather than theirs.
Attempting to change their society will never, ever succeed, its only going to cause more issues than it solves. So the answer is not to change them, but to ignore them and certainly never, ever become like them.
Burning the Koran is a deliberate incitement, and is on a different level to the Islamic radicals burning American or western flags or Bibles, because we have a significantly lower attachment to the actual physical object (although in some ways, American patriotism and anti-flag burning movements are starting to become a religion in themselves) - burning an American flag or bible isn't going to get the streets filled with hundreds of thousands of Americans denouncing Iran or whomever, its barely going to register on our news cycle that evening.
Let me try and put this as an example in a purely western scenario - imagine what it would be like if, instead of books, we were talking about abortions, and imagine if instead of burning the book as a protest against what the book stands for, we had the anti-abortionist groups deliberately having abortions as a protest. How many abortions would it take until the other side gives in? How many abortions would it take until society takes action? Sure, the analogy looks wrong, and perhaps it is in some ways, but in both cases its an example (mine is probably a highly extreme example) of the protesters becoming what they protest against in order to facilitate that protest - in this case, the church are becoming the radical group that is deliberately inciting the other party.
As a higher denominator, this is what we should be preventing - because its not on our level, its far below it and I don't enjoy being part of a society that can stoop that low.
I've got both an iPhone 3G and a Nokia N900 (and also an iPad). Back in April I switched to the N900 because I liked it and it was open. I switched back around the start of July. The reason was simple enough - the application range for the N900 sucked badly, and the Ovi store is extremely poor.
Even with a fully open platform at their disposal, the application market is sorely lacking and the closed platform wins hands down. If I could have the iPhones application market on the N900s hardware, I would be happy.
I do find it interesting how the acceptance of automated actions here on slashdot changes from moment to moment - so opt-in automated updates is a security hazard, but opt-out automated updates are not a violation of privacy *and* a security hazard (you are allowing the automated update server install whatever it wishes on your system)?
At the very very least, Firefox should give you the option to opt-in or out on first start up - it doesn't, and that imho is poor.
1. Let me repeat this slowly - I do not want a gimped Awesome Bar, I want the pre-Awesome Bar functionality. That suggestion does not give me that. Currently no suggestions put forward in any of the times I have mentioned this on any of the forums I have discussed it in has reverted the behaviour, its just broken the AB in some way or other.
2. That should be unticked by default - that is my entire point. Having the option to untick it does not negate the fact that it shouldnt be ticked in the first place.
3. And what if I am copying something from another tab to do just that? Ooops, I can't - I must dismiss the dialog, go to the other tab, get the information, return, refresh the page to get the dialog back and then deal with it. Stupid and unnecessary.
Because of stupid ass stunts like foisting the 'Awesome Bar' on us with no option to completely revert back to the old behaviour (no, setting maxRichResults to 0 DOES NOT WORK before someone chimes up with it - it gimps the AB somewhat but it does not revert it to pre-AB behaviour).
Because of stupid ass stunts like turning on silent automatic updates by default when we bitched and shouted at Microsoft for doing exactly the same thing.
Because of the way activity in one tab can still block the entire browser, such as showing an authentication prompt (no way to switch to another tab while that there box is showing).
Both Feta and the proper name of Parmesan enjoy "protected designation of origin" status within the EU already, as well as plenty of other foods such as Parma Ham.
Banks are not police forces either, and yet they have to report suspicious activities and supply evidence all the time.
When it became better supported in devices than the alternative - a CPU bound codec will never be preferential to a hardware accelerated codec, regardless of how many people want it to be. Come back when WebM is hardware accelerated in a good proportion of devices and we can talk.
Firefox, on the other hand uses a password that protects them either when you try to view the passwords through the dialog box, OR when the passwords have to get loaded in order to be used by a site.
Not by default it doesn't - "Use a master password" is unchecked by default, meaning very few people are actually protected by it.
NCsoft should settle and give him vouchers for play time - its about all he deserves, and is better for NCSoft than paying out loads in lawyer fees.
So did everyone else...
Does anyone seriously think the answer to the 'content can be had for free, so people have it for free' problem is ... more content? Really?
To all the conspiracy theorists out there on this - do you really think the CIA/NSA/Pentagon Special (because their mommy says so) Activities Group couldn't come up with something a little more watertight and less ... rubbish than this? Do you really think they would have any difficulty coming up with an *actual* rape victim if they were behind this? Someone who had a black eye, bruises on their wrists and arms, signs of forced entry, high emotional distress rather than a case that hinges on whether a condom was worn or not?
At what point do you draw the line, as everything can be resolved back to mathematics...
School leavers handwriting skills are getting worse year on year based on what I have seen - in the past month I have met with 4 17 year olds who have handwriting that I would expect from a 10 year old, yet they can type quite well.
The problem is, with the bulk of the Slashdot community the universe will change the moment someone delivers to their requirements - it is nothing but a justification for going to torrents.
When iTunes music was DRMed, it was the DRM. When the DRM was removed, it was the price. When the price was lowered, it was *still* the price. There are people in this comment thread that say 99c is too much, and it should be ad driven - despite the amount of flak ads take on all mediums here on this site, and the amount of effort expended to remove them from web pages and tv streams.
Forget books, I used to routinely run RPG sessions in school with nothing but myself (GM), five or six friends, an empty room or space, pens and paper. No dice, no books, nothing.
I ran the game and made the decisions, and because I was fair doing it no one ever complained about the lack of dice or adherence to rules - I made it fun to play and that is all you really need.
While the B-1s were converted to conventional capabilities in the 1990s (a direct result of them being unable to take part in the First Gulf War), they never lost the ability to carry and deploy nukes - they stayed in a dual capabilities role until fairly recently when the B-1B was paper derated from the nuclear role. To return to the nuclear role would be a simple enough exercise.
They have been doing most of their moves quietly. There is a 'public' flight from Venezuela airline that move between Venezuela, Syria, and Iran. The only problem is that when the publica tries to book a flight, you can not get on it.
Yeah, this hit the 'news' recently, and its a load of twaddle. The actual route is a circular route between Tehran-Beirut-Damascus-Caracus (Iran Air flight 744) and the 'issue' of not being able to book a seat on it was raised by an Israeli intelligence operative.
The problem is, you can certainly book a flight on it, there are even aviation enthusiasts that have published trip reports (http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.main/107603).
Why would you hate to see a C# to Dalvik compiler? Whats wrong with broadening the options available to developers?
You misunderstand my point on several levels.
Firstly, my point about hauling the house was meant for the unbelievably stupid concept of having the shuttle built to haul several tonnes of cargo on top of its crew of seven people while the basic issues of risk have not been solved. The very fact that you have a heavy cargo on board increases the risk to the crew to, in my humble opinion, unacceptable levels as you increase the complexity of onboard systems, control, abort scenarios etc etc etc.
Secondly, aviation was horrendously dangerous in the first few decades - today, the number of people in the air at any one moment drastically outweighs the number of people killed in aviation related accidents every year. Airplanes regularly carry 400 or more people through the air, all the while carrying several hundred tonnes of highly flammable fuel onboard - but improvements in safety have drastically reduced the risk of carrying that fuel, allowing for longer and longer flights.
On the contrary, in the EU Paypal is regulated as a bank and falls under the jurisdiction of the Financial Services Authority in the UK.
When you see the orbiters they look like they just rolled out of the factory. Anything you read about orbiters deteriorating is a lie. They are pristine.
With all the money and attention lavished on them, that is as it should be.
Many people are still in denial that this county would be so stupid as to throw away such magnificent machines and they want to be there to keep them flying when we come to our senses.
The shuttles barely have a niche now, and that niche only exists because people work hard to make it exist - the shuttles are a prime example of what not to do, and I couldn't care less (yes, that is the correct way to use that phrase - its "couldn't" not "could") if the shuttles never fleww again.
What the US needs now is a commuter vehicle, something that runs as regular as a standard family car, with similar maintenance levels, not classic car levels. The US does not need a 'do it all' vehicle which comes with an appropriately sized superbudget, it does not need the ability to haul the entire house with it each time it makes the commute from the house to the office. Leave the heavy lift to specialised vehicles, and leave the commuting to specialised vehicles - they are separate problems, they should have separate solutions.
Im guessing the fact that the US (and the UK) had kept a brutal dictator in power in Iran for several decades prior to that, plus the fact that the US were punishing Iranians for overthrowing said dictator (freezing Iranian assets in the US) had nothing to do with the hostage crisis...
When Paypal verified my bank account, they actually deposited two sums that totalled more than a British Pound, and never wanted it back. And yes, this was intentional!