Let me break it down for you, real simple so as not to hurt your small brain. Until Apple started using intel processors, they were not in fact a PC maker. Remember, PC = x86 compatible.
To further defend that statement, there really aren't many major pc makers any more. It's basically HP, gateway, dell and now Apple... Apple only has similar numbers to gateway, the smallest of the big three.
The weight of evidence lies on whoever has the least plausible claim. In this case it is the government. It doesn't really matter how the plane flew into the pentagon, or if it was a missle. The biggest problem with the official theory is that it's stupid. Two planes fly into new york, and the pentagon was not on alert? It's not like the united states has no enemies, and I'm sure the pentagon has enough weapons to destroy a 757.
Everyone underplays the pentagon because not many died, and the building wasn't completely destroyed. If the united states was a dart board, the pentagon would be a bulls-eye. Given the timeline, it is totally rediculous to suggest that a sucessful attack on the pentagon was not internal.
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If we ignore lawyer fees, this leaves 50,000 people with claims against these phone companies. Given the more realistic 30 million lawyer fees, that's still 20,000 individuals who are aware that their privacy has illegally been breached.
As a customer of Bellsouth, should I just assume that they violated my privacy? What does someone do to check on this? Of couse, given the small payout amount, it would be nice to hit these companies with as many claims as possible.
This is not wikipedia, its another group that is presumably using mediawiki. Given the reputation of China, it will probably end up just being a censored wikipedia, however. Too bad that's all it can be. If there was any original content there, one would have to question the degree of communist influence.
Who cares about all that? As long as I can get a state of the art copper heatsink/fan (which is silent as water cooling) from zalman, why would I want this? The Zalman is under a 3rd of the price, and you dont have to worry about it leaking.
Wake me up when someone makes a water cooling kit that costs less than a motherboard.
That's the question I'm asking, because before this article I would have guessed microsoft was cutting back on MSN spending. Microsoft will be stopping all CDROM games on their "MSN gaming zone", which will mean a significant loss in traffic.
Wouldn't it seem more prudent to keep successful programs running while they find new programs to replace them?
Thats why you use flashblock (an extension for firefox). Usually flash ads are placed so obviously that you can tell they are ads just by their position on the page.
The big question: is it really logical to cut out the biggest feature from a release? If you ask me that just adds a ton of confusion to version numbers.
You bring up a legitimate question, but it assumes something. If a national id is to bring more security, all other insecure forms of identification must be destroyed or rendered invalid.
Example: in the past few years there have been 2 new types of bills for everything from $5 to $50. Government officials justify this saying that the new bills are harder to copy. We all know that as long as older bills are legal tender, the new bill can only hurt things, because now a clerk must be familiar with 3 versions of all the bills.
Simply introducing a new form of identification just gives another way for theives to do their work.
Windows 2000 hoses the partition table and so does Windows XP. It would be pathetic to complain that vista beta is only doing this because its not complete yet. Honestly there's no reason to release a beta unless you get the partition table handling right.
But homosexuality is not explicitly spelled out as illegal by this bill. Only the act of homosexuality. We can argue all day about wether minors should be exposed to the things that this bill is fighting about, but the fact of the matter is that it is balanced. You wouldn't have blinked if they included "act of heterosexuality", but since gay is the buzzword everyone has to get up in arms.
Face it, the whole idea of this bill is to keep minors from being exposed to free thinking and open ideas. The key to remaining sane in times like these is to keep a clear idea of what equal rights are, and what special rights are. When the goal is to shelter poor souls from violence and sexuality you can't just leave out homosexuality because it is cool to make a special exception.
On to your second statement: The only people being hurt by this bill are minors. There is no law going into effect that will ban homosexuals from playing video games. Were you really so stupid to think that a game publisher would hire a homosexual couple to model for their story? I'm tired of all the whining, what happend to the days of self respect?
I wouldn't go so far as to say that digg is stronger and cleaner. The design is less defined so things seem cleaner, but they aren't really. If there's one thing that really puts slashodot above digg it's the lack of stupid avatars. With the exception of slashdot most forums give little respect to logic or well written topics. When everything is about whos avatar is the best and who has the most posts the quality of the site quickly erodes.
I think Taco may have been targeting the wrong thing when he set guidelines. Slashdot is well respected and appreciated for its feel, not for the look. Please do not change the feel.
As the editor said, those are guidelines, and are not necessary to follow. My guess is that using similar but different icons would be a good idea, and perhaps drowning out the ugly aspects of the original design with better looking stuff would be a good idea. Nobody is expecting slashdot to look like sgi, just better than it looks now.
A skilled designer should be able to do this with little trouble, while n00bs will just do a great job of making things look even worse than they are now.
I doubt very much that "act of homosexuality" would apply to holding hands. Remember, this is not about rights of developers. Devs may avoid explicit material where appropriate because of this, but the biggest hit will be to the kids who can't play 80% of games because of this law.
The factor you mention in the last paragraph is definitly present, but it is fading to a new trend. Busses are actually quite full carrying students from their off-campus housing to the university. They provide a very large percentage of the service in Gainesville, FL (home of University of Florida). The problem is, riding a bike is more efficient, and doesn't cost non-bus riders anything. Even without considering waiting times, a bicycle will reach its destination first because it doesn't have to stop multiple times on the way.
I'm wondering though, how is it necessary for a municipal bus system to keep private competition out? You're argument is interesting, but I wonder if it would really matter. Wouldn't whichever company got the contract from the city do anything to keep it from being shut down? The city would have to realize that they were wasting an incredible amount of money on the municipal system, and actually care about it. I don't really see that happening.
In fact roads are often paid for at least in part by taxes on fuel. These taxes are collected for trucks running delivery services as well as the general public.
A much better argument that the gp could have would be bus systems. Many cities have a bus system that is funded by gas taxes. This means that people who do not ride the bus pay the vast majority of the money for those who do ride the bus. It complicates problems to do with real estate, those who live ouside bus routes end up paying for those who live inside bus routes, and the bus system artificially increases the value of homes within bus range.
There are certainly bigger problems than this wifi problem, but it's fair to criticize just from the perspective of the amount of money that is being spent on wifi. Run the calculations and you should see a large profit to the corporation with the contract, they should be providing trouble free service, and could be if there was a reasonable level of expertise running the system.
The source behind this change is editors trying to host a stand up comedy surrounding the topic of the article. The fact is that this discussion is centered around the summary and what it contains (sometimes mutiple articles). Often editors ask stupid questions at the end of a summary, and sometimes they provide useful information like the part about how cheap pirate dvds are in China.
Your point holds, but it should be understood that Jordan didn't play baseball because he thought he would be excellent. He was going through emotional loss, and grasping a straws really.
Data is stored in base 2. It only makes sense that you report the maximum storage of a storage device in base 2. Just because the masses dont understand binary doesn't make it an excuse for switching the units.
The only real problem with the system now is that sizes dont scale very nicely from one magnitude of 10 to another. When I get a 4.7GB dvd I (somewhat presumptively) expect it to hold 4,700 MB, but it doesn't. The units are confusing mostly because they borrow from metric system names for a system that is very far from base ten.
Most users get moderation ability pretty early on slashdot, but some never do, and others dont get it until a few hundred posts with a good karma rating. Slashdot has avoided problems by being conservative in their judgments. The biggest thing that people dislike about slashdot is the poor choices of posts. In the past it was the lack of a solid html code base, and slashdot did respond (very slowly). I think that the editors of slashdot realize they must pay attention to what people want, and they usually address a problem eventually.
The problem here is Intel doesn't have a processor that the public views as solid and powerful. They have a processor that fits that description (dual core mobile), but they try to push P4s at people instead.
Dell is only failing because they expect Intel to do all their work for them. If they want people to get back on board they'll have to convince them that their systems perform well.
Their models are so unlinked to the processors that they carry that this will be a disaster for dell to handle simply because they have a stupid branding scheme. Moving to AMD wont help dell, but solidifying their position will.
This whole summary is based on a false premise. I for one think it's absolutely absurd to suggest that following Hewlett Packard's business plan is a good idea. If you do that everyone will just think you're the other HP.
The condition that makes RFID tags in any capacity (not just long range ones) unsafe and irresponsible is the insecurity of identification systems in the government/big business system. As things are now, Social Security numbers and other forms of identification can be used against the holder to steal money from them. Credit card companies are getting worse and worse, and they are not held back by bought and paid for congress.
RFID is bad because it makes the job of criminals much easier, and there has been no boost in security from other areas. There is another aspect of this which is slightly more controversial: prosecution based on RFID.
The bottom line is, no machine will be as efficient and accurate at identifying what happens at a crime scene. With the use of RFID scanners you could "confirm" that John Doe was the man who broke into a jewelry shop... when in fact is was John h4x0r. Currently, the competency of courts when dealing with issues of advanced technology is a shame to the US, and with this kind of power of evidence things will only get worse.
With these two major issues raised, I ask what advantages does having personal RFIDs bring to the table? The purposes that justify checking identification now are mostly childish, and wouldn't stop any truly purposed criminal. This question is just another one of those situations where benefit/loss is so bad that it begs the question of whose side its supporters are on.
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Let me break it down for you, real simple so as not to hurt your small brain. Until Apple started using intel processors, they were not in fact a PC maker. Remember, PC = x86 compatible.
To further defend that statement, there really aren't many major pc makers any more. It's basically HP, gateway, dell and now Apple... Apple only has similar numbers to gateway, the smallest of the big three.
You throw a pitch in a ball game and you throw wide one foot left of the strike zone.
For some of us, that would be close.
The weight of evidence lies on whoever has the least plausible claim. In this case it is the government. It doesn't really matter how the plane flew into the pentagon, or if it was a missle. The biggest problem with the official theory is that it's stupid. Two planes fly into new york, and the pentagon was not on alert? It's not like the united states has no enemies, and I'm sure the pentagon has enough weapons to destroy a 757.
Everyone underplays the pentagon because not many died, and the building wasn't completely destroyed. If the united states was a dart board, the pentagon would be a bulls-eye. Given the timeline, it is totally rediculous to suggest that a sucessful attack on the pentagon was not internal.
because that worked oh so well for copyright.
If we ignore lawyer fees, this leaves 50,000 people with claims against these phone companies. Given the more realistic 30 million lawyer fees, that's still 20,000 individuals who are aware that their privacy has illegally been breached.
As a customer of Bellsouth, should I just assume that they violated my privacy? What does someone do to check on this? Of couse, given the small payout amount, it would be nice to hit these companies with as many claims as possible.
This is not wikipedia, its another group that is presumably using mediawiki. Given the reputation of China, it will probably end up just being a censored wikipedia, however. Too bad that's all it can be. If there was any original content there, one would have to question the degree of communist influence.
Who cares about all that? As long as I can get a state of the art copper heatsink/fan (which is silent as water cooling) from zalman, why would I want this? The Zalman is under a 3rd of the price, and you dont have to worry about it leaking.
Wake me up when someone makes a water cooling kit that costs less than a motherboard.
That's the question I'm asking, because before this article I would have guessed microsoft was cutting back on MSN spending. Microsoft will be stopping all CDROM games on their "MSN gaming zone", which will mean a significant loss in traffic.
Wouldn't it seem more prudent to keep successful programs running while they find new programs to replace them?
Thats why you use flashblock (an extension for firefox). Usually flash ads are placed so obviously that you can tell they are ads just by their position on the page.
The big question: is it really logical to cut out the biggest feature from a release? If you ask me that just adds a ton of confusion to version numbers.
If you are so against privacy then why are you posting anonymously?
You bring up a legitimate question, but it assumes something. If a national id is to bring more security, all other insecure forms of identification must be destroyed or rendered invalid.
Example: in the past few years there have been 2 new types of bills for everything from $5 to $50. Government officials justify this saying that the new bills are harder to copy. We all know that as long as older bills are legal tender, the new bill can only hurt things, because now a clerk must be familiar with 3 versions of all the bills.
Simply introducing a new form of identification just gives another way for theives to do their work.
Windows 2000 hoses the partition table and so does Windows XP. It would be pathetic to complain that vista beta is only doing this because its not complete yet. Honestly there's no reason to release a beta unless you get the partition table handling right.
But homosexuality is not explicitly spelled out as illegal by this bill. Only the act of homosexuality. We can argue all day about wether minors should be exposed to the things that this bill is fighting about, but the fact of the matter is that it is balanced. You wouldn't have blinked if they included "act of heterosexuality", but since gay is the buzzword everyone has to get up in arms.
Face it, the whole idea of this bill is to keep minors from being exposed to free thinking and open ideas. The key to remaining sane in times like these is to keep a clear idea of what equal rights are, and what special rights are. When the goal is to shelter poor souls from violence and sexuality you can't just leave out homosexuality because it is cool to make a special exception.
On to your second statement: The only people being hurt by this bill are minors. There is no law going into effect that will ban homosexuals from playing video games. Were you really so stupid to think that a game publisher would hire a homosexual couple to model for their story? I'm tired of all the whining, what happend to the days of self respect?
I wouldn't go so far as to say that digg is stronger and cleaner. The design is less defined so things seem cleaner, but they aren't really. If there's one thing that really puts slashodot above digg it's the lack of stupid avatars. With the exception of slashdot most forums give little respect to logic or well written topics. When everything is about whos avatar is the best and who has the most posts the quality of the site quickly erodes.
I think Taco may have been targeting the wrong thing when he set guidelines. Slashdot is well respected and appreciated for its feel, not for the look. Please do not change the feel.
As the editor said, those are guidelines, and are not necessary to follow. My guess is that using similar but different icons would be a good idea, and perhaps drowning out the ugly aspects of the original design with better looking stuff would be a good idea. Nobody is expecting slashdot to look like sgi, just better than it looks now.
A skilled designer should be able to do this with little trouble, while n00bs will just do a great job of making things look even worse than they are now.
I doubt very much that "act of homosexuality" would apply to holding hands. Remember, this is not about rights of developers. Devs may avoid explicit material where appropriate because of this, but the biggest hit will be to the kids who can't play 80% of games because of this law.
The factor you mention in the last paragraph is definitly present, but it is fading to a new trend. Busses are actually quite full carrying students from their off-campus housing to the university. They provide a very large percentage of the service in Gainesville, FL (home of University of Florida). The problem is, riding a bike is more efficient, and doesn't cost non-bus riders anything. Even without considering waiting times, a bicycle will reach its destination first because it doesn't have to stop multiple times on the way.
I'm wondering though, how is it necessary for a municipal bus system to keep private competition out? You're argument is interesting, but I wonder if it would really matter. Wouldn't whichever company got the contract from the city do anything to keep it from being shut down? The city would have to realize that they were wasting an incredible amount of money on the municipal system, and actually care about it. I don't really see that happening.
In fact roads are often paid for at least in part by taxes on fuel. These taxes are collected for trucks running delivery services as well as the general public.
A much better argument that the gp could have would be bus systems. Many cities have a bus system that is funded by gas taxes. This means that people who do not ride the bus pay the vast majority of the money for those who do ride the bus. It complicates problems to do with real estate, those who live ouside bus routes end up paying for those who live inside bus routes, and the bus system artificially increases the value of homes within bus range.
There are certainly bigger problems than this wifi problem, but it's fair to criticize just from the perspective of the amount of money that is being spent on wifi. Run the calculations and you should see a large profit to the corporation with the contract, they should be providing trouble free service, and could be if there was a reasonable level of expertise running the system.
The source behind this change is editors trying to host a stand up comedy surrounding the topic of the article. The fact is that this discussion is centered around the summary and what it contains (sometimes mutiple articles). Often editors ask stupid questions at the end of a summary, and sometimes they provide useful information like the part about how cheap pirate dvds are in China.
Your point holds, but it should be understood that Jordan didn't play baseball because he thought he would be excellent. He was going through emotional loss, and grasping a straws really.
Data is stored in base 2. It only makes sense that you report the maximum storage of a storage device in base 2. Just because the masses dont understand binary doesn't make it an excuse for switching the units.
The only real problem with the system now is that sizes dont scale very nicely from one magnitude of 10 to another. When I get a 4.7GB dvd I (somewhat presumptively) expect it to hold 4,700 MB, but it doesn't. The units are confusing mostly because they borrow from metric system names for a system that is very far from base ten.
Most users get moderation ability pretty early on slashdot, but some never do, and others dont get it until a few hundred posts with a good karma rating. Slashdot has avoided problems by being conservative in their judgments. The biggest thing that people dislike about slashdot is the poor choices of posts. In the past it was the lack of a solid html code base, and slashdot did respond (very slowly). I think that the editors of slashdot realize they must pay attention to what people want, and they usually address a problem eventually.
The problem here is Intel doesn't have a processor that the public views as solid and powerful. They have a processor that fits that description (dual core mobile), but they try to push P4s at people instead.
Dell is only failing because they expect Intel to do all their work for them. If they want people to get back on board they'll have to convince them that their systems perform well.
Their models are so unlinked to the processors that they carry that this will be a disaster for dell to handle simply because they have a stupid branding scheme. Moving to AMD wont help dell, but solidifying their position will.
This whole summary is based on a false premise. I for one think it's absolutely absurd to suggest that following Hewlett Packard's business plan is a good idea. If you do that everyone will just think you're the other HP.
The condition that makes RFID tags in any capacity (not just long range ones) unsafe and irresponsible is the insecurity of identification systems in the government/big business system. As things are now, Social Security numbers and other forms of identification can be used against the holder to steal money from them. Credit card companies are getting worse and worse, and they are not held back by bought and paid for congress.
RFID is bad because it makes the job of criminals much easier, and there has been no boost in security from other areas. There is another aspect of this which is slightly more controversial: prosecution based on RFID.
The bottom line is, no machine will be as efficient and accurate at identifying what happens at a crime scene. With the use of RFID scanners you could "confirm" that John Doe was the man who broke into a jewelry shop... when in fact is was John h4x0r. Currently, the competency of courts when dealing with issues of advanced technology is a shame to the US, and with this kind of power of evidence things will only get worse.
With these two major issues raised, I ask what advantages does having personal RFIDs bring to the table? The purposes that justify checking identification now are mostly childish, and wouldn't stop any truly purposed criminal. This question is just another one of those situations where benefit/loss is so bad that it begs the question of whose side its supporters are on.