"There's evidence that the computer in question displayed adult images during the time in question, but there are many reasons, such as the pop-up ads blamed by the defense, that such images could have been displayed"
While I believe the prosecution of this woman is completely ridiculous, one has to wonder why the hell she didn't just pull the plug on the computer.
I know some (myself included) are wary of just running it 24/7.
Considering the fact that running it 24/7 uses 144 kWh per month (200 W x 24 hrs x 30 day) I'd be pretty wary myself. Even at a generous 10 cents/kWh (the US national avg), that's almost $15/month. If you are unfortunate enough to live where electricity is much higher than that, you are closer to $25
Indeed. Seems to me this is a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. I'm sure Colbert is loving the parody of a parody, but Viacom's lawyers are obviously to dense to figure it out.
If Colbert was smart, he'd take the video and "rip it apart" and do his own "behind the scenes" investigation of Moveon.org and Al Franken and Media Matters for America.
Just because your google search results are always spot on, doesn't mean I'm wrong, lying, full of shit, or suck at creating queries. In fact, I've gotten pretty damn good at creating queries to filter out all kinds of crap (most notably ebay and other shopping sites).
Don't get me wrong.... I'm not anti google at all. I use Google dozens of times a day and most often it finds what I'm looking for. However, for something more esoteric, you might have to retry your query many times over, changing a word here or there until you hit what you are after. Google is good at finding matches for particular words and exact phrases, but sucks at inexact phrase matches that would be considered very similar to a human. It would help even more if google did some type of thesaurus lookup on your search words, substituted similar words, and reran your search with those words as well.
>> For one thing, Google's results are much too noisy. For another, it relies on keywords occurring on pages, and that's rather primitive
> No it doesn't. The genius of google was that it relies on people linking to pages talking about keywords
Being a gigantic web circle jerk doesn't make the results any less noisy. It just makes popular stuff more "popular". If you aren't searching for the latest craze all the cool kids are talking about, you can spend a fair amount of time crafting keywords to filter out the popular noise from what you are after.
I'm pretty sure that I'd end up in lots of trouble if I said "$10,000 says you can't rob that guys house" and the person accepted the challenge then was caught.
Probably right. Best to stick with the "triple dog dare ya"
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"Being worth 1.5B and having 800M in the bank are too completely different things."
Yes, one is filthy rich, the other just stinkin' rich.
Where's the drama posts with an informative headline like that?
"There's evidence that the computer in question displayed adult images during the time in question, but there are many reasons, such as the pop-up ads blamed by the defense, that such images could have been displayed"
While I believe the prosecution of this woman is completely ridiculous, one has to wonder why the hell she didn't just pull the plug on the computer.
"Pussy"
Ah yes... the very reason why the wife's viewpoint is always correct.
"You'd think Vista would make a PCWorld top 100 list, wouldn't you?"
Did they lay off all the MS lapdogs?
"Do you sell it to those guys for $16K ... or do you see what Microsoft will pay you NOT to sell it to them?"
Neither. You auction it off to the highest bidding spamgang. Or so I've heard.
"It works because some rat fuckers out there buy the shit that's being advertised"
So that's why they are buying penis enlarging pills
I use an oxy-acetylene torch as a barbecue starter, doesn't everyone?
Wimp... real men use Liquid Oxygen"
"Oh"
I believe the proper spelling is "DUH"
Try this
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Harry,
Ignore these morons and their childish comments.
I'm so proud of you for standing up for what you believe in.
Your brother,
Phil
"I remember when John Dvorak got fired from InfoWorld for criticizing the Trash-80 when Radio Shack was one of InfoWorld's biggest advertisers"
You sure that was the reason?
Maybe he got fired because he was just talking out of his ass and people couldn't stand him..... same as now.
... and none for the Home Secretary either, it would seem.
Considering the fact that running it 24/7 uses 144 kWh per month (200 W x 24 hrs x 30 day) I'd be pretty wary myself.
Even at a generous 10 cents/kWh (the US national avg), that's almost $15/month.
If you are unfortunate enough to live where electricity is much higher than that, you are closer to $25
Indeed. How could they put Tux on the list without also including the hideous looking GNU gnu?
"In Soviet Russia, email deletes YOU"
More like...
In US Attorneys Office, email deletes YOU
"Viacom gets a Wag Of The Finger!"
Indeed. Seems to me this is a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
I'm sure Colbert is loving the parody of a parody, but Viacom's lawyers are obviously to dense to figure it out.
If Colbert was smart, he'd take the video and "rip it apart" and do his own "behind the scenes" investigation of Moveon.org and Al Franken and Media Matters for America.
Just because your google search results are always spot on, doesn't mean I'm wrong, lying, full of shit, or suck at creating queries.
In fact, I've gotten pretty damn good at creating queries to filter out all kinds of crap (most notably ebay and other shopping sites).
Don't get me wrong.... I'm not anti google at all. I use Google dozens of times a day and most often it finds what I'm looking for.
However, for something more esoteric, you might have to retry your query many times over, changing a word here or there until you hit
what you are after. Google is good at finding matches for particular words and exact phrases, but sucks at inexact phrase matches that would
be considered very similar to a human. It would help even more if google did some type of thesaurus lookup on your search words, substituted
similar words, and reran your search with those words as well.
>> For one thing, Google's results are much too noisy. For another, it relies on keywords occurring on pages, and that's rather primitive
> No it doesn't. The genius of google was that it relies on people linking to pages talking about keywords
Being a gigantic web circle jerk doesn't make the results any less noisy.
It just makes popular stuff more "popular". If you aren't searching for the
latest craze all the cool kids are talking about, you can spend a fair amount of time
crafting keywords to filter out the popular noise from what you are after.
"So now we're going to have truth and lie tables?"
What do you mean "now"?
These have been around since the days of the first engineers and politicians.
"No, less seeds means you don't know the difference between less and fewer."
Fewer grammar nazi posts makes reading slashdot less annoying.
"Most analogies are wrong (at least here in slashdot)"
"A more accurate analogy would be..."
Must be nice to be the exception, eh?
"Hey, if they triple the number of implanted, they will be spot on!"
Great news. I just read that the number of people implanted with RFID has tripled in the last 6 months.
I'm pretty sure that I'd end up in lots of trouble if I said "$10,000 says you can't rob that guys house" and the person accepted the challenge then was caught.
Probably right. Best to stick with the "triple dog dare ya"
Wasn't it the failure of the UAC that allowed the demons from hell to infiltrate Earth?
I guess MS didn't learn anything from id.