How the hell do you classify "save the trees" as "militant"?
You know the save the animals group that threatens to kill animal researchers' kids...
Oh right. Everyone who wants to preserve forests is a psychpathic child murderer. Now it makes sense. All those tofu-eating tree huggers I used to hang out with were pretty good at concealing their evil natures. Thank God you warned me in time.
Throw everyone with a militant opinion (whether it is "save the trees" or "i hate spics") and let the individual network admins sort out what they do and don't like.
How the hell do you classify "save the trees" as "militant"? If that's what "militant" is, it'd be simpler to make a whitelist of the 1% of sites that aren't.
This is about "hate speech". Speech that vilifies people and advocates violence against them. You'll find some idiot spouting violent threats on any and every issue (just look at any usenet thread longer than 40 posts), that hardly justifies blocking the entire topic.
But really, your point is not valid. There are most likely millions of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy...
This is just nihilism. Nothing has any value, so let's just lay down and die.
And while I'd like to believe there are millions of Earth-like planets, we only know for sure of one. If there are millions of Earths, some should have intelligence, so, (vide Drake's Paradox) where the hell are they? If we survive we should have colonised the galaxy in a million years or 10 at the most. Why hasn't someone else beat us to it? So either life is very rare, or star travel is impossible, (but SETI is surely not) or we're the very first in our galaxy.
Most solid planets/planetoids are radioactive wastelands, by the way.
Well, no they're not radioactive, unless they've been nuked by some alien race. But if most other planets are wastelands, that makes the case for preserving our rare green planet stronger.
Yes; though I wasn't convinced by the immediate collapse of civilisation to stone age levels. Another is John Varley's Eight Worlds stories, where aliens make earth into a nature reserve and exterminate humans there, leaving us clinging to the moon, Mars, etc (i.e. , the Eight Worlds).
Why do people think that a world without humans is better than one with humans? Why is a green, leafy planet inherently better than a radioactive wasteland?
Yeah, obviously a radioactive wasteland would be much nicer.
But no one is advocating wiping out humans. Mnay who oppose conservation try to paint greens as promoting genocide; there are undoubtedly a few nutjobs that would advocate that, but it's not on the agenda of any organisation. The kind of person who could contempalte that is more the Unabomber type, antisocial and at worst capable of murdering a few people or perhaps blowing up a building or dam.
I think they'd vote for us. There are surely a lot more of them in many cities than in the same area of countryside. Ditto for rats, mice, pigeons; not to mention dogs, cats, goldfish. All our farm animals and plants too, there're certainly more of them and likely on average they're healthier and live longer than in the wild despite being culled and harvested.
Direct quotes from Dr. Curry's article:
Men: "... bigger penises"
Women: "... pert breasts" (and presumably larger/fuller too)
I gotta wonder how valid this "research" truly is - sounds like something Dr. Frankenstein or Homer Simpson
Dr Curry previously performed under the name "Frankenfurter" back in the 70s.
The guy is totally ignoring genetic engineering, which will make slow, natural-selection evolution irrelevant in a century or so. Read some SF like John Varley's The Persistence of Vision to see the possibilites. Or perhaps, to continue the Wells theme, The Island of Dr Moreau.
"Many customers" doesn't mean "you". Indeed you are an "exception", as am I
My point is that leaving such gaping security holes for everyone for the convenience of these "many" (actually, I'd say "very few", but won't quibble) customers is not a good idea. But of course MS always has chosen to include such convenient, dangerous features and left others to clean up the mess. All the scripting attacks on Outlook and IE are probably worse than those coming via Word macros.
Word is a aword processor. If you're using to as a vehicle for business applications I think you might rethink the house you're building on foundations of sand.
Seriously, I've been looking. I can't find a reference from any printer maker regarding a model with XPS driver support built in.
I very much suspect that this is a similar idea to current "GDI" printers, the rendering is done by a proprietary Windows driver into a proprietary printer language. Many such printers are a lost cause in Linux or Macs, and after a few years the manufacturers drop support and the drivers fail to even install in current OSs.
Meanwhile I have a 1994 vintage HP Laserjet 4M with PS Level 2 still rolling out pages....
there are also many digital presses that will offer XPS instead of PDF, because it is free to do so instead of paying the Adobe tax.
You don't have to pay Adobe anything to implement a PS or PDF interpreter in your printer or whatever. The standards are open and published. Ghostscript, JAWS, etc do this.
I thought the Nationals were the conservative party in Australia?,
They are conservative, but basically they represent rural interests. They used to be called the "Country Party". (And I can't resist this old joke: A leader of the CP once began a speech: "As a Country member..." and a Labor member interjected: "We remember".)
The only thing that worries me about this is 'authenticity'. What's to stop a vigilante group creating Myspace accounts
Look at the methodology:
I began an automated search of MySpace's membership rolls for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states, mined from the Department of Justice's National Sex Offender Registry website -- a gateway to the state-run Megan's Law websites around the country. I searched on first and last names, limiting results to a five mile radius of the offender's registered ZIP code.
So he got some stupid offenders. But this is so obviously easy to spoof that once it's known such searches are being conducted it becomes a big pile of red herrings.
Better to mandate keyloggers on sex-offenders' PCs. Still not hard to circumvent, but would give pause to many from reoffending.
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There are many applications which require macros to be present in Word documents. If you translate the macros to ODF's format (does it even support macros?), you've gained nothing. If you don't, you've caused confusion for many customers.
I must be an exception then. I've been using email for about 15 years and NEVER ONCE has anyone sent me a document with a macro in it that was actually necessary, as opposed to several that were malicious. If you for some weird reason need to exchange word macros, it would not be hard to work out a convenient method.
I remember the Good Old days when Word had a document file, a style file and a macro file. You knew exactly what you had and where and it was a lot easier to manage than the WinWord omnibus files with embedded spreadsheets, video games and kitchen sinks.
the waste products from NP generation can be stored in a single isolated, localized zone
Which brings up one advantage of the seagoing reactor: when it's decommissioned it can be sailed away to the waste storage area, rather than having to entomb it on its site close to a city.
If you don't see the west's double standards in treating Jews and Arabs let me refresh you memory; People get sent to jail for challenging the accuracy of the Holocaust figures, yet freedom of speech in invoked everytime someone gratuitousely insults the prophet Mohammed and his teachings.
Sorry, you lost me there. How is denying genocide equivalent to making jokes (or even vilifying) a person (or prophet)? One involves mass murder, one involves philosophical disagreement, or poor manners.
Israel gets away with a stockpile of nukes but no Arab country could dream of being allowed to develop them.
Pakistan DOES have a stockpile and no one is hinting at taking theirs away.
I'm not one to take the side of the US in the "US vs. World" debates, but in this case, the US form makes more sense. Putting the year first in a date is a waste of reading time because you always know what year it is.
The "rest of the world" is as likely to put DMY as YMD. Either makes sense and is unambiguous. The problem is the US form MDY, which causes endless confusion.
Ship all email programs by default configured to not show images in the mail.
It's not just images. As one of TFA's lists, many kinds of HTML can call external pages -- css javascript, iframes, etc. That's one reason I stick with a very old version of Eudora. It can cope with basic HTML, but doesn't fetch anything external unless I actually click on a link and it opend my normal browser.
In my experience, DVD-minus-R discs are totally unreadable on anything, even the machine that wrote them
Whereas in my experience, both plus or minus are readable on my PC burner and my DVD player. I don't distinguish which when I'm buying blanks, just look for a reputable brand.
Seems like $11m is the going rate for a default libel ruling in an undefended case; almost the same as Spamhaus got stuck with by an Illinois court for "defaming" a spammer.
Umm...I would say that a single life of a citizen (not guilty of a crime) is more valuable than the U.S.S. Eisenhower.
Society disagrees. It's quite likely that more than one person died in the construction of the ship. The number of manhours to build it is much more than a single human life. Neither the ship's captain nor the US Navy would surrender it in exchange for saving a single life, or even a hundred.
Insurance companies put a market value on a "life", a few million dollars for most. The amount of money spent on safety or preventative medical care is often much less than that.
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So you ban the ALF. Not the 99.9% of the environmental movement who are Gandhi-style pacifists.
You know the save the animals group that threatens to kill animal researchers' kids...
Oh right. Everyone who wants to preserve forests is a psychpathic child murderer. Now it makes sense. All those tofu-eating tree huggers I used to hang out with were pretty good at concealing their evil natures. Thank God you warned me in time.
How the hell do you classify "save the trees" as "militant"? If that's what "militant" is, it'd be simpler to make a whitelist of the 1% of sites that aren't.
This is about "hate speech". Speech that vilifies people and advocates violence against them. You'll find some idiot spouting violent threats on any and every issue (just look at any usenet thread longer than 40 posts), that hardly justifies blocking the entire topic.
This is just nihilism. Nothing has any value, so let's just lay down and die.
And while I'd like to believe there are millions of Earth-like planets, we only know for sure of one. If there are millions of Earths, some should have intelligence, so, (vide Drake's Paradox) where the hell are they? If we survive we should have colonised the galaxy in a million years or 10 at the most. Why hasn't someone else beat us to it? So either life is very rare, or star travel is impossible, (but SETI is surely not) or we're the very first in our galaxy.
Well, no they're not radioactive, unless they've been nuked by some alien race. But if most other planets are wastelands, that makes the case for preserving our rare green planet stronger.
Yes; though I wasn't convinced by the immediate collapse of civilisation to stone age levels. Another is John Varley's Eight Worlds stories, where aliens make earth into a nature reserve and exterminate humans there, leaving us clinging to the moon, Mars, etc (i.e. , the Eight Worlds).
Yeah, obviously a radioactive wasteland would be much nicer.
But no one is advocating wiping out humans. Mnay who oppose conservation try to paint greens as promoting genocide; there are undoubtedly a few nutjobs that would advocate that, but it's not on the agenda of any organisation. The kind of person who could contempalte that is more the Unabomber type, antisocial and at worst capable of murdering a few people or perhaps blowing up a building or dam.
I think they'd vote for us. There are surely a lot more of them in many cities than in the same area of countryside. Ditto for rats, mice, pigeons; not to mention dogs, cats, goldfish. All our farm animals and plants too, there're certainly more of them and likely on average they're healthier and live longer than in the wild despite being culled and harvested.
Dr Curry previously performed under the name "Frankenfurter" back in the 70s.
The guy is totally ignoring genetic engineering, which will make slow, natural-selection evolution irrelevant in a century or so. Read some SF like John Varley's The Persistence of Vision to see the possibilites. Or perhaps, to continue the Wells theme, The Island of Dr Moreau.
My point is that leaving such gaping security holes for everyone for the convenience of these "many" (actually, I'd say "very few", but won't quibble) customers is not a good idea. But of course MS always has chosen to include such convenient, dangerous features and left others to clean up the mess. All the scripting attacks on Outlook and IE are probably worse than those coming via Word macros.
Word is a aword processor. If you're using to as a vehicle for business applications I think you might rethink the house you're building on foundations of sand.
No, someone makes the same joke every time they're mentioned. Eg http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19124 0&cid=15721315
And amazingly enough, they often also get +5 funny. The mods must be goldfish.
I very much suspect that this is a similar idea to current "GDI" printers, the rendering is done by a proprietary Windows driver into a proprietary printer language. Many such printers are a lost cause in Linux or Macs, and after a few years the manufacturers drop support and the drivers fail to even install in current OSs.
Meanwhile I have a 1994 vintage HP Laserjet 4M with PS Level 2 still rolling out pages....
You don't have to pay Adobe anything to implement a PS or PDF interpreter in your printer or whatever. The standards are open and published. Ghostscript, JAWS, etc do this.
They are conservative, but basically they represent rural interests. They used to be called the "Country Party". (And I can't resist this old joke: A leader of the CP once began a speech: "As a Country member..." and a Labor member interjected: "We remember".)
Look at the methodology:
So he got some stupid offenders. But this is so obviously easy to spoof that once it's known such searches are being conducted it becomes a big pile of red herrings.Better to mandate keyloggers on sex-offenders' PCs. Still not hard to circumvent, but would give pause to many from reoffending.
There are many applications which require macros to be present in Word documents. If you translate the macros to ODF's format (does it even support macros?), you've gained nothing. If you don't, you've caused confusion for many customers.
I must be an exception then. I've been using email for about 15 years and NEVER ONCE has anyone sent me a document with a macro in it that was actually necessary, as opposed to several that were malicious. If you for some weird reason need to exchange word macros, it would not be hard to work out a convenient method.
I remember the Good Old days when Word had a document file, a style file and a macro file. You knew exactly what you had and where and it was a lot easier to manage than the WinWord omnibus files with embedded spreadsheets, video games and kitchen sinks.
Which brings up one advantage of the seagoing reactor: when it's decommissioned it can be sailed away to the waste storage area, rather than having to entomb it on its site close to a city.
More to the point, a site called "porn.ie" probably (and, according to TFA, was intended to be) actually pornography in itself.
Sorry, you lost me there. How is denying genocide equivalent to making jokes (or even vilifying) a person (or prophet)? One involves mass murder, one involves philosophical disagreement, or poor manners.
Israel gets away with a stockpile of nukes but no Arab country could dream of being allowed to develop them.
Pakistan DOES have a stockpile and no one is hinting at taking theirs away.
The "rest of the world" is as likely to put DMY as YMD. Either makes sense and is unambiguous. The problem is the US form MDY, which causes endless confusion.
It's not just images. As one of TFA's lists, many kinds of HTML can call external pages -- css javascript, iframes, etc. That's one reason I stick with a very old version of Eudora. It can cope with basic HTML, but doesn't fetch anything external unless I actually click on a link and it opend my normal browser.
Whereas in my experience, both plus or minus are readable on my PC burner and my DVD player. I don't distinguish which when I'm buying blanks, just look for a reputable brand.
Seems like $11m is the going rate for a default libel ruling in an undefended case; almost the same as Spamhaus got stuck with by an Illinois court for "defaming" a spammer.
Society disagrees. It's quite likely that more than one person died in the construction of the ship. The number of manhours to build it is much more than a single human life. Neither the ship's captain nor the US Navy would surrender it in exchange for saving a single life, or even a hundred.
Insurance companies put a market value on a "life", a few million dollars for most. The amount of money spent on safety or preventative medical care is often much less than that.