Anime: mostly new stuff never licensed in the US. Completely legal to download in the US, until someone licenses it.
Moral, perhaps. Legal, no way. Copyright is international, just because there is no local supplier doesn't give you the legal right to pirate it. -- Don't bother to explain how this doesn't harm anyone; my point is just that it's illegal.
It's generally and depressingly true that most dumb statements here, not least those by the editors, are actually dumb statements. Conversely, seemingly redundant posts are often explained as the authors looking at earlier versions of the page while they composed a post, only to see a dozen similar ones after they submit and refreshed -- I've been modded down redundant for that.
Yes, but I was specifically responding to your remark about "sacrifices", rather than strategic effect. China's huge sacrifices made little impact on the Japanese, for instance. I realise this wasn't an intentional slight; I'm Australian, we made our own sacrifices, small on a global scale though our 29,000 dead were.
To suggest that a police force needs nothing more than a simple text editor is supreme arrogance.
One of the major reasons cited for going back to MS was that MS was supplying the whole force with an application to "comply with Freedom of Information requests". This sounds to me like a database. Obviously, (well, to me) starting with Word files, MS is going to have the best shot at doing this at all, not to mention they will subsiduse it to make the whole deal sweet.
However, if you thought WHY the police are using PCs and not typewriters, as they were a very short time ago, it should not just be to give prettier printouts, but because it lets them automate filing and data-mining their reports. And using plain text makes this much easier. (Do cops need to worry if it's in Palatino, Garamond or Comic Sans?) More structure can be added; but they would have done much better starting from automating their forms, filled out with plain text, than using a general word-processing package with far too many features and shoehorning it into a database system.
China has 7 of the world's most polluted cities.
So the lesson here is that decade after of decade of democratic capitalism results in better environment, while decade after decade of socialism results in hell on earth.
The Chinese factories, and more and more, automobiles, are symptoms of rampant capitalism. Socialism has been fading in China since about 1982, when Deng Xiaoping told China "To get rich is glorious". And of course, much of the production of those polluting factories is exported to the USA, your products aren't magically produced by elves.
the humanity that made huge sacrifices to stop it (you know, the Allies? Mostly, the US and Britain?).
See here for stats. The US lost "only" about 300,000 in WWII. It surely wasn't fun, but if that was "huge", what do you call the 20 million Russians who died in WWII, without which Europe at least would be Nazi today; and about 10 million Chinese killed by the Japanese?
Why can the GP poke fun at conservatives, but no one is allowed to poke fun at liberals?
How did we segue from "scientists" to "liberals"? If you're implying that it's impossible to have a scientific outlook and not be a liberal, that's a rather telling admission.
And mammoths, etc. However, most are likely to warm up and decay without being discovered, so on the whole you'd be better off if they remained frozen.
How can you determine what the atmospheric temperature was thousands of years before writen records were kept?
Radiochemistry. For example,
Ice Core Science and Fluctuating Temperatures: ... The isotopes of interest are hydrogen (H) and its heavy sibling deuterium (D), as well as oxygen-16 and oxygen-18, which have been described previously in connection with the deep-sea record in foraminifers. Water vapor turns to precipitation over the polar ice sheet more readily when it has the composition HOD and H18OH than if it is normal water, H16OH. As air cools upon climbing up an ice shield, water changes phase from vapor to liquid, thus losing D and 18O preferentially. This means that the coldest snow has the least D and 18O in it.
With this basic information (and some statistics and isotope chemistry) we can extract a temperature record from the ice on Greenland for the last 100,000 years. For Antarctica, a record going back 400,000 years has been reconstructed.
humans sans any real technology have managed to survive several much more radical climate changes - and without their numbers being endangered in any real way.
Hunters and gatherers move on to more fertile land, and kill or are killed by those who already lived there. Unfortunately, when the killing uses modern weapons, it actually could be threatening the race and not just unlucky tribes this time.
Many civilisations were wiped out by climate shifts; history is written by the victors, and not just in war. For instance, several years of drought is thought to have put paid to the Mayans, a cold change wiped out the Vikings in Greenland.
But yes, humans and civilisation will survive, but many individuals may not; and the cost to non-human life will be much more severe.
While I agree that we have a real big problem, I no longer labour under the delusion that we can actually get our moron leaders to do something useful to fix it.
There are leaders who could do something about it (or at least said they would), like Al Gore; blame the voters for sneering at his nerdiness and voting for people who tell them they can have it all and not pay for it. Don't give up on the system, participate and make it work, it's the only hope we have.
but just because his lawyer wrote a letter saying that FedEX's claims are bullshit, doesn't mean FedEX's claims are bullshit. That's what lawyers do. They advocate for their clients
In this case I think it was fedEx's lawyer who was advocating with more certaintly than he felt. The box guy has a lot to lose and little to gain, I think his lawyer would have advised caution and to let the site stay down if he thought there was any chance of it being upheld.
Though I'm sure copyright is irrelevant, the guy was an idiot for putting "FedEx" in the name of his domain, that's asking for trademark hassles.
From TFA, it seems they tried that because DMCA lets them demand immediate takedown of the site. They probably didn't expect him to consult a lawyer, who told him it was bullshit.
If the cost of maintaining the camera network properly (so it does not screw innocent people) outweighs the revenue generated by the cameras, then that should be cause for a review of the validity of the program.
The aim of speeding fines is not as a revenue source, but to improve public safety, i.e. reducing the number of road deaths. Police departments naturally tend to use it as a revenue raiser, even to placing cameras in places likely to catch speeders rather than where accidents occur.
Other than that, so what? Is this really "stuff that matters"? Or even "news for nerds"?
You'll notice that it's in "games.slashdot.org". It's surely on-topic here. If you're not intersted in games at all, you can turn them off in your preferences.
They're talking about them being rust monsters. And that could seriously weaken any structure.
A high level fly over that sprays bacteria on a steel structure. Two months later, shoot holes in it using a bb gun
from followng a few links: geobacter is anaerobic; it can tolerate a low level of oxygen, but basically lives in underground water with very low oxygen concentration. So spraying it not the air will kill it. Also, if I understand the chemistry (quite likely I haven't), it consumes rust, not iron per se.
The expression is "toe the line". It actually means the complete opposite, in that someone who "toes the line" steps up and challenges (ie. the opinions/assertions of some larger thing or other antagonist) and is derived from boxing and fighting.
The derivation is not so clear cut, and I don't think your interpretation is very common. Your variant seems to be like "toe the scratch".
Questions & Answers: Toe the line
Toe the line is the survivor of a set of phrases that were common in the nineteenth century; others were toe the mark, toe the scratch, toe the crack, or toe the trig. In every case, the image was that of men lining up with the tips of their toes touching some line. They might be on parade, or preparing to undertake some task, or in readiness for a race or fight. The earliest recorded form is dated 1813, in a book by Hector Bull-Us (a pseudonym, you will not be surprised to hear, in this case of James Kirke Paulding) with the title The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan. This already had the modern figurative sense of conforming to the usual standards or rules: "He began to think it was high time to toe the mark". Many early examples are from the British Navy, which is where it may have originated.
Toe the crack is an American form of the 1820s in reference to a crack in the floorboards that delineates a straight line. Toe the scratch is from prize fighting, where scratch was the line drawn across the ring (often in the earth of an informal outdoor ring) to which the fighters were brought ready for the contest--it's a close relative of to come up to scratch. In toe the trig, trig is an old term for a boundary or centre line in various sports.
And
The Mavens' Word of the Day toe the line The main meaning of this phrase is 'to conform strictly to a rule, command, etc.'.
LPs haven't been around for a century! You might as well make the same claim about CDs - sure, some have decayed but most of them haven't, and some LPs have warped.
Yes, vinyl LPs were introduced in 1948. I was thinking of 78s; but of course they're a different material. But a warped LP can be restored and the music extracted and useable. I've had some commercially-pressed CDs 5 or so years old that have gone 50% transparent, and totally unreadable.
Napster
I don't see the attraction. A centralized database where your connections can be tracked and you are at the bandwidth mercy of a single uploading server. No thanks. I'll stick with BitTorrent.
The napster server didn't upload the files, just an index. The file transfer was P2P.
GM's EV1
That is possibly the ugliest car
Ugly is trivial, just a skin and easily changed.
LPs
This will continue to be a niche format. CDs provide the same quality sound playback
One factor not mentioned is that CDs tend to decay unpredictably. LPs last at least a century with mimimal care.
Furthermore, does anyone find the quotes from Dr. Smith slightly... unreasoned?
He's a bureaucrat, therefore:
1) He's covering his arse. So if there are any attacks he can point to Google and say "I told you so".
2) He's angling for some terror money to pump into his budget.
Slashdot Mirror
Moral, perhaps. Legal, no way. Copyright is international, just because there is no local supplier doesn't give you the legal right to pirate it. -- Don't bother to explain how this doesn't harm anyone; my point is just that it's illegal.
It's generally and depressingly true that most dumb statements here, not least those by the editors, are actually dumb statements. Conversely, seemingly redundant posts are often explained as the authors looking at earlier versions of the page while they composed a post, only to see a dozen similar ones after they submit and refreshed -- I've been modded down redundant for that.
Yes, but I was specifically responding to your remark about "sacrifices", rather than strategic effect. China's huge sacrifices made little impact on the Japanese, for instance. I realise this wasn't an intentional slight; I'm Australian, we made our own sacrifices, small on a global scale though our 29,000 dead were.
I didn't say that. National leaders are in fact the only ones who can make a difference. Just so far few if any have done more than voice platitudes.
Duplicate story, duplicate link.
The previous article linked to the same page on xbox-linux.org, which is a wiki; not part of "The" wikipedia. Taco is asleep at the switch again.
One of the major reasons cited for going back to MS was that MS was supplying the whole force with an application to "comply with Freedom of Information requests". This sounds to me like a database. Obviously, (well, to me) starting with Word files, MS is going to have the best shot at doing this at all, not to mention they will subsiduse it to make the whole deal sweet.
However, if you thought WHY the police are using PCs and not typewriters, as they were a very short time ago, it should not just be to give prettier printouts, but because it lets them automate filing and data-mining their reports. And using plain text makes this much easier. (Do cops need to worry if it's in Palatino, Garamond or Comic Sans?) More structure can be added; but they would have done much better starting from automating their forms, filled out with plain text, than using a general word-processing package with far too many features and shoehorning it into a database system.
So the lesson here is that decade after of decade of democratic capitalism results in better environment, while decade after decade of socialism results in hell on earth.
The Chinese factories, and more and more, automobiles, are symptoms of rampant capitalism. Socialism has been fading in China since about 1982, when Deng Xiaoping told China "To get rich is glorious". And of course, much of the production of those polluting factories is exported to the USA, your products aren't magically produced by elves.
-fb "but it's a dry heat"
Make up your mind.
See here for stats. The US lost "only" about 300,000 in WWII. It surely wasn't fun, but if that was "huge", what do you call the 20 million Russians who died in WWII, without which Europe at least would be Nazi today; and about 10 million Chinese killed by the Japanese?
How did we segue from "scientists" to "liberals"? If you're implying that it's impossible to have a scientific outlook and not be a liberal, that's a rather telling admission.
And mammoths, etc. However, most are likely to warm up and decay without being discovered, so on the whole you'd be better off if they remained frozen.
Radiochemistry. For example,
Hunters and gatherers move on to more fertile land, and kill or are killed by those who already lived there. Unfortunately, when the killing uses modern weapons, it actually could be threatening the race and not just unlucky tribes this time.
Many civilisations were wiped out by climate shifts; history is written by the victors, and not just in war. For instance, several years of drought is thought to have put paid to the Mayans, a cold change wiped out the Vikings in Greenland.
But yes, humans and civilisation will survive, but many individuals may not; and the cost to non-human life will be much more severe.
There are leaders who could do something about it (or at least said they would), like Al Gore; blame the voters for sneering at his nerdiness and voting for people who tell them they can have it all and not pay for it. Don't give up on the system, participate and make it work, it's the only hope we have.
In this case I think it was fedEx's lawyer who was advocating with more certaintly than he felt. The box guy has a lot to lose and little to gain, I think his lawyer would have advised caution and to let the site stay down if he thought there was any chance of it being upheld.
Though I'm sure copyright is irrelevant, the guy was an idiot for putting "FedEx" in the name of his domain, that's asking for trademark hassles.
From TFA, it seems they tried that because DMCA lets them demand immediate takedown of the site. They probably didn't expect him to consult a lawyer, who told him it was bullshit.
The aim of speeding fines is not as a revenue source, but to improve public safety, i.e. reducing the number of road deaths. Police departments naturally tend to use it as a revenue raiser, even to placing cameras in places likely to catch speeders rather than where accidents occur.
You'll notice that it's in "games.slashdot.org". It's surely on-topic here. If you're not intersted in games at all, you can turn them off in your preferences.
from followng a few links: geobacter is anaerobic; it can tolerate a low level of oxygen, but basically lives in underground water with very low oxygen concentration. So spraying it not the air will kill it. Also, if I understand the chemistry (quite likely I haven't), it consumes rust, not iron per se.
Or a Soylent Green CPU?
More likely, they'll just use the crappy cameras that are mandatory in mobile phones.
The derivation is not so clear cut, and I don't think your interpretation is very common. Your variant seems to be like "toe the scratch".
AndYes, vinyl LPs were introduced in 1948. I was thinking of 78s; but of course they're a different material. But a warped LP can be restored and the music extracted and useable. I've had some commercially-pressed CDs 5 or so years old that have gone 50% transparent, and totally unreadable.
The napster server didn't upload the files, just an index. The file transfer was P2P.
GM's EV1 That is possibly the ugliest car
Ugly is trivial, just a skin and easily changed.
LPs This will continue to be a niche format. CDs provide the same quality sound playback
One factor not mentioned is that CDs tend to decay unpredictably. LPs last at least a century with mimimal care.
He's a bureaucrat, therefore:
1) He's covering his arse. So if there are any attacks he can point to Google and say "I told you so".
2) He's angling for some terror money to pump into his budget.