Regardless of how objective the scientists may be the government is not.
When Bush was in the White House, for 8 years, he did his best to stifle any research that was inconvenient to the oil industry. It came out anyway. Why do you believe that the "liberals" would do any better? Because you're a loonie who will believe any insane conspiracy theory that lets you ignore the facts.
The scientist might win a Nobel prize, but first he would be demonized in the media
Have you heard of the Wall Street Journal? Fox? They'll put any asshole who wants to "debunk" global warming on the front page. Your hypothetical crusading scientist would be lionized by them. He'd have his choice of funding from industry. he'd get 6-figure advances for books.
mainstream scientists take money from government grants and related sources, meaning their very livelihood depends on the reverse
If you could produce data that disproved a major current theory, you'd be in line for a Nobel Prize. Not to mention, millions in funding from the oil industry, Fox TV, etc, etc. There are a lot more financial incentives in being a denialist than just producing boring data that supported the global warming hypothesis.
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Moron. NASA isn't about making fireworks. its about putting things into space. Like WEATHER SATELLITES that give us the data that this is all about. And the analysing it, which is wha the denialits are trying to bury under a pile of irrelevant shit.
And, from TFA:
The 49-person letter was organized by Leighton Steward, chairman of Plants Need CO2, a non-profit with ties to the coal industry....âoeWhat these men and women are not is climate scientists,â wrote Houston-based science writer Eric Berger in a Wednesday blog post. âoeMost are not even scientists in the sense that they have pursued scientific research during their careers, in any discipline.â
Funny how the submitter omitted that. Astronauts aren't climate scientists. They're being cited as celebrities, not scientists.
Okay, make it "they should have it behind layers of security". If they don't, well, in your words, they should be hung by their balls and hit in the head with a shovel. Lets just hope it's embarrassing rather than catastrophic when the shit hits the fan.
Cloud storage and control? Good God, do they realise that the "cloud" includes North Korea, Beijing, Kiev, Lagos, Baghdad....
I've been running several XP laptops for years without any upgrades. Just use a third party firewall, and never use IE or Outlook.When I set up for relatives, I added Avast free antivirus.No problems. Anyone corporate will just throw away an old PC. If it's something embedded, they'll have it behind layers of security. MS patches are reactive anyway, if you depended on them you'd have been fucked long ago.
Bollocks. How about the stores about workers' conditions at Foxconn? Which weren't nice, but no worse than at any other similar Chinese factory, but Apple gets pilloried for it while lower profile companies are ignored.
How about the stories about the poor reception of iPhones if you held them the "wrong" way?
How about "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."?
Because nerds are somehow immune to the outcome of a national election such as a presidential race....
The same argument would put any and every general news story onto the front page here. No one is saying it's not important, it's that its NOT "news for nerds". No one comes to Slashdot for election news. As a "news" source, Slashdot is unreliable, untimely, often wrong and generally a waste of time.
Poseidon Adventure was not a better film than Titanic
I think it was. Except for the final money scene in Titanic when the hull turns upright then slides down. But the rest was drek. They find their way up from the lower deck to the top, then for some reason go back, do it again.
Poseidon had a lot more fun, and casualties on their journey. Also, the music was better. Just ignore the 70s fashion.
Until IE5.5 crashes trying to render www.slashdot.org, that is.
You can run the latest versions of Firefox or Opera at least on Win2k. I'm doing it now. There is very little software for XP or Vista that won't run on Win2k.
Their thinking might be along the lines of "lots of people don't use email". And for a lot of people that is true. Most teens today that are glued to Facebook and/or Twitter don't use email. Over half the kids in my family have never even set up their email clients.
So what? It's the account holder who has to be informed. Kids are just going to ignore any such messages until they're actually cut off anyway. My daughter ignored the messages from her phone company about her going over her quota till her phone went dead.
When you sign up for an account, you supply an email address. Or SMS maybe.
Obviously not a parent. The information isn't outdated, the schoolbooks are changed (here at least) every year so you have to get the new edition, as the page references and question numbers at least are different.
So yes, "Last year's calculus and physics textbooks are obsolete", quite definitely.
You taking the liberty of bringing down websites to ask for more liberties is roughly the same as if someone started to randomly shoot people proclaiming that he will continue killing people until murder will finally become legal.
"Roughly the same". That's the most insane analogy I've seen on Slashdot, And there have been some doozies.
paper products do not last in the rural humid environments the OLPC devices are designed for.
Well, that's just untrue. I live in a steamy tropical area, where it's 97% humidity for several months of the year. And I have shelves of books and have for 20 years. I rarely use aircon, just a fan mostly.
A school textbook rarely is useful more than a year later anyway.
Not to say that OLPCs couldn't find uses in small villages with no libraries and one-room schools, the main one being you could fit a huge library of ebooks on one, I think.
Australian Federal Court Awards Damages To Artist For False Copyright Claim Posted by Soulskill on Fri Mar 30, '12 10:08 PM from the it's-a-start dept.
New submitter BarryHaworth writes "In a decision handed down earlier this month, the Australian Federal Court awarded damages to Aboriginal artist Richard Bell over a false claim of copyright infringement. The claim related to a take-down notice claiming copyright infringement from film footage used in a trailer for a film being made by the artist. The court declared Mr. Bell the owner of the copyright and awarded him $147,000 in damages for lost sales of paintings and catalogues. At time of writing, YouTube does not appear to have caught up with the decision."
------ Exactly the same story. Both reference the judgement made 16 March, no new developments.
People have been accusing us of slashvertising for years -- it generally just makes us chuckle
"Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier". There isn't a single thing about this that doesn't scream "corporate PR". Right from the company name first word in the title.
If you really imagined you were doing a news story, you failed. And you say you didn't get paid for whoring out your reputation, and exploiting your readers? That's sad.
lot of people get angry when we review something, assuming it's an endorsement
Not if the review is really a review. Slashdot editors seem to take the cut-and-paste approach rather than fact checking. Or even spell checking.
. Or is CBS planning to create a new CG-based Star Wars:Retro series using all the old unused scripts
This is the only complete, unused script that I've heard of.
But in the early 70s they made the (animated ) "Star Trek", which had most of the original cast doing voices, and some quite good stories, including one by Larry Niven, and aliens that weren't just humans with lumps on their heads.
IANAL, but I would imagine it has to do with precedent. As I understand it, if you have a copyright on something, you have to protect it. If you don't, you lose it.
No, that's for trademarks, not copyright.Though there are probably trademarks involved in the name "Star Trek", "Enterprise", "James T Kirk", etc, etc. (I don't know if New Voyagers uses any of that.) The script, as a story, is just copyright. And CBS just had to give permission, they don't have to put it in the public domain. There is no damaging precedent.
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Regardless of how objective the scientists may be the government is not.
When Bush was in the White House, for 8 years, he did his best to stifle any research that was inconvenient to the oil industry. It came out anyway. Why do you believe that the "liberals" would do any better? Because you're a loonie who will believe any insane conspiracy theory that lets you ignore the facts.
The scientist might win a Nobel prize, but first he would be demonized in the media
Have you heard of the Wall Street Journal? Fox? They'll put any asshole who wants to "debunk" global warming on the front page. Your hypothetical crusading scientist would be lionized by them. He'd have his choice of funding from industry. he'd get 6-figure advances for books.
mainstream scientists take money from government grants and related sources, meaning their very livelihood depends on the reverse
If you could produce data that disproved a major current theory, you'd be in line for a Nobel Prize. Not to mention, millions in funding from the oil industry, Fox TV, etc, etc. There are a lot more financial incentives in being a denialist than just producing boring data that supported the global warming hypothesis. .
Moron. NASA isn't about making fireworks. its about putting things into space. Like WEATHER SATELLITES that give us the data that this is all about. And the analysing it, which is wha the denialits are trying to bury under a pile of irrelevant shit. And, from TFA:
The 49-person letter was organized by Leighton Steward, chairman of Plants Need CO2, a non-profit with ties to the coal industry. ...âoeWhat these men and women are not is climate scientists,â wrote Houston-based science writer Eric Berger in a Wednesday blog post. âoeMost are not even scientists in the sense that they have pursued scientific research during their careers, in any discipline.â
Funny how the submitter omitted that. Astronauts aren't climate scientists. They're being cited as celebrities, not scientists.
Except that he was often slumped over his desk in the afternoon, asleep; or in a trance state. Which he would deny.
I think it had something to do with the exceptionally poor business decisions he made too.
I take umbrage at this statement
Okay, make it "they should have it behind layers of security". If they don't, well, in your words, they should be hung by their balls and hit in the head with a shovel. Lets just hope it's embarrassing rather than catastrophic when the shit hits the fan.
Cloud storage and control? Good God, do they realise that the "cloud" includes North Korea, Beijing, Kiev, Lagos, Baghdad....
I've been running several XP laptops for years without any upgrades. Just use a third party firewall, and never use IE or Outlook.When I set up for relatives, I added Avast free antivirus.No problems. Anyone corporate will just throw away an old PC. If it's something embedded, they'll have it behind layers of security. MS patches are reactive anyway, if you depended on them you'd have been fucked long ago.
How about the stories about the poor reception of iPhones if you held them the "wrong" way?
How about "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."?
In the interview, Groening says "Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon". He doesn't say that the Simpsons' Springfield is in Oregon.
Because nerds are somehow immune to the outcome of a national election such as a presidential race....
The same argument would put any and every general news story onto the front page here. No one is saying it's not important, it's that its NOT "news for nerds". No one comes to Slashdot for election news. As a "news" source, Slashdot is unreliable, untimely, often wrong and generally a waste of time.
I've not personally known any other country wide culture that values its own members so highly.
Well, appropriately, China does. If and when they get to the top of the economic heap, all of us non-Han will be niggers.
"Now here's a cool one
Mimicking Windows is cool? Not from where I'm sitting.
Poseidon Adventure was not a better film than Titanic
I think it was. Except for the final money scene in Titanic when the hull turns upright then slides down. But the rest was drek. They find their way up from the lower deck to the top, then for some reason go back, do it again.
Poseidon had a lot more fun, and casualties on their journey. Also, the music was better. Just ignore the 70s fashion.
XP needs to die, and XP users should update to Win7. 1) Not enough RAM. 2) Not enough CPU. 3) Not enough hard disk 3) Not enough money.
If you upgrade my hardware and give me a voucher for the software, I'll do it tomorrow.
There are a couple of anti-virus vendors that support Win2K with current versions, but no browsers that I know of
I have current releases of both Opera and Firefox running without any problem in Win2k.
Until IE5.5 crashes trying to render www.slashdot.org, that is.
You can run the latest versions of Firefox or Opera at least on Win2k. I'm doing it now. There is very little software for XP or Vista that won't run on Win2k.
So what? It's the account holder who has to be informed. Kids are just going to ignore any such messages until they're actually cut off anyway. My daughter ignored the messages from her phone company about her going over her quota till her phone went dead.
When you sign up for an account, you supply an email address. Or SMS maybe.
So yes, "Last year's calculus and physics textbooks are obsolete", quite definitely.
You taking the liberty of bringing down websites to ask for more liberties is roughly the same as if someone started to randomly shoot people proclaiming that he will continue killing people until murder will finally become legal.
"Roughly the same". That's the most insane analogy I've seen on Slashdot, And there have been some doozies.
paper products do not last in the rural humid environments the OLPC devices are designed for.
Well, that's just untrue. I live in a steamy tropical area, where it's 97% humidity for several months of the year. And I have shelves of books and have for 20 years. I rarely use aircon, just a fan mostly. A school textbook rarely is useful more than a year later anyway.
Not to say that OLPCs couldn't find uses in small villages with no libraries and one-room schools, the main one being you could fit a huge library of ebooks on one, I think.
My ISP keeps trying to inject a message into HTTP traffic when we reach 75% of our monthly download limit.
Why screw around with that instead of just sending you an email? If you block it and get cut off, no skin off their nose.
Australian Federal Court Awards Damages To Artist For False Copyright Claim
Posted by Soulskill on Fri Mar 30, '12 10:08 PM
from the it's-a-start dept.
New submitter BarryHaworth writes
"In a decision handed down earlier this month, the Australian Federal Court awarded damages to Aboriginal artist Richard Bell over a false claim of copyright infringement. The claim related to a take-down notice claiming copyright infringement from film footage used in a trailer for a film being made by the artist. The court declared Mr. Bell the owner of the copyright and awarded him $147,000 in damages for lost sales of paintings and catalogues. At time of writing, YouTube does not appear to have caught up with the decision."
------
Exactly the same story.
Both reference the judgement made 16 March, no new developments.
You get more timely news from the Pony Express.
People have been accusing us of slashvertising for years -- it generally just makes us chuckle
"Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier". There isn't a single thing about this that doesn't scream "corporate PR". Right from the company name first word in the title.
If you really imagined you were doing a news story, you failed. And you say you didn't get paid for whoring out your reputation, and exploiting your readers? That's sad.
lot of people get angry when we review something, assuming it's an endorsement
Not if the review is really a review. Slashdot editors seem to take the cut-and-paste approach rather than fact checking. Or even spell checking.
but one possibility might be to set up a dummy facebook account
They already know what her real one is, from the complaint about it.
. Or is CBS planning to create a new CG-based Star Wars:Retro series using all the old unused scripts
This is the only complete, unused script that I've heard of.
But in the early 70s they made the (animated ) "Star Trek", which had most of the original cast doing voices, and some quite good stories, including one by Larry Niven, and aliens that weren't just humans with lumps on their heads.
IANAL, but I would imagine it has to do with precedent. As I understand it, if you have a copyright on something, you have to protect it. If you don't, you lose it.
No, that's for trademarks, not copyright.Though there are probably trademarks involved in the name "Star Trek", "Enterprise", "James T Kirk", etc, etc. (I don't know if New Voyagers uses any of that.) The script, as a story, is just copyright. And CBS just had to give permission, they don't have to put it in the public domain. There is no damaging precedent.