Come on, give the submitter a break. They did say when orithopters hit the "real world", V22s wouldn't be needed.
Yeah, 500 years in the future when micro-fusion produces the massive amounts of energy needed to drive an ornithopter capable of hauling 22 fully loaded marines, when we spin nano-tech fibers strong enough to withstand the vibrations yet light enough to beat without huge inertia... yes, by then there'll be no need for a 490 year old v22 fleet.
Yeah, labelling them will give you a vague idea where in the solar system it is. But if you want to be specific, then you're still going to have to look it up to find out exactly which object you're talking about out of the thousands or millions of objects which could be in the same general area.
It's like zip codes. 90001 is a zip code somewhere. I *think* the 9xxxx numbers are out on the west coast. If I *really* need to know where 90001 is, I'll look it up.
Astronomers aren't going to remember every detail of every piece of rock floating between Saturn and Uranus, they're going to have to look it up anyway. Search engines are pretty powerful these days, so what difference will it make what they name the object as long as you can search by criteria?
Thank you Tenebrious1! If it weren't for your hyperbole...
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, as I did not use a hyperbole in my last post, I am forced to conclude you're completely clueless. Thanks for playing, come back again.
Care to cite your source?
Oh wait. My mistake. Speculative bullshit shouldn't be questioned when it's about Microsoft.
The source is about halfway into the article, which I'd guess you didn't bother to read.
Sundwall would not comment on what type of agreement Microsoft would want with third-party IM software providers. "We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement," he said.
The NYC blackout riot was almost 30 years ago- NYC was a completely different city back then.
The LA riot was not the same as the NYC riot, it had to do with the Rodney King and racism.
Then we have the almost yearly riots in cities when the fans of a sports team get out of hand. Happened in Toronto as well so it's not just Americans.
When there's no power in a major city like NYC, people have to get out of the apartments or be broiled alive. So you have a lot of people out in the streets. There's no water. Food is rotting in the fridge. People can't get to work. There's a lot of tension to begin with, the blackout just adds to it. But most people make the best of it. However, in any situation, there are a few who will use the masses to their advantage.
I read that those inciting riots have alterior motives, to loot the stores. Maybe it's true, almost every riot has people looting stores and homes. Have there been riots in places where there aren't any stores to loot, like in the middle of central park?
Seriously, buy a used machine, learn to keep it repaired and running (or find someone who can), and enjoy!
I enjoy classic pinball machines and that's what I did. I play them almost every day, worth every penny.
So... enjoying the single life, eh? My game room got turned into a spare bedroom... not that we have that many guests, but *just in case* was her reason (sigh).
My point is, you almost never hear the "slippery slope" argument applied to defend a position which can stand on it's own merits, removed from the political ideology for which it was chosen as a battleground.
Not really. You don't hear "slippery slope" arguements from people who can defend a position on it's own merits. You hear those arguments mainly from people who just don't know the facts (or can't be bothered looking up the facts), or more often would rather appeal to the irrational emotions of people; it's easier to sway people with emotional arguments than with dry facts and figures.
Why not insightful? Peeping toms and spycam crowds are careful about their cameras because they cost so much. With cheap $10 cameras, they're gonna have a field day. So what if one or two get found in the ladies locker room. So what if the ones under the secy's desk gets discovered and destroyed, it wasn't a big investment. They could have three or four hidden in a dressing room wired to cheap motion detectors... so I think it's gonna be a huge privacy issue.
On the other hand, you could then get like 20 of these puppies and do the "matrix" thing... that would be really cool.
Only if they lose... if they win, they can recover the cost of litigation and also reap the benefits of having protected the privacy of their customers... as well as get a kudos from/. That may well be worth the initial costs of fighting the subpeonas.
{After waiting two hours for the movie to download}
OK kids! {hits play}
"Now available from Disney on DVD..."
{FastForward}
"Coming soon from Disney Home Theater..."
{FastForward}
"Now playing in theaters from the creators of..."
{FastForward}
"Walt Disney World presents..."
"Coming..."{FastForward}"From..."{FastForward}"Now available..."{FastForward}"Kids..."{FastForward}"M aw..."{FastForward}"Angels..."{FastForward}"After..."{FastForward}
"Now the Feature Presentation... please wait while your movie downloads..."
I suppose the legal argument is that as a 9-year-old, she is under the supervision of her parents, cannot be sued individually, and so ultimately her legal guardians are responsible for "losses" she caused.
Parents are responsible for minors who drive cars, and thus have higher insurance premiums. I wonder if homeowner's insurance covers something like this? Or if Allstate will start selling "internet insurance"?
In Japan on the other hand, land is very scarse and thus worth a lot.
That's not quite true... Japan has plenty of undeveloped land. The problem is not the lack of land, but the fact that all the *flat* land has been used. What remains are steep mountains, volcanic areas, or geologically unstable areas, where you really can't build a decent landfill.
Whatever you do, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT forget to bring along the most important piece of equipment.
Why are you reminding him? If he's a newbie hitchhiker, he'll only use the towel to dry himself after a shower and wonder why it was so important to bring one when there's towels supplied by the hotel. The experienced hitchhiker know that the towel has a whole slew of uses such as hand-to-hand combat and protecting yourself from the bugblatter beast, and that drying is the last thing on the list (if the towel is clean enough). The towel is not just something you pack, it's a symbol of the experience you've built up over years of travel.
It's like telling someone to rebuild their kernel... it's something people already do or don't know why you need to.
I have an NYT account. Do I care if they know what I read on their site? About as much as I care when the next "American Idol" rerun is on (which is to say, not at all.) Why on earth are you fuckers so paranoid about this? I see absolutely nothing wrong with tracking as long as it's limited to the originating site.
Get over it, for God's sake.
If you really don't care, why not post your login and password so we can share it? If you don't care that they're tracking and customizing ads for you, then you shouldn't care if we log in with your account and screw up their tracking. If that's the only reason, then give us your login, there's no reason not to.
a mix of a incorrectly spec'ed out transistor or something like that, and a bad ground circuit.
Nah, it's Sony's idea of a hardware easter egg... if those people had kept their fingers on the metal for a few more seconds, the system would have started playing Sony's corporate theme song and display pictures of the engineers on the screen.
No, I want to mod! Yeah, Mr. Coffee is safe and reliable. Now, how can I make it brew in 1/3rd the time? Double the heating coils? Plug it into 220V? Pressurize the tank? Glue it to my Athlon processor?
What kind of world would it be if all devices were exactly what we wanted, creating no room for change nor desire to tinker?
On the subject of Indiana jones, can you explain to me exactly what happens with Indy and the submarine? it's baffled me since I was a boy...
There was a comic book that came out shortly after the movie; IIRC, it showed Indy hanging out on the sail for most of the trip. While it was submerged he tied himself to the periscope.
U-boats and other WW2 subs ran mostly on the surface, even attacked while surfaced. Being designed with surface ship hulls, they could go much faster on the surface than under water running on batteries. They would go to periscope depth if they wanted to attack without being seen, and only go deep if they were being hunted. Since the sub was making a direct line to the island, they ran on the surface, and dropped to periscope depth just to avoid detection and detour around allied ships.
Cartographers put fake streets in maps so they can immediately tell if a competitor's map is a copy of their data.
Didn't programmers do this regularly years ago to prevent exactly this sort of thing? "In defendant's program, if you hold shift-alt-xzyacb, it brings up the same exact message as it does in our program, proving they copied the exact source from us, since there's no plausible reason for that to be in the program otherwise" type thing. Do they still do that?
I'm no lawyer, but aren't there laws regarding selective enforcement? How were these people chosen over the rest of their p2p buddies?
Selective enforcement only comes into play when there's a possibility of civil rights being violated. Firing an employee because their age, race, handicap, sexual lifestyle, etc, is illegal.
In a long line of speeding cars, the officer can choose any car he wants to pull over. If all cars were identical, with tinted windows so the officer could not see inside, and everyone had the same plates, then there would be no concern about "profiling", which is illegal.
Since all the users were anonymous until Verizon released their names, there's no "selective enforcement", as long as it sent C&D letters to all the people. If they got 100 names, and sent letters to 30 that seemed to be middle-class can't-afford-a-good-lawyer-but-still-has-some-mone y-to-pay-settlement people, then it could probably be argued they are profiling. But I'd guess they'd send C&D letters to everyone they can, and take a few high profile traders and make examples of them.
At 60 mph, a one second distance gap is 88 feet. So 300 feet is roughly 3.4 seconds. Does anyone even stay that far behind the car in front of them anymore? I remember driver's ed/mva handbook recommending 3 seconds or so in distance, but my observations are that this is rarely more than 1 - 1.5 seconds.
Perhaps, but when the system automatically slows you down, on a country highway at night with no other cars, and as you gently roll to a stop you finally see the deer standing frozen in the middle of the road, you'll be thankful for it. Most people hit deer because by the time they see the deer within their headlights, it's too late to slow down.
Or maybe in the rain, when you need more time to slow down. Heavy rain, some fog, is that car really 300 feet in front of you? Those tail lights look dim enough to be 300 feet, but maybe the fog is so heavy it's only 100 feet? Maybe the idiot is running without tail lights.
There are plenty of situations where this could come in very handy.
Lets all invest our money in SCOs stock!! Then they are guaranteed to tank and go out of business in no time! It's time we made this tech bubble burst work FOR us.
Hell, why not just get all/.ers to toss in $20 and BUY SCO? Then we could forget about all this crap and get on with news that really matters... (what's Natalie up to these days?).
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No need for the V22? Hardly.
Come on, give the submitter a break. They did say when orithopters hit the "real world", V22s wouldn't be needed.
Yeah, 500 years in the future when micro-fusion produces the massive amounts of energy needed to drive an ornithopter capable of hauling 22 fully loaded marines, when we spin nano-tech fibers strong enough to withstand the vibrations yet light enough to beat without huge inertia... yes, by then there'll be no need for a 490 year old v22 fleet.
Yeah, labelling them will give you a vague idea where in the solar system it is. But if you want to be specific, then you're still going to have to look it up to find out exactly which object you're talking about out of the thousands or millions of objects which could be in the same general area.
It's like zip codes. 90001 is a zip code somewhere. I *think* the 9xxxx numbers are out on the west coast. If I *really* need to know where 90001 is, I'll look it up.
Astronomers aren't going to remember every detail of every piece of rock floating between Saturn and Uranus, they're going to have to look it up anyway. Search engines are pretty powerful these days, so what difference will it make what they name the object as long as you can search by criteria?
Thank you Tenebrious1! If it weren't for your hyperbole ...
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, as I did not use a hyperbole in my last post, I am forced to conclude you're completely clueless. Thanks for playing, come back again.
Care to cite your source? Oh wait. My mistake. Speculative bullshit shouldn't be questioned when it's about Microsoft.
The source is about halfway into the article, which I'd guess you didn't bother to read.
Sundwall would not comment on what type of agreement Microsoft would want with third-party IM software providers. "We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement," he said.
The NYC blackout riot was almost 30 years ago- NYC was a completely different city back then.
The LA riot was not the same as the NYC riot, it had to do with the Rodney King and racism.
Then we have the almost yearly riots in cities when the fans of a sports team get out of hand. Happened in Toronto as well so it's not just Americans.
When there's no power in a major city like NYC, people have to get out of the apartments or be broiled alive. So you have a lot of people out in the streets. There's no water. Food is rotting in the fridge. People can't get to work. There's a lot of tension to begin with, the blackout just adds to it. But most people make the best of it. However, in any situation, there are a few who will use the masses to their advantage.
I read that those inciting riots have alterior motives, to loot the stores. Maybe it's true, almost every riot has people looting stores and homes. Have there been riots in places where there aren't any stores to loot, like in the middle of central park?
Seriously, buy a used machine, learn to keep it repaired and running (or find someone who can), and enjoy! I enjoy classic pinball machines and that's what I did. I play them almost every day, worth every penny.
So... enjoying the single life, eh? My game room got turned into a spare bedroom... not that we have that many guests, but *just in case* was her reason (sigh).
My point is, you almost never hear the "slippery slope" argument applied to defend a position which can stand on it's own merits, removed from the political ideology for which it was chosen as a battleground.
Not really. You don't hear "slippery slope" arguements from people who can defend a position on it's own merits. You hear those arguments mainly from people who just don't know the facts (or can't be bothered looking up the facts), or more often would rather appeal to the irrational emotions of people; it's easier to sway people with emotional arguments than with dry facts and figures.
Why not insightful? Peeping toms and spycam crowds are careful about their cameras because they cost so much. With cheap $10 cameras, they're gonna have a field day. So what if one or two get found in the ladies locker room. So what if the ones under the secy's desk gets discovered and destroyed, it wasn't a big investment. They could have three or four hidden in a dressing room wired to cheap motion detectors... so I think it's gonna be a huge privacy issue.
On the other hand, you could then get like 20 of these puppies and do the "matrix" thing... that would be really cool.
Fantastic! So now I don't have to ruin a $200 camera, I can get one of these to disassemble and wire into my shoes for those "upshots".
How long until someone has Linux running on it?
Fighting the RIAA will cost them money...
/. That may well be worth the initial costs of fighting the subpeonas.
Only if they lose... if they win, they can recover the cost of litigation and also reap the benefits of having protected the privacy of their customers... as well as get a kudos from
{After waiting two hours for the movie to download}
w available..."{FastForward}"Kids..."{FastForward}"M aw..."{FastForward}"Angels..."{FastForward}"After. .."{FastForward}
OK kids! {hits play}
"Now available from Disney on DVD..."
{FastForward}
"Coming soon from Disney Home Theater..."
{FastForward}
"Now playing in theaters from the creators of..."
{FastForward}
"Walt Disney World presents..."
"Coming..."{FastForward}"From..."{FastForward}"No
"Now the Feature Presentation... please wait while your movie downloads..."
99.99% to go...
Now if only the RIAA could follow this lead. I don't seen anyone hating disney - oh wait, they're not suing the youth of America.
Disney has a music branch, Walt Disney Records that is a member of the RIAA, so yes, they are suing the youth of America.
I suppose the legal argument is that as a 9-year-old, she is under the supervision of her parents, cannot be sued individually, and so ultimately her legal guardians are responsible for "losses" she caused.
Parents are responsible for minors who drive cars, and thus have higher insurance premiums. I wonder if homeowner's insurance covers something like this? Or if Allstate will start selling "internet insurance"?
In Japan on the other hand, land is very scarse and thus worth a lot.
That's not quite true... Japan has plenty of undeveloped land. The problem is not the lack of land, but the fact that all the *flat* land has been used. What remains are steep mountains, volcanic areas, or geologically unstable areas, where you really can't build a decent landfill.
Whatever you do, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT forget to bring along the most important piece of equipment.
Why are you reminding him? If he's a newbie hitchhiker, he'll only use the towel to dry himself after a shower and wonder why it was so important to bring one when there's towels supplied by the hotel. The experienced hitchhiker know that the towel has a whole slew of uses such as hand-to-hand combat and protecting yourself from the bugblatter beast, and that drying is the last thing on the list (if the towel is clean enough). The towel is not just something you pack, it's a symbol of the experience you've built up over years of travel.
It's like telling someone to rebuild their kernel... it's something people already do or don't know why you need to.
I have an NYT account. Do I care if they know what I read on their site? About as much as I care when the next "American Idol" rerun is on (which is to say, not at all.) Why on earth are you fuckers so paranoid about this? I see absolutely nothing wrong with tracking as long as it's limited to the originating site. Get over it, for God's sake.
If you really don't care, why not post your login and password so we can share it? If you don't care that they're tracking and customizing ads for you, then you shouldn't care if we log in with your account and screw up their tracking. If that's the only reason, then give us your login, there's no reason not to.
a mix of a incorrectly spec'ed out transistor or something like that, and a bad ground circuit.
Nah, it's Sony's idea of a hardware easter egg... if those people had kept their fingers on the metal for a few more seconds, the system would have started playing Sony's corporate theme song and display pictures of the engineers on the screen.
What?! But I want to blow things up!
No, I want to mod! Yeah, Mr. Coffee is safe and reliable. Now, how can I make it brew in 1/3rd the time? Double the heating coils? Plug it into 220V? Pressurize the tank? Glue it to my Athlon processor?
What kind of world would it be if all devices were exactly what we wanted, creating no room for change nor desire to tinker?
On the subject of Indiana jones, can you explain to me exactly what happens with Indy and the submarine? it's baffled me since I was a boy...
There was a comic book that came out shortly after the movie; IIRC, it showed Indy hanging out on the sail for most of the trip. While it was submerged he tied himself to the periscope.
U-boats and other WW2 subs ran mostly on the surface, even attacked while surfaced. Being designed with surface ship hulls, they could go much faster on the surface than under water running on batteries. They would go to periscope depth if they wanted to attack without being seen, and only go deep if they were being hunted. Since the sub was making a direct line to the island, they ran on the surface, and dropped to periscope depth just to avoid detection and detour around allied ships.
Cartographers put fake streets in maps so they can immediately tell if a competitor's map is a copy of their data.
Didn't programmers do this regularly years ago to prevent exactly this sort of thing? "In defendant's program, if you hold shift-alt-xzyacb, it brings up the same exact message as it does in our program, proving they copied the exact source from us, since there's no plausible reason for that to be in the program otherwise" type thing. Do they still do that?
Knotted strings reminded me more of the primer's story in "Diamond Age", where entire programs were encoded into the links of a chain.
Now all the archeologists need to do is find the machines that were used to decode these strings...
I'm no lawyer, but aren't there laws regarding selective enforcement? How were these people chosen over the rest of their p2p buddies?
e y-to-pay-settlement people, then it could probably be argued they are profiling. But I'd guess they'd send C&D letters to everyone they can, and take a few high profile traders and make examples of them.
Selective enforcement only comes into play when there's a possibility of civil rights being violated. Firing an employee because their age, race, handicap, sexual lifestyle, etc, is illegal.
In a long line of speeding cars, the officer can choose any car he wants to pull over. If all cars were identical, with tinted windows so the officer could not see inside, and everyone had the same plates, then there would be no concern about "profiling", which is illegal.
Since all the users were anonymous until Verizon released their names, there's no "selective enforcement", as long as it sent C&D letters to all the people. If they got 100 names, and sent letters to 30 that seemed to be middle-class can't-afford-a-good-lawyer-but-still-has-some-mon
At 60 mph, a one second distance gap is 88 feet. So 300 feet is roughly 3.4 seconds. Does anyone even stay that far behind the car in front of them anymore? I remember driver's ed/mva handbook recommending 3 seconds or so in distance, but my observations are that this is rarely more than 1 - 1.5 seconds.
Perhaps, but when the system automatically slows you down, on a country highway at night with no other cars, and as you gently roll to a stop you finally see the deer standing frozen in the middle of the road, you'll be thankful for it. Most people hit deer because by the time they see the deer within their headlights, it's too late to slow down.
Or maybe in the rain, when you need more time to slow down. Heavy rain, some fog, is that car really 300 feet in front of you? Those tail lights look dim enough to be 300 feet, but maybe the fog is so heavy it's only 100 feet? Maybe the idiot is running without tail lights.
There are plenty of situations where this could come in very handy.
Lets all invest our money in SCOs stock!! Then they are guaranteed to tank and go out of business in no time! It's time we made this tech bubble burst work FOR us.
/.ers to toss in $20 and BUY SCO? Then we could forget about all this crap and get on with news that really matters... (what's Natalie up to these days?).
Hell, why not just get all