Forget the FUD about CC licenses. What's come out of this discussion seems to be that the only songs you can even share over the WiFi are songs bought from MS's music store, and authorized for sharing by the publisher....as if I'd be buying music from MS's music store in the first place. So, that reduces the WiFi to a useless batter suck that I'd never use and would possibly be paying extra for. So, no Zune for me, at least not until someone hacks it such that it's actually useful.
Haha, I remember that--it was pretty funny. Regardless though, credibility doesn't even enter into it. There are scenes involving all of these people that are admittedly, by the screen writers, pulled out of their asses. Things that, while they claim the entire thing to be based on "the facts" as presented in the 9/11 Commission report, are not in there, and have never been reported by *any* previous source, credible or not. In other words, fiction.
They didn't even have to make it up. Undoubtedly their Rovian Whitehouse overlords made it up, and they've just dutifully parroted it like they do every other talking point and catchphrase. Truth be told, they're not the only offenders, and there are a few small people on Fox News even who don't cooperate. But they're still the worst offenders.
Makes him look bad? Perhaps. Whether it were true or not Clinton would probably be apeshit. But even besides Clinton, it makes up blatant, provable falsehoods about current public figures like Madeline Albright and Sandy Berger. Around here that can be considered slander, and has nothing to do with censorship.
I don't think he needs you to help him get laid. Hasn't he had like three wives?
I remember once reading an interview with him, in which it was mentioned that one of the first things he always likes to show visitors is the picture of himself with Marilyn Monroe.
By that logic, you could argue that and HDTV is an accessory which is needed to get the absolute best experience possible. At $600 why the heck aren't they including an HDTV?! Those cheap bastards!
I actually prefer it the other way around: Be quiet if nothing's wrong, and only beep at me if you have an error. Actually, that seems to be more common now, though some of my older PCs did beep if it POSTed successfully.
Now I have this weird newfangled motherboard that actually talks to me when there's an error. Scared the shit out of me the first time there was a keyboard error. It actually shouted "Keyboard not found!" at me or something like that.
I think it would be completely futile to do that for every edit, as you say. But it wouldn't be a terrible idea for some of the more contentious articles--especially technical ones that are frequented by non-technical editors. Just go take a look at the edit history for the Evolution article. It's just riddled with vandalism and and stupid edits that have had to be reverted. Sure, the reverts usually happen pretty quickly, but there's always a brief period when the disinformation is displayed.
Of course they can open another one. They can keep opening accounts and keep getting them closed. Believe it or not, people do get tired of doing that eventually. It does act as a deterrent. It's also often pretty easy, when you're tracking a troll on Wikipedia, to tell when a banned user reregisters an account, and to simply have then banned again before they can cause any more vandalism.
IAWTC. I never saw what the big deal was about allowing anonymous edits. Besides, they're not even completely anonymous, as it does log your IP address. Accounts are free, and people should be required to get one (so they can easily be banned once they start causing trouble).
I don't know--at work right now, so I don't have time to check the facts. But I can imagine there having been 19th century presidents who were even more anti-scientific. That's not to say that Bush is in the least bit bright when it comes to science, or has his scientific priorities straight.
When I was in school we had a morning television broadcast, but it was produced entirely by students in-school. It was kind of stupid much of the time, but it had its moments, and at the very least was locally relevany and ad-free. Plus, teachers were by no means required to show it.
But I'm glad to know about this...if I ever have kids I'll want to make sure not to send them to a school where this kind of crap is going on.
"Science Fearing Luddites"... I find that phrase interesting (in the GP); When I go to Whole Foods or other stores that sell organic, non-GM foods, I find doctors, lawyers, engineers, and my peers from the Information Industries. I know organic and non-gm foods cost considerably more than their 'conventional' counterparts.
Does it occur to you, however, that not all of them necessarily care whether it's GM or not? *I* shop at Whole Foods and similar stores, because I think that in general organic and all natural foods are a Good Thing, and probably on the whole better than you. But I certainly don't care if it's GM or not, because I can't imagine any way that that would make a difference on human physiology. Unless we start splicing genes from blowfish into our cabbage, I can't see how it could possibly matter.
I dunno. There are some legitimate complaints regarding GM crops contaminating existing ecosystems. But mostly it's just a bunch of asshole science-fearing luddites.
I don't have any mod points right now, so I guess I'll reply.
I don't know about "grandmother's diamond encrusted wig" (wtf?), but for lots of people their digital SLR and their laptop *are* things that they have to travel with for professional reasons. And no, those are definitely not things you would want to leave in the hands of baggage handlers. And are you suggesting I should get a courier to transport those things for me every time I travel? That's ridiculous--anybody should be able to carry things like that with them on a flight. And some of us you know, are busy, and actually have work to get done on flights too.
I agree that people who bring their entire worldy posessions with them as carry-ons are annoying. But a few basic things, and any small valuables are not unreasonable things to want to carry with you. You really don't know what you're talking about and have no real argument, so stop pretending not to be a troll.
The more likely explanation is that whoever translated the instruction manual from Japanese hadn't played the game all the way through and simply assumed that Samus was male (Japanese tends not to use many gender-specific words, if at all).
I had one of those for several years too, and really loved it. However, as someone pointed out to me, the internal components were all made by Logitech, so really the only part MS did was the ugly external design. Not that that's surprising.
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Forget the FUD about CC licenses. What's come out of this discussion seems to be that the only songs you can even share over the WiFi are songs bought from MS's music store, and authorized for sharing by the publisher. ...as if I'd be buying music from MS's music store in the first place. So, that reduces the WiFi to a useless batter suck that I'd never use and would possibly be paying extra for. So, no Zune for me, at least not until someone hacks it such that it's actually useful.
Yeah, I started thinking that right after I posted.
That is a good thing.
Since when did Slashdot become Experts Exchange?
Haha, I remember that--it was pretty funny.
Regardless though, credibility doesn't even enter into it. There are scenes involving all of these people that are admittedly, by the screen writers, pulled out of their asses. Things that, while they claim the entire thing to be based on "the facts" as presented in the 9/11 Commission report, are not in there, and have never been reported by *any* previous source, credible or not. In other words, fiction.
They didn't even have to make it up. Undoubtedly their Rovian Whitehouse overlords made it up, and they've just dutifully parroted it like they do every other talking point and catchphrase. Truth be told, they're not the only offenders, and there are a few small people on Fox News even who don't cooperate. But they're still the worst offenders.
Makes him look bad? Perhaps. Whether it were true or not Clinton would probably be apeshit. But even besides Clinton, it makes up blatant, provable falsehoods about current public figures like Madeline Albright and Sandy Berger. Around here that can be considered slander, and has nothing to do with censorship.
I don't think he needs you to help him get laid. Hasn't he had like three wives?
I remember once reading an interview with him, in which it was mentioned that one of the first things he always likes to show visitors is the picture of himself with Marilyn Monroe.
By that logic, you could argue that and HDTV is an accessory which is needed to get the absolute best experience possible. At $600 why the heck aren't they including an HDTV?! Those cheap bastards!
I actually prefer it the other way around: Be quiet if nothing's wrong, and only beep at me if you have an error. Actually, that seems to be more common now, though some of my older PCs did beep if it POSTed successfully.
Now I have this weird newfangled motherboard that actually talks to me when there's an error. Scared the shit out of me the first time there was a keyboard error. It actually shouted "Keyboard not found!" at me or something like that.
Yeah, what is this "off" you speak of? Even my laptop I usually just suspend to RAM.
That's something I've never understood though. Why don't more people disable that? What function does a start up sound serve?
I think it would be completely futile to do that for every edit, as you say. But it wouldn't be a terrible idea for some of the more contentious articles--especially technical ones that are frequented by non-technical editors. Just go take a look at the edit history for the Evolution article. It's just riddled with vandalism and and stupid edits that have had to be reverted. Sure, the reverts usually happen pretty quickly, but there's always a brief period when the disinformation is displayed.
Of course they can open another one. They can keep opening accounts and keep getting them closed. Believe it or not, people do get tired of doing that eventually. It does act as a deterrent. It's also often pretty easy, when you're tracking a troll on Wikipedia, to tell when a banned user reregisters an account, and to simply have then banned again before they can cause any more vandalism.
IAWTC. I never saw what the big deal was about allowing anonymous edits. Besides, they're not even completely anonymous, as it does log your IP address. Accounts are free, and people should be required to get one (so they can easily be banned once they start causing trouble).
I don't know--at work right now, so I don't have time to check the facts. But I can imagine there having been 19th century presidents who were even more anti-scientific. That's not to say that Bush is in the least bit bright when it comes to science, or has his scientific priorities straight.
Oh god, that sounds horrible D:
When I was in school we had a morning television broadcast, but it was produced entirely by students in-school. It was kind of stupid much of the time, but it had its moments, and at the very least was locally relevany and ad-free. Plus, teachers were by no means required to show it.
But I'm glad to know about this...if I ever have kids I'll want to make sure not to send them to a school where this kind of crap is going on.
I certainly would, in this case. You make it sound like it's completely arbitrary.
I, for one, agree wholeheartedly with this law.
Does it occur to you, however, that not all of them necessarily care whether it's GM or not? *I* shop at Whole Foods and similar stores, because I think that in general organic and all natural foods are a Good Thing, and probably on the whole better than you. But I certainly don't care if it's GM or not, because I can't imagine any way that that would make a difference on human physiology. Unless we start splicing genes from blowfish into our cabbage, I can't see how it could possibly matter.
I dunno. There are some legitimate complaints regarding GM crops contaminating existing ecosystems. But mostly it's just a bunch of asshole science-fearing luddites.
I don't have any mod points right now, so I guess I'll reply.
I don't know about "grandmother's diamond encrusted wig" (wtf?), but for lots of people their digital SLR and their laptop *are* things that they have to travel with for professional reasons. And no, those are definitely not things you would want to leave in the hands of baggage handlers. And are you suggesting I should get a courier to transport those things for me every time I travel? That's ridiculous--anybody should be able to carry things like that with them on a flight. And some of us you know, are busy, and actually have work to get done on flights too.
I agree that people who bring their entire worldy posessions with them as carry-ons are annoying. But a few basic things, and any small valuables are not unreasonable things to want to carry with you. You really don't know what you're talking about and have no real argument, so stop pretending not to be a troll.
The more likely explanation is that whoever translated the instruction manual from Japanese hadn't played the game all the way through and simply assumed that Samus was male (Japanese tends not to use many gender-specific words, if at all).
That's AJAX for ya. I'm working on an AJAXy site right now, and while I haven't counted it has well over a thousand lines of JS.
100Mbps?? Yeah, like that'd hold up. DKos got almost a million hits today alone--maybe more.
I had one of those for several years too, and really loved it. However, as someone pointed out to me, the internal components were all made by Logitech, so really the only part MS did was the ugly external design. Not that that's surprising.