Well aside from the fact that when you signed for your drivers license you agreed to submit to a breathalyzer, and given that, your refusal to submit to the test would most likely be considered to be probably cause for said warrant. It might seem a little cheap, but it's following the rules.
In addition to that, the legal alcohol limits in the US are ludicrously high, if you get done you deserve it.
Get a grip, for all intents and purposes when someone refers to the "Chinese language" they mean Mandarin. They're not inventing some sort of magical non existent language they're just using a different word for it. This is pretty much totally acceptable since we don't even call other Indo-European languages the same thing that their speakers do. The Germans don't speak German or even live in Germany they speach Deutsch and live in Deustchland, same thing goes for the french, spanish, italians, etc.
Thing is though, if you're doing the whole hunt and peck you're allocating thought to finding the keys, so you're actually further reducing rate_of_thought. No on says you need to type a thousand words a minute, but touch typing is really a rather useful skill.
Not to mention the fact that despite the prevalence on Slashdot of people who claim that they're "true" programmers, and who seem to do no documentation and claim to spend 99% of their time thinking about what they're typing and very little time typing, there are actually dramatically few jobs like that, and even fewer bosses who will actually put up with that sort of thing.
Which would make sense, except that Oracle are big users of Eclipse and have also donated a tonne of software to the Eclipse foundation. It's possible that Oracle will switch to netbeans now that they own it, but it'd be a fairly major cultural change for software they didn't find worthwhile to begin with.
Jimmy Wales is a dickhead and the appeals for donation are actually more obtrusive than most advertisements, add in the fact that internal wiki politics is pretty awful and no one is going to donate to that. You're certainly right that most people don't donate, but if you want serious amounts of donated time or money you have to be someone people like(which wikipedia aren't) or doing something which is vitally important to society(which they aren't). Assange is also a dickhead, but what he's doing is important so people still donate.
There is a mountain of fucking evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii, just because you don't choose to believe it doesn't mean you're rational or that you have a right to disagree on it. The sun might actually be purple and we're all seeing it wrong, it's possible, doesn't mean believing it wouldn't be crazy.
More importantly there's no rational justification for a conspiracy about Obama's birthplace. We all know he spent a number of years abroad, so they're not trying to cover that up, and as far as being eligible to be president, it doesn't matter whether he was born in the US or not, all that matters is that he was born a citizen. His mother was a US citizen and I've never seen anyone question that, and by US law that means he was born a US citizen and is eligible to be the president. Why create some massive conspiracy for something that doesn't actually matter. It's not logical.
This might be true, however I've never actually met a true libertarian. All I've ever met are people who don't like paying taxes and believe that if the libertarians got in they could have everything they have now but not pay any.
As to what the advantage was, there wasn't really one, W3C, like always, is just trying to standardize things that have been common practice for years, they're not exactly cutting edge sadly. You won't even see a dramatic shift to HTML5 for video because it doesn't allow the publisher to control distribution(neither does flash but it lets them pretend it does). HTML5 doesn't support DRM and while for many people that's a plus it makes it DOA for quite a number of uses.
As for codec standardization. WebM didn't exist when the standards were created and doesn't look to be either substantially better than H.264 or provably unencumbered by patents even if it had been. Theora sucks balls and the same potential patent issues as WebM, since Firefox refused to use the OS codec, and couldn't or wouldn't license H.264 itself no standard was possible.
Diplomatic cables are the official words of government employees on the clock. They are not private or personal except to the extent that secrecy aides their ability to do the job they were hired for.
As for the rest of it, the US government would love for Wikileaks to do that, because there would finally be something to actually charge Assange with, well not the US specifically since the truth is a defense against slander there, but pretty much everywhere else the information also has to be in the public interest(as opposed to of interest to the public). A few million charges of slander could shut down Assange for quite a while.
Yes, but a monster who kills millions of people has an awful lot of influence, even if it is for the worst.
Zuckerberg on the other hand just stole someone else's idea. And more importantly he stole it years ago. The only significant thing that that douche did this year was get a movie made about how much of a douche he was.
The problem is that you need a middle man. Both to insulate the source and to provide trust and authenticity.
For obvious reasons you and I cannot ever know who leaked the information, but someone has to. Otherwise anyone could make up whatever they wanted to about anyone or anything.
A lot of what journalists used to do before Rupert Murdoch gave us infotainment news has disappeared, but that doesn't mean we don't need it to be done. Properly researched stories written by people who actually have some sort of communication skills and who are responsible to a code of ethics are as critical to freedom and whistle blowers. It's important to see the source information, but it's also important that someone explains what all of the leaked information really means, and distribute it to the people who won't ever see wikileaks. We don't get a lot of that anymore, most people working as professional journalists today aren't any more qualified than your random looney blogger and care even less about the truth, but that doesn't diminish the need for those services any more than having a corrupt police force means you don't need someone to fairly and justly enforce the law.
I agree with you about not removing keys, I don't use capslock much, but when I do I'd never want to be rid of it.
That said, try CTRL-SHIFT-ESC for you clients, it opens the task manager up directly and I've found that it will continue to work at times when CTR-ALT-DEL doesn't. Not that I encounter those freezes all that often since I ditched that abomination known as XP, but it's still pretty useful. Made my support duties a lot easier back in the day.
They do, and I generally enjoy reading them. When I said they were the skeptics I meant on climate change, they are definitely in the climate change skeptics camp.
Getting sacked from government service takes either malice, or extreme incompetence, especially if you don't need a security clearance. You only have to look at the whole Wikileaks fiasco. The bugger who took the info is certainly getting put through the ringer, but I haven't heard that anyone got sacked for setting up the security measures which allowed him to take it.
I think the phrase should probably technically "This theory may even be testable with current knowledge and technologies for an amount of money which exists."
You're right that all theories must be testable, but that doesn't mean we actually can test them.
The problem is that skepticism is not the be all and end all of thought. Not believing everything your told without at least looking into who is telling it to you is good, not believing anything is not.
As much as I love El Reg because of the BOFH and their generally good coverage of IT matters, when it comes to climate change, they are the skeptics and deniers. So it's a bit late for it not to fuel them.
Well that sort of entirely depends on which day or two it is.
I pay off my credit card in full every month, keep a healthy bank balance and do all the responsible things that I ought to, but there have still been a couple of days here and there over the last 5 years where if I hadn't had my credit card I'd have been seriously screwed.
When you're talking about hundreds of millions of customers, you've got a safe bet at least someone is in those circumstances at any given time.
Freedom of the press is pretty well protected, but given that Rupert Murdoch bastard though he may be has financial interests in freedom of the press and seems to own the republican party, that's not really a surprise. The information is also not actually illegally obtained(at least not by wikileaks) it has certainly been illegally supplied, but that's a different side of the coin.
As for the government's reaction. It's not all that subdued and it's particularly stupid because they don't actually have any muscle to back it up. They've got not laws to get him with that wouldn't be overturned by the supreme court(even this one) and this is just making them look stupid.
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Well aside from the fact that when you signed for your drivers license you agreed to submit to a breathalyzer, and given that, your refusal to submit to the test would most likely be considered to be probably cause for said warrant. It might seem a little cheap, but it's following the rules.
In addition to that, the legal alcohol limits in the US are ludicrously high, if you get done you deserve it.
Get a grip, for all intents and purposes when someone refers to the "Chinese language" they mean Mandarin. They're not inventing some sort of magical non existent language they're just using a different word for it. This is pretty much totally acceptable since we don't even call other Indo-European languages the same thing that their speakers do. The Germans don't speak German or even live in Germany they speach Deutsch and live in Deustchland, same thing goes for the french, spanish, italians, etc.
Thing is though, if you're doing the whole hunt and peck you're allocating thought to finding the keys, so you're actually further reducing rate_of_thought. No on says you need to type a thousand words a minute, but touch typing is really a rather useful skill.
Not to mention the fact that despite the prevalence on Slashdot of people who claim that they're "true" programmers, and who seem to do no documentation and claim to spend 99% of their time thinking about what they're typing and very little time typing, there are actually dramatically few jobs like that, and even fewer bosses who will actually put up with that sort of thing.
Which would make sense, except that Oracle are big users of Eclipse and have also donated a tonne of software to the Eclipse foundation. It's possible that Oracle will switch to netbeans now that they own it, but it'd be a fairly major cultural change for software they didn't find worthwhile to begin with.
You don't need to use adblock to block those kinds of adds, no-script works perfectly fine for that sort of thing.
I use noscript because it blocks intrusive ads, I don't mind advertisements, but I hate when they make the page hard to use.
Jimmy Wales is a dickhead and the appeals for donation are actually more obtrusive than most advertisements, add in the fact that internal wiki politics is pretty awful and no one is going to donate to that. You're certainly right that most people don't donate, but if you want serious amounts of donated time or money you have to be someone people like(which wikipedia aren't) or doing something which is vitally important to society(which they aren't). Assange is also a dickhead, but what he's doing is important so people still donate.
There is a mountain of fucking evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii, just because you don't choose to believe it doesn't mean you're rational or that you have a right to disagree on it. The sun might actually be purple and we're all seeing it wrong, it's possible, doesn't mean believing it wouldn't be crazy.
More importantly there's no rational justification for a conspiracy about Obama's birthplace. We all know he spent a number of years abroad, so they're not trying to cover that up, and as far as being eligible to be president, it doesn't matter whether he was born in the US or not, all that matters is that he was born a citizen. His mother was a US citizen and I've never seen anyone question that, and by US law that means he was born a US citizen and is eligible to be the president. Why create some massive conspiracy for something that doesn't actually matter. It's not logical.
This might be true, however I've never actually met a true libertarian. All I've ever met are people who don't like paying taxes and believe that if the libertarians got in they could have everything they have now but not pay any.
Because the specification is complete, you'll have to wait for HTML6 in 2030 for that.
As to what the advantage was, there wasn't really one, W3C, like always, is just trying to standardize things that have been common practice for years, they're not exactly cutting edge sadly. You won't even see a dramatic shift to HTML5 for video because it doesn't allow the publisher to control distribution(neither does flash but it lets them pretend it does). HTML5 doesn't support DRM and while for many people that's a plus it makes it DOA for quite a number of uses.
As for codec standardization. WebM didn't exist when the standards were created and doesn't look to be either substantially better than H.264 or provably unencumbered by patents even if it had been. Theora sucks balls and the same potential patent issues as WebM, since Firefox refused to use the OS codec, and couldn't or wouldn't license H.264 itself no standard was possible.
This has been rehashed a million times.
Diplomatic cables are the official words of government employees on the clock. They are not private or personal except to the extent that secrecy aides their ability to do the job they were hired for.
As for the rest of it, the US government would love for Wikileaks to do that, because there would finally be something to actually charge Assange with, well not the US specifically since the truth is a defense against slander there, but pretty much everywhere else the information also has to be in the public interest(as opposed to of interest to the public). A few million charges of slander could shut down Assange for quite a while.
Yes, but a monster who kills millions of people has an awful lot of influence, even if it is for the worst.
Zuckerberg on the other hand just stole someone else's idea. And more importantly he stole it years ago. The only significant thing that that douche did this year was get a movie made about how much of a douche he was.
Can't remember where I discovered it, but it's a god send, for some reason XP can freeze out ctrl-alt-del, but that'll still work.
The problem is that you need a middle man. Both to insulate the source and to provide trust and authenticity.
For obvious reasons you and I cannot ever know who leaked the information, but someone has to. Otherwise anyone could make up whatever they wanted to about anyone or anything.
A lot of what journalists used to do before Rupert Murdoch gave us infotainment news has disappeared, but that doesn't mean we don't need it to be done. Properly researched stories written by people who actually have some sort of communication skills and who are responsible to a code of ethics are as critical to freedom and whistle blowers. It's important to see the source information, but it's also important that someone explains what all of the leaked information really means, and distribute it to the people who won't ever see wikileaks. We don't get a lot of that anymore, most people working as professional journalists today aren't any more qualified than your random looney blogger and care even less about the truth, but that doesn't diminish the need for those services any more than having a corrupt police force means you don't need someone to fairly and justly enforce the law.
I agree with you about not removing keys, I don't use capslock much, but when I do I'd never want to be rid of it.
That said, try CTRL-SHIFT-ESC for you clients, it opens the task manager up directly and I've found that it will continue to work at times when CTR-ALT-DEL doesn't. Not that I encounter those freezes all that often since I ditched that abomination known as XP, but it's still pretty useful. Made my support duties a lot easier back in the day.
This is true, but on the other hand, the economy would have collapsed. It's good that he's honest, but it's bad that he's a loony.
It always is.
They do, and I generally enjoy reading them. When I said they were the skeptics I meant on climate change, they are definitely in the climate change skeptics camp.
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Getting sacked from government service takes either malice, or extreme incompetence, especially if you don't need a security clearance. You only have to look at the whole Wikileaks fiasco. The bugger who took the info is certainly getting put through the ringer, but I haven't heard that anyone got sacked for setting up the security measures which allowed him to take it.
I think the phrase should probably technically "This theory may even be testable with current knowledge and technologies for an amount of money which exists."
You're right that all theories must be testable, but that doesn't mean we actually can test them.
The problem is that skepticism is not the be all and end all of thought. Not believing everything your told without at least looking into who is telling it to you is good, not believing anything is not.
As much as I love El Reg because of the BOFH and their generally good coverage of IT matters, when it comes to climate change, they are the skeptics and deniers. So it's a bit late for it not to fuel them.
Well that sort of entirely depends on which day or two it is.
I pay off my credit card in full every month, keep a healthy bank balance and do all the responsible things that I ought to, but there have still been a couple of days here and there over the last 5 years where if I hadn't had my credit card I'd have been seriously screwed.
When you're talking about hundreds of millions of customers, you've got a safe bet at least someone is in those circumstances at any given time.
Freedom of the press is pretty well protected, but given that Rupert Murdoch bastard though he may be has financial interests in freedom of the press and seems to own the republican party, that's not really a surprise. The information is also not actually illegally obtained(at least not by wikileaks) it has certainly been illegally supplied, but that's a different side of the coin.
As for the government's reaction. It's not all that subdued and it's particularly stupid because they don't actually have any muscle to back it up. They've got not laws to get him with that wouldn't be overturned by the supreme court(even this one) and this is just making them look stupid.
Wow, I guess even Ron Paul has to be right once in a while.