I've been a Slashdot reader and account holder since the days of the Halloween Papers, so I figure what I want out of this site counts for as much as what you want out of it.
You can ignore a story about which you don't care much more easily than I can read one that never gets posted.
...now that they've been told that they're not what they said they were, but actually a cable company, Aereo is looking to stay in business by paying the same money per channel to the broadcasters (who were happy about the ruling right up to this point) as the actual cable companies do, and the broadcasters are having a cow and claiming Aereo isn't a cable company.
Did anyone ever prove that there were Communists in the State Department in the large and ever-changing numbers Tailgunner Joe claimed?
I could claim that everyone working in the Swiss patent office in the first decade of the 20th Century was a genius, and Jewish, but it wouldn't automatically be true just because Einstein worked there.
Back in the day before the digital conversion, when analog TV channels were actually on the channel number by which they called themselves, Channel 2 started at 54MHz, and Channel 83 had an upper edge of 890MHz.
A channel 2 signal would wrap around a pine tree in the line of sight from transmitter to receiving antenna and keep going, but said tree would stop Channel 83 stone cold dead.
(It's kind of like how you can run both channels into a single sub-woofer because those frequencies are so non-directional, but tweeters have to be designed for wide dispersion if you're going to be able to hear all of both the left and right speakers without having to be pinned to one exact spot, because the higher you go in frequency the more directional a waveform is.)
They probably start with students because in the beginning they aren't testing the subjects, they're testing the test, trying to make sure there are no unanticipated bugs.
Those symbols on restroom doors are a fairly recent phenomena.
In the '50s and '60s they tended to have the actual words "Men" and "Women" on them (except in the Mad Magazine satire of advertising where it was "Mennen" and "Womennen"), at least here in the states (no doubt some places fancier than say, Sears, had them labeled "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" instead).
I assume that abroad they were in the local language as well.
The stick figure itself, I suspect, has been around as long as there have been humans to scratch them in the dirt with a twig or finger.
They were certainly known over a century ago when used as a plot device in one of Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories.
Could you post a link to this keyboard (or even a part number searchable on newegg's site) so that I can see what happens when a newegg customer in NC tries to get one?
Did tribal Africa have plenty of food because some of them were selling others of them to slavers, or were they selling each other in spite of not needing to do it to ensure an adequate food supply?
Yes computers and internet are important but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The most important engineering currently being done is still analog, like reusable rockets and fusion reactors. These rank slightly higher on the scale of importance to humanity than the guys making internet-connected refrigerators and targeted website ads.
Reminds me a few years ago when some dudes running websites voted "the internet" the most important invention in human history. It's as if they never heard of agriculture, or fire, or electricity, or indoor plumbing, or any number of things that are keeping these idiots alive.
I had a high school history teacher who said the most important invention in human history (or at least one of the most important ones) was soap, since it was so important in reducing the spread of infection and diseases.
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I've been a Slashdot reader and account holder since the days of the Halloween Papers, so I figure what I want out of this site counts for as much as what you want out of it.
You can ignore a story about which you don't care much more easily than I can read one that never gets posted.
Yeah, that Bin Laden guy saw the bike picture and laughed his head off at weak, ineffectual Obama.
"This submission is pretty much irrelevant here at Slashdot."
Yeah, nobody here cares about a 21st century Sarajevo.
Market share is as important a part of the algorithym as bandwidth.
Don't discount the misplaced priorities of the masses.
Prhaps they don't affect change at the ballot box, but the thongs that really matter to them can drive them into a frenzy.
Especially if those thongs ride up and chafe.
That may well be true, but has nothing to do with Murdoch buying Time-Warner.
TWC got spun off from Time-Warner and is a separate company.
If the proposed deals go through, Comcast won't be getting any of the company that owns CNN and HBO, and Rupert won't be getting any cable plants.
You know that Time-Warner Cable got spun off from Time-Warner and is a separate company now, right?
Reduction In Force
or a great ape in disguise.
I don't know about you, but I would probably read the shit out of Thor becoming a great ape in disguise...
Son of the Bride of the Revenge of the Return to the Battle Underneath the Planet of the Super-Apes?
Except wasn't the original mortal wielding Thor's hammer actually Thor himself after Odin got done pranking him?
...now that they've been told that they're not what they said they were, but actually a cable company, Aereo is looking to stay in business by paying the same money per channel to the broadcasters (who were happy about the ruling right up to this point) as the actual cable companies do, and the broadcasters are having a cow and claiming Aereo isn't a cable company.
why would anyone rent two apartments in the same city?
Wife/mistress/'50s movie plot line
or Family/Place to do kinky stuff they don't know about
Did anyone ever prove that there were Communists in the State Department in the large and ever-changing numbers Tailgunner Joe claimed?
I could claim that everyone working in the Swiss patent office in the first decade of the 20th Century was a genius, and Jewish, but it wouldn't automatically be true just because Einstein worked there.
"To drive from our inner city urban area to our suburbs takes 15 seconds, sometimes 30 if you hit a light."
Seconds? Not minutes?
We aren't even big enough to have an inner city urban area and it takes 15 to 30 minutes to go across town.
Back in the day before the digital conversion, when analog TV channels were actually on the channel number by which they called themselves, Channel 2 started at 54MHz, and Channel 83 had an upper edge of 890MHz.
A channel 2 signal would wrap around a pine tree in the line of sight from transmitter to receiving antenna and keep going, but said tree would stop Channel 83 stone cold dead.
(It's kind of like how you can run both channels into a single sub-woofer because those frequencies are so non-directional, but tweeters have to be designed for wide dispersion if you're going to be able to hear all of both the left and right speakers without having to be pinned to one exact spot, because the higher you go in frequency the more directional a waveform is.)
...are the ones who can't agree with themselves as to how many lights there are.
No, man, it was his mom swallowed the dictionary when she was pregnant with him/her.
They probably start with students because in the beginning they aren't testing the subjects, they're testing the test, trying to make sure there are no unanticipated bugs.
Those symbols on restroom doors are a fairly recent phenomena.
In the '50s and '60s they tended to have the actual words "Men" and "Women" on them (except in the Mad Magazine satire of advertising where it was "Mennen" and "Womennen"), at least here in the states (no doubt some places fancier than say, Sears, had them labeled "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" instead).
I assume that abroad they were in the local language as well.
The stick figure itself, I suspect, has been around as long as there have been humans to scratch them in the dirt with a twig or finger.
They were certainly known over a century ago when used as a plot device in one of Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories.
Could you post a link to this keyboard (or even a part number searchable on newegg's site) so that I can see what happens when a newegg customer in NC tries to get one?
Did tribal Africa have plenty of food because some of them were selling others of them to slavers, or were they selling each other in spite of not needing to do it to ensure an adequate food supply?
But somebody has to book the hookers or they won't know where and when to show up for work.
Of course if someone wants to book them for doing the work, that's a different problem.
That's unpossible. Most of us don't even read Slashdot.
Well, not the articles or summaries, anyway.
Yes computers and internet are important but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The most important engineering currently being done is still analog, like reusable rockets and fusion reactors. These rank slightly higher on the scale of importance to humanity than the guys making internet-connected refrigerators and targeted website ads.
Reminds me a few years ago when some dudes running websites voted "the internet" the most important invention in human history. It's as if they never heard of agriculture, or fire, or electricity, or indoor plumbing, or any number of things that are keeping these idiots alive.
I had a high school history teacher who said the most important invention in human history (or at least one of the most important ones) was soap, since it was so important in reducing the spread of infection and diseases.
Someone mod this guy up some more. It's certain that these coins belong to the guilty party, regardless of whether or not it's Ulbricht.
Guilty of what? Has it been proven in a trial of anyone that these bitcoins were received as payment for illegal items yet?