Y'noticed how other countries change their countries without pipebombing/shooting anyone? Have you noticed why? It's because they mass-protest. If America ever got a decent sized mob (this is america, so I'm talking millions) who protested in washington and DID NOT GO AWAY, DID NOT STAY IN PENS, NO MATTER HOW MANY ARE ARRESTED ON BS CHARGES, you'd have your changes.
the reason you can't change America by peaceful protest isn't because it's a bad method. Just look at what it does in France. Yes, France. They do something right once in a while, accept and embrace it.
It doesn't change anything in America because the protesters have no balls, and people who don't show up to the protest don't know or care that people are trying to enact peaceful change. until that facet of American life changes, you're all fucked. So fucking deal with it. In case you haven't noticed, not only is armed regime change a shitty plan, it's a shitty plan that can't possible work in a country like the states with such a massive army that HAS and WILL mobilize against its countrymen.
If all this compliaince BS was actually to HELP developers, the OSS community would've adopted IE settings as the standard.
'We' did. Remember iframes? They're official now too. Because they were a really good idea for an addition to the standards. Now, by comparison, look at IE's broken CSS implementation, or its rules for allowing popups. 'We' (whoever writes these things, I dunno) don't allow this because they're a really bad idea for Microsoft, much less the picky standards-writing people of the world.
Don't forget, IE's html-handling isn't just broken because it's different. Even ignoring web-standards, it's just plain broken. And it changes from version to version.
Perhaps, if a human could be genetically altered to have a type of cone in their eyes which received UV light. All known tetrochromats, as discussed in this article, however, have a 4th cone able to receive light somewhere between the red and green frequencies. That allows them to perceive the normal human colourband in much greater detail than I can, but they can't see in UV.
More importantly, they can't see in IR. To me, having heat vision would be way cooler.
No, we hate Bush because he's spent 4 billion a month on iraq, and the american army still can't afford kevlar vests for all active troops in combat situations.
There's no good excuse for that. There's no bad excuse for that. It's the scummiest war profiteering in american history. This is the kinda crap we teased the USSR for back in the day.
As a half-corillary I think it is better than AIDS treatments.
Most of that is completely preventable. Just don't have sex, not a problem of/.ers, or use protection, and don't share needles.
unless you were born with it, or you have no real sex education. (see major portions of africa)
I know you mean that it's completely avoidable for slashdotters and people in wealthy societies, and I agree, but I just had to throw that out there.
YES! Fucking right we would! When a scientist takes money to report a specific result, that's a bribe. There are NO situations under which that is not a bribe. Seriously, what are you smoking?
On a sidenote, this bribe thing is a nice way of discrediting anti-global warming reports. funny, that.
They say that last year we didn't know that... Panspermia is the theory that life came from other planets???
I scanned down the list for a bit, but when I saw that, I just had to reread it in surprise, then close that browser tab. I knew that a long, long time ago, as did a lot of other science or science-fiction fans. The wikipedia article on panspermia cites its usage as early as 2000.
Even so, I'd love your phone plan. I live in Canada, and my calls get about as international as... inside my own province. And here I am paying $50/month, plus extras if I use more than 100 minutes out of my local region (ie phoning parents), and with limits on how many text messages/voicemails/daytime calls I can use per month without huge extra fees. And it's as good a phone plan as anyone in my area has.
And heroine addicts are like (insert screwed up group of people here. militant irish protestants or catholics, maybe?) They aren't real people, they're just mindless crime-commiting animals.
I know you're just saying it about drug addictions, not a more controversial group like religious extemists, but seriously, wtf?
No matter how screwed up someone is, you can't just reduce them to one dimension without being incredibly blatantly wrong. Even alcoholics and heroin addicts are HUMAN BEINGS.
Yeah, I kinda have an axe to grind, but your attitude is still one of the bigger problems with the human race.
I'm not absolutely certain, but I'm pretty sure that in the states, it's the same as canada. "pissed drunk" means drunk, "pissed off" means angry, and "pissed" can mean either, depending on context.
Good news. I think that most of slashdot, like myself, had no clue what "Maginot Line" means, and figured it was some insightful translation. I probably would have voted it insightful if I had mod points and hadn't read your commend, since I have no idea what "Maginot" means and like to pretend I reward people for being smart.
In other words, great news. we're not intentionally offensive to the french, we're just really intellectually lazy.
I, like half the people on slashdot, used to work tech support in a call center. I had a shocking number of old ladies "swearing like sailors" because we couldn't put their technical problems in terms that people still living in the 1940s can understand.
I'd call *much* higher probability of tech support needs for an ISP to be the direct equivalent of an insurance company discriminating against the age group with a *much* higher probability of filing insurance claims.
Sure, the insurance claims are more important, but that's just because insurance companies work in a life and death industry, while ISPs don't.
So really, it's not unfair age discrimination on the part of the ISP unless you consider higher premiums for young drivers unfair as well. Which I don't, personally.
And how would they pay for these (basically) redundant systems? I've never seen a school system with money to waste on letting everyone make that kind of choice, as it would either drastically reduce inefficiency, cost twice as much, or both.
It would be sort of like buying a set of gasoline busses to transport children to school, and a set of diesel ones, and letting everyone choose which they want to take. Totally unfeasible, which is why some high-ranking school official consults some experts and decides both of these things for everyone else.
Assuming indian schoolchildren take gasoline or diesel busses to school, and believe me, I have no idea about that one.
My university-college is about 40% windows, 40% linux, 10% other unix, 10% mac. And I think that's around normal, since the nearest other university is similiar.
I think the 100% deployment thing meant that 100% of universities have at least 1 windows license and at least 1 MSoffice license, which seems obviously true.
Wait, so let's go over this again. If you catch him wrenching your monkeys and disobeying your civics, he has declared war on you?
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any clue what you're trying to say, but all the same, I'm almost certain you don't have any clue what you're trying to say either.
Evolutionary Biologists aren't actually certain of this. For example, they still aren't quite sure how viruses came to be. One heory is that they came from cellular RNA.
Anyone familiar with the subject beyond the scope of a biology 12 class, feel free to confirm/correct this.
If you're a truely vile blackhat, you'd probably go for choice #2.
Most of these people at the blackhat con aren't of ill intent, though. They're just hackers who won't let microsofts convenience get in the way of their fun.
Besides, with Microsofts history, I'd say it's pretty unlikely this hole will be patched if vista comes out before 2008. They certainly didn't patch any other verison of windows with that kind of speed.
I distinctly remember, back in elementary school, me and many other children saying things like "I hate ms. (name deleted). Why can't she just die!?!" and "we should really murder her, it's for the common good."
Does this make me a guy with a disturbed childhood? I don't think so. I know it makes me no more disturbed than the other 30 kids in her french class.
of course, we weren't total idiots, we never blabbed to a teacher about it. That was the biggest problem in this kid's story.
This could be way, way less sinister than your suggesting.
These are slashdotters responding to an article which (I gather) makes the assumption that he's a sick pedo. So they present a plausible counter-theory. That's what I'd do, regardless of which way the article decided. If you counter a statement, at least the fair (correct) conclusion is more likely to be found than if everybody just jumps on the bandwagon for whichever explanation comes up first.
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Y'noticed how other countries change their countries without pipebombing/shooting anyone? Have you noticed why? It's because they mass-protest. If America ever got a decent sized mob (this is america, so I'm talking millions) who protested in washington and DID NOT GO AWAY, DID NOT STAY IN PENS, NO MATTER HOW MANY ARE ARRESTED ON BS CHARGES, you'd have your changes.
the reason you can't change America by peaceful protest isn't because it's a bad method. Just look at what it does in France. Yes, France. They do something right once in a while, accept and embrace it.
It doesn't change anything in America because the protesters have no balls, and people who don't show up to the protest don't know or care that people are trying to enact peaceful change. until that facet of American life changes, you're all fucked. So fucking deal with it. In case you haven't noticed, not only is armed regime change a shitty plan, it's a shitty plan that can't possible work in a country like the states with such a massive army that HAS and WILL mobilize against its countrymen.
'We' did. Remember iframes? They're official now too. Because they were a really good idea for an addition to the standards. Now, by comparison, look at IE's broken CSS implementation, or its rules for allowing popups. 'We' (whoever writes these things, I dunno) don't allow this because they're a really bad idea for Microsoft, much less the picky standards-writing people of the world.
Don't forget, IE's html-handling isn't just broken because it's different. Even ignoring web-standards, it's just plain broken. And it changes from version to version.
So if I'm a drunken idiot at a bar, and I hit somebody, in a non-injuring kinda way, I should get locked up? Fuck that.
I don't go to bars or hit people, but it's worth remembering that laws need some kind of reasonable limit.
Perhaps, if a human could be genetically altered to have a type of cone in their eyes which received UV light. All known tetrochromats, as discussed in this article, however, have a 4th cone able to receive light somewhere between the red and green frequencies. That allows them to perceive the normal human colourband in much greater detail than I can, but they can't see in UV.
More importantly, they can't see in IR. To me, having heat vision would be way cooler.
No, we hate Bush because he's spent 4 billion a month on iraq, and the american army still can't afford kevlar vests for all active troops in combat situations.
There's no good excuse for that. There's no bad excuse for that. It's the scummiest war profiteering in american history. This is the kinda crap we teased the USSR for back in the day.
ogg vorbis is unpronouncable? It seems obvious to me. Whereas mpeg, wmv, avi all have varied pronounciations. how many ways can you say "ogg"?
I know you mean that it's completely avoidable for slashdotters and people in wealthy societies, and I agree, but I just had to throw that out there.
gimme a sec, I need to pick my jaw up...
kay.
YES! Fucking right we would! When a scientist takes money to report a specific result, that's a bribe. There are NO situations under which that is not a bribe. Seriously, what are you smoking?
On a sidenote, this bribe thing is a nice way of discrediting anti-global warming reports. funny, that.
They say that last year we didn't know that... Panspermia is the theory that life came from other planets???
I scanned down the list for a bit, but when I saw that, I just had to reread it in surprise, then close that browser tab. I knew that a long, long time ago, as did a lot of other science or science-fiction fans. The wikipedia article on panspermia cites its usage as early as 2000.
I was kind of disappointed.
Even so, I'd love your phone plan. I live in Canada, and my calls get about as international as... inside my own province. And here I am paying $50/month, plus extras if I use more than 100 minutes out of my local region (ie phoning parents), and with limits on how many text messages/voicemails/daytime calls I can use per month without huge extra fees. And it's as good a phone plan as anyone in my area has.
Don't worry, there's a cure for that.
All you have to do is create a gigantic sprawling prison industry. Just look at how well it's working on this side of the atlantic.
Before you know it, you too can have a rapidly, perpetually growing prison industry! There's practically no downside!
And heroine addicts are like (insert screwed up group of people here. militant irish protestants or catholics, maybe?) They aren't real people, they're just mindless crime-commiting animals.
I know you're just saying it about drug addictions, not a more controversial group like religious extemists, but seriously, wtf?
No matter how screwed up someone is, you can't just reduce them to one dimension without being incredibly blatantly wrong. Even alcoholics and heroin addicts are HUMAN BEINGS.
Yeah, I kinda have an axe to grind, but your attitude is still one of the bigger problems with the human race.
I'm not absolutely certain, but I'm pretty sure that in the states, it's the same as canada. "pissed drunk" means drunk, "pissed off" means angry, and "pissed" can mean either, depending on context.
Maybe because 500k aol users suddenly transferring large ammounts of encrypted traffic would look mighty suspicious?
either 500k aol users figured out how to look at disgusting porn on freenet overnight, or they're all zombies.
The idea is for the zombies to blend in with the normal net users, not the nerdiest of the slashdotters.
Good news. I think that most of slashdot, like myself, had no clue what "Maginot Line" means, and figured it was some insightful translation. I probably would have voted it insightful if I had mod points and hadn't read your commend, since I have no idea what "Maginot" means and like to pretend I reward people for being smart.
In other words, great news. we're not intentionally offensive to the french, we're just really intellectually lazy.
Sexbots, and the extinction of the human race. It's the only logical solution.
I, like half the people on slashdot, used to work tech support in a call center. I had a shocking number of old ladies "swearing like sailors" because we couldn't put their technical problems in terms that people still living in the 1940s can understand.
I'd call *much* higher probability of tech support needs for an ISP to be the direct equivalent of an insurance company discriminating against the age group with a *much* higher probability of filing insurance claims.
Sure, the insurance claims are more important, but that's just because insurance companies work in a life and death industry, while ISPs don't.
So really, it's not unfair age discrimination on the part of the ISP unless you consider higher premiums for young drivers unfair as well. Which I don't, personally.
And how would they pay for these (basically) redundant systems? I've never seen a school system with money to waste on letting everyone make that kind of choice, as it would either drastically reduce inefficiency, cost twice as much, or both.
It would be sort of like buying a set of gasoline busses to transport children to school, and a set of diesel ones, and letting everyone choose which they want to take. Totally unfeasible, which is why some high-ranking school official consults some experts and decides both of these things for everyone else.
Assuming indian schoolchildren take gasoline or diesel busses to school, and believe me, I have no idea about that one.
My university-college is about 40% windows, 40% linux, 10% other unix, 10% mac. And I think that's around normal, since the nearest other university is similiar.
I think the 100% deployment thing meant that 100% of universities have at least 1 windows license and at least 1 MSoffice license, which seems obviously true.
Wait, so let's go over this again. If you catch him wrenching your monkeys and disobeying your civics, he has declared war on you?
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any clue what you're trying to say, but all the same, I'm almost certain you don't have any clue what you're trying to say either.
Evolutionary Biologists aren't actually certain of this. For example, they still aren't quite sure how viruses came to be. One heory is that they came from cellular RNA. Anyone familiar with the subject beyond the scope of a biology 12 class, feel free to confirm/correct this.
If you're a truely vile blackhat, you'd probably go for choice #2.
Most of these people at the blackhat con aren't of ill intent, though. They're just hackers who won't let microsofts convenience get in the way of their fun.
Besides, with Microsofts history, I'd say it's pretty unlikely this hole will be patched if vista comes out before 2008. They certainly didn't patch any other verison of windows with that kind of speed.
Because on slashdot, just like absolutely everywhere else, most people are illogical.
Oh, wait. you didn't want the obvious truth, did you?
Um, it's because lunix is teh r0xx0r, yeah. that must be it.
I distinctly remember, back in elementary school, me and many other children saying things like "I hate ms. (name deleted). Why can't she just die!?!" and "we should really murder her, it's for the common good."
Does this make me a guy with a disturbed childhood? I don't think so. I know it makes me no more disturbed than the other 30 kids in her french class.
of course, we weren't total idiots, we never blabbed to a teacher about it. That was the biggest problem in this kid's story.
This could be way, way less sinister than your suggesting.
These are slashdotters responding to an article which (I gather) makes the assumption that he's a sick pedo. So they present a plausible counter-theory. That's what I'd do, regardless of which way the article decided. If you counter a statement, at least the fair (correct) conclusion is more likely to be found than if everybody just jumps on the bandwagon for whichever explanation comes up first.