I'm all the time clicking "this is spam" on stuff that Yahoo sends to my yahoo account, but I still get it. What's up with that?
Me, too. They also started throwing all the moveon e-mails and tor e-mails into the spam folder as well. So is yahoo not delivering the mail at all, or just throwing it straight into folks spam folder?
To paraphrase, "So the engineers tested the ship against every conceivable thing that they knew it could withstand." I'm sure the spaceship is now safe.
Well, the speed is ok, since the time it takes between you seeing a wall and the rover hearing your "STOP!!!" command is about an hour... Slow may be quite nice then
Reminds me of the Austin Power's bit with the steamroller and the guard;-)
For very low values of "running".
The rover has a top speed on flat hard ground of 5 centimeters (2 inches) per second.
Which is approximately 0.1 miles per hour.
Are you kidding? That's sprinting for most slashdotters.
I never liked puzzle games anyway, I just wanted to blow things up. Now that I'm older and can better appreciate puzzles, I jsut don't ahve the time. And only want to blow things up. The more things change...
Woah, wait a minute there tiger! They never said they were going to stop suing their customers, nope.
Indeed. Now they can sue the customer and point to a "legitimate" site that the customer could have used instead. Within a year they'll be citing this in their briefs since it will, in their eyes, remove any defense based on ignorance.
I appreciate that you feel passionately about this, but I'm not sure you fully understand it. The Academy wants information about someone they want to sue. They request the information from Craiglist and get nothing. So they ask the court to order Craigslsit to hand it over. Craigslist doesn't even show up- they lose. You don't get to not show up to court and win. Whether or not there is a bona fide case or not is a seperate question. And, while you may not think there is enough there, you are also not a Judge. You don't ahve the education, background, and experience to make that determination: they do. You don't know all the information in the case: they do.
Finally, Courts handle both civil and criminal cases. Their jurisdiction is over any conflict, be it between two people, two companies, or the state versus an individual (the criminal bit). I'm pretty sure that if you read Craigslist's TOS there's going to be a bit in there that they are not going to do a damn thing for you if you are using their site to do something you ought not to be doing.
You do know the government isn't involved, right? It is a civil matter. The only government involvement is that a judge entered a default judgment against craigslist because they didn't show up. No tax dollars being wasted here.
How is this Craiglist's fault? "Daniel" was doing something he was barred from doing. Shouldn't people be more upset that Daniel is doing this instead of being upset at Craigslist for investing massive amounts of money to protect someone else's dubious behavior?
Indeed and, to be clear, I think they are both bunk. But I do find it interesting how "believeabilty" is so readily tied into whether or not someone wants it to be true. I think part of the reason why so many people think the guvernment is spying on them is because it's a way to feel important; that they are worth the government's attention. I'm not talking about the warrantless wiretaps thing so much as black helicopters spying on their home (had a co-worker once who truly believed the government was spying on him with helicopters).
Absolutely. Of course, if you're going to fall into the NASA conspiracy you want to be true, shouldn't you at least acknowledge the NASA consipracy you don't want to be true? Maybe?
I think the easier answer would simply be time. And, to be clear, I don't believe int he least that we shot down flight 93. There was enough time after the initial attacks that people could communicate with their relatives and, once realizing what was happening, determined action could be taken. A group of pepople fighting in a cockpit could easily throw the plane into an unrecoverable attitude.
But I digress. We were talking about consiracy theories. Our air defense network is set up to look for external threats. Soviet Bombers coming across the pole and that sort of thing. The air traffic control radars are setup to see airplanes through their transponders. The Radar sends out a signal which the transponder responds to. The radars themselves are too weak to see a plane based of the reflection of its body. So once the transponders were turned off, they were lost to sight for normal ATC.
Where the time comes in now is that there would have been, by this point, enough time to scramble an AWACS: basically a giant, powerful Radar int he sky. That could have spotted the airliner, which is not transponding, and they could have vectored in fighters to take it down. So that's how they could have found Flight 93, but missed the others.
What conspiracy ? Given a choice between shooting down a plane and killing everyone onboard or letting some lunatic ram it into a building, killing everyone onboard anyway and lots of people besides them, which would you choose ? Cold-hearted, perhaps, but also the path of least corpses
Then why not take credit for it? The conspiracy is that, if the Government did act to shoot down Flight 93, then it should have said so. To shoot it down and then fabricate everything else would be a conspiracy, regardless of whether or not it was the right call.
The truth is that another hijacking is unlikely to happen. With the memory of 9/11 anyone trying to take over the airplane is going to be subdued, if not out and out killed, by the passengers. The philosophy before 9/11 was to sit back, let the terrorists make their statement, and then everyone will be safe. Not any more.
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Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, but I saw the whole thing as an excuse to demonstrate our capabilities.
I'm all the time clicking "this is spam" on stuff that Yahoo sends to my yahoo account, but I still get it. What's up with that?
Me, too. They also started throwing all the moveon e-mails and tor e-mails into the spam folder as well. So is yahoo not delivering the mail at all, or just throwing it straight into folks spam folder?
To paraphrase, "So the engineers tested the ship against every conceivable thing that they knew it could withstand." I'm sure the spaceship is now safe.
Kill the person who actually committed the crime. Your patsy does the dirty work, then you dispose of them.
"I kill the bus driver."
Well, the speed is ok, since the time it takes between you seeing a wall and the rover hearing your "STOP!!!" command is about an hour... Slow may be quite nice then
Reminds me of the Austin Power's bit with the steamroller and the guard;-)
Yep. They increased the L2 Cash size.
Are you kidding? That's sprinting for most slashdotters.
It changes everyone's face to Melanie Griffith's- post surgery.
ever truly fix education?
I never liked puzzle games anyway, I just wanted to blow things up. Now that I'm older and can better appreciate puzzles, I jsut don't ahve the time. And only want to blow things up. The more things change...
Still, I suppose any computer, even if it does give you eyestrain, is better than none.
Not only that, but you're only 1 luftballoon away from having the requisite hundred! You're a percent away from being able to buy right now!
Woah, wait a minute there tiger! They never said they were going to stop suing their customers, nope.
Indeed. Now they can sue the customer and point to a "legitimate" site that the customer could have used instead. Within a year they'll be citing this in their briefs since it will, in their eyes, remove any defense based on ignorance.
I appreciate that you feel passionately about this, but I'm not sure you fully understand it. The Academy wants information about someone they want to sue. They request the information from Craiglist and get nothing. So they ask the court to order Craigslsit to hand it over. Craigslist doesn't even show up- they lose. You don't get to not show up to court and win. Whether or not there is a bona fide case or not is a seperate question. And, while you may not think there is enough there, you are also not a Judge. You don't ahve the education, background, and experience to make that determination: they do. You don't know all the information in the case: they do.
Finally, Courts handle both civil and criminal cases. Their jurisdiction is over any conflict, be it between two people, two companies, or the state versus an individual (the criminal bit). I'm pretty sure that if you read Craigslist's TOS there's going to be a bit in there that they are not going to do a damn thing for you if you are using their site to do something you ought not to be doing.
They used the Disappearing Camcorder Trick© to "persuade" would be pirateurs to go elsewhere...
You do know the government isn't involved, right? It is a civil matter. The only government involvement is that a judge entered a default judgment against craigslist because they didn't show up. No tax dollars being wasted here.
How is this Craiglist's fault? "Daniel" was doing something he was barred from doing. Shouldn't people be more upset that Daniel is doing this instead of being upset at Craigslist for investing massive amounts of money to protect someone else's dubious behavior?
Some set the reader from "Oyster" to "Clam." No word yet on whether or not other vendors will attempt to mussel into the market.
Indeed and, to be clear, I think they are both bunk. But I do find it interesting how "believeabilty" is so readily tied into whether or not someone wants it to be true. I think part of the reason why so many people think the guvernment is spying on them is because it's a way to feel important; that they are worth the government's attention. I'm not talking about the warrantless wiretaps thing so much as black helicopters spying on their home (had a co-worker once who truly believed the government was spying on him with helicopters).
Absolutely. Of course, if you're going to fall into the NASA conspiracy you want to be true, shouldn't you at least acknowledge the NASA consipracy you don't want to be true? Maybe?
He's only ever "moonwalked" through a Nevada sound stage. Ain't not no aliens there.
-1 Redunant on a first post is a pretty impressive feat.
Children haters.
I think the easier answer would simply be time. And, to be clear, I don't believe int he least that we shot down flight 93. There was enough time after the initial attacks that people could communicate with their relatives and, once realizing what was happening, determined action could be taken. A group of pepople fighting in a cockpit could easily throw the plane into an unrecoverable attitude.
But I digress. We were talking about consiracy theories. Our air defense network is set up to look for external threats. Soviet Bombers coming across the pole and that sort of thing. The air traffic control radars are setup to see airplanes through their transponders. The Radar sends out a signal which the transponder responds to. The radars themselves are too weak to see a plane based of the reflection of its body. So once the transponders were turned off, they were lost to sight for normal ATC.
Where the time comes in now is that there would have been, by this point, enough time to scramble an AWACS: basically a giant, powerful Radar int he sky. That could have spotted the airliner, which is not transponding, and they could have vectored in fighters to take it down. So that's how they could have found Flight 93, but missed the others.
What conspiracy ? Given a choice between shooting down a plane and killing everyone onboard or letting some lunatic ram it into a building, killing everyone onboard anyway and lots of people besides them, which would you choose ? Cold-hearted, perhaps, but also the path of least corpses
Then why not take credit for it? The conspiracy is that, if the Government did act to shoot down Flight 93, then it should have said so. To shoot it down and then fabricate everything else would be a conspiracy, regardless of whether or not it was the right call.
The truth is that another hijacking is unlikely to happen. With the memory of 9/11 anyone trying to take over the airplane is going to be subdued, if not out and out killed, by the passengers. The philosophy before 9/11 was to sit back, let the terrorists make their statement, and then everyone will be safe. Not any more.
So TSA's main job now is justifying their job.
You mean... marketers don't care about us? All they care about is our money? So many illusions shattered.