Their "conclusion" is that if you are a heavy computer user AND you
have already present refractive errors (near- or far-sighted) then
you're more likely to have some vision difficulties. However, among
the people with visual field abnormalities 33% were light computer
users, 48% were moderate, and 19% were heavy users (not exactly the
data you'd want for a correlation), which oddly enough is the same as
the people without visual-field abnormalities. I won't bore you with
the rest of the analysis, but let's just say it doesn't show shit
(among people without refractive errors, heavy computer users were
twice as likely to not have visual field abnormalities which is
pretty weird to me - seems like computer use is actually GOOD for you
if you don't already have myopia) which is probably why it was
published in the "prestigious" Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health...
Well, one of the sites mentioned in there was mine, www.downwithwhitey.com. The guy managed to track me down through/. actually, and did a small email interview, asked if I minded being named as being behind a site that has generated enough hate mail to scare anyone. Well, needless to say, I asked that he keep my name out of his book. Got a free copy for my troubles though!
And what started as a domain registered simply so I could test my new domain registration application turned into something apparently humorous enough to this guy to include in his book...I feel so validated.
one of my domains shows "ranking not available" (rochesterdrinks.com), one shows "4" (downwithwhitey.com)...i dont know what to make of the number rankings since downwithwhitey is obviously not the #4 destination on the web
Most international airports in the US use fingerprints for verification only and rely on either smart cards and/or PINs for identification purposes. So while it's certainly possible to fake the fingerprint, it's much harder to gain unauthorized access when you have to combine 2 or 3 of the "something you have/know/are" methods of security.
You can force someone to enter a PIN and put their finger on the reader, but that's what duress codes are for (a PIN seperate from your own that indicates you are entering your PIN under threat/duress and will generate an alarm to security).
Our airports (or any other buildings) will never be totally secure, all we can do is keep making it harder on the people who are trying to gain unauthoriezd access.
I realize I may be feeding the troll, but this is something definitely worth knowing:
4. Would giving the cop the finger, making pig noises, and speaking in intimate terms about his mother, constitute a crime as well?
Actually, I already know the answer to this. Cops are treated as Special Citizens in our republic. While it is legal to tease, insult, or be disrespectful of a regular citizen, to do so to a POLICE OFFICER is a serious, serious crime.
ACTUALLY, this is not at all a crime. See the following summaries of two court cases which have upheld your right to verbally abuse a police officer as part of your constitutionally protected speech: (originally seen on the smoking gun some time ago in regards to this case.)
4. A juvenile telling a police officer "fuck you" was held to be constitutionally protected speech. R.I.T. v. State, 675 So.2d 97 (Ala. Cr. App. 1995) (conviction for disorderly conduct overturned). The R.I.T. court reasoned that police officers are specially trained to deal with vulgarities and situations when others may be verbally abusive towards them, and thus "fuck you" was not likely to provoke a violent response.
5. A juvenile calling a police officer a "fucking pig, fuckin' kangaroo" and telling the officer "fuck you" during a traffic contact was found to be constitutionally protected speech. State v. John W., 418 A.2d 1097 (Me. 1980). Just like the R.I.T. court, Id., the John W. court also reasoned that police officers deal with these types of situations on an every day basis and therefore "fucking pig, fuckin' kangaroo and fuck you" were not likely to invoke a violent response.
I realize this is a fickle point, but one that should be mentioned in the context of proper usage of words, nonetheless. Regardless, parent makes a good point that, if I had to guess (and i don't), most people are entirely unaware of.
The school has two T1 lines. They've had two T1 lines for ages, and haven't ever even thought about getting a third.
Last I heard, UR has 2 oc-3 connections now and the backup line is a t3 that isn't on normally. So,that opens things up a bit for this whole idea of the Napster servers being on-site and downloading new content (maybe at like 6-8am when the fewest students are using their computers?). If there are 10 albums added every week, 15 songs per album, 4MB per song, that's still only 600MB/wk.
I agree that UR can afford to spend money on much better things than this, but you know how the Satanic President Jackson likes to blow money on stupid shit.
I hate to be the voice of reason, but "+4, Insightful" for this?
It's not as if Microsoft is going after Tom's Windows and Siding in Tuscaloosa, or Japan's Kansai Window Business (which actually offers a "Ideustry Innovation System, IIS"). They are going after a company who is blatantly using MS's Windows name recognition to sell their shitty version of "Linux for the masses/dumbasses".
Now, I hate MS as much as the next geek, and I'm all for getting home users (who are ready) to try out Linux...but this is exactly what Lindows should have expected.
In other news, I hear Lindows(tm)(c)(r)(sm)(wtf) started selling PCs in China under the name "Rinux". You can't even tell the difference... "Oh sank you, we run Rinux!!"
If the child is getting sued for $150,000 per letter they deface a building with, then yes, that lawsuit should never be filed because it is absolutely ridiculous.
I think #7 is a Tonberry from Final Fantasy 7
(image here)
As a side note: Aren't real Rorscharch (sp?) images black on white? Or do I remember wrong my one year in college as a *cough* psychology major *cough*
1) she wouldn't do that, in fact she's actually rather happy with mozilla now, enjoys tabbed browsing and built in popup blocking...just took some effort to get her to that point
2) Unfortunately, my main machine at home is a dell inspiron laptop, and Dell's inspiron bios improperly sets the video memory size to 1mb, which windows can 'fix' and use the entire 32mb that is truly available. However, i installed redhat on the machine last year and it was unable to do the same thing, allowing me to instead either run my display at 800x600 with 16-bit color, or 1024x768 with 256 colors, neither of which is acceptable to me, so I went back to xp instead.
Its/., discussions aren't always on the intial topic 100%, thats just the way it is
The reason I know about Howie Day/John Mayer is because I used to go see them when they played for 5-15 people in a coffee shop (my first howie day concert was over 3 years ago, in may of 2000), I taped Howie Day personally, 2 years before he signed his record contrat. I saw John Mayer when he was playing for a bar full of people who didnt know who he was (also over 3 years ago), and 5 of us who drove 2 hours to see him.
I do my part to support small bands, and if more people took the time and effort to check out these bands, you wouldn't need the RIAA to succeed.
Part of many bands becoming popular, hitting the big time, and making a living, is having a website that offers content to both casual and dedicated fans, and maybe this is a good way to both make money, and have your content easily accessable to both casual and dedicated fans.
How many people here have Netscape as a browser on their computer NOT as a primary browser, and why did you install it? WHy is it not the primary browser?
I have Netscape installed on my machine I use for web development to make sure any site I create works fine in IE/NS/Moz (no, i dont care about Opera users who probably browse as IE anyway)...
But I use mozilla as my primary and even took IE out of the quick launch and start menu to force my girlfriend (insert joke here) to use Mozilla...If she wants to use IE she has to find it in program files, good luck!
being "fiercely independent" will only get you so far unfortunately....
but if it gets you far enough to make a living while still doing what you love and not "selling out" your music style because of a label's demands (read: Vertical Horizon. also see: Pat McGee Band), then its not really 'unfortunate' at all.
On a side note, if you are interested in checking out (mostly) unsigned artists that are both good and homegrown, not manufactured, check out the Aware Store, they were the jumping point for bands such as Guster, John Mayer, Howie Day, Vertical Horizon, etc...(and such disasters as OAR and Dispatch)
Which end of you did that number get pulled from? I'd like to know before I touch it. Can you provide examples of several non-RIAA bands that have managed to set up fan sites that have 20,000 subscribers at $12 a year? Note "several", because "any good musician". If it's that easy, let's see the examples.
Every band starts unsigned, and many end up hitting it big before being signed and have rather large fanbases (in the tens of thousands) before signing with a major label.
Examples:
John Mayer (do some research, i won't spoon feed his history to you, but im sure you've heard of him now...he got popular through word of mouth and allowing people to tape and trade his concerts freely)
Howie Day howieday.com (went from playing cafe's to being feaured on mtv, and opening for bands like Guster and Dave Matthews Band in front of 20,000+ people a night...without signing to a label during that time, again: word of mouth and the spreading of live music)
Both have since signed record contracts worth in the millions of dollars...but only because they spent years touring out of a van (or an suv with a guitar and a road manager) and playing concerts for $5 in cafes and bars getting their name out the old fashioned way
You see, many good musicians/bands have to get popular via their own means, grow a fanbase, provide a website that informs new fans about tour dates, provides an email list/group, and offers songs to download. Only then do these bands/artists get offers to sign record contracts...its not the other way around unless you are a cookie cutter manufactured pop band created to provide 2-3 years of sales and nothing more.
I don't know if this is actually the reasoning behind suing file sharers, as opposed to donwloaders. As always, IANAL, but it seems that it is an open and shut case against a file sharer because they are offering up copyrighted works to users who may not have a licensed copy of the work (read: own the CD), making it illegal for that user to download the song.
A downloader however, could very well own the license to that song (was this debate ever settled, own a copy of the CD, own a license to that recording in any format?), and therefore it would not be illegal to download the file. This requires investigation, most likely a search warrant, and a lot more $.
Therefore, it seems to me, the RIAA's motivation is the ease of winning their lawsuits. It will be very easy to win without further investigation against a file sharer, but to nab a downloader, you have to prove they don't have a license for the work they are downloading.
Also, the way P2P works makes it impossible to catch a downloader, without being a file sharer. Granted, the RIAA could offer binary files, labeled as mp3s and see who downloads them believing they are legitimate. But then a copyrighted work was never downloaded, so there is no case (keep in mind IANAL). However, to catch a sharer, all you have to do is connect, search, start downloading, note IP you are connected to, send letter to ISP, get $$ (though probably not enough to make back your costs).
SIG:
Disclaimer: The preceding comments are my opinion, and do not reflect the views of my apartment, of which I am only an inhabitant. wonders if anyone will get that
I haven't found ADHD to be much of a problem at work now that I take those herbal remedies. Some people say they don't work, but...Oh, did you see Family Guy tonight? I love when Lois says 'someone lost an 'I' this week at Bingo' and then a guy...oh wait, sorry, we were talking about ADHD....So yeah, the herbal remedies work pretty well for me I think.
Go forbid you find this shit on your own...I took the following quote from the researcher who did this study since he has no/. account and didnt feel like posting anon.
"Relation of useful field of view and other screening tests to on road driving performance" - Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2000, 91, 279-290. And there are many other papers replicating and extending the work. In fact, the work of
Karlene Ball has repeatedly shown a direct link between performance on this very specific perceptual task and driving performance.
You know, we did get published in Nature, the number one science impact journal in the world. I doubt they would have been so happy to publish it if anyone off the street could come up with a valid criticism."
Dr. Jeremy Wolfe, the director of the Visual Attention Laboratory at Harvard Medical School (news - web sites), who was not involved in the study, said he was intrigued at the idea that "socially dubious games might improve something like general intelligence."
"It might give every 14-year-old something to tell his parents," Dr. Wolfe said. " `Hey, don't make me study. Give me another grenade.' "
Still, he noted that an increased capacity for visual attention was helpful in tasks as diverse as flying, driving, radiology and airport screening.
Is "the director of the Visual Attention Laboratory at Harvard Medical School" a scientific enough source for you? Stop trolling and do some reading
note: taken from yahoo.com's copy of the NYT article here
actually, their findings were VERY surprising in the field of visual cognition and neuroscience. It may seem like common sense to those of us who have played games from dusk till dawn many times, but many researchers were very skeptical when they first heard this was to be presented at a neuroscience conference last summer...They had no comment upon reading the article and seeing the results...funny to see a 22 year old researcher quieting 45 year old established neuroscientists.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.necam.com/servers/ft/320Fc.cfm
The NEC Fault Tolerant servers start out at $26,000 and go up from there, what's the big deal about a $16,000 server?
That's why any American who is pro-consumer buys two-ply! Easier on the rear and doesn't support those corporate pigs!
Their "conclusion" is that if you are a heavy computer user AND you have already present refractive errors (near- or far-sighted) then you're more likely to have some vision difficulties. However, among the people with visual field abnormalities 33% were light computer users, 48% were moderate, and 19% were heavy users (not exactly the data you'd want for a correlation), which oddly enough is the same as the people without visual-field abnormalities. I won't bore you with the rest of the analysis, but let's just say it doesn't show shit (among people without refractive errors, heavy computer users were twice as likely to not have visual field abnormalities which is pretty weird to me - seems like computer use is actually GOOD for you if you don't already have myopia) which is probably why it was published in the "prestigious" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health...
Well, one of the sites mentioned in there was mine, www.downwithwhitey.com. The guy managed to track me down through /. actually, and did a small email interview, asked if I minded being named as being behind a site that has generated enough hate mail to scare anyone. Well, needless to say, I asked that he keep my name out of his book. Got a free copy for my troubles though!
And what started as a domain registered simply so I could test my new domain registration application turned into something apparently humorous enough to this guy to include in his book...I feel so validated.
But how sure were you that they actaully worked?
this differs from eBay how exactly?
one of my domains shows "ranking not available" (rochesterdrinks.com), one shows "4" (downwithwhitey.com)...i dont know what to make of the number rankings since downwithwhitey is obviously not the #4 destination on the web
Most international airports in the US use fingerprints for verification only and rely on either smart cards and/or PINs for identification purposes. So while it's certainly possible to fake the fingerprint, it's much harder to gain unauthorized access when you have to combine 2 or 3 of the "something you have/know/are" methods of security.
You can force someone to enter a PIN and put their finger on the reader, but that's what duress codes are for (a PIN seperate from your own that indicates you are entering your PIN under threat/duress and will generate an alarm to security).
Our airports (or any other buildings) will never be totally secure, all we can do is keep making it harder on the people who are trying to gain unauthoriezd access.
I realize I may be feeding the troll, but this is something definitely worth knowing:
4. Would giving the cop the finger, making pig noises, and speaking in intimate terms about his mother, constitute a crime as well?
Actually, I already know the answer to this. Cops are treated as Special Citizens in our republic. While it is legal to tease, insult, or be disrespectful of a regular citizen, to do so to a POLICE OFFICER is a serious, serious crime.
ACTUALLY, this is not at all a crime. See the following summaries of two court cases which have upheld your right to verbally abuse a police officer as part of your constitutionally protected speech: (originally seen on the smoking gun some time ago in regards to this case.)
4. A juvenile telling a police officer "fuck you" was held to be constitutionally protected speech. R.I.T. v. State, 675 So.2d 97 (Ala. Cr. App. 1995) (conviction for disorderly conduct overturned). The R.I.T. court reasoned that police officers are specially trained to deal with vulgarities and situations when others may be verbally abusive towards them, and thus "fuck you" was not likely to provoke a violent response.
5. A juvenile calling a police officer a "fucking pig, fuckin' kangaroo" and telling the officer "fuck you" during a traffic contact was found to be constitutionally protected speech. State v. John W., 418 A.2d 1097 (Me. 1980). Just like the R.I.T. court, Id., the John W. court also reasoned that police officers deal with these types of situations on an every day basis and therefore "fucking pig, fuckin' kangaroo and fuck you" were not likely to invoke a violent response.
Trimestral or Trimestrial means a period of 3 months.
I realize this is a fickle point, but one that should be mentioned in the context of proper usage of words, nonetheless. Regardless, parent makes a good point that, if I had to guess (and i don't), most people are entirely unaware of.
The school has two T1 lines. They've had two T1 lines for ages, and haven't ever even thought about getting a third.
Last I heard, UR has 2 oc-3 connections now and the backup line is a t3 that isn't on normally. So,that opens things up a bit for this whole idea of the Napster servers being on-site and downloading new content (maybe at like 6-8am when the fewest students are using their computers?). If there are 10 albums added every week, 15 songs per album, 4MB per song, that's still only 600MB/wk.I agree that UR can afford to spend money on much better things than this, but you know how the Satanic President Jackson likes to blow money on stupid shit.
my $.02,
"Evil Justin"
Leave your windows open, blah blah blah...
:
Windows:
Windows Installer Torrent
Linux
Linux Installer
I hate to be the voice of reason, but "+4, Insightful" for this?
It's not as if Microsoft is going after Tom's Windows and Siding in Tuscaloosa, or Japan's Kansai Window Business (which actually offers a "Ideustry Innovation System, IIS"). They are going after a company who is blatantly using MS's Windows name recognition to sell their shitty version of "Linux for the masses/dumbasses".
Now, I hate MS as much as the next geek, and I'm all for getting home users (who are ready) to try out Linux...but this is exactly what Lindows should have expected.
In other news, I hear Lindows(tm)(c)(r)(sm)(wtf) started selling PCs in China under the name "Rinux". You can't even tell the difference... "Oh sank you, we run Rinux!!"
If the child is getting sued for $150,000 per letter they deface a building with, then yes, that lawsuit should never be filed because it is absolutely ridiculous.
I think #7 is a Tonberry from Final Fantasy 7 (image here)
As a side note: Aren't real Rorscharch (sp?) images black on white? Or do I remember wrong my one year in college as a *cough* psychology major *cough*
1) she wouldn't do that, in fact she's actually rather happy with mozilla now, enjoys tabbed browsing and built in popup blocking...just took some effort to get her to that point
2) Unfortunately, my main machine at home is a dell inspiron laptop, and Dell's inspiron bios improperly sets the video memory size to 1mb, which windows can 'fix' and use the entire 32mb that is truly available. However, i installed redhat on the machine last year and it was unable to do the same thing, allowing me to instead either run my display at 800x600 with 16-bit color, or 1024x768 with 256 colors, neither of which is acceptable to me, so I went back to xp instead.
I do my part to support small bands, and if more people took the time and effort to check out these bands, you wouldn't need the RIAA to succeed.
Part of many bands becoming popular, hitting the big time, and making a living, is having a website that offers content to both casual and dedicated fans, and maybe this is a good way to both make money, and have your content easily accessable to both casual and dedicated fans.
How many people here have Netscape as a browser on their computer NOT as a primary browser, and why did you install it? WHy is it not the primary browser?
I have Netscape installed on my machine I use for web development to make sure any site I create works fine in IE/NS/Moz (no, i dont care about Opera users who probably browse as IE anyway)...
But I use mozilla as my primary and even took IE out of the quick launch and start menu to force my girlfriend (insert joke here) to use Mozilla...If she wants to use IE she has to find it in program files, good luck!
being "fiercely independent" will only get you so far unfortunately....
but if it gets you far enough to make a living while still doing what you love and not "selling out" your music style because of a label's demands (read: Vertical Horizon. also see: Pat McGee Band), then its not really 'unfortunate' at all.
On a side note, if you are interested in checking out (mostly) unsigned artists that are both good and homegrown, not manufactured, check out the Aware Store, they were the jumping point for bands such as Guster, John Mayer, Howie Day, Vertical Horizon, etc...(and such disasters as OAR and Dispatch)
Which end of you did that number get pulled from? I'd like to know before I touch it. Can you provide examples of several non-RIAA bands that have managed to set up fan sites that have 20,000 subscribers at $12 a year? Note "several", because "any good musician". If it's that easy, let's see the examples.
Every band starts unsigned, and many end up hitting it big before being signed and have rather large fanbases (in the tens of thousands) before signing with a major label.
Examples:
Both have since signed record contracts worth in the millions of dollars...but only because they spent years touring out of a van (or an suv with a guitar and a road manager) and playing concerts for $5 in cafes and bars getting their name out the old fashioned way
You see, many good musicians/bands have to get popular via their own means, grow a fanbase, provide a website that informs new fans about tour dates, provides an email list/group, and offers songs to download. Only then do these bands/artists get offers to sign record contracts...its not the other way around unless you are a cookie cutter manufactured pop band created to provide 2-3 years of sales and nothing more.
I don't know if this is actually the reasoning behind suing file sharers, as opposed to donwloaders. As always, IANAL, but it seems that it is an open and shut case against a file sharer because they are offering up copyrighted works to users who may not have a licensed copy of the work (read: own the CD), making it illegal for that user to download the song.
A downloader however, could very well own the license to that song (was this debate ever settled, own a copy of the CD, own a license to that recording in any format?), and therefore it would not be illegal to download the file. This requires investigation, most likely a search warrant, and a lot more $.
Therefore, it seems to me, the RIAA's motivation is the ease of winning their lawsuits. It will be very easy to win without further investigation against a file sharer, but to nab a downloader, you have to prove they don't have a license for the work they are downloading.
Also, the way P2P works makes it impossible to catch a downloader, without being a file sharer. Granted, the RIAA could offer binary files, labeled as mp3s and see who downloads them believing they are legitimate. But then a copyrighted work was never downloaded, so there is no case (keep in mind IANAL). However, to catch a sharer, all you have to do is connect, search, start downloading, note IP you are connected to, send letter to ISP, get $$ (though probably not enough to make back your costs).
SIG:
Disclaimer: The preceding comments are my opinion, and do not reflect the views of my apartment, of which I am only an inhabitant.
wonders if anyone will get that
And apparently no W's to spell 'two' when referring to a pair of objects.
I haven't found ADHD to be much of a problem at work now that I take those herbal remedies. Some people say they don't work, but...Oh, did you see Family Guy tonight? I love when Lois says 'someone lost an 'I' this week at Bingo' and then a guy...oh wait, sorry, we were talking about ADHD....So yeah, the herbal remedies work pretty well for me I think.
How is this, jackass?
Is "the director of the Visual Attention Laboratory at Harvard Medical School" a scientific enough source for you? Stop trolling and do some reading
note: taken from yahoo.com's copy of the NYT article here
actually, their findings were VERY surprising in the field of visual cognition and neuroscience. It may seem like common sense to those of us who have played games from dusk till dawn many times, but many researchers were very skeptical when they first heard this was to be presented at a neuroscience conference last summer...They had no comment upon reading the article and seeing the results...funny to see a 22 year old researcher quieting 45 year old established neuroscientists.