>> There's a certain point where we need to consider the death penalty for this sort of thing. Sure, we normally only use the death penalty for heinous crimes, but from a utilitarian perspective it is quite clear that people like Sanford Wallace are doing far more damage to society. If Wallace is taken out and shot he'll lose about 365*50*24= 438,000 life hours.
so... watch out for your 15 minutes of fame lest people consider you wasting their time?
Imagine what will happen when the iphone will actually support bluetooth internet. garmins and other not-monthly-subscription devices can be left in the car an still have access to updates when you walk in the car.
BREAKING: "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski included a statement with the NOI in which he noted that 'twenty years ago, parents worried about their children having only a small vocabulary,' while today, word choices are far more widespread for children, which 'have become a prevalent entertainment source in millions of homes and a daily reality for millions of kids.'"
FCC is looking for opinions on how our "evolving language" affects kids, and whether the FCC itself should have more regulatory control over such language. FCC is creating a new language, "newspeak," which will allow parents to rest at ease that their children are not being exposed to language and thought that could corrupt their minds. The full NOI (PDF) is available online.
>> Social-networking site Facebook is planning to preserve the accounts of dead members. The new 'memorialized' accounts will continue to display photos and wall posts, but remove 'sensitive information' such as status updates and contact information.
So... basically what you are saying is Facebook's new data retention policy is "we retain your data forever, no excuses."
>> I thought Slashdot was opposed to copyright law and that you couldn't "steal" intellectual property because it wasn't physically taken from someone else?
-1, Slashdot should have a "stick post" that precludes comments like this
>> Except they arnt. The state they are using to generate the revenue is Washington the state they are CLAIMING they use to generate the revenue is Nevada. This is pretty much a clear cut case of tax evasion. Its like I work in New York but i claim income tax in NJ because the taxes are lower. Pretty blatantly illegal. They should get their back taxes and slap them with a 100% over due fee to net them an extra billion.
Please relax, stop posting, and read how taxes actually work, then come back in a couple years.
>> This isn't a liberal tax and spend issue. This is an issue of a giant company guzzling state services (fire, water, police, increased road traffic, etc. etc. etc.) and letting the little guys pick up the tab. You know what? If MS isn't interested in paying its way, than fuck 'em.
Property tax, gasoline tax, sales tax.
Taxes on corporate profits (which are again taxed as shareholder gains/dividends anyway) should be avoided to the extent allowable by law.
>> I think he's pointing to one of the inefficiencies of prize systems as a way to spur innovation. Thousands of people tried, spending tens or hundreds of thousands of work-hours and other resources, and only a fraction got "winning results" (yes, according to the arbitrary way that winning was defined). But the point is that the prize probably resulted in a very inefficient use of resources. We could hypothesize that the same result might have been achieved with only 25% of the resources spent on the prize - for example, by making the cost of entry non-zero, you could have eliminated teams with no chance of winning from participating. >> Basically prize systems benefit from people's inability to accurately assess their real chances of winning - or put another way, prize systems free ride off of people's self-delusion. >> Of course there are other factors to be considered, e.g., what would those wasted resources have gone to if they were not being used for the competition, perhaps there are incidental rewards to those resources having been used, perhaps people competed for reasons other than simply winning the prize, etc.
So what you're saying is that NetFlix recognized a large leverage on their prize dollars, and contestants received non-tangible rewards for their participation.
Or in other words, prize systems are an efficient way to spur innovation. See also [[X Prize]]
but considering this is Sony, it is very likely that the headphones will overheat and explode in your ear, cause a commotion at a UN meeting, install a rootkit on anything you insert it in, and lose a format war with something else on the market.
there is too much technology these days to prevent jurors from accessing this information, signed papers wont do it.
instead, they need to add a section to jury briefing to explain WHY the rule was implemented. at the end of the day, jury decides if they'll go on the net or not.
the jury should have interaction with the judge periodically to clarify anything they need clarify. the judge can decide if these questions need to be addressed to a witness or attorney...
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>> How is Facebook going to distribute... ... the money to the users who suffered damage?
coupons with no monetary value... and no non-monetary value.
>> There's a certain point where we need to consider the death penalty for this sort of thing. Sure, we normally only use the death penalty for heinous crimes, but from a utilitarian perspective it is quite clear that people like Sanford Wallace are doing far more damage to society. If Wallace is taken out and shot he'll lose about 365*50*24= 438,000 life hours.
so... watch out for your 15 minutes of fame lest people consider you wasting their time?
Imagine what will happen when the iphone will actually support bluetooth internet. garmins and other not-monthly-subscription devices can be left in the car an still have access to updates when you walk in the car.
Yes Obama, even green jobs are fungible.
BREAKING: "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski included a statement with the NOI in which he noted that 'twenty years ago, parents worried about their children having only a small vocabulary,' while today, word choices are far more widespread for children, which 'have become a prevalent entertainment source in millions of homes and a daily reality for millions of kids.'"
FCC is looking for opinions on how our "evolving language" affects kids, and whether the FCC itself should have more regulatory control over such language. FCC is creating a new language, "newspeak," which will allow parents to rest at ease that their children are not being exposed to language and thought that could corrupt their minds. The full NOI (PDF) is available online.
you must be born after September. in the past, there were no typos.
>> Social-networking site Facebook is planning to preserve the accounts of dead members. The new 'memorialized' accounts will continue to display photos and wall posts, but remove 'sensitive information' such as status updates and contact information.
So... basically what you are saying is Facebook's new data retention policy is "we retain your data forever, no excuses."
If someone else has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.
>> [Can somebody tell me] Why a US government agency needs an "investment arm?"
Because work carried out in the private sector is more efficient than work carried out in the public sector.
See: http://news.google.com/news/search?q=state+pension+liabilities
>> I thought Slashdot was opposed to copyright law and that you couldn't "steal" intellectual property because it wasn't physically taken from someone else?
-1, Slashdot should have a "stick post" that precludes comments like this
But to answer you: fair use, copyright lengths
>> In our company, users' pulses are tethered to the USB bus.
Is this a read-only interface, or can you write a string of zeroes to it?
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>> Except they arnt. The state they are using to generate the revenue is Washington the state they are CLAIMING they use to generate the revenue is Nevada. This is pretty much a clear cut case of tax evasion. Its like I work in New York but i claim income tax in NJ because the taxes are lower. Pretty blatantly illegal. They should get their back taxes and slap them with a 100% over due fee to net them an extra billion.
Please relax, stop posting, and read how taxes actually work, then come back in a couple years.
>> This isn't a liberal tax and spend issue. This is an issue of a giant company guzzling state services (fire, water, police, increased road traffic, etc. etc. etc.) and letting the little guys pick up the tab. You know what? If MS isn't interested in paying its way, than fuck 'em.
Property tax, gasoline tax, sales tax.
Taxes on corporate profits (which are again taxed as shareholder gains/dividends anyway) should be avoided to the extent allowable by law.
I agree.
Also, I expect a black hole will open up trolls on any document set with "Allow anyone to edit this document" enabled.
>> I think he's pointing to one of the inefficiencies of prize systems as a way to spur innovation. Thousands of people tried, spending tens or hundreds of thousands of work-hours and other resources, and only a fraction got "winning results" (yes, according to the arbitrary way that winning was defined). But the point is that the prize probably resulted in a very inefficient use of resources. We could hypothesize that the same result might have been achieved with only 25% of the resources spent on the prize - for example, by making the cost of entry non-zero, you could have eliminated teams with no chance of winning from participating.
>> Basically prize systems benefit from people's inability to accurately assess their real chances of winning - or put another way, prize systems free ride off of people's self-delusion.
>> Of course there are other factors to be considered, e.g., what would those wasted resources have gone to if they were not being used for the competition, perhaps there are incidental rewards to those resources having been used, perhaps people competed for reasons other than simply winning the prize, etc.
So what you're saying is that NetFlix recognized a large leverage on their prize dollars, and contestants received non-tangible rewards for their participation.
Or in other words, prize systems are an efficient way to spur innovation. See also [[X Prize]]
but considering this is Sony, it is very likely that the headphones will overheat and explode in your ear, cause a commotion at a UN meeting, install a rootkit on anything you insert it in, and lose a format war with something else on the market.
>> with a 4-port 1/4" jack... like the ipod
i forgot that slashdot disabled the s|1/4|1/8|g feature that was originally in slashcode.
with a 4-port 1/4" jack... like the ipod
>> No, really, it's not okay. Once you elect a democrat/republican, you have handed an insane amount of power to the government.
FTFY
>> Shame on Ebay for making this possible when they bought Skype with a bajillion of their shareholders money.
Hello AJ, how have you been? I just found you stuck inside the word billion in that post.
>> Google is teaming up with On Demand Books to offer paperback versions of its collection of over 2 million public domain books
So... this is the long tail in action?
And can I order these for delivery from the Google website?
there is too much technology these days to prevent jurors from accessing this information, signed papers wont do it.
instead, they need to add a section to jury briefing to explain WHY the rule was implemented. at the end of the day, jury decides if they'll go on the net or not.
the jury should have interaction with the judge periodically to clarify anything they need clarify. the judge can decide if these questions need to be addressed to a witness or attorney...
>> Screw giving a monetary number.
>> sign up for no paper billing and get an extra 100 minutes a month!
Except that overage minutes are billed at 45Â.
So the pitch would be "sign up for no paper billing and get an extra 3 minutes a month!"
So... if the lotto is daily, you are saying that one page is blocked every 70 days nationally?
(Assuming all people play lotto)