Provisions frequently get inserted at the last minute
So it seems. I'm not clear why this is allowed. How can it possibly result in good laws? Isn't it basically a free pass for whatever junk someone feels like pushing?
Surely once you take legislation to congress (or wherever) it should be fixed in detail, and then you debate that, and if it's no good, you send it back with notes. Don't just have one guy change it on the fly to whatever he feels like and then everyone vote.
It seems ridiculous, an end run around the otherwise well setup US government rules.
Many in the armed forces would not take up arms against their fellow countrymen without a damn good reason.
How about if they were told that there is a large group of terrorists infiltrating them? How about if they were told that their "fellow countrymen" are harbouring terrorists or aiding an enemy state?
All it takes is a few accusations that get people scared and angry, and people will do anything.
You might find that the military has it's own rules and power structures that, push comes to shove, will override whatever doubt the soldiers in question might think.
There is a risk for publishers. If they make the demo really good, it can be more successful than the game itself.
My example is Unreal Tournament 2004. While it was a successful game, the demo included several very good maps and online modes for them, and to this day there are far more people playing demo than the full version. I'm fairly confident that some of those people would have bought the full version if the demo hadn't been so thoroughly good.
So there's a tricky judgement to make about how much content and quality to give away.
Proof of concept exploits, are one thing, arguably useful. But helpfully integrating them into a tool script kiddies can use is just wrong. This is the kind of thing that makes computer security an ongoing nightmare.
I don't think many people are suggesting it's close. It's a medium term investment. One thing's for sure, if we don't try, it won't happen. It's like lots of other technology, you try it out and maybe it turns out feasible after lots of incremental improvements, or maybe it doesn't.
And on tracking a laser to a climber? Sounds pretty doable actually, given that modern optical telescopes compensate optically for air movement, without the luxury of a close physical object which can tell you it's position and be designed for easy targetting.
But this is always how it works. Those wanting the system claim that there is a "wave of [insert naughty behaviour]" sweeping the nation and we must take drastic action to thwart these [terrorists|thugs|immoral young people]. And because the media constantly harps on about whatever particular events have been happening lately, they do APPEAR to be getting worse to the general public. But it's all bollocks. In fact our societies are generally fine.
Hm, interesting! I just tried a product search on Ask.com ("sony k800i") and indeed, there are no stupid product sites cluttering up the results. Just reviews and information. Google is not bad, but about half the results are product pages.
Unless I'm simply in wikipedia research mode, then I can sit for hours in front of the thing going from one article to the next...
Yeap, I have never read so much about history and other random topics before I started reading Wikipedia. It's almost addictive. I also signed up for Brittanica to give it a fair trial, and while the writing is somewhat better, the linking is generally pretty hopeless, and the coverage of some topics very basic. So although I read some articles, it didn't lead me on constantly to new interesting topics like Wikipedia does. Besides being free and free to edit, another major strengh of Wikipedia is in embracing direct linking as a primary part of articles. This probably reflects the origins of the two encyclopediae.
Indeed. Why don't they start with something simple, like a single [ethernet?] connection for all stereo equipment to send all audio around. But in reality, the vendors will prevent anything happening as they are terrible at agreeing on standards... even when it's critical - witness blu-ray vs Hd-dvd.
"genius"? Almost unbearable because the text is so small. I can barely read it. (I'm not saying YOU can't read it, just me). And of course they made it too large for my screen, so it has to be scrolled a lot, yet the mouse wheel doesn't work for some reason. And it can't be resized at all. And I can't copy any of the text (like, y'know, an artist name?) It's one of the less-hideous flash interfaces, but like so many it just causes irritation if you don't agree with every single one of the designer's configurations.
Yes, I know in theory all those things could be addressed within flash. But they never actually are.
all without a single browser refresh.
And yet, most of the time I click on something it spins a wheel for a while and then adjusts the screen. A lot like a browser refresh.
Note to self: disregard "TrustedReviews". Prone to swallowing marketing BS whole, values style over substance, can't reason coherently about own opinions, apparently does no research on comparable products.
This famous checklist is a useful thing to have around, but IMO not a decisive answer to any spam suggestion. It is very likely that we will have to compromise on one or more of those ideals in order to make progress.
If certain large software companies thought there was a serious threat from OSS, I'm sure some of those billions could accidentally be diverted to getting rid of some of the key players.
Reading the comments here, the majority of people want bugs fixed, performance improved, extra flexibility in installs and maintenance, or existing partially implemented features finished. There are thousands of quite valid bugs in bugzilla covering most of these.
But of course, these jobs are distinctly unfun and tedious, so instead developers create a wiki looking for new answers that they like - exciting and fun new features to work on.
Of the 20 or so bugs I voted on or logged to Mozilla bugzilla, only one or two have been fixed in about 3 years. It looks right now like the remainder will never be fixed.
Calling a product an "e280" is completely uninteresting and stumbles at the first step of competing with iPod. "I bought an MP3 player." "Oh, which ipod?" "Not an ipod, an... er... e280" "a what?" Of course you can't have brand product recognition immediately, but you can't build it with just another anonymous product number, swimming in a sea of technology with similar numbers.
I'm just wondering how long it is until some spammer programmer writes a bot to flood wikipedia with selected crappy ads from their botnet. At that point, they will have to switch off anonymous editing pretty smartly.
Vandals could also do it just for fun, filling wiki with garbage.
My favourite Metallica album. OK, at least enter sandman is my favourite song. Ride the Lightning and Call of Ktulu I also like, for a data point. Some of Master of Puppets.
But no, you're right. Clearly this album which many people liked was actually terrible.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting, then, that Slashdot recently ran an Ask Slashdot called if not the US, then where
Provisions frequently get inserted at the last minute
So it seems. I'm not clear why this is allowed. How can it possibly result in good laws? Isn't it basically a free pass for whatever junk someone feels like pushing?
Surely once you take legislation to congress (or wherever) it should be fixed in detail, and then you debate that, and if it's no good, you send it back with notes. Don't just have one guy change it on the fly to whatever he feels like and then everyone vote.
It seems ridiculous, an end run around the otherwise well setup US government rules.
Many in the armed forces would not take up arms against their fellow countrymen without a damn good reason.
How about if they were told that there is a large group of terrorists infiltrating them? How about if they were told that their "fellow countrymen" are harbouring terrorists or aiding an enemy state?
All it takes is a few accusations that get people scared and angry, and people will do anything.
You might find that the military has it's own rules and power structures that, push comes to shove, will override whatever doubt the soldiers in question might think.
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"I was just obeying orders
Indeed, so why DOES IT insist on pushing new things on users all the time? And why do users put up with it?
There is a risk for publishers. If they make the demo really good, it can be more successful than the game itself.
My example is Unreal Tournament 2004. While it was a successful game, the demo included several very good maps and online modes for them, and to this day there are far more people playing demo than the full version. I'm fairly confident that some of those people would have bought the full version if the demo hadn't been so thoroughly good.
So there's a tricky judgement to make about how much content and quality to give away.
Geez, if only it was as cheap as $50M for the shuttle. Reality says its something like $500M to $1B.
Proof of concept exploits, are one thing, arguably useful. But helpfully integrating them into a tool script kiddies can use is just wrong. This is the kind of thing that makes computer security an ongoing nightmare.
I don't think many people are suggesting it's close. It's a medium term investment. One thing's for sure, if we don't try, it won't happen. It's like lots of other technology, you try it out and maybe it turns out feasible after lots of incremental improvements, or maybe it doesn't.
And on tracking a laser to a climber? Sounds pretty doable actually, given that modern optical telescopes compensate optically for air movement, without the luxury of a close physical object which can tell you it's position and be designed for easy targetting.
But this is always how it works. Those wanting the system claim that there is a "wave of [insert naughty behaviour]" sweeping the nation and we must take drastic action to thwart these [terrorists|thugs|immoral young people]. And because the media constantly harps on about whatever particular events have been happening lately, they do APPEAR to be getting worse to the general public. But it's all bollocks. In fact our societies are generally fine.
Hm, interesting! I just tried a product search on Ask.com ("sony k800i") and indeed, there are no stupid product sites cluttering up the results. Just reviews and information. Google is not bad, but about half the results are product pages.
Thanks for the tip..
Unless I'm simply in wikipedia research mode, then I can sit for hours in front of the thing going from one article to the next...
Yeap, I have never read so much about history and other random topics before I started reading Wikipedia. It's almost addictive. I also signed up for Brittanica to give it a fair trial, and while the writing is somewhat better, the linking is generally pretty hopeless, and the coverage of some topics very basic. So although I read some articles, it didn't lead me on constantly to new interesting topics like Wikipedia does. Besides being free and free to edit, another major strengh of Wikipedia is in embracing direct linking as a primary part of articles. This probably reflects the origins of the two encyclopediae.
Indeed. Why don't they start with something simple, like a single [ethernet?] connection for all stereo equipment to send all audio around. But in reality, the vendors will prevent anything happening as they are terrible at agreeing on standards ... even when it's critical - witness blu-ray vs Hd-dvd.
A genius Flash interface
"genius"? Almost unbearable because the text is so small. I can barely read it. (I'm not saying YOU can't read it, just me).
And of course they made it too large for my screen, so it has to be scrolled a lot, yet the mouse wheel doesn't work for some reason.
And it can't be resized at all.
And I can't copy any of the text (like, y'know, an artist name?)
It's one of the less-hideous flash interfaces, but like so many it just causes irritation if you don't agree with every single one of the designer's configurations.
Yes, I know in theory all those things could be addressed within flash. But they never actually are.
all without a single browser refresh.
And yet, most of the time I click on something it spins a wheel for a while and then adjusts the screen. A lot like a browser refresh.
Note to self: disregard "TrustedReviews". Prone to swallowing marketing BS whole, values style over substance, can't reason coherently about own opinions, apparently does no research on comparable products.
Sounds like you turned off the "Vista" part of Windows Vista
Earth has no value except to be used by humans
Why do you say that?
how does this help with the (most common) case where the spammer includes a bunch of text from a story or web article in with the image?
This famous checklist is a useful thing to have around, but IMO not a decisive answer to any spam suggestion. It is very likely that we will have to compromise on one or more of those ideals in order to make progress.
If certain large software companies thought there was a serious threat from OSS, I'm sure some of those billions could accidentally be diverted to getting rid of some of the key players.
...
Silly conspiracy theory
Reading the comments here, the majority of people want bugs fixed, performance improved, extra flexibility in installs and maintenance, or existing partially implemented features finished. There are thousands of quite valid bugs in bugzilla covering most of these.
But of course, these jobs are distinctly unfun and tedious, so instead developers create a wiki looking for new answers that they like - exciting and fun new features to work on.
Of the 20 or so bugs I voted on or logged to Mozilla bugzilla, only one or two have been fixed in about 3 years. It looks right now like the remainder will never be fixed.
The buttons look big, garish, and way too colorful;
They are probably that way because lots of people wanted bigger, brighter buttons before.
Calling a product an "e280" is completely uninteresting and stumbles at the first step of competing with iPod. "I bought an MP3 player." "Oh, which ipod?" "Not an ipod, an ... er... e280" "a what?"
Of course you can't have brand product recognition immediately, but you can't build it with just another anonymous product number, swimming in a sea of technology with similar numbers.
I'm just wondering how long it is until some spammer programmer writes a bot to flood wikipedia with selected crappy ads from their botnet. At that point, they will have to switch off anonymous editing pretty smartly.
Vandals could also do it just for fun, filling wiki with garbage.
My favourite Metallica album. OK, at least enter sandman is my favourite song.
Ride the Lightning and Call of Ktulu I also like, for a data point. Some of Master of Puppets.
But no, you're right. Clearly this album which many people liked was actually terrible.
Re: a ballad, what is Fade to Black?