I can sympathize with Dice for thinking that Slashdot has become inbred and insular and could stand the injection of some new blood. Posters whose thinking on any subject is a little more informed and a little less predictable.
I honestly don't understand how anybody could think Windows is expensive.
Walmart --- with its enormous purchasing power --- couldn't price and spec an OEM Linux PC as anything other than a severely crippled bottom feeder. It's depressing to think about how many truckloads of their overstock junk passed into the hands of the ever-credulous geek.
I like AOL. It started the internet super-highway after all, and if not for it, we would all be on modems, gets our software by CD, yada-yada-yada.
AOL spared users the complexities of the Internet Suite of the '90s.
I still have the boxed set of manuals from Delrina. Clients for Telnet and BBS services, FTP. Archie Veronica, Gopher, IRC Chat, Usenet, a Browser, basic photo editing tools, compressed file management and so on.
AOL's clients were written for use by ordinary mortals. They played nice with third party software like mIRC.
GUI. Automatic updates. Fixed price monthly billing. Thousands of local access toll-free numbers. There was a lot to like about AOL and it is past time the geek got off his high horse and admitted it,
The law seems to state that as soon as you act as a money transmitter, and the exchange is between $300 and $20k within a 12 month period, without being licensed to do so makes you liable for a third degree felony.
The federal rule is that any transaction intended to circumvent the reporting requirements will be treated as a cash transaction.
Bitcoins. Postage stamps. Seashells. It doesn't matter.
If you step into a trap willingly, it ain't entrapment.
Still, law enforcement is breaking the law when they create crimes to arrest people for.
This is beyond stupid.
The elements of the crime of money laundering are set forth in the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. [2000] It is defined as knowingly engaging in a financial transaction with the proceeds of a crime for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property from governments.
unless they're going to make private money transactions illegal, this case doesn't really mean anything for the bigger picture
[Cash for legal purposes is defined as any] transaction in which the recipient knows the payer is trying to avoid the reporting of the transaction on Form 8300.
NO. This is not just wrong, it's also incredibly stupid. Think about what you're saying: If every website must comply with every law in every country where the website can be seen....
We are talking about a charitable solicitation in the Finnish language for contributions to support the Finnish-language Wikipedia.
It doesn't surprise me that the government of Finland would expect to have a say in that. There are about five million Finnish speakers, almost all resident in Finland. Finland must certainly does have the authority to block payments made through bank accounts, credit cards, etc., in Finland.
the thing I don't understand about this idea that Dice is intentionally repurposing Slashdot is that if they do so, they lose almost all the value of the existing site
The commercial value of Slashdot --- according to Dice's auditors --- is a big fucking zero. Skimming through a thousand copy-and-paste fuck beta posts, I tend to agree.
I have no idea of how the police think they can force a US organization to comply with the rules if all the servers and staff are outside Finland.
If you are actively soliciting funds from Finland, I am betting that you have to comply with Finnish export controls, laws governing international banking, commercial paper, charitable solicitation and so on. The Finnish bank will refuse payment.
There is no quick, cheap, safe path to the development of a new drug.
Someone has to pay the bill.
Glaxo spent more than $350 million over 25 years to develop [a malaria] vaccine for military personnel and travelers and expects to invest an additional $260 million to complete development. But Glaxo was reluctant to pay for pediatric trials in impoverished nations on its own, so the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided $200 million through the nonprofit PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to drive development and testing over the finish line.
But Lakemaid isn't the only company that's been harassed by the agency.
It isn't harassment to be told by the agency responsible for regulating aviation to put on the brakes until the rules are in place. It isn't difficult to imagine that alcohol deliveries on inland and coastal waters are going to present some special problems.
On average four or five ice fishing deaths occur in North America every winter, usually the result of a combination of thin ice, too much booze and not enough brains. Ice Fishing
Why should I pay for content that amounts to Propaganda, supporting increasingly corrupted civic institutions and companies, all against my own interest. And this is even more my eyeballs are the product being sold to advertisers. Why should I pay one penny for a word of this?
Because it would expose you to different points of view. Something I suspect you need rather badly. The more paranoid a man becomes, the more insular he becomes. You don't trust the mainstream news sources, Soon enough you'll stop trusting the independent blogger.
In case you hadn't noticed, Slashdot supplies links to other news articles, and the members contribute the discussion/content.
Maintaining the site does not come free.
Selecting stories for their relevance and challenge does not come free.
The deepest problem for a site like Slashdot is confirmation bias. Nothing comes easier than to fill a page with stories that invites a geek to rant. Nothing comes harder than to fill a page with stories that challenge him to think --- to question his core values and assumptions.
I guess a lot of Americans hate smart people, don't they? I'd have thought it would have been far more entertaining to watch someone do something different, interesting and successful, but what do I know.
What Americans hate is the wise guy who ruins the game for everyone else..
With over 6,000 episodes aired as of May 2011, the daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! has won a record 30 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. Game Show Network (GSN) ranked the show number 2 on its 2006 list of the 50 greatest game shows, and TV Guide ranked it number 1 in its 2013 list of the 60 greatest game shows ever. The program has gained a worldwide following with regional adaptations in many foreign countries. The 30th season of the daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! premiered on September 16, 2013.
Are you familiar with Steamboat Willie? Mickey Mouse is the central character.
The Mouse has always been whatever Disney chose to make of him. There is the "steel belted" mouse of the serialized adventure comic strips --- the Blot places him squarely in a universe Dick Tracy would recognize. There is the suburban middle class Mouse of the "Mickey Mouse Club."
Having century old recordings of Mickey go into the public domain will have zero effect on Disney's bottom line, since they do not sell these old cartoons anyway.
Yeah, Mickey Mouse will potentially enter the public domain in (I think) 2018.
No, he doesn't.
It is the silent-era shorts and the early talkies that enter the public domain.
That does not give you access to primary sources. Prints on nitrate stock. Sheet music or sound tracks that can be read outside the laboratory.
The expiration of the copyright on "Steamboat Willie" only gives you the right to create derivatives based on the story and characters of "Steamboat Willie." You do not get the Mouse or his world in any other of their many incarnations. No Pluto. No "Phantom Blot."
You do not get the rights to Disney's trademarked character designs.
For example, a hotel could switch out a small bathroom in a guest room for a larger one that comes to the room along the outside facade of the building.
Giving new meaning to the words "Porta-Potty."
If you think that is the image the four star hotel wants to project, think again. The mechanical complexities make the idea insane. You will need cranes and tracks. Earthquake rated anchorage, Perfect-seal plumbing and electrics...
American homes are large because nowhere outside of Manhattan Island did population densities ever reach the levels you see in Europe and Asia. Building materials remain readily available and economies of scale and efficiencies in distribution make them affordable.
You don't need the McMansion to live comfortably.
More importantly, Americans ultimately rebel against the compression and confinement of the big city.
In popular culture, the Kramdens remain trapped in a cold water flat, the Ricardos, with greater resources, begin travelling widely and ultimately settle down in suburban Connecticut --- following the path pioneered by their real-life middle class audience.
Speaking to the broader issue of poverty in the states:
According to the latest Census data, 9 of the 10 states with the lowest per-person income levels were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, Idaho, West Virginia, Kentucky, Utah, Alabama, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
The Census data also show that 9 of the 10 states with the lowest median household income were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
And 9 of the 10 states with the lowest median family income were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and South Carolina.
The only Blue state on each list: New Mexico.
By the way, 9 of the 10 states with the highest per-person income voted Blue in the 2012 presidential race: Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Virginia and Washington. The only Red state on the list: Alaska.
Our ruling
Occupy Democrats said "Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
Whether you look at per-person, household, or family income, nine out of the ten poorest states voted Republican in the last four presidential elections.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sick of seeing posts about the beta.
I can sympathize with Dice for thinking that Slashdot has become inbred and insular and could stand the injection of some new blood. Posters whose thinking on any subject is a little more informed and a little less predictable.
I honestly don't understand how anybody could think Windows is expensive.
Walmart --- with its enormous purchasing power --- couldn't price and spec an OEM Linux PC as anything other than a severely crippled bottom feeder. It's depressing to think about how many truckloads of their overstock junk passed into the hands of the ever-credulous geek.
I like AOL. It started the internet super-highway after all, and if not for it, we would all be on modems, gets our software by CD, yada-yada-yada.
AOL spared users the complexities of the Internet Suite of the '90s.
I still have the boxed set of manuals from Delrina. Clients for Telnet and BBS services, FTP. Archie Veronica, Gopher, IRC Chat, Usenet, a Browser, basic photo editing tools, compressed file management and so on.
AOL's clients were written for use by ordinary mortals. They played nice with third party software like mIRC.
GUI. Automatic updates. Fixed price monthly billing. Thousands of local access toll-free numbers. There was a lot to like about AOL and it is past time the geek got off his high horse and admitted it,
The law seems to state that as soon as you act as a money transmitter, and the exchange is between $300 and $20k within a 12 month period, without being licensed to do so makes you liable for a third degree felony.
The federal rule is that any transaction intended to circumvent the reporting requirements will be treated as a cash transaction.
Bitcoins. Postage stamps. Seashells. It doesn't matter.
I've noticed that Slashdot admins have been using their unlimited mod points to deep-six anti-Beta posts into moderation oblivion.
Thank god.
Now maybe we can talk about something besides the Beta.
I would make a case for entrapment.
If you step into a trap willingly, it ain't entrapment.
Still, law enforcement is breaking the law when they create crimes to arrest people for.
This is beyond stupid.
The elements of the crime of money laundering are set forth in the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. [2000] It is defined as knowingly engaging in a financial transaction with the proceeds of a crime for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property from governments.
Criminalizing money laundering
Money laundering has been practiced for over 6000 years, but the term itself comes from the prohibition era of American history.
money laundering
unless they're going to make private money transactions illegal, this case doesn't really mean anything for the bigger picture
[Cash for legal purposes is defined as any] transaction in which the recipient knows the payer is trying to avoid the reporting of the transaction on Form 8300.
FAQs Regarding Reporting Cash Payments of Over $10,000 (Form 8300)
I would make a case for entrapment.
If you step into trap willingly, it ain't entrapment.
Still, law enforcement is breaking the law when they create crimes to arrest people for.
This is beyond stupid.
Money laundering has been practiced for over 6000 years, but the term itself comes from the prohibition era of American history.
money laundering
NO. This is not just wrong, it's also incredibly stupid. Think about what you're saying: If every website must comply with every law in every country where the website can be seen....
We are talking about a charitable solicitation in the Finnish language for contributions to support the Finnish-language Wikipedia.
It doesn't surprise me that the government of Finland would expect to have a say in that. There are about five million Finnish speakers, almost all resident in Finland. Finland must certainly does have the authority to block payments made through bank accounts, credit cards, etc., in Finland.
the thing I don't understand about this idea that Dice is intentionally repurposing Slashdot is that if they do so, they lose almost all the value of the existing site
The commercial value of Slashdot --- according to Dice's auditors --- is a big fucking zero. Skimming through a thousand copy-and-paste fuck beta posts, I tend to agree.
I have no idea of how the police think they can force a US organization to comply with the rules if all the servers and staff are outside Finland.
If you are actively soliciting funds from Finland, I am betting that you have to comply with Finnish export controls, laws governing international banking, commercial paper, charitable solicitation and so on. The Finnish bank will refuse payment.
Grow the fuck up and stop spamming the comments. The grown ups want to discuss the news.
I couldn't agree more.
The grown ups are the ones who draw sponsors to the site, the rest can be shed without tears.
Someone has to pay the bill.
Glaxo spent more than $350 million over 25 years to develop [a malaria] vaccine for military personnel and travelers and expects to invest an additional $260 million to complete development. But Glaxo was reluctant to pay for pediatric trials in impoverished nations on its own, so the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided $200 million through the nonprofit PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to drive development and testing over the finish line.
Hope for a Malaria Vaccine [Oct 1013]
Ooh, looks like the Slashdot editors are running in here with limitless mod points trying to put out the fire.
Or maybe adolescent rants about the beta are pissing off other readers.
But Lakemaid isn't the only company that's been harassed by the agency.
It isn't harassment to be told by the agency responsible for regulating aviation to put on the brakes until the rules are in place. It isn't difficult to imagine that alcohol deliveries on inland and coastal waters are going to present some special problems.
On average four or five ice fishing deaths occur in North America every winter, usually the result of a combination of thin ice, too much booze and not enough brains. Ice Fishing
Wait: you're actually saying that people like soulskill, Roblimo and Timothy get paid for what they do?
If you have room in your head for only one idea you watch Fox News.
Why should I pay for content that amounts to Propaganda, supporting increasingly corrupted civic institutions and companies, all against my own interest. And this is even more my eyeballs are the product being sold to advertisers. Why should I pay one penny for a word of this?
Because it would expose you to different points of view. Something I suspect you need rather badly. The more paranoid a man becomes, the more insular he becomes. You don't trust the mainstream news sources, Soon enough you'll stop trusting the independent blogger.
The end of the road is a bunker in Idaho.
In case you hadn't noticed, Slashdot supplies links to other news articles, and the members contribute the discussion/content.
Maintaining the site does not come free.
Selecting stories for their relevance and challenge does not come free.
The deepest problem for a site like Slashdot is confirmation bias. Nothing comes easier than to fill a page with stories that invites a geek to rant. Nothing comes harder than to fill a page with stories that challenge him to think --- to question his core values and assumptions.
I guess a lot of Americans hate smart people, don't they? I'd have thought it would have been far more entertaining to watch someone do something different, interesting and successful, but what do I know.
What Americans hate is the wise guy who ruins the game for everyone else. .
With over 6,000 episodes aired as of May 2011, the daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! has won a record 30 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. Game Show Network (GSN) ranked the show number 2 on its 2006 list of the 50 greatest game shows, and TV Guide ranked it number 1 in its 2013 list of the 60 greatest game shows ever. The program has gained a worldwide following with regional adaptations in many foreign countries. The 30th season of the daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! premiered on September 16, 2013.
Jeopardy!
A Peabody Award is not a celebration of stupid.
Category:Peabody Award winning television programs
Are you familiar with Steamboat Willie? Mickey Mouse is the central character.
The Mouse has always been whatever Disney chose to make of him. There is the "steel belted" mouse of the serialized adventure comic strips --- the Blot places him squarely in a universe Dick Tracy would recognize. There is the suburban middle class Mouse of the "Mickey Mouse Club."
Having century old recordings of Mickey go into the public domain will have zero effect on Disney's bottom line, since they do not sell these old cartoons anyway.
Actually, they do.
Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2 DVD
Listmania: Walt Disney Treasures Collection
Yeah, Mickey Mouse will potentially enter the public domain in (I think) 2018.
No, he doesn't.
It is the silent-era shorts and the early talkies that enter the public domain.
That does not give you access to primary sources. Prints on nitrate stock. Sheet music or sound tracks that can be read outside the laboratory.
The expiration of the copyright on "Steamboat Willie" only gives you the right to create derivatives based on the story and characters of "Steamboat Willie." You do not get the Mouse or his world in any other of their many incarnations. No Pluto. No "Phantom Blot."
You do not get the rights to Disney's trademarked character designs.
There is this thing called television. The deaf can readily get emergency information from it today.
Works only when your TV set is on.
Weather radios have a stand-by mode and battery back-up power.
For example, a hotel could switch out a small bathroom in a guest room for a larger one that comes to the room along the outside facade of the building.
Giving new meaning to the words "Porta-Potty."
If you think that is the image the four star hotel wants to project, think again. The mechanical complexities make the idea insane. You will need cranes and tracks. Earthquake rated anchorage, Perfect-seal plumbing and electrics...
American homes are large because nowhere outside of Manhattan Island did population densities ever reach the levels you see in Europe and Asia. Building materials remain readily available and economies of scale and efficiencies in distribution make them affordable.
You don't need the McMansion to live comfortably.
More importantly, Americans ultimately rebel against the compression and confinement of the big city.
In popular culture, the Kramdens remain trapped in a cold water flat, the Ricardos, with greater resources, begin travelling widely and ultimately settle down in suburban Connecticut --- following the path pioneered by their real-life middle class audience.
Why do the worst technologies that are just barely able to solve the problem always make it?
They are the first to reach critical mass and they get the job done.
According to the latest Census data, 9 of the 10 states with the lowest per-person income levels were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, Idaho, West Virginia, Kentucky, Utah, Alabama, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
The Census data also show that 9 of the 10 states with the lowest median household income were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
And 9 of the 10 states with the lowest median family income were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and South Carolina.
The only Blue state on each list: New Mexico.
By the way, 9 of the 10 states with the highest per-person income voted Blue in the 2012 presidential race: Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Virginia and Washington. The only Red state on the list: Alaska.
Our ruling
Occupy Democrats said "Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
Whether you look at per-person, household, or family income, nine out of the ten poorest states voted Republican in the last four presidential elections.
The judges rule the statement is True.
Pro-Democrat group says 9 of the 10 poorest states are Republican [Jan 12]