In Tennessee last summer a motorist was killed and his passenger wounded when two boys - aged 14 and 16 - played "Grand Theft Auto" and then decided to go out and take sniper shots at cars, just like in the game.
I find it peverse that GTA is held to blame in this particular case. More to the point, what the fuck were two underage boys doing with access to shotguns?
People, this is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy - or than any lie the feds think Martha Stewart ever told them, or any line in any song that Bruce Springsteen ever sang that rankled a cop in the Meadowlands.
So, by spending many entertaining hours playing Vice City, all the time aware that this is fantasy and the acts I commit in the game have no bearing on my real-life conduct, I have been committing acts far worse than fucking little boys? Sheesh, I had no idea!
In fact, I wouldn't pay too much attention to the New York Post. It is, of course, another lying gutter publication from Rupert Murdoch, the bloated impotent turd who's attempts to take over the world will hopefully fail when he dies of a extremely-painfull coronary.
So you'd better watch out...if you don't play nice, we'll take the Rockies down
Hah, if you do that, then we'll blow La Palma and watch the US east coast disappear under a tsunami over half a kilometre tall! In fact, we don't need to blow it; according to this article, the collapse of La Palma becomes more likely as global temperatures rise.
However, there's no cause for panic. I have a friend working at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, and he's promised to phone me if La Palma collapses. I'll post to Slashdot as soon as I get word...
Sure, I have a D-Link DWL-520 (original, not "plus"), and the mobo in question was an Abit BX6r2 (1998 vintage, 440 BX chipset, slot 1 PII/PIII). The mobo is PCI 1 rather than PCI 2, and never managed to see the DWL-520.
The basic gyst is that the warming melts Greenland. This diverts the gulf stream; plunging Europe into an Ice Age.
To be more specific, the meltwater coming off a warmer Greenland will dilute the seawater at the terminus of the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is driven in part by salinity differences (hence the term "thermohaline circulation), and if the dilution reduces the magnitude of these differences too much, then it is possible that the Gulf Stream will shut down. A good introductory discussion of this subject can be found here.
To see what Europe might be like without the Gulf Stream, consider that the British Isles are at the same approximate latitude as Newfoundland. Brrrrr!
Further, it probably doesn't even require $500 for a PC capable enough to do the job...if you have any computer shows in your area, you could probably just pick up an old (but reasonably loaded) PIII box for ~$100-$150.
One caveat, however, which has bitten me on the ass before. Some wireless cards (esp. ones made by D-Link) are designed for use with PCI 2 compliant motherboards. Unfortunately, most Pentium III motherboards are based on PCI 1, and won't even "see" a PCI 2 card. Accordingly, before you shell out on a 802.11b PCI card, check that it will work in your "legacy" machine.
Previously there had been resistance to freeing up 5.8GHz because it is in an area of the RF spectrum used by C-band radars.
I guess the British Army no longer have any objections about the radar interference in the UK, since every single piece of their equipment will be in the Middle East for the next century or so. Think I'm kidding? The US still has c. 37,000 troops stationed in S. Korea, around half a century after the ceasefire there...
If they were so prosperous, why have they lagged behind in industrializing?
IANAH (historian), but I understand that the arrival of the Mongol hordes, under Ghengis Khan, began the downfall of the middle-east civilizations; and that this downfall continued under the hegemony of the Ottoman empire. Many of the Islamic elite were killed, leading to a huge loss of their intellectual and cultural traditions. This, in part, explains why there is a big problem with fundamentalism in the middle east at the moment: without the traditional religous leaders, who were enlightened and moderate, the power vacuum allowed the nutters to take over.
You suck. You suck donkey balls. Crustaceans like to crap in your genital regions.
Good overview of PKD's movie crossovers, but I'm not sure where this bit fits in. If, by any chance, it was directed at my parent post, can I be so bold as to ask why?
Any follow ups available? Did any country actually express an interest?
To quote again from the Guardian article:
The US government bought it for $30,000, and started test bombing in 1910. The aeroplane was conceived, designed, tested, developed and sold, in other words, not as a vehicle for tourism, but as an instrument of destruction.
In November 1911, eight years after the first flight, the Italian army carried out the first bombing raid, on a settlement outside Tripoli.
Then as now, aerial bombardment was seen as a means of civilising uncooperative peoples.
There was a very interesting article in The Guardian yesterday, looking at the darker side of the history of the airplane. A particularly striking quote:
When Wilbur Wright was asked, in 1905, what the purpose of his machine might be, he answered simply: "War." As soon as they were confident that the technology worked, the brothers approached the war offices of several nations, hoping to sell their patent to the highest bidder.
The bounty-hunter idea was promoted this year primarily by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., who called upon Congress to allow individuals who identify and help locate spammers to receive at least 20 percent of any fines collected.
I hereby stake my claim to the 20 percent bounty on one Flo Fox, of Slidell, LA. Hands off!
But it's the GPL, not Copyright Act that states the proprietary code needs to be released as GPLed open code. Why couldn't a judge order them to do that? It's not unthinkable. Besides, what possible monatery damages could there be to the GPLed project? It's not that the offending company is taking away income from the open source community.
I don't think this is so. The GPL does not stipulate that derivative works need be released under GPL; it simply states that if they are not, then the license to use any GPL code in the derivative is rescinded. The whole non-viral nature of the GPL hinges on this point.
...lets not forget that the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission has almost reached the red planet, and that the British-built Beagle 2 probe onboard will be touching down on Christmas Day, to begin its search for life. I for one am very excited!
I sure hope it doesn't mean the death of the two party system.
Why? A multi-party democracy can still produce strong governments. In my eyes, a two-party system is only one party away from being a single-party dictatorship, especially when the minority party is very weak; the current situation in the USA is a good example of this problem with two-party systems.
No, what the first myth was alluding to is this: when you release your OSS project into the wild, don't expect an army of l33t coders to materialize and assist you in developing it.
I've found this myself; I wrote a code for performing spectral synthesis of stars undergoing quakes, and released it under the GPL. There are quite a few asteroseismology groups around the world using the code now; but not a single person has contacted me and offered to help develop or debug the code.
As chromatic pointed out in his article, the majority of OSS projects have very few developers, even in cases where the project has a large user base.
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From the NY Post article:
In Tennessee last summer a motorist was killed and his passenger wounded when two boys - aged 14 and 16 - played "Grand Theft Auto" and then decided to go out and take sniper shots at cars, just like in the game.
I find it peverse that GTA is held to blame in this particular case. More to the point, what the fuck were two underage boys doing with access to shotguns?
So, by spending many entertaining hours playing Vice City, all the time aware that this is fantasy and the acts I commit in the game have no bearing on my real-life conduct, I have been committing acts far worse than fucking little boys? Sheesh, I had no idea!
In fact, I wouldn't pay too much attention to the New York Post. It is, of course, another lying gutter publication from Rupert Murdoch, the bloated impotent turd who's attempts to take over the world will hopefully fail when he dies of a extremely-painfull coronary.
So you'd better watch out...if you don't play nice, we'll take the Rockies down
Hah, if you do that, then we'll blow La Palma and watch the US east coast disappear under a tsunami over half a kilometre tall! In fact, we don't need to blow it; according to this article, the collapse of La Palma becomes more likely as global temperatures rise.
However, there's no cause for panic. I have a friend working at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, and he's promised to phone me if La Palma collapses. I'll post to Slashdot as soon as I get word...
Can I ask what your setup is?
Sure, I have a D-Link DWL-520 (original, not "plus"), and the mobo in question was an Abit BX6r2 (1998 vintage, 440 BX chipset, slot 1 PII/PIII). The mobo is PCI 1 rather than PCI 2, and never managed to see the DWL-520.
Dump lots of dense, salty crud in the North Atlantic!
New eco-slogan: Save the planet! Pull yourself off into the North Atlantic!
The basic gyst is that the warming melts Greenland. This diverts the gulf stream; plunging Europe into an Ice Age.
To be more specific, the meltwater coming off a warmer Greenland will dilute the seawater at the terminus of the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is driven in part by salinity differences (hence the term "thermohaline circulation), and if the dilution reduces the magnitude of these differences too much, then it is possible that the Gulf Stream will shut down. A good introductory discussion of this subject can be found here.
To see what Europe might be like without the Gulf Stream, consider that the British Isles are at the same approximate latitude as Newfoundland. Brrrrr!
Further, it probably doesn't even require $500 for a PC capable enough to do the job...if you have any computer shows in your area, you could probably just pick up an old (but reasonably loaded) PIII box for ~$100-$150.
One caveat, however, which has bitten me on the ass before. Some wireless cards (esp. ones made by D-Link) are designed for use with PCI 2 compliant motherboards. Unfortunately, most Pentium III motherboards are based on PCI 1, and won't even "see" a PCI 2 card. Accordingly, before you shell out on a 802.11b PCI card, check that it will work in your "legacy" machine.
Is that some weird Brit misspelling, like flavour or neighbour?
Potatoe? Is our children learning?
Previously there had been resistance to freeing up 5.8GHz because it is in an area of the RF spectrum used by C-band radars.
I guess the British Army no longer have any objections about the radar interference in the UK, since every single piece of their equipment will be in the Middle East for the next century or so. Think I'm kidding? The US still has c. 37,000 troops stationed in S. Korea, around half a century after the ceasefire there...
If they were so prosperous, why have they lagged behind in industrializing?
IANAH (historian), but I understand that the arrival of the Mongol hordes, under Ghengis Khan, began the downfall of the middle-east civilizations; and that this downfall continued under the hegemony of the Ottoman empire. Many of the Islamic elite were killed, leading to a huge loss of their intellectual and cultural traditions. This, in part, explains why there is a big problem with fundamentalism in the middle east at the moment: without the traditional religous leaders, who were enlightened and moderate, the power vacuum allowed the nutters to take over.
You suck. You suck donkey balls. Crustaceans like to crap in your genital regions.
Good overview of PKD's movie crossovers, but I'm not sure where this bit fits in. If, by any chance, it was directed at my parent post, can I be so bold as to ask why?
Philip K. Dick also authored 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', the story 'Blade Runner' was based on.
Philip K. Dick also authored 'Dr. Bloodmoney', which Hollywood has yet to make a complete fuck-up of. Still, hope springs eternal...
Any follow ups available? Did any country actually express an interest?
To quote again from the Guardian article:
The US government bought it for $30,000, and started test bombing in 1910. The aeroplane was conceived, designed, tested, developed and sold, in other words, not as a vehicle for tourism, but as an instrument of destruction.
In November 1911, eight years after the first flight, the Italian army carried out the first bombing raid, on a settlement outside Tripoli. Then as now, aerial bombardment was seen as a means of civilising uncooperative peoples.
There was a very interesting article in The Guardian yesterday, looking at the darker side of the history of the airplane. A particularly striking quote:
When Wilbur Wright was asked, in 1905, what the purpose of his machine might be, he answered simply: "War." As soon as they were confident that the technology worked, the brothers approached the war offices of several nations, hoping to sell their patent to the highest bidder.
So if spammer goes to jail, do you get 20% of that too? If so, how do you calculate 20% of a life sentence???
The article said "at least 20 percent of any fines collected", not 20 percent of any punishment meted out.
From the FTC article:
The bounty-hunter idea was promoted this year primarily by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., who called upon Congress to allow individuals who identify and help locate spammers to receive at least 20 percent of any fines collected.
I hereby stake my claim to the 20 percent bounty on one Flo Fox , of Slidell, LA. Hands off!But it's the GPL, not Copyright Act that states the proprietary code needs to be released as GPLed open code. Why couldn't a judge order them to do that? It's not unthinkable. Besides, what possible monatery damages could there be to the GPLed project? It's not that the offending company is taking away income from the open source community.
I don't think this is so. The GPL does not stipulate that derivative works need be released under GPL; it simply states that if they are not, then the license to use any GPL code in the derivative is rescinded. The whole non-viral nature of the GPL hinges on this point.
...lets not forget that the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission has almost reached the red planet, and that the British-built Beagle 2 probe onboard will be touching down on Christmas Day, to begin its search for life. I for one am very excited!
Correct, execept for the fact that the "R t" bit is superfluous. Apart from that, you've got Darl to a tee, my son...
Some suggested titles:
I sure hope it doesn't mean the death of the two party system.
Why? A multi-party democracy can still produce strong governments. In my eyes, a two-party system is only one party away from being a single-party dictatorship, especially when the minority party is very weak; the current situation in the USA is a good example of this problem with two-party systems.
No, what the first myth was alluding to is this: when you release your OSS project into the wild, don't expect an army of l33t coders to materialize and assist you in developing it.
I've found this myself; I wrote a code for performing spectral synthesis of stars undergoing quakes, and released it under the GPL. There are quite a few asteroseismology groups around the world using the code now; but not a single person has contacted me and offered to help develop or debug the code.
As chromatic pointed out in his article, the majority of OSS projects have very few developers, even in cases where the project has a large user base.
Nah, wouldn't last 10 minutes on level 13 of nethack. A shopkeeper would have his balls.
...you too can become a cunning linguist ($9.95 S&H, offer void in Georgia and other southern states with stiff sodomy laws).
THIS VULNERABILITY IS NOT ON BY DEFAULT ON OSX!
Ye gods, man! The <strong> tag has been in HTML since the beginning. Spare us your AOL all-caps!