After clicking a few images, I thought the same thing myself. From the half dozen image sets I clicked on it would probably be better to find the one with the least white/gray shades. In other projects like this I have seen (eg: GalaxyZoo), you are asked to do a job that humans really can do better and faster than computers, but "the most green" should be fairly trivial, the only real issue would be the the size of the image archive but they must be managing that already to be able to put this up.
Not trying to troll here, the AC has a good question and I'm genuinely curious as to why they feel automation isn't an option for this task?
The bailout were about the stability of the economic system, sure they didn't deserve to be bailed out but it was either bail or drown for all of us. Unpopular as the opinion may be, both Bush and Obama did the right thing by stopping the bleeding as quickly as practicable. What would be good, (not just for the US but for the entire planet), is if both sides of the US government could work together with similar levels of cooperation to prevent it happening again.
but let's not pretend that once he got the attention that it didn't become somebody's job to dig this up.
You have the timeline ass-backwards
There really is "nothing to see" here, there was no star chamber determining his fate, just a parole officer doing his job watching yet another arsehole who thinks laws and morals only apply to others. To me the most offensive part of all this is that he (morally, if not legally) defrauded the young actors. I don't object to him daring his enemies to cut his own head off. However he did set those actors up as a kind of human shield for himself when he dubbed his words into their mouths. Maybe he was just short sighted, or maybe he was secretly hoping one of the more actors would get hounded/killed/maimed by his enemies thus "proving his point" as to how evil they are. I don't know I'm just speculating here, but it wouldn't be "out of character" for the nasty little cult he belongs to.
Parole is a small mercy granted by society, it gives the prisoner a chance to prove to society he has regained some self control over his impulses. It became his parole officers " job to dig this up" the day he was released. In this case the prisoner failed the test in a spectacular fashion, the whole world knows he's been lying and 'defrauding' people, this time with absolutely no regard to his victims personal safety. His parole officer would have to be blind and deaf not to pick up he had broken his conditional freedom. I don't know what US law says about that, but my moral compass says he belongs behind bars. I have the same attitude to a couple of drunks I have been related to for decades, several jail stints ranging from 3mths to 2yrs, without a drop to drink, but they just don't have the self control to last a week on the outside without getting shit-faced to the point where someone they are abusing calls the cops.
I'm in Melbourne right now, I have some popcorn and a small telescope set up. I am waiting for the sky to fall. From all the slashdot reports I have read it should be spectacular. Granted I was disappointed by the great Aussie firewall hype, spent years observing a politician blowing smoke up a freshman senator's arse, but still haven't spotted the mythical beast. No hard feelings though, those long observations made me confident that what I was seeing was just some Machiavellian politics aimed at said senator.
As for TFA, regardless of the merits of the ASIC recommendations, I find it odd that the people who are ferociously against data retention for law enforcement purposes are often the same people who want the law to put corrupt executives/politicians in front of a firing squad. Now I have no delusions that corrupt executives/politicians are not (in general) dumb enough to incriminate themselves, so if they even suspect their electronic comms are being tucked away somewhere for a couple of tax returns then at a minimum they lose the benefit of those comms.
For the most part the "sky is falling"/1984 crowd are of an age where their worldview is driven by how their parents treated them and what they just started reading about on the net in the past 5yrs, they are outraged when they find the world is a messy place. It's like the first time they open their pay slip and start screaming about all the acronyms they don't understand taking a bite out of their hard-earned. It's the shock of moving from a sheltered idealized world paid for by mum and dad, to standing ankle deep in turds like the rest of us. They can't get past the turds, they can't understand why everyone else just shrugs and laughs at them squishing through their toes.
The wild west days of the internet are gone whether we like it or not. Businesses have been coming to the global village for about 15yrs now and they brought the sheriffs with them. It's still a wonderful place but in a different way, it has been domesticated and this generation of urban cowboys need to move on and find their own intellectual frontier.
1984: One of the greatest works of the 20th century, my 1970's government forced me to read it at HS. I went on later in life to read more from Orwell. He was without doubt a brilliant critic of all the major political ideologies. Yet the take home lesson I (eventually) got from reading Orwell's political critiques was best summed up by another Winston - "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism".
Yep, in fact the term "outlaw" comes from the old English legal system. To be made an outlaw meant you were formally stripped of the protection of the law. When you were declared an outlaw you were symbolically taken to the border of the village and then left to the mercy of your accusers. In practice it was a mere formality, most outlaws were escorted to the village trash heap by an angry mob of accusers and simply had their throats slit.
what? torrenting them for all mankind for free? but that wouldn't have paid for the consultant bill!
If you have ever been a smoker you will know that complete strangers will approach you on the street and basically ask for a free cigarette, an equal number will offer to buy one. Sometimes I will share, particularly if I find the approach amusing or genuine, sometimes I won't simply because I'm not in the mood to be either bought or generous. The best recent approach I had was a young African guy in a nice suit coming from the direction of a big employment agency, he formally introduce himself and shook my hand before offering to purchase a smoke.
I never take money even from those who insist, but the thing I hate most is people who when politely told, "sorry mate but no", go on to demand I give them a free smoke just because they gave one to someone else in the past. To people with those sort of expectations I repeat my answer, and strongly suggest what they are looking for is a job or a tobacconists, as the case may be.
If you really are genuine about creating and sharing your own stuff, nobody is stopping you. What I object to is the (minority) attitude here at slashdot that because you are generous to others in the same "user space", those who are in that "user space" must return that generosity on demand. That attitude is neither generous nor sharing since you have an up front expectation that others should repay you in kind. I'm no fan of religions but the one thing all of them got right was "the golden rule", a proper application by ALL those involved in the "IP user space" and the MAFIAA would be stone cold dead the very next business day.
(this is to say: what the hell is one expected to find in a brain dead for more than half a century?!)
Something different to other "non-genius" brains that have been dead and preserved for a similar length of time. Such expectations may or may not turn out to be laughable but the original aim was not about expectations, it was all about data preservation.
You can't measure direction from position, you need a previous position. So go back 50yrs, unless you have some teary eyed nostalgia for those days, it is unquestionably heading in the right direction concerning the rights of individuals in western nations. Oh, and when the only alternative on offer is "them other guys" then "we suck less" is a perfectly valid argument.
OldHack? - How old? - Seems to me that the civil rights movement is a pre-historic era in your book, and "the draft" is something you get when you leave a door open.
In Australia, car dealers use credit rating agencies, they do not have access to your personal details. The agency gives you a rating depending on your track record of paying off previous debts. If you don't like the rating you can force the agency to give you the information they are using for their rating and also force them to correct any errors.
... those organisations should be forced to put forward a good case for why it is otherwise.
Context is everything...
Case 1. A woman went missing here in Melbourne on the weekend, cops had a great deal of information on her very quickly simply by asking, for a start they know she hasn't used her bank accounts or her mobile phone since she dissappeared, they also know from public CCTV footage that she got within 450 meters of her home before dissapearing, and that's only the evidence they are telling us about, they probably know quite a bit more.
Now lets change the context...
Case 2. There is a guy who is currently on terrorist charges because he was caught downloding "terrorist documents", ironically newspapers and blogs have condemend him by reprinting the worst bits of those documents, "in the public interest" of course. They also seem to think that making bombs with household chemicals is some sort of classified information and not just simple HS chemistry.
Believe it or not, the vast majority of cases that find their way into court are much closer to case 1 than they are to case 2.
Do we get to deduct the number of man-hours that will be saved after it is set up?
Yes, but that is the cost of not doing version control. Estimate the costs for both the yes and no states of the decision it then becomes a no brainer for the boss. Even if they don't have a clue what a version control system is, they will understand the concept of insurance.
It's been a while since the US saw a really bad drought. What the farmers are doing is selling them now to avoid shooting and burring them in 6 months time when they are so malnourished they aren't worth transporting to market. They will then concentrate on keeping the breeders alive until the drought breaks.
First, Bacon is a byproduct of other pork products. It's the tough belly meat nobody wanted
What Americans call bacon, Aussies call "stringy bacon". It's called "stringy" because of the strings of fat in it, it's rubbish, it's only good for adding flavor to soups and stews. Short cut bacon (common here in Oz) is like lean ham, yes it comes from pork bellies but it won't clog your arteries like American bacon does.
There's a major drought you idiot, no water means no corn which in turn means no bacon. Grain prices have skyrocketed in the last decade, the cause is poor global harvests due to a string of unusual droughts and floods in the world's grain belts. Corn for fuel is a very minor influence on the price and availability of the stuff, if it had a major impact on supplies we would have seen that years ago, plus if the price is too high for pigs, it's also too high for fuel.
No, sorry to be a wet blanket but it wouldn't. Many, moons ago I had a job as a petrol pump jockey, in the 70's people served you at petrol stations, they filled up your tank, cleaned your widscreen, checked your oil, tyres, wiper water, and brake fluid (the aim of this "free service" was to sell tyres, engine oil, wiper blades, etc). I was standing behind the counter watching a guy who had spent ages trying to inflate his own tyre (he was not a paying customer), I was just about to walk over an offer him help when BOOM the tyre exploded with a puff of dust while he was knelt down in front of it. I figure he cannot have put more that 100psi in it since that's was the compressor's output. The guy was unhurt but very pale and shaken, he also had a light coating of tyre dust, no visable damage to the car other than the now totally deflated tyre. Apon hearing the explosion the boss strolled out of the workshop and called out to the guy across the courtyard - "I have new one of those in stock".
IANA PhD student in biochemistry and microbiology and would also like to point out that nothing in the GP makes sense. Germs can mutate and become resistant to antibiotics. Yes that's a serious problem, but it's the germs that mutate not the human, the germs are not going to suddenlty reverse the mutation simply because you changed your diet.
I notice the latest flash installer installs Chrome, whether you want it or not! For AV at home I have been using the AVG freebie for the best part of a decade, I contemplated abandoning it when it went through an attention whore stage with pop-ups for everything, but the current version is unobtrusive and just works.
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The only garbage here is your post, I suspect what you are doing is projecting your own personality flaws onto others.
After clicking a few images, I thought the same thing myself. From the half dozen image sets I clicked on it would probably be better to find the one with the least white/gray shades. In other projects like this I have seen (eg: GalaxyZoo), you are asked to do a job that humans really can do better and faster than computers, but "the most green" should be fairly trivial, the only real issue would be the the size of the image archive but they must be managing that already to be able to put this up.
Not trying to troll here, the AC has a good question and I'm genuinely curious as to why they feel automation isn't an option for this task?
The bailout were about the stability of the economic system, sure they didn't deserve to be bailed out but it was either bail or drown for all of us. Unpopular as the opinion may be, both Bush and Obama did the right thing by stopping the bleeding as quickly as practicable. What would be good, (not just for the US but for the entire planet), is if both sides of the US government could work together with similar levels of cooperation to prevent it happening again.
but let's not pretend that once he got the attention that it didn't become somebody's job to dig this up.
You have the timeline ass-backwards
There really is "nothing to see" here, there was no star chamber determining his fate, just a parole officer doing his job watching yet another arsehole who thinks laws and morals only apply to others. To me the most offensive part of all this is that he (morally, if not legally) defrauded the young actors. I don't object to him daring his enemies to cut his own head off. However he did set those actors up as a kind of human shield for himself when he dubbed his words into their mouths. Maybe he was just short sighted, or maybe he was secretly hoping one of the more actors would get hounded/killed/maimed by his enemies thus "proving his point" as to how evil they are. I don't know I'm just speculating here, but it wouldn't be "out of character" for the nasty little cult he belongs to.
Parole is a small mercy granted by society, it gives the prisoner a chance to prove to society he has regained some self control over his impulses. It became his parole officers " job to dig this up" the day he was released. In this case the prisoner failed the test in a spectacular fashion, the whole world knows he's been lying and 'defrauding' people, this time with absolutely no regard to his victims personal safety. His parole officer would have to be blind and deaf not to pick up he had broken his conditional freedom. I don't know what US law says about that, but my moral compass says he belongs behind bars. I have the same attitude to a couple of drunks I have been related to for decades, several jail stints ranging from 3mths to 2yrs, without a drop to drink, but they just don't have the self control to last a week on the outside without getting shit-faced to the point where someone they are abusing calls the cops.
I'm in Melbourne right now, I have some popcorn and a small telescope set up. I am waiting for the sky to fall. From all the slashdot reports I have read it should be spectacular. Granted I was disappointed by the great Aussie firewall hype, spent years observing a politician blowing smoke up a freshman senator's arse, but still haven't spotted the mythical beast. No hard feelings though, those long observations made me confident that what I was seeing was just some Machiavellian politics aimed at said senator.
As for TFA, regardless of the merits of the ASIC recommendations, I find it odd that the people who are ferociously against data retention for law enforcement purposes are often the same people who want the law to put corrupt executives/politicians in front of a firing squad. Now I have no delusions that corrupt executives/politicians are not (in general) dumb enough to incriminate themselves, so if they even suspect their electronic comms are being tucked away somewhere for a couple of tax returns then at a minimum they lose the benefit of those comms.
For the most part the "sky is falling"/1984 crowd are of an age where their worldview is driven by how their parents treated them and what they just started reading about on the net in the past 5yrs, they are outraged when they find the world is a messy place. It's like the first time they open their pay slip and start screaming about all the acronyms they don't understand taking a bite out of their hard-earned. It's the shock of moving from a sheltered idealized world paid for by mum and dad, to standing ankle deep in turds like the rest of us. They can't get past the turds, they can't understand why everyone else just shrugs and laughs at them squishing through their toes.
The wild west days of the internet are gone whether we like it or not. Businesses have been coming to the global village for about 15yrs now and they brought the sheriffs with them. It's still a wonderful place but in a different way, it has been domesticated and this generation of urban cowboys need to move on and find their own intellectual frontier.
1984: One of the greatest works of the 20th century, my 1970's government forced me to read it at HS. I went on later in life to read more from Orwell. He was without doubt a brilliant critic of all the major political ideologies. Yet the take home lesson I (eventually) got from reading Orwell's political critiques was best summed up by another Winston - "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism".
If that's true, they apparently didn't just break the law intentionally, but also got the "Anti-terrorist Special Tactics Group" involved.
Yeah, it couldn't possibly be that someone "mistakenly" put him on the wrong shit list, could it?
Yep, in fact the term "outlaw" comes from the old English legal system. To be made an outlaw meant you were formally stripped of the protection of the law. When you were declared an outlaw you were symbolically taken to the border of the village and then left to the mercy of your accusers. In practice it was a mere formality, most outlaws were escorted to the village trash heap by an angry mob of accusers and simply had their throats slit.
what? torrenting them for all mankind for free? but that wouldn't have paid for the consultant bill!
If you have ever been a smoker you will know that complete strangers will approach you on the street and basically ask for a free cigarette, an equal number will offer to buy one. Sometimes I will share, particularly if I find the approach amusing or genuine, sometimes I won't simply because I'm not in the mood to be either bought or generous. The best recent approach I had was a young African guy in a nice suit coming from the direction of a big employment agency, he formally introduce himself and shook my hand before offering to purchase a smoke.
I never take money even from those who insist, but the thing I hate most is people who when politely told, "sorry mate but no", go on to demand I give them a free smoke just because they gave one to someone else in the past. To people with those sort of expectations I repeat my answer, and strongly suggest what they are looking for is a job or a tobacconists, as the case may be.
If you really are genuine about creating and sharing your own stuff, nobody is stopping you. What I object to is the (minority) attitude here at slashdot that because you are generous to others in the same "user space", those who are in that "user space" must return that generosity on demand. That attitude is neither generous nor sharing since you have an up front expectation that others should repay you in kind. I'm no fan of religions but the one thing all of them got right was "the golden rule", a proper application by ALL those involved in the "IP user space" and the MAFIAA would be stone cold dead the very next business day.
(this is to say: what the hell is one expected to find in a brain dead for more than half a century?!)
Something different to other "non-genius" brains that have been dead and preserved for a similar length of time. Such expectations may or may not turn out to be laughable but the original aim was not about expectations, it was all about data preservation.
You can't measure direction from position, you need a previous position. So go back 50yrs, unless you have some teary eyed nostalgia for those days, it is unquestionably heading in the right direction concerning the rights of individuals in western nations. Oh, and when the only alternative on offer is "them other guys" then "we suck less" is a perfectly valid argument.
OldHack? - How old? - Seems to me that the civil rights movement is a pre-historic era in your book, and "the draft" is something you get when you leave a door open.
In Australia, car dealers use credit rating agencies, they do not have access to your personal details. The agency gives you a rating depending on your track record of paying off previous debts. If you don't like the rating you can force the agency to give you the information they are using for their rating and also force them to correct any errors.
... those organisations should be forced to put forward a good case for why it is otherwise.
Context is everything...
Case 1. A woman went missing here in Melbourne on the weekend, cops had a great deal of information on her very quickly simply by asking, for a start they know she hasn't used her bank accounts or her mobile phone since she dissappeared, they also know from public CCTV footage that she got within 450 meters of her home before dissapearing, and that's only the evidence they are telling us about, they probably know quite a bit more.
Now lets change the context...
Case 2. There is a guy who is currently on terrorist charges because he was caught downloding "terrorist documents", ironically newspapers and blogs have condemend him by reprinting the worst bits of those documents, "in the public interest" of course. They also seem to think that making bombs with household chemicals is some sort of classified information and not just simple HS chemistry.
Believe it or not, the vast majority of cases that find their way into court are much closer to case 1 than they are to case 2.
Source Control is *not* a tool. It's a technique
Quoting the above to draw the attention of mods to the most informative comment in this thread.
Do we get to deduct the number of man-hours that will be saved after it is set up?
Yes, but that is the cost of not doing version control. Estimate the costs for both the yes and no states of the decision it then becomes a no brainer for the boss. Even if they don't have a clue what a version control system is, they will understand the concept of insurance.
Even good old CVS allows you to specify an external diff.
The smart farmers see a drought and unload their stock before they are forced to do so at a loss.
It's been a while since the US saw a really bad drought. What the farmers are doing is selling them now to avoid shooting and burring them in 6 months time when they are so malnourished they aren't worth transporting to market. They will then concentrate on keeping the breeders alive until the drought breaks.
First, Bacon is a byproduct of other pork products. It's the tough belly meat nobody wanted
What Americans call bacon, Aussies call "stringy bacon". It's called "stringy" because of the strings of fat in it, it's rubbish, it's only good for adding flavor to soups and stews. Short cut bacon (common here in Oz) is like lean ham, yes it comes from pork bellies but it won't clog your arteries like American bacon does.
There's a major drought you idiot, no water means no corn which in turn means no bacon. Grain prices have skyrocketed in the last decade, the cause is poor global harvests due to a string of unusual droughts and floods in the world's grain belts. Corn for fuel is a very minor influence on the price and availability of the stuff, if it had a major impact on supplies we would have seen that years ago, plus if the price is too high for pigs, it's also too high for fuel.
Sooo... all those super hot Australian chicks have a thing for North Americans?
We call those hooker's, but good news, they're legal here in Oz.
No, sorry to be a wet blanket but it wouldn't. Many, moons ago I had a job as a petrol pump jockey, in the 70's people served you at petrol stations, they filled up your tank, cleaned your widscreen, checked your oil, tyres, wiper water, and brake fluid (the aim of this "free service" was to sell tyres, engine oil, wiper blades, etc). I was standing behind the counter watching a guy who had spent ages trying to inflate his own tyre (he was not a paying customer), I was just about to walk over an offer him help when BOOM the tyre exploded with a puff of dust while he was knelt down in front of it. I figure he cannot have put more that 100psi in it since that's was the compressor's output. The guy was unhurt but very pale and shaken, he also had a light coating of tyre dust, no visable damage to the car other than the now totally deflated tyre. Apon hearing the explosion the boss strolled out of the workshop and called out to the guy across the courtyard - "I have new one of those in stock".
Bah. Corn's photosynthesis cycle is more than 10 times as efficient as grass's.
Bah, corn is grass, it is a member of the family Poaceae. ;)
IANA PhD student in biochemistry and microbiology and would also like to point out that nothing in the GP makes sense. Germs can mutate and become resistant to antibiotics. Yes that's a serious problem, but it's the germs that mutate not the human, the germs are not going to suddenlty reverse the mutation simply because you changed your diet.
I notice the latest flash installer installs Chrome, whether you want it or not! For AV at home I have been using the AVG freebie for the best part of a decade, I contemplated abandoning it when it went through an attention whore stage with pop-ups for everything, but the current version is unobtrusive and just works.