The difference between cameras and searches is that the camera is there to provide details about what happened (like a black box in an aircraft), a search is inteneded to prevent it happening (like a cell search in jail). A camera assumes everyone is innocent, a search assumes the opposite.
"The UK has more video surveillance than anywhere on the earth. Yet amazingly enough terrorists found their way onto the subways and busses and killed scores of people."
Yes we all know that anyone can get onto a subway while wearing a turban and the camera operators are powerless to stop them from doing so. However, since the "Minority Report" is nothing more than bad-fiction the authorities can only provide details and culprits after an event. This can assist to reduce future attacks by quickly identifying those who provide the bombers with thier bombs (as it has done in London).
Yes a $1M dollar business is about the size of a decent newsagent, so I can see all the bankrupt SME's this is going to create. I mean it's either $5000 or start putting an (R) behind the word Linux. Really, how can anyone even think about starting a SME, when you have to pay those sort of fees to remove the (R) from your product. That (R) plastered all over the marketing material will crush innovative start-ups, it will be obvious to every prospective customer that NewHat Linux(R) has not been blessed by the big T. How can any SME make a profit when this sort of monopolistic power makes it impossible to "leverage" the fame of Mr T?
Linus has gone too far, he is forcing others to make a name for themselves while he keeps the benifits of his own name all to himself, he must be stopped./sarcasm
"RedHat Linux(R)" has 30-40 google hits compared to 900,000+ for "RedHat Linux", if RedHat do not "partner" with Linus then the ratio will change significantly in the next few years.
What follows is Troll fodder, not fit for human consumption.
"Putting down another podcast while making a comment on one you like is just shameless advertising."
... or an honest critic. Shameless advertising would imply some sort of colusion for mutual gain. Often, as is the case here, the reader does not have the information required to differentiate. This type of qualatative comment has been given a special name, it's called an "opinion". Most people will judge an authour simply by comparing the author's opinions against thier own opinions. Opinions are by thier very nature qualitative rather than quantitaive, neither the reader nor the author are immune to thier own bias when making qualitative judgements.
This leads me to the following, somewhat ironic observation about your finger-pointing-post. It makes an unsubstantiated accusation about the target's bias, but actually manages to reveal only your own bias, ie: anti-slashdot.
Now that we know you have this anti-slashdot bias we can also assume that you hate slashdot because of the freedom it represents....rant....godwins law....rant....whitches are made from wood thus they float...rant....anyone got a match...rant...do I smell a Troll BBQ...../rant
All it is saying is that if you have a pile of nanotubes and a pile of wool ready for weaving then it will take about the same time to make either into cloth. It said nothing about the rate of wool production, I imagine that would be proportional to the number and quality of sheep that are available.
"It is axiomatic that the commercial colonization of new frontiers, real or virtual,..."
It is a basic rule that any industry, built around a new idea,..."
"must be accompanied by hyperbolic rhetorical claims..."
will generate alot of bullshit claims.
"that are clearly perceived after-the-fact as transparently propagandistic..."
After a while people catch on...
"and whose vastly inflated humanitarian forecasts are unrecognizable when compared to the inevitable outcome..."
because it becomes obvious the claims are false.
To me that style of writing, (or speaking), screams intellectual snob. It's non-technical/legal, so there is no need to be pompous, arrogant and difficult to comprehend. The the only reason it is used in TFA is to baffle the audience with bullshit. Such a pity it has also become a common style amongst CEO's, Dept. heads, etc.
"Privitization is just a money grab for the friends of politicians. You can bet they already know who will own the thing."
The split is nothing new, it's just a formality for the sale. Telstra has been regulated to operate as wholesale/retail for many years by "competion laws" (they were dragged into competition kicking and screaming). I am more interested in who gets to spend the $3,000,000,000(AUD) "deal sweetner" and how is the taxpayer compensated for the loss of "universal access" benifits.
In the case of the sale of the first half of Telstra the entire country was mass mailed a prospectus, mums and dads around the country invested for as little as $1000, it was the first time I had bought shares and I made ~$6000 out of the float. The litmus-test for this being a money/power grab is how they handle selling the second half. Will it stay scattered amoungst hundreds of thousands of small investors or will the sale give some media mogal a controlling intrest.
Economic ideology dictates selling a fertile cow that still gives plenty of milk?
"Isn't this the same place where it's illegal to rip a cd to mp3 or to copy it an iPod?"
Yep, according to the FTA we signed with the US we have to "harmonise" our IP laws with the US versions. Nearly everyone here thinks the FTA was all about sugar farmers.
I wonder if George realises Johnny comes from the "Liberal Party".
I figure someone wanted to get rid of him and used the porn thing as a convinent "mud ball". I suggest ALL Librarians who are similarly vulnerable shut down thier public terminals until the issue of responsiblity is resolved. Also make it perfectly clear to members why the action is required. (eg: "Sorry I can't risk turning the terminals on, my terms of employment mandate that I can be sacked if someone is found looking at the rude bits.").
In Australia petrol is ~$4US/gallon, there has been a 38% tax on petrol since the oil crisis of the 70's. LPG is popular over here, I have driven my `91 Holden for the last 10yrs on LPG for well under half the cost of petrol but I will soon have to find a new one. Unless your willing to drive a "Noddy car", it is hard to find one that does not suck the contents out of your wallet, many people simply move closer to work. I don't know your situation (kids need stability) but mine is that the kids are grown up and I'm happily divorced. A couple of years ago I saved 8hrs/week by moving closer to work, getting the "extra day" was worth more to me than the considerable savings I made on fuel.
It wasn't just animals, Edison invented the AC electric chair to "prove" AC was more dangerous than DC. He was spreading FUD to protect his investment in DC and in turn the gas companies spread FUD against his electric street lights.
Disclaimer I rarely watch "current affairs" on the commercial channels as I think most of it is crap. But I did see part of the story you mentioned...
"These hoons were humiliated. The point of the show was a challenge to the hoons to prove that they were good enough drivers to speed. They all failed."
Dead on, but even after all that some of them still could not see a problem with thier own speeding. They were male and had the "indestructable" attitude (I suffered the same syndrome 25 yrs ago and have the scars to prove it).
Off course we have vast highways over here where you can see a Camel 2km up the road, no traffic, no cops, no bends. Speeding is not a problem in the middle of nowhere, falling asleep and road-trains will kill you.
Speed limits are made so that the AVERAGE driver can make a stupid mistake once in a while and live to be honked at and humiliated. If EVERY driver is driving near thier skill limit then NOBODY can make a mistake, ever!
I don't really care who comes here as long as they come in peace. You can go a shoot pest-species in the bush with a bolt-action rifle or get on one of my younger brothers 4WD camping-photo safaris, you could hang around the cities but you wouldn't find it radically different to the US.
What I and many others object to is the NRA funding lobby groups in Australia in an attempt to influence our legislators. If the NRA had spent millions under thier own flag then no problem, instead they lurked around in the background with wads of cash and vauge links to the global small-arms trade. There is overwhelming public support for our gun laws. A relative of mine has 30-40 handguns in his collection but cannot remove them from the registered gun club, I have been with him and shot holes in paper targets (WOW, Wow, yawn), even he thinks the laws are not completely unreasonable. This is because the disdain for guns as "personal protection" is part of our culture, just like the imperitive to have a gun to "defend against lunatics" is part of US culture.
I have lived in suburbs and bush towns where I kept a small cricket bat near both the front and back doors, I have also lived in towns where nobody locks the doors, I have never heard of a place over here where people sleep with a gun in thier bedside table (not counting the odd phycotic hermit).
Slashdot Mirror
The difference between cameras and searches is that the camera is there to provide details about what happened (like a black box in an aircraft), a search is inteneded to prevent it happening (like a cell search in jail). A camera assumes everyone is innocent, a search assumes the opposite.
"The UK has more video surveillance than anywhere on the earth. Yet amazingly enough terrorists found their way onto the subways and busses and killed scores of people."
Yes we all know that anyone can get onto a subway while wearing a turban and the camera operators are powerless to stop them from doing so. However, since the "Minority Report" is nothing more than bad-fiction the authorities can only provide details and culprits after an event. This can assist to reduce future attacks by quickly identifying those who provide the bombers with thier bombs (as it has done in London).
Public video cameras are impartial, thier evidence cuts both ways and keeps everyone "honest".
"this must be a kick in the teeth.
/sarcasm
Yes a $1M dollar business is about the size of a decent newsagent, so I can see all the bankrupt SME's this is going to create. I mean it's either $5000 or start putting an (R) behind the word Linux. Really, how can anyone even think about starting a SME, when you have to pay those sort of fees to remove the (R) from your product. That (R) plastered all over the marketing material will crush innovative start-ups, it will be obvious to every prospective customer that NewHat Linux(R) has not been blessed by the big T. How can any SME make a profit when this sort of monopolistic power makes it impossible to "leverage" the fame of Mr T?
Linus has gone too far, he is forcing others to make a name for themselves while he keeps the benifits of his own name all to himself, he must be stopped.
"RedHat Linux(R)" has 30-40 google hits compared to 900,000+ for "RedHat Linux", if RedHat do not "partner" with Linus then the ratio will change significantly in the next few years.
What follows is Troll fodder, not fit for human consumption.
"Putting down another podcast while making a comment on one you like is just shameless advertising."
This leads me to the following, somewhat ironic observation about your finger-pointing-post. It makes an unsubstantiated accusation about the target's bias, but actually manages to reveal only your own bias, ie: anti-slashdot.
Now that we know you have this anti-slashdot bias we can also assume that you hate slashdot because of the freedom it represents....rant....godwins law....rant....whitches are made from wood thus they float...rant....anyone got a match...rant...do I smell a Troll BBQ...../rant
...the rate at which wool is woven commercially.
All it is saying is that if you have a pile of nanotubes and a pile of wool ready for weaving then it will take about the same time to make either into cloth. It said nothing about the rate of wool production, I imagine that would be proportional to the number and quality of sheep that are available.
"It is axiomatic that the commercial colonization of new frontiers, real or virtual,..."
It is a basic rule that any industry, built around a new idea,..."
"must be accompanied by hyperbolic rhetorical claims..."
will generate alot of bullshit claims.
"that are clearly perceived after-the-fact as transparently propagandistic..."
After a while people catch on...
"and whose vastly inflated humanitarian forecasts are unrecognizable when compared to the inevitable outcome..."
because it becomes obvious the claims are false.
To me that style of writing, (or speaking), screams intellectual snob. It's non-technical/legal, so there is no need to be pompous, arrogant and difficult to comprehend. The the only reason it is used in TFA is to baffle the audience with bullshit. Such a pity it has also become a common style amongst CEO's, Dept. heads, etc.
"Furthermore the[y] should be made to take one viagra pill for every email they sent advertising it."
Nah, that would turn them into "hardened criminals".
I suppose 11,000+ hits on google could be considered obscure by some.
My favorite answer is "Seraphim or cherubim?".
Lighten up mate, it has nothing to do with race or ability, it's all about money and language barriers.
"Privitization is just a money grab for the friends of politicians. You can bet they already know who will own the thing."
The split is nothing new, it's just a formality for the sale. Telstra has been regulated to operate as wholesale/retail for many years by "competion laws" (they were dragged into competition kicking and screaming). I am more interested in who gets to spend the $3,000,000,000(AUD) "deal sweetner" and how is the taxpayer compensated for the loss of "universal access" benifits.
In the case of the sale of the first half of Telstra the entire country was mass mailed a prospectus, mums and dads around the country invested for as little as $1000, it was the first time I had bought shares and I made ~$6000 out of the float. The litmus-test for this being a money/power grab is how they handle selling the second half. Will it stay scattered amoungst hundreds of thousands of small investors or will the sale give some media mogal a controlling intrest.
Economic ideology dictates selling a fertile cow that still gives plenty of milk?
"Isn't this the same place where it's illegal to rip a cd to mp3 or to copy it an iPod?"
Yep, according to the FTA we signed with the US we have to "harmonise" our IP laws with the US versions. Nearly everyone here thinks the FTA was all about sugar farmers.
I wonder if George realises Johnny comes from the "Liberal Party".
"Or how about a dildo with built in sensors for teaching women how to give a decent blowjob?"
No thanks, I prefer to use my old-fashioned teaching tool.
Mary Poppins was English, dickhead!
"I'm uncertain of the value in the announcements at the airport every 15 minutes to remind me that we're at yellow or orange."
I've never been to the US, do they really do that in the airports or are you just pulling my chain?
I figure someone wanted to get rid of him and used the porn thing as a convinent "mud ball". I suggest ALL Librarians who are similarly vulnerable shut down thier public terminals until the issue of responsiblity is resolved. Also make it perfectly clear to members why the action is required. (eg: "Sorry I can't risk turning the terminals on, my terms of employment mandate that I can be sacked if someone is found looking at the rude bits.").
In Australia petrol is ~$4US/gallon, there has been a 38% tax on petrol since the oil crisis of the 70's. LPG is popular over here, I have driven my `91 Holden for the last 10yrs on LPG for well under half the cost of petrol but I will soon have to find a new one. Unless your willing to drive a "Noddy car", it is hard to find one that does not suck the contents out of your wallet, many people simply move closer to work. I don't know your situation (kids need stability) but mine is that the kids are grown up and I'm happily divorced. A couple of years ago I saved 8hrs/week by moving closer to work, getting the "extra day" was worth more to me than the considerable savings I made on fuel.
It wasn't just animals, Edison invented the AC electric chair to "prove" AC was more dangerous than DC. He was spreading FUD to protect his investment in DC and in turn the gas companies spread FUD against his electric street lights.
Dubya?
"Perl, like duct tape"
Yes, a light side, a dark side and holds the Universe together.
Disclaimer I rarely watch "current affairs" on the commercial channels as I think most of it is crap. But I did see part of the story you mentioned...
"These hoons were humiliated. The point of the show was a challenge to the hoons to prove that they were good enough drivers to speed. They all failed."
Dead on, but even after all that some of them still could not see a problem with thier own speeding. They were male and had the "indestructable" attitude (I suffered the same syndrome 25 yrs ago and have the scars to prove it).
Off course we have vast highways over here where you can see a Camel 2km up the road, no traffic, no cops, no bends. Speeding is not a problem in the middle of nowhere, falling asleep and road-trains will kill you.
Speed limits are made so that the AVERAGE driver can make a stupid mistake once in a while and live to be honked at and humiliated. If EVERY driver is driving near thier skill limit then NOBODY can make a mistake, ever!
I don't really care who comes here as long as they come in peace. You can go a shoot pest-species in the bush with a bolt-action rifle or get on one of my younger brothers 4WD camping-photo safaris, you could hang around the cities but you wouldn't find it radically different to the US.
What I and many others object to is the NRA funding lobby groups in Australia in an attempt to influence our legislators. If the NRA had spent millions under thier own flag then no problem, instead they lurked around in the background with wads of cash and vauge links to the global small-arms trade. There is overwhelming public support for our gun laws. A relative of mine has 30-40 handguns in his collection but cannot remove them from the registered gun club, I have been with him and shot holes in paper targets (WOW, Wow, yawn), even he thinks the laws are not completely unreasonable. This is because the disdain for guns as "personal protection" is part of our culture, just like the imperitive to have a gun to "defend against lunatics" is part of US culture.
I have lived in suburbs and bush towns where I kept a small cricket bat near both the front and back doors, I have also lived in towns where nobody locks the doors, I have never heard of a place over here where people sleep with a gun in thier bedside table (not counting the odd phycotic hermit).
Jews copped the worst of it but at the end of WW2 one in every two Germams had spent some time in a prison camp.
"Please tell me which country that is...."
Australia.
"....so that I may stay far away."
Tell your mates not to come either, dickhead!
"What are they planning?"
They don't plan they just "do", that's what makes them great catchers, nobody told them about the math.