What's even more interesting is, can MODERATORS be held liable for taking "Editoral responsibility". ?
Hardly likely. All moderators are doing is entering an opinion of the article. You can choose to ignore their opinion if you desire, by setting your filtering level appropriately. Opinions are not censorship.
In what we now call the year 525AD, Dennis the Short, a priest who studied chronology, was asked by Pope John 1 to come up with a new counting of the years, starting with the birth of Christ. (Previously, the most common counting of years had been based on the founding of Rome. Dennis did his work in the year 1280 of the city's founding, usually abbreviated AUC.) By comparing historical events, Dennis calculated that Christ had been born in the year 754 AUC, which he then called the year 1 Anno Domini. Dennis didn't worry about what happened prior.
Of course, current historical scholars now have determined that Dennis made a mistake or two, with the result that he was probably 4 years off. Thus, the millennium actually turned 4 years ago. I had a party. Did you?
In around 731AD, the Venerable Bede (a Northumbrian monk) came up with the idea of the counting of years before 1AD, but he didn't put in a year zero. That's probably because he didn't *know* about zero yet, since that was an Arabic invention that was just starting to circulate. So, by that counting, the year 1BC was followed immediately by the year 1AD.
That's why the counting of years has no year zero.
Hell, even the local weatherman last night (Toledo, OH) pointed out that over the past 30 years, the average amount of snow Toledo has seen in the month of November has been cut in half. (1970s average: 3.9 inches, 1990s average: 1.5 inches.) I thought "Global warming?" instantly, but he didn't follow up.
Of course, you're assuming that everybody uses the antibacterial soap properly - they wash long enough for it to have the desired effect. If some people don't wash long enough, then you are creating the perfect environment for the evolution of an antibacterial-resistant bacteria strain, which they will then pass along by means of skin-to-skin contact.
Simpson was the person that argued loudly for encryption to be included in the PPP protocol when it was still in design phases.
Since PPP has been around for quite a while, this means this particular investigation is quite old. People are talking like it's directly related to the Y2K movie thing that recently happened and was reported on here.
I think we should all take a step back from this and relax.
They keep doing it because there hasn't been a real backlash yet. A few hundred people bitching on one web site (Slashdot) doesn't mean much. In order to get companies to sit up and take notice will involve lots and lots of media exposure, in front of millions of people.
This site contains a crap load libel in my opinion and that is NOT protected speech.
Fortunately for the rest of us, it takes more than your opinion here. Can you show libel in a court of law? If not, well, you know what they say about opinions.
This isn't new. The TRIPS agreement has been around since at least 1996. (The "last modified" dates on the summary and other supporting pages are late April 1997.)
The topics are something we should be concerned about, but we should not get in an uproar because this is something new, because it's not.
...phil
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Just because you have an licence on the web dosn't mean that your history would be made public in any way.
Unless somebody thought they could make a buck out of doing so. In that case, watch out.
...phil
Re:What's wrong with not being anonymous?
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I'm usually not anonymous in Real Life...
When you go into the store and buy something and pay cash, you're anonymous. When you walk into the library and read something (without checking it out), you're anonymous.
I am watching the Y2K movie at right now, and at 9:40 the movie so far is realistic.
I watched it for 5 minutes during a break in the X-Files, and the part I caught was totally unrealistic. In particular, I saw the beginning of the 'thermal runaway problem' in the reactor. The graphics displays were cornball 3D images, and they couldn't lower the control rods from the control room, so they were all in a big panic. Of course, in a real reactor all they have to do is trigger one manual override and drop the control rods in by hand. Apparently, this movie is about as firmly rooted in reality as Hogan's Heros was.
They say that we Lost our DECtapes Evolving up From PDP-8s. I think that it's Just writing in ROM. Are we not men? We are UNIX. Are we not men? U. N. I. X.
Nerds are interested in all kinds of things. There is no reason to believe that a certain subset of the readers of/. might find this interesting and relevant. That's the beauty, of course - you can choose to read what you want. If it's not relevant to you, feel free to skip it.
Anyhow, you're a damned (and I mean that literally) deluded secular humanist hate-monger. If you were capable of opening your mind and doubting your idiotic faith, there might be some hope for you, but I doubt it.
In other words, you are willing to stand up and make hysterical pronouncements, but when called upon to support your position, you hide behind ad hominem and run away. I'm not surprised.
As far as "damned" goes, that necessitates the existence of a god as specified in the christian bible, for which the evidence is thin at best. I'm not worried.
Evolution has been conclusively demonstrated to be a cheap fallacy.
No, it hasn't.
See? I can make unsupported assertions, too. If you want us to accept your statements, you'll have to provide something other than lip flapping. Where has this demonstration taken place? (Please don't reference the ICR. Everything they say has been shot down like a cheap clay pidgeon.
Slashdot Mirror
You're missing the point. This is a copier serial number imbedded in the printed image. You can't filter it without rescanning it.
...phil
Hardly likely. All moderators are doing is entering an opinion of the article. You can choose to ignore their opinion if you desire, by setting your filtering level appropriately. Opinions are not censorship.
...phil
www.kburra.com has a Win95/WinNT shareware utility called Cookie Pal which will let you police and control cookies on a site-by-site basis.
...phil
Yes, you're right. There wasn't a year zero.
But, there wasn't really a year ONE either.
In what we now call the year 525AD, Dennis the Short, a priest who studied chronology, was asked by Pope John 1 to come up with a new counting of the years, starting with the birth of Christ. (Previously, the most common counting of years had been based on the founding of Rome. Dennis did his work in the year 1280 of the city's founding, usually abbreviated AUC.) By comparing historical events, Dennis calculated that Christ had been born in the year 754 AUC, which he then called the year 1 Anno Domini. Dennis didn't worry about what happened prior.
Of course, current historical scholars now have determined that Dennis made a mistake or two, with the result that he was probably 4 years off. Thus, the millennium actually turned 4 years ago. I had a party. Did you?
In around 731AD, the Venerable Bede (a Northumbrian monk) came up with the idea of the counting of years before 1AD, but he didn't put in a year zero. That's probably because he didn't *know* about zero yet, since that was an Arabic invention that was just starting to circulate. So, by that counting, the year 1BC was followed immediately by the year 1AD.
That's why the counting of years has no year zero.
...phil
Just another data point.
...phil
Of course, you're assuming that everybody uses the antibacterial soap properly - they wash long enough for it to have the desired effect. If some people don't wash long enough, then you are creating the perfect environment for the evolution of an antibacterial-resistant bacteria strain, which they will then pass along by means of skin-to-skin contact.
...phil
Since PPP has been around for quite a while, this means this particular investigation is quite old. People are talking like it's directly related to the Y2K movie thing that recently happened and was reported on here.
I think we should all take a step back from this and relax.
...phil
"Sorry, connection to host www.ntsecurity.net on port 80 refused."
Must be so slashdotted that Netcraft can't get through.
...phil
Thanks. Another site to add to the 'absolutely forbidden' list in my firewall.
...phil
They keep doing it because there hasn't been a real backlash yet. A few hundred people bitching on one web site (Slashdot) doesn't mean much. In order to get companies to sit up and take notice will involve lots and lots of media exposure, in front of millions of people.
...phil
Fortunately for the rest of us, it takes more than your opinion here. Can you show libel in a court of law? If not, well, you know what they say about opinions.
...phil
Annoying Operating System (which PF-key?)
That's not the operating system. That's a command and application shell, probably CICS.
...phil
The topics are something we should be concerned about, but we should not get in an uproar because this is something new, because it's not.
...phil
Unless somebody thought they could make a buck out of doing so. In that case, watch out.
...phil
When you go into the store and buy something and pay cash, you're anonymous. When you walk into the library and read something (without checking it out), you're anonymous.
...phil
How do you know that the laws of God are in fact moral?
...phil
Can you contact the artist and get us permission to mirror it? There are bunches of people ready to go.
...phil
I watched it for 5 minutes during a break in the X-Files, and the part I caught was totally unrealistic. In particular, I saw the beginning of the 'thermal runaway problem' in the reactor. The graphics displays were cornball 3D images, and they couldn't lower the control rods from the control room, so they were all in a big panic. Of course, in a real reactor all they have to do is trigger one manual override and drop the control rods in by hand. Apparently, this movie is about as firmly rooted in reality as Hogan's Heros was.
...phil
From which time zone?
...phil
But where else would you get all this brilliant commentary?
...phil
They say that we
Lost our DECtapes
Evolving up
From PDP-8s.
I think that it's
Just writing in ROM.
Are we not men?
We are UNIX.
Are we not men?
U. N. I. X.
...phil
Nerds are interested in all kinds of things. There is no reason to believe that a certain subset of the readers of /. might find this interesting and relevant. That's the beauty, of course - you can choose to read what you want. If it's not relevant to you, feel free to skip it.
...phil
I have.
Prove it.
I don't have to. You won't stand behind any of your statements. I'm just adopting the same tactic.
...phil
In other words, you are willing to stand up and make hysterical pronouncements, but when called upon to support your position, you hide behind ad hominem and run away. I'm not surprised.
As far as "damned" goes, that necessitates the existence of a god as specified in the christian bible, for which the evidence is thin at best. I'm not worried.
...phil
No, it hasn't.
See? I can make unsupported assertions, too. If you want us to accept your statements, you'll have to provide something other than lip flapping. Where has this demonstration taken place? (Please don't reference the ICR. Everything they say has been shot down like a cheap clay pidgeon.
...phil