...caused me to start ducking down behind hills whenever I walked behind them. It also made me really good at spotting human-shaped targets...I mean people.
Wonder if the/. mirroring is actually helping their server overload....
I think it's actually making the server load worse. Slashdotters who don't normally go to PA are mindlessly clicking on the links Pavlovian style despite the fact that the comic is right there. And PA readers are clicking on the link to RTFA from Tycho. Today and Friday PA has been waaaaaaay slower than usual.
AP: After "Episode III," will you ever revisit "Star Wars"?
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
The Clone Wars cartoons on Cartoon Network are really good; here's hoping that more product like that comes out in the future.
I believe Einstein said to Hawking, "The Uncertainty Principle won't help you now. All the quantum fluctuations in the universe won't change the cards in your hand."
And Hawking showed his hand, which was 4 aces, and said, "Wrong again, Albert."
"It's ludicrous," says Selman, the company's vice president of business development. "It wasn't something we had planned. Our customers asked us for this.... It just exploded on us. It's not like we're trying to bilk people. They really want it. I think it's a prestige" thing. Georgiades seems to agree with Selman's notion.
Selman says FunHi has banked about $10,000 in the month since FunHi launched. And given that [one customer] himself has paid about 10 percent of that, it's clear that not all of the service's 6,500 active members are doing the same thing.
So probably only a few members are spending money for nothing, and the owners claim it wasn't their idea. Fascinating.
What you don't mention is that in spent reactor fuel, the radioactive elements that are extremely long lived are all mixed in with elements that are highly radioactive, as well as non-radioactive elements such as the metal cladding on the fuel. All of that has to be disposed of together, as the only way to extract and isolate the most long-lived material is to reprocess the fuel, and there is a moratorium on fuel reprocessing in the USA.
Funny you should mention that. A buddy of mine is on the Cal Poly team and he was telling me that they had several overcast days last week, which made it impossible for them to complete the final qualifying round, which was to go a certain distance in a set number of days. As a result, there were very few qualifying teams in the stock class race. The judges ended up lowering the distance requirement so there would be more teams in the final race.
I once had a professor who had exactly two office hours per week. One was from 6am to 7am on Friday morning, and it was located at his office in a remote part of the campus that required crossing about 3 miles of parking lot and cow pasture to reach. His other office hour was at 11am on Saturday at his engineering consulting company office that was in the bad side of town.
In my five years of college, I never heard of anyone going to his office during office hours. I doubt if even the professor was present during those times.
...this movie was cool. Just the action and intellectual level I was looking to see on a Friday night. Furthermore, my experience with "Star Wars" (Episodes 1 and 2) has given me the ability to endure surprising amounts of poor acting and stilted dialogue. I'm ready to throw down another $8.75 to see that movie again, and I'm someone who is too cheap to go see movies in theaters to being with.
Even with "emission free" cars, you still expend the energy to move the car to being with. Getting rid of pollution is an important goal, but the ultimate goal should be to conserve the environmental resources required to produce and operate cars. By creating a city in which cars are less necessary, you reduce the energy consumption of the average citizen, even after you factor in the energy required to operate the 24-hour mass transit systems.
You bring up two good points as well. People who perpetrate this sort of thing should be held accountable, just as the originators should be. The named companies who allow spam on their servers claim that it is too good a source of revenue to give up; since they share in the profits, they should share in the blame as well. Here is a section of the code that covers who's who:
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -- to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine;
Now the question becomes who is actually sending the spam? Is it the person who is at the end of the chain, the end point from which sales are made? Is it people like the Spam King, who sends spam through overseas servers in order to hide its source? Is it the owners of the overseas servers themselves? From my reading of the law, it would be the end point sellers who are responsible. In your bank analogy, the teller who held the door open would probably be charged as an accessory. There doesn't appear to be a provision about accessory to junk faxes, because it's unnecessary to send junk faxes through a proxy number to make it untraceable.
In this case, it is the end point seller (Sears) who is being held legally responsible. My original point was that for porn/viagra spam, it is oftentimes difficult to pin down who is the end point seller. And once you pin them down, more than likely it is someone who is in another state/country, which makes it impossible to take them to small claims court, unless you're willing to file it in their home county and fly there to attend the hearing.
It's nice to have a non-flame war discussion on slashdot. It's something that doesn't happen nearly enough.
Until modern times, machines and industrial processes -- but not ideas -- were considered for patents. That limitation was weakened by a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that extended patent protection to genetically engineered bacteria. The federal patent appeals court opened the floodgates in 1998 when it allowed a financial company to patent its business method, which was little more than the way it used mathematical formulas.
Patent law might say one thing, but apparently the courts have ruled something different. The proper course of action here would be to challenge that 1998 ruling based on patent law, get it overturned, and then proceed to challenge every patent granted since then on an idea, and not any acutal machine or process.
The trick appears to be making sure you sue someone you can actually drag into court. Sears for instance has a location very near to me, so it was easy to sue. Other companies that spam may be on the other side of the country or overseas and very, very hard if not impossible to go after, I think.
So it seems that you can probably only apply this to companies dumb enough to identify themselves in their spam. If Home Depot started sending out spam, they could be sued like this. However, all those viagra/porn/spam blocker/Nigeria spams will be impossible to target this way.
Punctuated by hisses, applause and shouts of "Amen!" from members of the 100-person crowd, the four-hour debate illustrated the gargantuan gap between Silicon Valley and Hollywood when it comes to so-called digital rights management....
...The lone Hollywood defender in the four-hour conference blasted technophiles' allegations as "overblown and simplistic."
Sounds to me like it was less a debate and more an anti-RI/MPAA rally. I'm not opposed to such a thing, mind you, but let's not have it be misrepresented. Instead of "Silicon Valley Spars With Hollywood," the headline should say, "Silicon Valley Badmouths Hollywood."
The game has a plot that unfolds in response to player actions, and when the story is over, the game ends.
And then what? Everyone's account gets deleted? They close up all the servers and start developing a new game?
The players have total control over the laws of Egypt. You can create any laws that are needed to maintain order. This is necessary, because it is easy for players to interfere with each other in their quest for financial gain.
So the first person in makes it illegal for anyone besides him to make any laws. Oops.
And then the real clever hacks will flicker my light bulbs to induce that alpha-beta wave hypnosis thing I read about on a UFO site, so I know it's true.
If someone does that, my aluminum beanie will no longer be sufficient to protect me. I need something stronger: aluminum sunglasses!
I can't believe you are bringing the 2nd Amendment and self defense into this. This is a case of kids building their own personal cannons for their own amusement, and firing them in places where people can get hurt. Defending oneself is not an issue here, unless you could seriously imagine a 16-year-old keeping a loaded drainpipe and can of hair spray under his pillow in case someone tries to break into his house.
Furthermore, this is taking place in GERMANY. There is no American 2nd Amendment in Germany.
How long untill we're not ALLOWED to turn off our TVs?
I don't think it will come to a point where we won't be able to turn off our TVs. Rather, advertising will become so prevalent that you won't be able to look anywhere without seeing an ad. The phrase I saw was "eyeballs and spare time being auctioned off to the highest bidder."
The TV commercial is dying due to TiVo and reduced viewership in general; advertisers are already exploring new places to put ads. I already see scrolling banner ads during TNN shows and The Thunderbirds on TechTV. I imagine the ultimate will be when they are able to beam ads directly into our retinas as we walk by; like Minority Report, only worse.
But the undeniable fact that private industry has not yet managed to do it means that the government needs to continue subsidizing it for a while longer.
The reason private industry has been unable to get into the space program is that they aren't allowed to without government permission. In 1966 the UN passed the "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies," which states:
The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty.
Translation: No one goes into space unless their government says so. This means you.
I'm going to take the devil's advocate here and say that lots of people are visual learners, and communicate way better through reading and writing than through speech. Even though you pay more for it, and it takes longer, it's harder to stutter in text than in speech. I, for one, talk on IM much more than I talk on the phone. I also can express myself more eloquently in text than in speech. Furthermore, one gets more time to carefully consider what they're saying, and review what's been said, through text as compared to a voice conversation. The difficulty in sending long messages makes people more aware of what words are really necessary for the message, and what words are fluff.
If you look at SMS as an evolution of IM or ICQ, rather than a replacement for voice, then the service makes much more sense.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it have four asses? I don't deal in single-assed creatures.
The Val Kilmer reference is from this movie.
...caused me to start ducking down behind hills whenever I walked behind them. It also made me really good at spotting human-shaped targets...I mean people.
Wonder if the /. mirroring is actually helping their server overload....
I think it's actually making the server load worse. Slashdotters who don't normally go to PA are mindlessly clicking on the links Pavlovian style despite the fact that the comic is right there. And PA readers are clicking on the link to RTFA from Tycho. Today and Friday PA has been waaaaaaay slower than usual.
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
The Clone Wars cartoons on Cartoon Network are really good; here's hoping that more product like that comes out in the future.
I believe Einstein said to Hawking, "The Uncertainty Principle won't help you now. All the quantum fluctuations in the universe won't change the cards in your hand."
And Hawking showed his hand, which was 4 aces, and said, "Wrong again, Albert."
"It's ludicrous," says Selman, the company's vice president of business development. "It wasn't something we had planned. Our customers asked us for this.... It just exploded on us. It's not like we're trying to bilk people. They really want it. I think it's a prestige" thing. Georgiades seems to agree with Selman's notion.
Selman says FunHi has banked about $10,000 in the month since FunHi launched. And given that [one customer] himself has paid about 10 percent of that, it's clear that not all of the service's 6,500 active members are doing the same thing.
So probably only a few members are spending money for nothing, and the owners claim it wasn't their idea. Fascinating.
I, for one, welcome our new Comcast overlords.
What you don't mention is that in spent reactor fuel, the radioactive elements that are extremely long lived are all mixed in with elements that are highly radioactive, as well as non-radioactive elements such as the metal cladding on the fuel. All of that has to be disposed of together, as the only way to extract and isolate the most long-lived material is to reprocess the fuel, and there is a moratorium on fuel reprocessing in the USA.
You forgot this one.
Funny you should mention that. A buddy of mine is on the Cal Poly team and he was telling me that they had several overcast days last week, which made it impossible for them to complete the final qualifying round, which was to go a certain distance in a set number of days. As a result, there were very few qualifying teams in the stock class race. The judges ended up lowering the distance requirement so there would be more teams in the final race.
I once had a professor who had exactly two office hours per week. One was from 6am to 7am on Friday morning, and it was located at his office in a remote part of the campus that required crossing about 3 miles of parking lot and cow pasture to reach. His other office hour was at 11am on Saturday at his engineering consulting company office that was in the bad side of town.
In my five years of college, I never heard of anyone going to his office during office hours. I doubt if even the professor was present during those times.
...this movie was cool. Just the action and intellectual level I was looking to see on a Friday night. Furthermore, my experience with "Star Wars" (Episodes 1 and 2) has given me the ability to endure surprising amounts of poor acting and stilted dialogue. I'm ready to throw down another $8.75 to see that movie again, and I'm someone who is too cheap to go see movies in theaters to being with.
Even with "emission free" cars, you still expend the energy to move the car to being with. Getting rid of pollution is an important goal, but the ultimate goal should be to conserve the environmental resources required to produce and operate cars. By creating a city in which cars are less necessary, you reduce the energy consumption of the average citizen, even after you factor in the energy required to operate the 24-hour mass transit systems.
You bring up two good points as well. People who perpetrate this sort of thing should be held accountable, just as the originators should be. The named companies who allow spam on their servers claim that it is too good a source of revenue to give up; since they share in the profits, they should share in the blame as well. Here is a section of the code that covers who's who:
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -- to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine;
Now the question becomes who is actually sending the spam? Is it the person who is at the end of the chain, the end point from which sales are made? Is it people like the Spam King, who sends spam through overseas servers in order to hide its source? Is it the owners of the overseas servers themselves? From my reading of the law, it would be the end point sellers who are responsible. In your bank analogy, the teller who held the door open would probably be charged as an accessory. There doesn't appear to be a provision about accessory to junk faxes, because it's unnecessary to send junk faxes through a proxy number to make it untraceable.
In this case, it is the end point seller (Sears) who is being held legally responsible. My original point was that for porn/viagra spam, it is oftentimes difficult to pin down who is the end point seller. And once you pin them down, more than likely it is someone who is in another state/country, which makes it impossible to take them to small claims court, unless you're willing to file it in their home county and fly there to attend the hearing.
It's nice to have a non-flame war discussion on slashdot. It's something that doesn't happen nearly enough.
Until modern times, machines and industrial processes -- but not ideas -- were considered for patents. That limitation was weakened by a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that extended patent protection to genetically engineered bacteria. The federal patent appeals court opened the floodgates in 1998 when it allowed a financial company to patent its business method, which was little more than the way it used mathematical formulas.
Patent law might say one thing, but apparently the courts have ruled something different. The proper course of action here would be to challenge that 1998 ruling based on patent law, get it overturned, and then proceed to challenge every patent granted since then on an idea, and not any acutal machine or process.
The trick appears to be making sure you sue someone you can actually drag into court. Sears for instance has a location very near to me, so it was easy to sue. Other companies that spam may be on the other side of the country or overseas and very, very hard if not impossible to go after, I think.
So it seems that you can probably only apply this to companies dumb enough to identify themselves in their spam. If Home Depot started sending out spam, they could be sued like this. However, all those viagra/porn/spam blocker/Nigeria spams will be impossible to target this way.
Punctuated by hisses, applause and shouts of "Amen!" from members of the 100-person crowd, the four-hour debate illustrated the gargantuan gap between Silicon Valley and Hollywood when it comes to so-called digital rights management....
...The lone Hollywood defender in the four-hour conference blasted technophiles' allegations as "overblown and simplistic."
Sounds to me like it was less a debate and more an anti-RI/MPAA rally. I'm not opposed to such a thing, mind you, but let's not have it be misrepresented. Instead of "Silicon Valley Spars With Hollywood," the headline should say, "Silicon Valley Badmouths Hollywood."
The game has a plot that unfolds in response to player actions, and when the story is over, the game ends.
And then what? Everyone's account gets deleted? They close up all the servers and start developing a new game?
The players have total control over the laws of Egypt. You can create any laws that are needed to maintain order. This is necessary, because it is easy for players to interfere with each other in their quest for financial gain.
So the first person in makes it illegal for anyone besides him to make any laws. Oops.
I remain unconvinced.
Me: Don't use as much bandwidth and everyone will go faster!
World: Hey! That seems like a good idea.
Me: (aside) Mwuhahahaha
You: Profit!
And then the real clever hacks will flicker my light bulbs to induce that alpha-beta wave hypnosis thing I read about on a UFO site, so I know it's true.
If someone does that, my aluminum beanie will no longer be sufficient to protect me. I need something stronger: aluminum sunglasses!
I can't believe you are bringing the 2nd Amendment and self defense into this. This is a case of kids building their own personal cannons for their own amusement, and firing them in places where people can get hurt. Defending oneself is not an issue here, unless you could seriously imagine a 16-year-old keeping a loaded drainpipe and can of hair spray under his pillow in case someone tries to break into his house.
Furthermore, this is taking place in GERMANY. There is no American 2nd Amendment in Germany.
How long untill we're not ALLOWED to turn off our TVs?
I don't think it will come to a point where we won't be able to turn off our TVs. Rather, advertising will become so prevalent that you won't be able to look anywhere without seeing an ad. The phrase I saw was "eyeballs and spare time being auctioned off to the highest bidder."
The TV commercial is dying due to TiVo and reduced viewership in general; advertisers are already exploring new places to put ads. I already see scrolling banner ads during TNN shows and The Thunderbirds on TechTV. I imagine the ultimate will be when they are able to beam ads directly into our retinas as we walk by; like Minority Report, only worse.
But the undeniable fact that private industry has not yet managed to do it means that the government needs to continue subsidizing it for a while longer.
The reason private industry has been unable to get into the space program is that they aren't allowed to without government permission. In 1966 the UN passed the "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies," which states:
The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty.
Translation: No one goes into space unless their government says so. This means you.
I'm going to take the devil's advocate here and say that lots of people are visual learners, and communicate way better through reading and writing than through speech. Even though you pay more for it, and it takes longer, it's harder to stutter in text than in speech. I, for one, talk on IM much more than I talk on the phone. I also can express myself more eloquently in text than in speech. Furthermore, one gets more time to carefully consider what they're saying, and review what's been said, through text as compared to a voice conversation. The difficulty in sending long messages makes people more aware of what words are really necessary for the message, and what words are fluff.
If you look at SMS as an evolution of IM or ICQ, rather than a replacement for voice, then the service makes much more sense.