Sorry to be Johnny Raincloud, but things tend not to happen, at least not in the forseeable future. As long as we don't define tourism as a couple of uber-wealthy men a year flying in a big parabola, the closest any of us will get is watching Airplane 2. I say this not because the technology isn't ready, but there are so many barriers into this market, like getting a green light from the government which has other ways to make money other than letting people float around at the risk of them dying. And if that frontpage news item ever happened just once, it would be back to the drawing board PR-speaking.
For an example of things tending not to happen, look at the World Trade Center rebuilding's progress.
As cloning advances, perhaps there'll come a day on which it is possible to somehow clone stem cells or figure out a way to get them to reproduce. Impossible?
Sounds stupid but it makes a big difference. In US Supreme Court cases -- Roe v Wade for example -- the SC does not "legalize abortion," rather, it in effect illegalizes states from passing laws prohibiting the practice. So if you think states ought to have the right to pass any law the elected officials choose, this type of precedent limits freedom. How does this line up with the France P2P situation?
I'm getting the impression that sandisk's having sorta been-there-first element isn't going to serve as an asset of protection for them when we're seeing improvements/innovation left and right in an industry in which specs matter, not brands. Should I tell my broker to keep shopping around?
I hope Google doesn't forget how they won our hearts; specifically, their unbloated search interface. I understand that these partnerships involve other Google projects and wouldn't literally bloat up the front page interface, but do you think there's any danger of which Google should be aware in allowing their business model to "bloat" beyond straight up ad brokering? Can or will they confine all their new toys to carry out the same function as their search page, which as I understand it is to facilitate the brokering? Should they tap into new markets?
What I'm trying to ask is, is GOOG still a buy at $431?
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Linux and UNIX users: You know how Firefox annoyingly responds to middle-wheel-clicks on tabs by opening whatever URL is in the buffer as opposed to closing the tab as it does on Windows platforms? Well I just learned in freenode's #debian that to correct this, fire up about:config (as you would a URL), scroll down to middlemouse.contentLoadURL and set it to false, and bada bing, it's fixed!
Windows moderators bring on the OT mods all you want, the *nix-running mods will appreciate this shit.
This is an instance of a decision being made over something that has nothing to do with politics intrinsicly based on politics. The same kind of thing happened in 1973 when homosexuality was removed from the American Psychological Association's big book of diseases. This decision wasn't made because the members of the APA decided homosexuality suddenly did not meet the definition of diseases (which it did, as it is still in the book thinly-veiled under the name Gender Identity Disorder), rather the APA buckled under tremendous political pressure from an aggressive homosexual movement.
Maybe that was a Good Thing, but should decisions like identifying the Best Scientific Achievement of a year and medical decisions of vast importance be something we leave open to the whims of politics? I realize that in this case there was no "buckling" from pressure but it apparently was intended to reflect political shifts of our time. Whatever the case, it just doesn't sit well with me.
Am I the only one who looks at these "reviews" and gets a little uneasy about products getting plugged on slashdot? "What's wrong with that," you say. Well, I'm not sure, but it just doesn't sit well with me.
Nobody wants this, none of us at least, but the power big business has over government could push this through. There's much greater incentive for a stronger industry to lobby the government than, say, satellite radio, so I personally see this as a much more likely change than The Man keeping Howard Stern down. Right?
Thanks for the insight. AOL's edge is their dominance on the instant message market and to have access to that is worth every penny when the alternative is swimming uphill offering what may be a better protocol but few will take to it because their chief concern is whether or not they'll be able to message their old friends. This market gives itself a natural monopoloy. So google's grabbing it and expanding it in all sorts of directions but the direction of which I am most curious is their stock: Is Google still a buy at $430?
Not that there's anything wrong with Buffy, but seriously, who's got the "root-servers" of extraterrestrial object naming? Parenthetically, they should use more sexed-up names because a lot of people talk trash about space exploration and that could help cool them down. Or pull a PETA move and send up Pamela Anderson without a space suit, if you know what I mean. Just because these shuttles blow up 2% of the time doesn't mean we have to be all serious instead of kicking back and adding some flavor to this bid'ness. I've tested this sex-sells theory on my website and I have seen correlations. But in the website case it shouldn't be too smutty because advertisers, pussy-whipped by Christians, won't pay as much; and there could be a similar phenomenon with space travel and political support. No labias, flabias and flip-flaps please, ok NASA? Trust me on this. You're talkin' to the Ass Ambassador to the world and I gotta maintain my rep.
I find this whole thing hard to believe as China appears to want to buddy up with the rest of us. However, insofar as getting pissed at them and their whack-ass government, it should be taken into consideration that there may be disorganization and power struggles within the Chinese government and military and that, like in the game of telephone, the order from the top might be "Install Debian on all military servers" and the suspects mishearing it as "Hook up those pre-blaster patched boxes to use for the firewall." And even if President Jiang Zemin did greenlight (greenlit?) this, we should forgive him, and then persuade them to make sure Debian's on all their boxes. Forgiveness should be granted if Jiang Zemin decrees that all fifteen computers (or however many citizens can afford one) must run Debian.
By the way, what do the Chinese call their fancy dishware?
So so many people have bought game consoles only because they wanted to play GTA. So if Rockstar hadn't bundled such great soundtracks for the car radios, there would be less demand in the industry for new consoles and therefore less demand for softare companies to make games that strive to be as God-like as GTA.
Alls I'm trying to say is to take a few seconds and think, "Thank you, GTA people."
Because I have things to do that involve tcp/ip, I'm going to skip reading the review and just ask if anybody knows of a wifi PDA that uses tcp/ip, because I'd really like to telnet around and configure it to use my server's MTA and what not.
And could you mods cut me some slack and wait a few seconds to mod this down so there's time for someone to answer me? A lot of lamers don't read at -1.
I'd love to see a EULA that had a line which afforded the user legal protection instead of just the typical kind that is intended exclusively to cover their ass. I read the article and there's no mention of which software was compromised, but if it's one that offers not only the software but maintenance and updates to it, be it Redhat or MS. This article doesn't mentioned whose product/service screwed up, or if it was human error on behalf of the bank. The hackers should not be the only ones to be demonized. You run an operation like this with a hole open, someone's going to break through it. I just installed snort on a small website and now the snort hack attempt email notification fills up my box faster than spam. Hacking should be expected just as rain would if the building's construction company used a form of concrete that wasn't waterproofed.
Imagine if you owned a ski resort operation and you just dropped twenty mil on a souped-up chair lift. As the lift company advised, you hired people to go regular examinations and keep it lubed up. Then one day the stress of a chair switching from the slow loading track to the high-speed main line caused the cable to snap, killing dozens of people, including lots of pregnant women carrying pandas. Checking the line integrity was not on the company-issued checklists of the maintainers you hired but the chair lift company said they'll have a look at it every six months to run stress tests themselves and they found a problem that seemed small enough not to bother fixing. The chairlift company, hopefully insured, ought to be the ones exposed to liability, and this Korean bank incident should be no different. The software company (assuming it's not Debian (in which case this wouldn't have happened anyway)) should be the ones absorbing the heat. That may not be the law, but it strikes me as common sense.
I'd figuratively pee on my copy of Macromedia Flash if I knew a Blender 3D plugin had proliferated widely -- meaning if IE bundled it. Is this language/framework's new thinking done on the server side and to the clients it'd be business as usual, great, I'll put down my php book. What's the deal in this regard?
I believe in the laisez-faire free market with exception to monopolies. In Apple's case, they have created one and good for them, but being at the top with tech stuff especially self-fulfills itself and the greater your marketshare, the more helium you have underneath to lift you further. Because that is due to the nature of consumers in whose minds a brand's importance is overstated instead of exclusively creating superior technology (which may be true but I said exclusive), it is ultra hard for other companies to compete. So, just as free markets get stiffled by government over-interference, Apple's throne is protecting them too much from the heat of competition that would otherwise pressure Apple to lower prices and or make even smaller nanos.
The number of engineers is important to estimate accurately, but so is the population of this country. Why oh why can't we just extrapolate a little and do some fuzzy math so as not to grossly undercount the number of US citizens? What do other countries do?
There will always be people still using wires for important applications. When shielded properly at least, there are no unknowns like potential interference. There's no signal leaking out the window, and as long as that clip thingy on the jack end of the cat5 cable that locks the wire into the jack is intact, you got nothing to worry about. Except too sharp bends and kinks.
Not to mention phones. Cordless phones rely on two sources to work and of course they tend to die.
What really needs to be invented is untangleable wires.
So, in the spirit of the story topic, I'm gonna hijack this first post to make my point. Governments are concerned with politics and their constituents. The MP/RIAA are natural enemies to a lot of tax paying voters, plus they've made some major screw ups. For example, the recent Sony screw-up of course, and those false-positives in sending out mass subpoenas. I see governments, particularly on the local level (where there's less lobbying), siding with the people (IE the pirates) and legislating appropriately.
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For an example of things tending not to happen, look at the World Trade Center rebuilding's progress.
As cloning advances, perhaps there'll come a day on which it is possible to somehow clone stem cells or figure out a way to get them to reproduce. Impossible?
Sounds stupid but it makes a big difference. In US Supreme Court cases -- Roe v Wade for example -- the SC does not "legalize abortion," rather, it in effect illegalizes states from passing laws prohibiting the practice. So if you think states ought to have the right to pass any law the elected officials choose, this type of precedent limits freedom. How does this line up with the France P2P situation?
I'm getting the impression that sandisk's having sorta been-there-first element isn't going to serve as an asset of protection for them when we're seeing improvements/innovation left and right in an industry in which specs matter, not brands. Should I tell my broker to keep shopping around?
I hope Google doesn't forget how they won our hearts; specifically, their unbloated search interface. I understand that these partnerships involve other Google projects and wouldn't literally bloat up the front page interface, but do you think there's any danger of which Google should be aware in allowing their business model to "bloat" beyond straight up ad brokering? Can or will they confine all their new toys to carry out the same function as their search page, which as I understand it is to facilitate the brokering? Should they tap into new markets?
What I'm trying to ask is, is GOOG still a buy at $431?
Windows moderators bring on the OT mods all you want, the *nix-running mods will appreciate this shit.
Maybe that was a Good Thing, but should decisions like identifying the Best Scientific Achievement of a year and medical decisions of vast importance be something we leave open to the whims of politics? I realize that in this case there was no "buckling" from pressure but it apparently was intended to reflect political shifts of our time. Whatever the case, it just doesn't sit well with me.
Insightful response Stoutlimb. To let you in on the irony, I was only posting that crap to plug my site in my .sig :P
Am I the only one who looks at these "reviews" and gets a little uneasy about products getting plugged on slashdot? "What's wrong with that," you say. Well, I'm not sure, but it just doesn't sit well with me.
Nobody wants this, none of us at least, but the power big business has over government could push this through. There's much greater incentive for a stronger industry to lobby the government than, say, satellite radio, so I personally see this as a much more likely change than The Man keeping Howard Stern down. Right?
would it take to store a human genome's worth of DNA? Are we talking sub-gig if we use SVCD or divx-like encoding?
Thanks for the insight. AOL's edge is their dominance on the instant message market and to have access to that is worth every penny when the alternative is swimming uphill offering what may be a better protocol but few will take to it because their chief concern is whether or not they'll be able to message their old friends. This market gives itself a natural monopoloy. So google's grabbing it and expanding it in all sorts of directions but the direction of which I am most curious is their stock: Is Google still a buy at $430?
Is there really something better and more important to write about than pricewatch? Speaking of which, how the hell do they make money?
Not that there's anything wrong with Buffy, but seriously, who's got the "root-servers" of extraterrestrial object naming? Parenthetically, they should use more sexed-up names because a lot of people talk trash about space exploration and that could help cool them down. Or pull a PETA move and send up Pamela Anderson without a space suit, if you know what I mean. Just because these shuttles blow up 2% of the time doesn't mean we have to be all serious instead of kicking back and adding some flavor to this bid'ness. I've tested this sex-sells theory on my website and I have seen correlations. But in the website case it shouldn't be too smutty because advertisers, pussy-whipped by Christians, won't pay as much; and there could be a similar phenomenon with space travel and political support. No labias, flabias and flip-flaps please, ok NASA? Trust me on this. You're talkin' to the Ass Ambassador to the world and I gotta maintain my rep.
I find this whole thing hard to believe as China appears to want to buddy up with the rest of us. However, insofar as getting pissed at them and their whack-ass government, it should be taken into consideration that there may be disorganization and power struggles within the Chinese government and military and that, like in the game of telephone, the order from the top might be "Install Debian on all military servers" and the suspects mishearing it as "Hook up those pre-blaster patched boxes to use for the firewall." And even if President Jiang Zemin did greenlight (greenlit?) this, we should forgive him, and then persuade them to make sure Debian's on all their boxes. Forgiveness should be granted if Jiang Zemin decrees that all fifteen computers (or however many citizens can afford one) must run Debian.
By the way, what do the Chinese call their fancy dishware?
No idea, haven't played Halo; but you should thank your employer for enabling you to buy the thing.
Alls I'm trying to say is to take a few seconds and think, "Thank you, GTA people."
Because I have things to do that involve tcp/ip, I'm going to skip reading the review and just ask if anybody knows of a wifi PDA that uses tcp/ip, because I'd really like to telnet around and configure it to use my server's MTA and what not.
And could you mods cut me some slack and wait a few seconds to mod this down so there's time for someone to answer me? A lot of lamers don't read at -1.
Imagine if you owned a ski resort operation and you just dropped twenty mil on a souped-up chair lift. As the lift company advised, you hired people to go regular examinations and keep it lubed up. Then one day the stress of a chair switching from the slow loading track to the high-speed main line caused the cable to snap, killing dozens of people, including lots of pregnant women carrying pandas. Checking the line integrity was not on the company-issued checklists of the maintainers you hired but the chair lift company said they'll have a look at it every six months to run stress tests themselves and they found a problem that seemed small enough not to bother fixing. The chairlift company, hopefully insured, ought to be the ones exposed to liability, and this Korean bank incident should be no different. The software company (assuming it's not Debian (in which case this wouldn't have happened anyway)) should be the ones absorbing the heat. That may not be the law, but it strikes me as common sense.
I'd figuratively pee on my copy of Macromedia Flash if I knew a Blender 3D plugin had proliferated widely -- meaning if IE bundled it. Is this language/framework's new thinking done on the server side and to the clients it'd be business as usual, great, I'll put down my php book. What's the deal in this regard?
I believe in the laisez-faire free market with exception to monopolies. In Apple's case, they have created one and good for them, but being at the top with tech stuff especially self-fulfills itself and the greater your marketshare, the more helium you have underneath to lift you further. Because that is due to the nature of consumers in whose minds a brand's importance is overstated instead of exclusively creating superior technology (which may be true but I said exclusive), it is ultra hard for other companies to compete. So, just as free markets get stiffled by government over-interference, Apple's throne is protecting them too much from the heat of competition that would otherwise pressure Apple to lower prices and or make even smaller nanos.
Hey, could someone recommend a simple chat room ware for my website? Running Debian.
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The number of engineers is important to estimate accurately, but so is the population of this country. Why oh why can't we just extrapolate a little and do some fuzzy math so as not to grossly undercount the number of US citizens? What do other countries do?
Not to mention phones. Cordless phones rely on two sources to work and of course they tend to die.
What really needs to be invented is untangleable wires.
So, in the spirit of the story topic, I'm gonna hijack this first post to make my point. Governments are concerned with politics and their constituents. The MP/RIAA are natural enemies to a lot of tax paying voters, plus they've made some major screw ups. For example, the recent Sony screw-up of course, and those false-positives in sending out mass subpoenas. I see governments, particularly on the local level (where there's less lobbying), siding with the people (IE the pirates) and legislating appropriately.